notes/Stack Overdrive Initial Meeting.md
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Genre

Prior discussion

But, in a nutshell, if you can imagine a roguelike game where the upgrade system is built on zachtronics logic, and the gameplay is akin to a X survivors/20 minutes till dawn

Drei

Premise

Prior discussion

Your character is a moving turret in survivors type games

Drei

I want to do a fall from the top to the bottom and climb to the top and out sort of thing The setting is already future dystopia

Drei

General plot discussion

Premise spitballing

Final Premise

Setting

Vague Plot Outline

Aesthetic

Prior Discussion

Iso
3d in a fixed iso-ish camera
The artstyle would be pretty much Cloudpunk/Transistor with our own twists

Drei

It's unapologetically cyberpunk themed With all the flavor that comes with that

Drei

Since we're doing a futuristic dystopian thing with skyscrapers above clouds and murky grey I thought, man, wouldn't it be cool if this was kinda like bladerunner with necromunda tones
To where, at a certain point in the game, you're dropped to the pre-city, which is old as balls And people still live there and use a bunch of garbage old world

Drei

POV

Isometric top down

Art Style

Very pixellated - k9 Voxel/pixellated Cyberpunk

  • What other games have a style that we can take inspiration from?

Music

Prior Discussion

I need you to sit down and absorb yourself into the world of darksynth

Examples

I had this idea where the soundtrack across the game as a whole gets a little bit more acoustic and classical to represent the escape from techno dystopia

Drei

Sample

k9

Mechanics

Prior discussion

No, which is what makes it a survivors type game
You build the behavior of the gun
The gun shoots itself

/by its own

Drei

General discussion about modularity, weapons should have a small amount of modules, with a large number of combinations Source

Technical Stack

Engine

  • Unity
  • Unreal
  • Gadot
  • Engineless
  • Other

Source Control

  • Git (Github? Self hosted?)
  • Unity VCS
  • Other

Collaboration

  • Discord
  • Codecks
  • Github Projects
  • Trello

Documentation

  • Markdown folder
  • Google Docs
  • Notion

Fox's input

  • Gadot primarily, unity for the engine