Day 0 - Off we go!

This year, environment is everything. Our entry seeks to explore the impact that the environment can have on making interesting in-game choices for players. The typical roguelike presents the game world as a kind of floor plan, with mazes, chokes, corridors, and other factors which inform a player in their decision-making process. We're going for something a little different.

The 'floor plan' map lends itself to considering space cardinally. We hope to mix that up this year by thinking in terms of up/down, and across. Our focus is on exploring roguelike-ing from the side on, and what impact that will have on traditional gameplay ideas. As such, we want to build our mechanics around exploring a vertical space, and everything that entails. Height is a natural consequence of thinking vertically, so we're keen to see how that can be used: falling off edges, jumping, and the fact that enemies may come at you from above and below, as well as from side to side.