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- - - - phone or laptop
      - majority vote
      - audience
    - - serious but in an ironic way
      - rather cavalier
      - narrator is cheeky
    - - free responses to prompts
      - outdo the opponents in hilarity
      - hot takes
  - - - chat-based
      - hackers know each other
      - anonymity
      - majority vote for node teams
    - - hackers blend in with agents
      - deduce who is an agent/hacker
      - change player skin
      - decide whether or not to hack a node
    - - tense
      - colored characters
      - dark/steampunk background
      - dreary
  - - - select any of 3 words
      - draw to the best of your ability
      - only pictures, no typing
    - - lighthearted
      - colorful
      - juvenile
    - - can remain anonymous
      - cannot talk when the word guessed correctly
      - word slowly reveals over time
      - boot players acting uncouth
  - - - tactics during minigames
      - trivia: process of elimination
      - draw, write, guess
    - - horror-based
      - dim corridors
      - deep-voiced, menacing yet ironic narrator
      - rushed for time
    - - audience
      - win/lose based on trivia
      - the eliminated still participate
      - minigames
      - the last one alive is not always the winner
- - - - genre
        
        dark fantasy
        
        adventure
      - setting
        
        apocalyptic
        
        deserted city/prefectures
        
        run-down buildings
        
        Hell
        
        survivor settlements
      - story
        
        defeat the demons plaguing the world
    - - first-person dungeon crawler
        
        encounter meter
        
        random but with a warning
        
        stats
        
        HP bar, MP bar, personal parameters
        
        skills
        
        determined based on class
        
        select a boon and bane for each character
        
        expend skill points to purchase attributes
        
        equipment
        
        weapons
        
        armor
        
        accessories
        
        vanity
        
        strata
        
        labyrinth-like buildings
        
        cave systems
        
        underground bunkers
        
        final dungeon: Tower of Babel - where the kingpin unites with a head demon to achieve godhood
        
        demon domains, where you must plunge into and defeat the source within to stop demons from flowing through it
        
        more on-screen UI
        
        time of day (good for enemy hunting/quest timing/event planning)
        
        map of the different areas you explore
      - audio
        
        I kind of want the soundtrack to be a mixture between jazz and heavy metal, because I like both genres and it can make the player groove while killing demons
    - - NPCs
        
        helpful
        
        shopkeepers
        
        assist in battle
        
        doctors
        
        antagonistic
        
        conflicting motives
        
        impede progress
        
        selfish gain
        
        maybe there's a gang with a leader that wants to become God by absorbing the powers of demons to overthrow the throne of the universe?
        
        he better look like a kingpin - bald, macho, well-dressed, always angry at something that his useless grunts fail at
      - Party
        
        custom
        
        appearance
        
        class
        
        amount
        
        four/five active
        
        many in a reserve
      - Enemies
        
        regular
        
        less powerful
        
        few quirks
        
        drop items
        
        bosses
        
        mythical beings
        
        domain rulers
        
        mighty
        
        tactical
  - - - skills
        
        music
        
        used for various field functions
        
        used for boosting stats
        
        used for changing form
        
        used to affect enemy psyche
        
        combat
        
        lyres and lutes
        
        knives and swords
        
        clubs, axes, and hammers
        
        headdresses, robes, gauntlets, leggings, boots
        
        accessories
        
        stealth
        
        sneak factor
        
        traps
        
        exploration equipment
        
        stats
        
        allocate stats with skill points
        
        HP
        
        MP (music points)
        
        Personal Parameters
        
        SP (spirit points) - for magical skills
        
        unlock new abilities
    - - objective
        
        rescue your wife from the underworld
        
        defy the ungodly powers of Hades
      - setting
        
        Hades/the underworld
        
        different strata
        
        based on Dante's Inferno
      - genre
        
        grimdark
        
        Greek and Abrahamic mythology
    - - protagonist
        
        Orpheus
        
        wants to save his wife, who died too soon
        
        incredible musician
        
        very charismatic
        
        emotional
        
        he should look like a musician from Ancient Greece, but also have distinct, almost statue-esque faical features just for kicks
      - NPCs
        
        shopkeepers
        
        blacksmiths
        
        guides
      - Hades
        
        has protag's wife
        
        we never see her face until the Bad Ending, but she has a typical fair complexion; in the bad ending, she shows off her rotten, zombie-like face and is whisked away
        
        we are left ambiguous about what her face appears as in the Good Ending
        
        not a boss, nor is evil
        
        negotiable
        
        I want him to look dark, almost like a deadbeat
        
        Staff of Undying, wearing a bone crown, tired of everyone's BS
        
        Color palette: blue, black, white, gray
      - enemies
        
        demons in Hell
        
        demons of Arc Goetia
        
        prominent demons from Greek lore
        
        fallen angels as bosses?
        
