Falling With Style Scrum 2

Zesty Bomb Productions

Past

Changes made

• Gameplay flow
• Gameplay mechanics
• General design decisions
• Art style
• Theme

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• Similar environments
• Inefficient Level Creaton
• Different levels were too similar to each other in looks and feel
• No real hook/no room for growth, Lacking Uniqueness
• Several hook shot games already exist
• Nothing distinctly stuck out to players
• Repetitive

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Present

• Planning
• Dynamic object setup
• More dynamic interaction ideas
• Interesting 3d level design
• Removed Collectibles and Extraneous mechanics
• Different worlds

• Design & Technical Planning
• Traps Trigger hazards and objects
• Environments have 2-4 traps/objects before relic
• 3 relics
• Level layout

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General Art And Level Design Decisions

• Gameplay Flow Changes (slow|fast)
• Players begin the level by traversing the environment at their own speed (Discovering dormant Traps and Alternate Paths)
• The ‘Puzzle and Adventure’ Phase

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• Once the relic piece is found, the traps are activated, the alarm is set and the player is forced to frantically run back the way they came or through a new path not previously accessible
• The ‘Escape/Dash’ Phase

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• Each level yields a relic piece, Each world contains a set of relic pieces.
• Each relic Changes grapple hook behavior when equipped. It is up to the player to decide which relic they will use prior to entering the level.

Modular Building System

• Grids
• Create a grid to scale different game objects (modular pieces).
• Planning
• Leave the specialized pieces aside, focusing on the areas where players will spend the majority of the time.
• Decide the key modular components are needed and plan out the general use of those pieces.
• Start with the Basics
• Create basic modular pieces which can be used on most of the area.
• Custom Pieces
• Create custom pieces to fill the special area where basic pieces do not fit.
• Accessorize
• Create accessory pieces to break up the appearance of tiling.

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Reference: Click Me

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Level Blockouts

Level Blockouts

Level Blockouts

Level BlockOuts

Level/Relic Regions

Region Theme influence

-MExico/south America (Muerto Rico)

-Tether Relic

-Egypt (Searing Sands)

-Stretch Relic

-Himalayas/tibet (the Peak)

-Ghost Relic and the pick

-atlantis (sunken city)

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Muerto Rico

Searing Sands

The Peak

Sunken City

Simple Puzzles / Interaction concepts

Simple Puzzles / Interaction concepts

Simple Puzzles / Interaction concepts

Traps n’ hazards

• Traps and their applications
• Darts
• What it does?
• Projectile flies through air when triggered
• Insta kill/ small damage / or poisoned
• Trigger
• Pressure plates/ Tripwire
• Constantly firing during escape
• Spikes
• What it does?
• Kills you instantly upon collision
• Spikes appear on trigger
• Trigger
• Always active
• Pressure plate/ Levers
• Light shaft

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• Traps and their applications
• Falling environment
• What it does?
• The environment begins to collapse
• Trigger
• Pull on the wrong object
• Trigger escape
• Tripwire / Pressure plate

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• Big boulder
• What it does?
• Big boulder chases you
• If you get smashed you get smashed
• Trigger
• Trigger escape
• Pressure plate / Tripwire

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Traps n’ hazards

• Obstacle:
• Darkness (interiors) (egypt)
• Affects vision of player
• Use torch to light dark areas
• Take leaps of faith in underlit areas
• Wind (himalayas)
• Affects effectiveness of swings
• Use the wind to your advantage to make bigger swings
• Wind can also slow you down

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• Interactable Objects: (Rocks/Boulders/ Small statues)
• Use to solve puzzles
• Teeter Totter needs weight on one side. Gives the player more height
• Put an object on pressure plate.
• Light puzzle
• Use shiny objects to redirect light to solve puzzle
• Use to cancel out other hazards
• Use rock to break spikes
• Block projectile shooters
• Cover up pits
• Destroy projectile shooters
• Destroy pieces of environment to open up pathways

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Traps n’ hazards Concept

Dynamic Objects list

HAzard Objects

Stalactites

Pendulum

See-Saw

Boulders

Doors/Trap Doors

Dynamic Bridge (Wood Plank)

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Spiky cylinder�Spikes�Deathball�Hidden spikes�Gas/Fire/Mist�Lava�Quicksand�Stalactites

Dart Shooter

Pressure Plate/lever/tripwire

Relic logic

• Relics are broken and scattered about.
• Each level contains a single piece
• Each region has the pieces for a single relic
• Relic #1 abilities
• Tether Rope
• Relic #2 abilities
• Elastic Rope
• Relic #3 abilities
• Ghost rope

Programming

• Testing different rope implementations
• Springiness that allows flinging
• Tethers that work with collision
• Rope that ignores collision, already in
• Implemented Alarm Flag in Game Manager, to be used later with “Action Phase”
• Arrow Launcher
• Instantiates and launches projectile
• Rising Lava script, want Lava that flows and isn’t static
• Rising Lava Script
• Want lava that flows, Not Static
• Trap Trigger Controller
• Trigger gameobject that references multiple traps to run their individual ‘has Been activated()’ methods
• Trap Door
• Rotates/Slides GameObject to reveal new area
• Can Be Trap Trigger, or backtrack player

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Gantt Chart

Future Plans

• Plan out level design for each biome
• More dynamic object interaction concepts
• Implement different surface materials
• Relic equip system
• Start Grapple modifications
• Start Modeling new environment pieces

• Different Ropes(Relic abilities)
• Standard
• Tether
• Enables a zip line
• Can Stop dynamic objects
• elastic/springy
• For launching/flinging
• Ghost
• passes through objects

Build

https://2ply.itch.io/falling-with-style