The Disconnect

*Warning Game Incomplete Expect Bugs*

A gateway appears in space near Earth orbit. Suddenly it powers up but the top explodes before it could finish. A shockwave hits earth and stops all internet communications, the internet goes offline. They called it, the disconnect... *Show game title and load menu*

Start Menu

Single player

Co-op

View high scores

Opening scene after starting game

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Description appears saying: After the disconnect event all computers on earth began to load a program. Then move into the program screen. Loading... *Pause* Hello World... The Internet is offline... The solution, resolve the Offline... *In a quirky alien text that forms into our ASCII characters as it types*

Then you get taken into the space game.

The "Offline" are the enemy red ships, they are to be destroyed.

Menu Controls

Player 1 or 2 controls for menus and mouse.

Esc to exit from high score sheet.

Player 1 Controls

W,S,A,D movement.

Space - Fire.

Player 2 Controls

Arrow keys

Right Ctrl - Fire.

Genre

It's a top down asteroids style shooter. With various missions and a more detailed high score chart.

Missions

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Save Planets from the offline and reconnect them.

Defend Stations and upgrade your ship at them prior to battle and after. Increase rows and columns of a grid type setup. Add various guns at the front, edge guns are default cannons. You can escape after 1 minute of waves but doing so twice won't let you use the station to buy until you protect them.

Blow up Enemy Ships and Collect their Cache in open space. (Yes I'm playing with Cash words with internet terms ;))

Fragmented space area, has lots of fragmented floating about and few enemy ships, you can choose to loot and quickly escape through an exit space gate before encountering if your ship is too damaged.

Ships get bigger as the levels progress.

Enemy Ships "The Offline" are in Red and Shoot at you.

"The Fragmented" Ships are Brown and drift in space, avoid them as they caused damage on collisions or shoot them to blow them up.

Mission flow

After arriving through a gate in the first space mission area, the system has four gates to choose from. After clearing the enemies the four gates will activate. Letting the player decide which system to visit next out of the four types mentioned above. The different mission areas have different goals to complete or avoid depending on player ship health against current level of ships faced.

As the game progresses the enemy ships get bigger and tougher, the player can also upgrade their ship at stations mentioned above to counter.

What hasn't been added yet

Opening sequence mentioned above.

Missions mentioned above.

Pause game.

Sounds/Music.

Varying atmospheric noises.

Particle Effects, e.g. firing, damage, movement.

Planet level, mission clear the area. Worth 3 level upgrade.

Station level with buying system to upgrade the ship length and width. Worth 2 level upgrade.

Space Level, clear enemy ships. Worth 1 level upgrade.

Fragmented level, clear the area of fragmented and an unwelcome enemy ships. Worth 0 levels.

Weapons

• Missiles

• Beam

• Pulse Beam

• Mines

Defences

• Shields in the middle every complete 9 square of the ship hull.

• Flak turrets anti-missile

Win/Lose per system scenario.

3 lives to respawn, respawn sets player back to level 1, game stays at level but the lesser risk missions allow to accumulate cache again to upgrade at next station.

Save to high scores at game over, init and loading works though.

Power mechanics for hull length to guns/engines at the back. Width for turn speed.

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