(Last Update: 04/08/24)

Player objective:

• Goal: Protect environment
• Means:
  • Directly help the environment: water the plants, extinguish forest fire
  • Destroying pollutant: eliminate human establishment
    • Destruction is area based, so surrounding natures may also be destroyed

Player stats in the game:

• State of water: visual information
  • Water, cloud, tide
    • ice, as an enhanced abilities from water with larger destruction
  • Changing forms is available from the beginning of the game
  • Changing forms can only happen passively
  • fire evaporates the water droplet into a cloud, rain makes the cloud into a water droplet, dashing toward the shore turns waves into a water droplet, merging into the sea turns water droplets into a wave (refer to the diagram)
• Size:
  • Water Bubble UI
  • Interaction —> size change —> stats change
• Level progression:
  • Progress Bar UI, Ability unlock: on the top of the screen
  • “Battle Pass”
• Sea Water Dangerous

Player abilities:

• In all states: Move (WASD), become bigger when collect others

• Size Change: size is simply a player property or “ability” for them to solve situations

  • Cloud form: decreasing over time, increasing over merging with other clouds
  • Ice form: decreasing over time
  • Tide form: decreasing by not moving, increasing by moving
  • Water form: decreasing over any interactions, increasing over merging with other waters doesn’t change size

• In Water Form:

  • Super Jump:(1)
    • A very early game ability. Allows player to move across vertical distance without switching to cloud form.
    • Might be good for indoor level
  • Water Stream/Spray:
    • A early/mid game ability. Allows player to shoot water bolt/stream that fly through distance, but very water costly.
    • Might be good for level design like watering a large area of plants, shooting moving targets.
  • Ice form:
    • A mid game ability. Allow player to attack/destroy item that blocks the way.
    • Might be good for outdoor levels, destroy factories, and for restricting access to certain areas in early game.

• In Cloud Form:

  Up to the level design if cloud form mainly serve as a teleport or a puzzle solver

  • Lightning Storm:
    • A mid/late game ability. Allow the player to ignite objects on the ground to create fire.
    • Might be good for puzzles by allowing players to easily travel between sky and ground.

• In Tide Form:

  • For right now, prioritize Interactions with the environment before adds in new abilities.