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Game Ideas, Desert Ranch - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Plot
        
        Prologue
        
        Native and bandit conflict took
        over towns and outposts you rely on
        
        Gameplay goals
        
        Natives route
        
        Bandit route
        
        Ending
        
        Peace ending
        
        Conquer ending
    - - Customisation
        
        Character creation
        
        clothing choices and armour skins
      - Character model
        
        Natives
        
        Darker skin tones - tattoos and war paint
        
        Bandits
        
        masked and covered up
        
        no identity for the grunts
        
        Town
        
        Typical American citizens
      - Clothing
        
        Home Town
        
        Typical 1860s clothing
        for the friendly NPCs
        
        Natives
        
        Tribal like clothing
        traditional native American attire
        
        Bandits
        
        Black clothing gold
        accent from looting
    - - Home Town
        
        Friendly don't stray from the town,
        can find them in the buildings
      - Natives
        
        Hostile, tend to stay in territory,
        not many scouts, usually in groups
      - bandits
        
        Hostile, often alone, lots
        of roaming scouts
    - - Origin
        
        Sheriff that wants the best
        for his town and community
      - Death
  - - - new character
        
        different member of police
        that is now the sheriff
      - repercussions
        
        some captures can be taken back
    - - turn based
      - rewards stealth
    - - weapons
        
        natives
        
        a mix of slightly
        primitive melee and
        ranged weapons
        
        bows, tomahawk, blowgun
        
        spears, hatchets, knives
        
        base gear
        
        1860 era weapons
        used by sheriffs
        
        bandits
        
        more improvised guns
        used by 1860 cowboys
      - clothing/ armour
        
        cosmetic clothes
        
        armours picked up by the
        fallen and used by the player
    - - native
        
        based around tripwires and snares
      - bandits
        
        based on pressure plates and loaded prepared guns
    - - native
      - bandit
      - areas
        
        towns
        
        outposts
  - - - home base
        
        very typical western flat roof buildings
        
        saloons
        
        police stations
        
        houeses
      - native
        
        slightly primitive housing and
        tents and a town hall in towns
      - bandit
        
        ransacked versions of the home base
    - - mountain ranges
    - - could be around a river or spring
  - - - 12
    - - fans of western games
      - fans of pixelated games
  - - - Home area
        
        western almost saloon music
        
        same instruments
        as bandit areas
      - Bandit area
        
        Typical western dramatic
        cowboy esc music
        
        ocarinas, flutes, guitar, trumpets
      - Native area
        
        Traditional native
        American music
        
        Canyon flutes, drums, rattles
      - Situations
        
        Boss fights/
        town captures
        
        very dramatic scores
        
        outpost capture
        
        slightly higher energy
        
        roaming
        
        more calm versions of the music
    - - synth, 8 bit
        sounds blended
        into the music
  - - - all textbox
        dialogue
      - home area
        
        all NPCs have scared or concerned
        (sometimes hopeful) dialogue
        
        Abbreviations of southern American language
      - natives
        
        very straight forward
        and bad English or
        in another language
      - bandits
        
        comedically evil dialogue and line delivery
    - - pixelated font to
        match art style
  - - - native
        
        native themes like
        totems scattered around
      - bandit
        
        comedic aesthetic but
        still slight "evil" connotations
  - - - can reduce sales from older audiences not liking style
      - could increase sales from wider audience
  - - - tumbleweed
      - weather
        
        rain
        
        thunder
    - - cartoon gunfire
      - whistle of a projectile
    - - different sounds depending on trap
        e.g. rope cutting/ snapping
  - - - rim world
      - stardew valley
      - enter the gungeon
    - - xcom
      - divinity series
    - - shadow of mordor
  - - - outpost
        
        small victory animations and overlay
      - town
        
        Big victory animations - people returning and fireworks
    - - animations on death
    - - small animation of the next sheriff picking up a revolver and badge
  - - - bandit
        
        reclaiming land they took
      - native
        
        reclaiming land they took
    - - lose some progress
  - - - turn based combat
- - - - townsfolk
        
