Road to Vertical Slice

• Aim to have a feature complete and polished first area (sewers)
• Playable from the village up to the end of boss fight
• Major mechanics are complete
• Generated levels from a set of fixed rooms
• Can serve as a real ‘demo’ for the fleshed out game

• Ironed out ‘first demo’ from the game jam
• Focusing on player movement/platforming
• Damage systems
• Basic flying AI
• First pass on some audio systems

• No new art assets
• Grey-boxed rooms with simple layouts
• Generating levels based on a parameterised layout
• Platforming
  • Falling/crumbling platforms
  • Spikes
  • One-way platforms
  • Falling debris
• Double jump stone

• 3D character pipeline
  • Shader improvements
  • Tweaks to movement/rotating
  • Animation states
• Ability changes
  • Melee move combos
  • Better ability handling code
  • Directional hits
• Design work for spells

• Slots
• Different spells
  • 3 options
• Spell modifiers/runes
• Working on mob art

• Money
• Loot (runes, slots, spells) - chest system
• Basic inventory management menus
  • Slot spells
  • Modify the spells themselves
• Continue work on mob art

• Pathfinding for grounded mobs
• Rework generic aggro system
• Add Pick Rat
  • Model + animations
  • Mob ability system
  • Better audio systems
• Still mob art

• Spear Mob
• Brute Mob
• Improved Bats
• 2D camp assets

• Camp functionality
  • Limiting tinkering to at the camp
  • Send resources back
  • 2D decorations completed
  • Fade-in fade-out system
  • Teleporting
• Saving player state/progression
  • Save equipped slots/spells
  • Saving inventory
  • Money that is banked

• Village functionality
  • Placeholder NPCs
  • Maybe completed ’elder’ for tutorial etc.
• Merchant
  • Shopping
  • Find in level
• Tutorial pre-village
• Work on Boss mob assets

• Boss Room
• Boss character
  • Animations
  • Audio
  • Abilities
• Phase system

• Environment tilemaps
• Particle effects
• 2D decorative elements
• Parallax effect?
• More spell types and modifiers

• UI
  • HUD
  • Tinker menu polish
  • Settings Menus
  • Loading screens
• Pause Menu
• Save slot system?
• Rest of the fucking owl