Draft:Pix and Bit's First Game Design Document
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Contents & Sub-pages
Introduction
In the historical analysis, we will highlight the importance; of the technological and design strives made in early 3D platformers while paying respects to all the developers whom built on the rich 3 decade long tradition, analysing the successes and failures of the genre beginning at the first pioneers (such as Bug!, Super Mario 64, Alpha Waves, Bubsy 3D, etc.) to more modern releases (such as A Hat in Time, Super Lucky Tale, modern Super Mario franchise, etc). The history of individual 3D platformers are analysed in separate essays, their gameplay, stories and aesthetics dissected; hyperlinked to this design document. Due to the inexperience of the author/s of this document, it might take characteristics of a scientific, professional, college and academic paper and possibly something else entirely even indefinable.
Historical analysis of 3D platformers
Game Overview
Pix and Bit: the Untitled Prototype is a 3rd person puzzle-action-adventure 2-player co-op 3D platformer, built in the Godot Engine.
Game Theme
The world of Pix & Bit is set in the far future of a shattered Earth, Humans are long gone though ruins of their civilizations are a common occurrence, some used as a settlements for many different species that inhabit the world. The shattered planet is comprised of many floating chunks, ranging from dust clouds (that may coalesce into duststorms) to Moon-sized continental chunks.
Game Concept
The main design pillars of Pix & Bit is Co-op oriented platforming and puzzles, both tying in to support the action.
- Example: Rushing into a fight and spamming the basic ATTACK move should not work because enemies will have strengths and weaknesses, they will be immune when you do not exploit their weaknesses, perhaps there is room for difficulty levels.
- Puzzles have to involve both of the players solving it together, however in the hub world or more open-ended sections of level some areas will not need the players to be together to access secrets (encouraging them to sometimes split-up)
- As with combos in combat, there will be combos during platforming, each character offering their up-sides and down-sides when it comes to platforming and how they can aid each other's shortcomings.
Gameplay
Playable Characters
A playable character is a character that is controllable by a player.
Pix (Player 1)
Bit (Player 2)
Chip (Player 1 or 3)
Bug (Player 2 or 4)
Non-Playable Characters
Friends
Enemies
- The Keyster, a fat six-legged hamster hiding inside keyholes ready to swallow keys of unsuspecting keyholders.
Bosses
- Sorcerer King Girnigoe (based on kyunastralgoat's Girnigoe)
- Triks & Hit (based on Jpepwepy's Triks and Hit)
- Cilantro Sky-Pirates (based on Jpepwepy's Captain Coriander Slantreaux and Professor Parslei)
Graphical User Interface
The Main Menu is the initial scene that loads after you run the program and all the intro-scenes finish running (Godot Engine logo ex.)
| Intractable elements | Aesthetic elements |
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On-click buttons:
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The logo that would float above all the buttons: |
The Game Menu is an in-game window that can be opened by pressing the ESC key (on a typical US keyboard) though cannot be loaded in the Main Menu.
- Continue
- Load Save
- Options
- Return to Main Menu
- Quit to Desktop
