FeatherRock

April 19, 2015 ยท View on GitHub

Story

In a land far far away, under a long-forgotten mountain there lived an ancient race of Dwarves who were forever at war with the surrounding goblin tribes.

Each year, the dwarves held a competition to showcase their finest battlefield inventions.

The inventors of the mightiest and terriblest of weapons to use against the goblins were richly rewarded with gold, gems, and titles.

Mechanics

  • Flap your feathers to fly and move
    • Can't move when on ground (except to fly)
  • Use the mouse to dive-bomb
    • Can't dive-bomb upwards
  • Use dive-bombing to break breakable blocks
  • Hit enemies with enough speed to kill them
  • Magical energy runs out over time
    • Collect energy from elvish souls scattered about
  • Avoid fire, it will burn your feathers
  • Checkpoints
  • Shields

Todo

Programming

  • Mechanics
  • Cinematics
  • Ending
  • High scores?

Art

  • Prototyping assets
    • FeatherRock
      • Flying
      • Diving
      • On ground
      • Getting burnt
    • Tileset
    • Elf
    • Goblin
  • UI
  • Intro cinematic
  • Particle effects
  • Final Assets
    • FeatherRock
      • Flying
      • Diving
      • On ground
      • Getting burnt
  • Post-processing effects?

Sound

  • Various thwumps
  • Theme music
  • Mood music?

Levels

  1. Introduction to flying + diving
  2. Introduction to killing elves for magic
  3. Introduction to breaking blocks
  4. Introduction to killing enemies
  5. Introduction to avoiding fire