Chadius:Rhythm Action
Contents
Basic idea
A hybrid of rhythm and action games. An action game that is intuitive. It gives a queue when you should attack, but it allows enough flexibility to avoid completely degenerating into a pure rhythm game. The music would be dynamic, allowing you to make up your own music.
The story would be a tongue-in-cheek parody of action games. Cerb, a devil-may-care swordsman, is cursed. And everything seems to be after him: The Empire, Forces of Nature, and even his family.
Player Actions
Player Behavior
Attack with proper timing to a beat (usually a song of some sort)
It is extremely important that the player doesn't just mash buttons. The attacks must be done with a certain tempo. The attacks should generate the background music of some sort.
Dash around freely between targets
The user should be able to move, a lot. And it shouldn't be constrained by many factors. Maybe a timer/distance meter would suffice. And don't worry about gravity.
Only use the mouse to control your character and his actions.
Simpler controls are better. Also, the imprecision of mice lends itself to more fluid movement, which is perfect for a loud game like this.
A power boost that costs some resource, but boosts your damage output for a while
To help the action game portion, the player has a stat boost of some kind. It should also change the music, or give a much better margin for error. Finally, it should cost a resource of some sort. Maybe limited uses, or it costs life.
Game Encouragements
This is what goes on behind the scenes to help the player understand and adapt to the gameplay.
- Dynamic music generation
- Scaling difficulty that requires more or less of your input for the song.
- Reward streaks and punish out-of-tune music.
- Background that moves with the player
- Cut out the exploration
UI issues
- Using the mouse to control movement, attacks, and boosts
- I need to indicate good timing during a fight.
