Yes.. plural. Been refining my idea a little. I think I want to keep it more fun and interesting by making hopefully 5 different cavern levels. Each with a slightly different theme and weapons and targets. Each level will have a short time limit (1 minute?) in which you’ve tried to use the levels weapons (stalactites, steam vents, rock falls etc) to take out any life forms. It will be a score based game tuned to encourage compelling replays and leaderboard competition.
I am thinking of some various themes for the cavern levels which are like 1920s bootleggers, 1700s pirates, 2000 teen hangout, 20,000 BC cavemen/critters, far future theme.
Potential Targets in the above themes:
- creatures (sprinkled throughout all themes…?)
- bats
- centipedes
- lizards
- fish
- bears
- wolves
- humanoids
- teens (doing drugs? hanging out? contemporary theme)
- cavemen (20,000BC theme)
- explorers (going from A to B? contemporary theme)
- pirates (after their treasure 1700s theme)
- criminals (whiskey bootleggers (jugs / barrels with xxx, 1920s theme)
- spacemen / aliens (future theme?
I’m excited about this game so far. I think that with the variety of each cavern level having a different configuration of weapons layouts, path layouts and creatures with a unique theme it will be an amusing and humorous game. Now I just have to see how much content I can pull off in the compo time limit. I will attempt to get one playable theme first in case that is all I manage to pull off. I’m thinking I’ll go for 20,000 BC wrapper first because I can do many cave creatures as well as humorous cavemen for targets.