Cute Wars

(NEW) 72dpi army

glory days II / cannon fodder / pixelwar

• you play a soldier in a 2d war, pick up items, enter vehicles, blow up stuff
• rock-paper-scissor balance between unit types
• flat landscape
• "AI" controlled army (walk forward, shoot)
• v1 units
  • soldier mg (captures buildings, good against soldiers)
  • soldier rocketlauncher (good against tanks)
  • tank (good against bunkers / jeeps, can only roll over soldiers... very vulnerable to rocketlaunchers)
  • helicopter (transport soldiers & items)
  • jeep (good against helicopters)
  • bunker (gives money, mg/rocket shoots out)
  • anti air turret (good against helicopters, obviously)
  • base (where you build stuff)
• gameplay notes
  • make it a bit slower than glory days II.
    • stuff needs multiple hits to be blown up
• customizable nations (flags, sound effects / speaker)
• multiplayer (internet & on one computer - horizontal splitscreen)
  • build "nations" and let other people join
    • (idea) world map / global conflict mode-score-thingy?
  • keep statistics like GTA3 (walked miles, times in heli, shot bullets, etc) for each player

• $$$ ideas for monetization?
  • special online features (nations, statistics, ...) only if registered version?

scrapbook

• build the basic engine, permit graphics mods (eg. graphics from "advanced wars")
• enable different mods (people should be able to build their own units and swap them via an online marketplace thing)
• dynamic landscape (laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaater. graphics... complicated... (; )
• website that interacts with the online aspect of the game? (forum, score, "world map", ...)

• vX units
  • artillery shoots from distance (really strong, but vulnerable to soldiers dropped off by a heli)
  • supply truck
  • medic
  • sniper
  • nukular [sic] bomb (target marker is planted by a soldier)

notes

• http://ds.ign.com/articles/743/743057p1.html

(OLD) PixelWar

metal slug + worms

• concise visual & audio style (minimalistic, gameboy tunes)
• pixel soldiers run across a worms-like landscape. the whole game is very sparse with coloers; greyscale only (2-4 shades? + eventually red)
• the more foes are on screen the higher your bonus multiplicator is
  • force the player to provoke risky situations to score high.

• 320x200 + scale to fullscreen

• knife, pistol, machinegun, heavy
• use already existing pixelwar animations
• eyecandy brass, blood

way way way later features

• online score tracking
  • score together with friends as group (see desktop tower defense)

• gameplay
  • force players to risk more to score higher (the more enemies on screen the higher the bonus. threat level)

• social networks in games