Playlist containing music I want to recreate or sample for the in game OST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xNTTuEQZUo8aXT3iKI6KG?si=d82a142209194f2c
My visions for the artistic product have to do mostly in the game mechanics and the music. I like the idea of making some 2000s/2010s pop banger play from inside the frat house where our game takes place. The idea is to use audio filters that dynamically change how the song is heard (e.g., a low-pass filter for being outside or in dialogue) to enhance gameplay. For the moodboard, we have several imagined icy landscapes, in a cartoonish and absurdist fashion:
My vision for the gameplay is detailed here:
For the sake of this class, we are so far only planning on building out one of these imagined subareas, specifically the frat’s freezer. Inside, one will fight to get to the back of the freezer against a progressively scaling enemy:
Pictured above is a rendition of this animatronic Ice-Cream carton who is launching barrages of hockey pucks at the player. This boss might be a typical 3-phase boss, but we are also experimenting with creating a dynamically scaling set of enemies and using more rogue-like mechanics to also scale the player’s abilities. Similar to those mobile games where you collect power-ups to fend off a horde of approaching enemies, we wanted to do something similar that plays on our themes. We are thinking that there will be a combination of projectiles that you want to hit back to damage the enemies, and some that harm the player and need to be dodged. The power-ups that scale the player’s abilities are more drug-themed objects that use drug terms to describe their benefits (e.g., time dilation, munchies, paranoia, ego death) , but might also cause more nausea. So all in all, what we hope this slice will look like is a physics-based hockey game with 2-dimensional controls, where the players can collect more hallucinogenic-themed power-ups to effectuate their win against these fantastical villains in the frat freezer.
