Cute Wars

keep it simple! cut features! not time! cut features! CUT FEATURES!

• 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

Iteration #1

• Landscape
• move player around
• shoot

"Architecture"

• classes
  • GameObject
    • Soldier
    • Bullet
    • Landscape (eventually don't store this in game object tree. how does one reasonably implement this? where's pygame on rails?)
  • Controller
    • Title
    • Loading
    • GameRunning

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