        who the player is looking after and creating towns for
      - scouts
        
        used to go through the fog
        
        one of 2 sources of combat in the game
      - antagonists
  - - - the expanse of the town and the exploration of new ones
  - - - singleplayer is quick
      - multiplayer can accommodate
        lots of players
    - - stops visibility
      - encourages exploration
      - can hide combat for 12 year olds
      - USP
    - - resource gathering
        
        allows for technology to be
        discovered and developed
        
        uses
        
        weaponry
        
        travel
        
        building
        
        exploration
        
        methods
        
        mines
        
        pastures
        
        quarries
        
        wells
        
        farms
        
        plantations
        
        camps
      - architecture
  - - - fiddle
      - harmonica
      - banjo
    - - western music on a loop while in gameplay
      - achievements
        
        small jingle similar to zelda
    - - main theme with western instrument
  - - - 1850s America cowboy esc buildings
        
        housing
        
        bank
        
        saloon
    - - hidden
        
        fog of war
        
        link to overcoming fear and limited visibility
        
        used as a progression tool
      - revealed
        
        desert landscape
        
        small animations of tumbleweed
        or cactus in the wind
  - - - made for pc
      - console ports would be possible but difficult
      - relatively easy mobile port
  - - - Traditional western fonts for text on the map
      - regular font for text on overlay
    - - voice actors
        
        accents
        
        natives
        
        cowboys
      - lines
  - - - horses
      - coyotes
      - buffalo
    - - revolvers
      - rifles
      - blades
    - - mines
      - trains
      - oil wells
  - - - free reign in speciality and freedom of placement
    - - having to monitor and look after NPCs
      - job allocation and sustaining community
    - - tiles system
      - recourses and application
  - - - new buildings could upgrade the town and feel like a new level
    - - when a new area gets unlocked it can
        supply a difference in gameplay like a new level
- - - - no set characters
  - - - team-based
      - tactical strategy
  - - - mix between melee and ranged on both sides
    - - layout
        
        master player can edit the placement and amount of building in a city
      - bandits
        
        can spawn different types and amounts of NPCs for the players
    - - natives
      - cowboys
        
        same mechanics but with different
        abilities and flavouring
  - - - gameplay will be generally slower
        so music would reflect that
    - - the master player can decide
        speed so the energy of the music
        relies on number of enemies
    - - cowboys
        
        western inspired music that
        relies on the speed of the game
        
        ocarinas, flutes, guitar, trumpets
      - Native American inspired music that
        relies on the speed of the game
        
        Canyon flutes, drums, rattles
  - - - 12
    - - not many "play against your friends as the master player" games
  - - - the multiplayer maps are restricted to a small town that varies in colour scheme, theme and layout
    - - customisation
        
        set in a western town but master player can determine layout and look of the architecture
    - - 1860s inspired
        
        housing
        
        saloons
        
        banks
        
        police stations
  - - - this gameplay is much more
        reliable for pc rather than console
        
        could create functionality and
        usability problems
    - - this gameplay lends to multiple platforms very well
  - - - gunfire
      - clothes adornment
      - abilities
    - - explosions
      - any structure damage
      - debris
  - - - death sounds
      - mocking players
    - - quips
        
        one liners
        
        character selection
      - voice lines
        
        unlockable lines in game
      - customisations
        
        when equipping a gun, item or clothing
  - - - master player has top down view and 3rd person view
    - - all first person
  - - - team based tactical shooter
    - - master player mode
  - - - weapons
        
        class variations
        
        natives
        
        cowboys
      - clothing
  - - - can tend to be too violent
  - - - online so no actual levels
    - - the master player can decide the waves and amount and difficulty of levels
- - - - allows for technology to be
        discovered and developed
      - uses
        
        weaponry
        
        travel
        
        building
        
        exploration
      - methods
        
        mines
        
        pastures
        
        quarries
        
        wells
        
        farms
        
        plantations
        
        camps
- - - - small jingle similar to zelda
- - - - housing
      - bank
      - saloon
  - - - fog of war
        
        link to overcoming fear and limited visibility
        
        used as a progression tool
    - - desert landscape
      - small animations of tumbleweed
        or cactus in the wind
- - - - accents
        
        natives
        
        cowboys
- - - - who the player is looking
        after and creating towns for
    - - used to go through the fog
        
        one of 2 sources of combat in the game
        
        used for exploration and new areas