Bomboy - Dev Team Weekly Update 2/19

2/19/17

• Round 
• Finn: Castle_Concept.jpg in Art/_Spr_Concepts 

• Cody: Working on boss music 
• Anthony and David: Worked on concepts for enemy types 
• Concept 1 
• Enemy that bounces across the screen 
• Drops a projectile at the top of its arc 
• Moves in the opposite direction if it hits something 
• Like the Gumba in Mario 
• Concept 2 
• Tiki Mask Guy 
• Starts off rooted in the ground 
• Spits projectiles at you 
• Comes out of the ground when you get close 
• Leaves a hole in the ground that you can go in 
• There could be a number of things in this hole 
• Special items 
• Enemies 
• Mini boss fights 
• A door that grants access to the next level 
• Concept 3 
• Whirlwind of cold air that freezes you if it hits you 
• Can be used in combination with the first enemy concept 
• This enemy freezes you, the first enemy comes and drops its projectile on you 
• Concept 4 
• Enemy that lays eggs and throws them at you 
• When an egg hits the ground it breaks open and a smaller version of the enemy comes out 
• This makes this enemy a priority because if you don’t kill it soon it will keep creating more enemies 
• Concept 5 
• Dark Wizard 
• Good enemy for the castle 
• Shoots shadow balls that follow the player 
• Like the needle gun in Halo 
• Shadow balls can do damage to the player as well as other enemies 
• So other enemies can be used as a shield from the shadow balls 
• Concept 6 
• A bird that drops something 
• Could drop something good or bad 

David: “The concepts above kind of follow a theme of suffocation which fits into the whole female empowerment motif because sometimes the burdens of being a female can seem suffocating” - like in the game Problem Attic

Health/Lives System?

• 3 options 
• Health bar 
• Player dies when health bar reaches 0 
• Lives system 
• Like in Mario 
• Start with 3 lives 
• Chances to gain a “1 UP” 
• When you die and you still have lives you restart at a checkpoint 
• When you die and run out of lives you restart from the beginning 
• Combination of the 2 above 
• You have lives 
• For each life you have a health bar 
• You can take damage that will decrement the health bar 
• Once the health bar hits 0 you die and lose that life 
• Restart at checkpoint with 1 less life and a full health bar 
• When you die and lose all lives you restart from the beginning 
• If we do this system then we don’t need the knight to lose armor when for the intro, because instead he could just have a ridiculous amount of health and lives 

Need to decide on a narrative direction that the game will move in so level designers can begin designing future levels.