Devolution #3: Thumper - Timeline

• driving along a track
  • grid based
• “arrows” to turn 90 degrees
• “space” to thump / pick up objects / hit notes
• health
  • increasing by hitting notes
  • decreasing over time
• death by
  • falling down
  • no health
• no sound!
• levels as txt-files

• first textures!
• experiments with different field behaviour
  • slow down, auto-turn, etc.
  • boarders!
  • more sounds / notes
• new controlls
  • “lb” and “rb” to change track
  • “y” to jump
• more level / sound experiments
• extended yaml-settings

• title screen!
• no level selection
  • one playthrough!
• new level / sound structure
  • sequencer / looping!
    • streak / intensity / etc.
    • “shooting” by hitting the right notes
    • boss fight!
• graphics and vfx
  • bending!
  • objects flying by
  • animations
  • light effects, etc.
• new controlls
  • analogue stick to stear
  • “a” to thump
  • “x” to jump
  • “b” to make a wawe

Brians List
these are the problems, roughly in order, I think should be solved:

• Finish new decorator interactions
  • complete all bounce interactions
  • bumper interaction
  • blubber monster throws you in reverse for a sequin
  • maybe a similar guy that just slows you down
  • a guy that causes you to go dangerously fast for a sequin length
  • christmas tree monster sits on your head and blocks your view for a sequin
  • big christmas tree monster sits on your head and you can’t thump for a sequin
  • spiders, spikes, turns, scraping for too long, others cause you to lose your weapon, or kill you if unarmed
  • a guy that steals your coins
  • jump in the tube to enter a warp sequin and then exit back to level
  • bird delivers weapon you catch in your pinchers
  • extra life power up
• coins collected represented somehow at some point in time
• special grind thumps are Enabled Disabled based on whether you are in thump grind state
• special pound thumps are Enabled Disabled based on whether you are in thump flying state
  • (side note) I think pounding or grind-thumping a normal thump should give you the normal effect, and we should make these moves only special when we want them to be?
• jump into hole- warp world. And get launched back to where you left off
• zillapede boss battle. We should make the zillapede into a clear ‘progress meter’ somehow. Its clear how many weapon hits you need to kill it
• I think the boss battle should be timed this can be represented as the boss and gate slowly getting closer to you, there is a clear approaching boundary line that once you cross it, the closed gate and zilla flies towards you and kills you
• when you kill the zillapede gate explodes and you fly through you are given a score tally- explains number of thumps + multiplier thumps, adds them, and sends you to the next level

• refining graphics & vfx
• refining sfx
• refining level structure
  • preparatory rhythm before each thump
  • new objects / new flow
• experimenting with lives
  • no lives / 9 lives / etc.

Release Steam & PS4 & Playstation VR

• proper game!
• final aesthetics & sounds!
• score system
  • for each level segment
  • leaderboards
• refined level structure
  • boss for each level
  • no preparatory rhythm before each thump
• no lives
• no bugs (except main character)

Steam Updates

• Vive & Oculus support
• Play+ mode
• improvements & fixes
  • quick restart
  • restart from checkpoint
  • thumb relief