FeatherRock

Story

In a land far far away, under a long-forgotten mountain there lived an ancient race of Dwarves who were forever at war with the surrounding goblin tribes.

Each year, the dwarves held a competition to showcase their finest battlefield inventions.

The inventors of the mightiest and terriblest of weapons to use against the goblins were richly rewarded with gold, gems, and titles.

Mechanics

• Flap your feathers to fly and move
  • Can't move when on ground (except to fly)
• Use the mouse to dive-bomb
  • Can't dive-bomb upwards
• Use dive-bombing to break breakable blocks
• Hit enemies with enough speed to kill them
• Magical energy runs out over time
  • Collect energy from elvish souls scattered about
• Avoid fire, it will burn your feathers
• Checkpoints
• Shields

Todo

Programming

• Mechanics
• Cinematics
• Ending
• High scores?

Art

• Prototyping assets
  • FeatherRock
    • Flying
    • Diving
    • On ground
    • Getting burnt
  • Tileset
  • Elf
  • Goblin
• UI
• Intro cinematic
• Particle effects
• Final Assets
  • FeatherRock
    • Flying
    • Diving
    • On ground
    • Getting burnt
• Post-processing effects?

Sound

• Various thwumps
• Theme music
• Mood music?

Levels

1. Introduction to flying + diving
2. Introduction to killing elves for magic
3. Introduction to breaking blocks
4. Introduction to killing enemies
5. Introduction to avoiding fire