○ Flying Shooting Game

Scratchpad on a game idea I had recently.

Core ideas

• You fly around a city in a jetpack-with-wings of sorts
  • Futuristic city, flying cars and stuff
• You have various guns at your disposal
• You are to go from point A to point B, delivering a package
• The attacks you can perform depend on your speed
  • The faster you go, the more powerful you are
• You can gain speed:
  • By flying down
  • By using a hook, attaching yourself to vehicles
• The higher you get, the faster cars are flying

Flying

• Arcade, meant to feel good, not be realistic
• Being able to rapidly turn on dash as an "kind of attack"
• The hook can:
  • Anchor you to neutral entites (cars?)
  • Anchor you to enemies
  • Anchor to buildings (any interesting mechanic there?)
  • You must be careful about relative speeds
  • Hooking way faster objects will damage you
• Cool wings with animations and whatever

Scenarios

Deceleration

• Attach some sort of magnet to enemies
• Rapidly decelerate, trading speed for energy
• Get enough energy to fire some cool weapon which would cause all enemies hit with magnets to get pulled together

Dashing

• Make an enemy which would be fast & deadly
• Make them lock onto the player and stay 10-20m behind
• Instead of shooting, the player should:
  • Fly towards a building
  • Dash last-second
  • The enemies crash into the building

Music

• I love how Ultrakill synchronizes game with music
• Add pitch-shifting effects when taking damage?
• Music should changed based on the state od the game

Notes/materials

• https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/particles/trails.html
• https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/spring_arm.html
• Godot settings allow for defining blender-style shortcuts, see "begin transformation"
• Blender: Noise & Displacement modifiers