        Persephone, Hades's wife
        
        not evil, but wants to test Orpheus's mettle
    - - Stratum 1: Limbo
        
        audio: echoic, daunting, chilling
        
        dark, earthen, cold, labyrinth-like
        
        enemy trope: those desperately searching for an exit, those who do not believe in the Gods
      - Stratum 2: Lust
        
        Audio: kind of upbeat punk, maybe stratum 1's theme but more energetic
        
        windy, floating platforms, gliding through the air, wind hazards
        
        enemy trope: those who desperately seek lecherous intimacy
      - Stratum 3: Gluttony
        
        Audio: has chimes/bells, seemingly cheerful orchestra but with an unmistakably dreadful undertone
        
        hailstorms, slippery platforms, large gaps, hail can damage you, lots of fire/meting and ice/freezing puzzles
        
        enemy trope: those who overindulge and siphon materials to needless waste
      - Stratum 4: Greed
        
        Audio: ominous, toned down/mellow, reminiscent of volcano-esque music, lots of bass
        
        coated in gold, melted gold could slow movement and attract enemies, could prevent jumping, rounded out edges of stratum (like a chasm)
        
        enemy trope: those who will claw their way at treasure no matter what
        
        maybe there can be a thing where the more treasure you collect, the more enemies will spawn
      - Stratum 5: Wrath
        
        Audio: drowned out when underwater, heavy, lots of percussion, soft and minor-key marimba melody
        
        swamp-like, underwater areas, poisonous algae, tread through muddy waters, lots of souls fighting each other more often than the player
        
        enemy trope: those forever stuck within the cycle of anger
      - Stratum 6: Heresy
        
        Audio: tense, lots of repetitive melodies, almost panicky
        
        everything is on fire, it's like a furnace - there are fire hazards, enormous fires blocking pathways, and water evaporates faster than light
        
        enemy trope: souls who committed atrocities to the Gods, and therefore seek to redeem themselves through "proving their worth" (intentionally left vague)
        
        they have guardian demons that attack alongside them
        
        tests of worth to show your "allegiance to the Gods" (unsure of what to do for this yet)
      - Stratum 7: Violence
        
        Audio: very dissonant, eerie, almost what you would imagine Hell's theme song to be like - warped music, seemingly no melody
        
        everything is submerged in a pool of boiling blood, where the souls are drowned; the blood should provide some obstacle
        
        maybe add some new quirks like "body temperature" so that you can only remain in the blood for so long before you melt
        
        enemy trope: those who seek to stir unrest
      - Stratum 8: Fraud
        
        Audio: menacing, but there is a melody (perhaps some kind of horn), conveys a feeling of helplessness
        
        it is pitch black, and you are the only source of light, despite how dim it is - there should be a mechanic that allows for the navigation in the dark
        
        enemy trope: those who sought to deceit or trick others for wild amusement or self-gain
        
        look into light puzzles
      - Stratum 9: Treachery
        
        Audio: about as peaceful as Stratum 3, and relatively similar in melody, but it should be emboldened, more dramatic, and less harmonious - make it feel almost heroic?
        
        rather than snow, everything is normally ice; however, there are many puzzles which take inspiration from the other stratums
        
        enemy trope: those who would dare betray others and the Gods; bring back stronger versions of older enemies too
        
        goal: enter Cocytus, which lies in the center of the stratum
      - Cocytus
        
        Audio: none. you can only hear the glistening of the pure ice crystals encasing the area
        
        you are literally inside a ball of ice. Hades awaits in the middle, alongside your wife.
        
        go through a boss rush, where you must fight every mandatory boss (which are stronger but with manageable health pools)
        
        retrieve your wife and travel all the way back to the surface. However, if you so much as look back to see her, she'll forever be cast away into the bowels of Hell (thus there are two potential endings)
    - - HP bar - health points
      - MP bar - music points
      - SP bar - spirit points
      - body temperature gauge
      - sanity meter (have yet to conceive the purpose of this, but I want it)
      - skill attribution center - levelling up from killing enemies gives you experience points for you to allocate to different stats/skill levels/music effects
      - equipment center - also says which unlocked music can be played by what lyre/lute?
      - inventory center (healing items, quest items...)
      - texture: changes depending on the stratum you're in (ex. in stratum 6, it's a brilliant red and fiery)
  - - - physics-based
        
        puzzles
        
        push/drag interaction
      - gravity
        
        manipulate
        
        reverse
        
        unstable
        
        reversion
      - "combat"
        
        dismantle/outsmart automatons
        
        shut down the lab
        
        other mutants aid you
      - Audio
        
        futuristic, electronic, maybe throw in some heavy metal for action sequences
      - UI
        
        a map?, typically physics games don't have on-screen UIs
        
        they're definitely gonna have factory-like textures
    - - objective
        
        release the mutants and escape the lab
      - setting
        
        laboratory
        
        hangars
        
        holding cells
        
        corridors
      - genre
        
        grimdark?
        
        fantasy
        
        dystopian
    - - protagonist
        
        self-insert
        
        stoic
        
        confident
        
        strong
      - allies
        
        different abilities
        
        physically aberrant
        
        prisoners
      - villain
        
        seemingly ubiquitous
        
        can persuade the protag to join them
        
        head researcher/director