Thesis

A puzzle game built around eliminating enemies without any conventional weapons, not even magic. The player needs to work with their environment, using different interactions to create interesting combos that can take out their opponents. Depending on the level, different tools, traps and enemies will be present that the player can leverage by pushing, pulling, and connecting. While we have had experience making games, it has mostly focused on coding and feature implementation and less art and polish. The plan for this project is to expand gravity shift by adding in this polish in the form of sound and particle effects, taking the game to the next level

Core Mechanics

Grappling Hook

Gravity Orb

Elemental Interactions

Time Constraints

Grappling hook mockup or cyberhook

tf2 rocket jump/momentum mod or similar puzzle game concept

[speed game] stat screen at the end with time, explain rewarding players for speed

Process Diagram

Prototypes

Demo

Deliverables

Bring the game to an Alpha state:

1. All major mechanics implemented
2. Most things not fully tuned or balanced
3. Small sandboxes for each mechanic, with a larger one for all of them to interact

Next Steps

Sam:

1. Implement wallrunning
2. Add direct grapple
3. Add double jump and ground slam
4. Tune movement mechanics to be more situational

Andrew:

1. Begin adding particle effects
2. Add in new enemies

Feedback

1. What kinds of enemy design could we implement?
2. What other movement mechanics should we add?
3. How could we incentivize completing levels quickly without making it a requirement?

Thank You