Overarching Systems

Travel

• Open world

• Restrictions on traveling will by placed with in-world/game things/reasons

• Fast travel will be with boats, airships, etc.

Movement

Speed = min(s * h * ds * b, max*b)

• s = Base land speed

• h = hardiness coefficient

• ds = decrease in speed due to armour

• b = bonus modifier to speed

Jumping

• No mid air direction change

• Speed is affected by armour, jump height is constant

• Fixed jump (no hold for higher jump)

Dialogue Trees

• Morality System

  • Vertical Axis Good/Bad that is universal for all factions

  • Horizontal Axis of Famous/Infamous that is specific on a faction per faction basis

    • Ex. Bandits attack villagers. If you kill all the bandits, you become infamous with the bandits, famous with the villagers, and bad with both.

Inventory/Loot

• Items are limited by weight

• Accessed via menu (not list)

Combat

Player vs. Enemy AI

Player Specific Combat:

• Like Dragons Dogma ( All specifications )

• “Light Attacks” (Name not Final) is Comboable and Cancellable

• “Heavy Attack/Ability” Non Combable/Canceable

  • After attack player always returns to nuetral state

• Ranged attacks have two modes

  • “Quickfire” launches projectile in direction of movement a set distance

  • “Aiming” draws camera in close and creates reticle

  • Thrown projectiles have fixed distance, arc depends on which way player is facing while aiming

  • Path is not plotted during the throw

• Items used during combat are instantaneous and don’t leave player vulnerable

• Health regen will have a “Soft Cap”, where health will regenerate quickly to a certain midpoint, than start regenerating much slower

• Abilities/mechanics are going to be unlocked through narrative progression (Think Legend of Zelda)

• When player is hit they flinch. Flinches make player immobile briefly and small knockback.

  • Flinch is affected by how hard the player is hit and their strength stat.

Party Based Combat:

Base Stats

• Strength

  • Effects encumbrance

  • Combat capabilities

    • Flat damage

    • Health

    • Effects flinch

    • Allows character to lift heavier weapons

  • Charisma

    • Effects dialogue tree options

    • Increases ability for negotiations to be successful, and the end result

  • Speed

    • Faster combo chains/attack speed

    • Movespeed

  • Intelligence

    • Ability to operate machinery

      • Limit or increase options for machine interactions

      • Allow access to more mechanistic weapons

Quest

Time-limited

• Quests are the main determining factor for ending

Individual Character Systems

Different Status bar per character

• Troop Morale

  • Combat/Decisions before each encounter

  • Recruitment

• Reputation

  • Traveling Merchant/Supply & Demand

  • Ship System

• Survival

  • ???

  • Flying/divebomb

  • Allies

• Political Support

  • Bribing People/Giving Speeches

Mavrock - King

• Tree of Influence - Main system for Mavrock

  • Visualized as a tree whose nodes consist of all characters Mavrock can interact with. It begins with all except a few nodes greyed out.

  • Mavrock can collect bit of information in his journal (some menu type ui). Collecting info on specific characters unlocks that characters node in the tree.

  • When a node in the tree is unlocked, it results in either a new ability for Mavrock (ability to build helper robots in combat, etc.), new dialog options for Mavrock when talking to certain characters (telling guards who are loyal to a noble who under your influence to do an action, etc.), or story progression.

  • The “Influence” bar for Mavrock fills as more nodes in the Tree of Influence are unlocked.