Lets #Design our new upcoming #Game 🩸 #BlobStrike 🩸 🔗 We R...

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Blob Strike

Stusse Games @Stusse_Games

4 years ago

Lets #Design our new upcoming #Game

🩸 #BlobStrike 🩸

🔗 We Release our First Devlog and Informations about

https://gamejolt.com/games/blobstrike/585266

#IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #Defense #Indie #Devlog #MadeWithUnity #Unity3D

Lets Design Blob Strike by Stusse Games

Intro:

Since our Release of Aircraft Sketch Shooter by Stusse Games on 11.January.2021, we were looking forward to our Next Project and Game we wanna Create. We created a Bunch of Mini Games such as Ninja Blocker by Stusse Games and some others will follow on our Gamepages in the Next Days.

Why this Decision:

We, DerDerErIst (@DerDerErIst1) / Twitter and Irene Galz (@Irenegalz) / Twitter, are Great Fans of Tower Defense Games and one of our Goals is to make someday an Awesome Tower Defense Game.

We recently released an Ink-style arcade retro-game called Aircraft Sketch Shooter which is available on Steam, Itch.io and Gamejolt. Now we are working on our second Game which transition from an Sketch Ink Style Themed Shooter to a Candy Colored Animated Game called,

Blob Strike

For this DerDerErIst (@DerDerErIst1) / Twitter was looking into his Storage Folders and checked what kind of Assets and Sprites he has and what can be cool to work with. He stumbled over a very Old Asset Pack from the Designerin Jaqmarti, Since we worked already with Jaqmarti together in Aircraft Sketch Shooter by Stusse Games. We decided to Contact her and talk about the

Yeah, Funny, Little, Cute, BLOBS! Theres a lot of Variation of Games you can make with those Blobs. From Arcade Games till Survival Games, They are Cute and Colorful and can make every Game Fancy.

So in Collaboration with Jaqmarti sponsored us her Asset Package for Testing purposes, so we can make a Prototype with this Assets. If we make a good Prototype and can Convince her with our Game Idea, then she will be ready to make additional Assets and Join the Team.

So Guys its on you to bring her to our Team ! *kidding*

We had now our First Assets to make our next Game with and we have the Designers Back. Now we needed some Sort of Idea, before we were Thinking about a Tower Defense Game or some sort of Idle, Clicker, Merge Game.

Then we found:

The Game Jam:

Yes, We Joined another Game Jam Knitweave Jam 1 - itch.io, we thought this is great Opportunity to make a new Game Idea in 7 Days. The Game Jam is Running until Sunday 14.February. So if you wanna Join go ahead, theres still time left!

The Theme of the Game Jam was released at Midnight, until that we had no Clue what we had to Expect.

Now the Theme came up and its Survival and Rhythm. THATS A STUPID COMBINATION, we thought. We still not Sure about those 2 Themes and how we really can make them Work together in Blob Strike by Stusse Games. But its a Challenge and something that maybe give our Game the sort of Charm it needs.

First we thought about some Survival Mechanics and then we take a look on Rythm Mechanics and played a couple Rhythm Games to understand them, because before we never Played or Made any of these Games.

Survival Theme:

Survival is an relative Easy Theme. Almost Every Game is a Survival Game. The Interpretation of Survival can be stretched and our Basic Survival Mechanic for Blob Strike (WIP) by Stusse Games (itch.io) is that you need to Defend the Holy Blob Altar.

We Build up our Gamefield and the Simple Idea is that from the Right Side Enemies are Spawning and running to the Left Side towards the Holy Blob Altar and then they try to Destroy it.

So here we had our basic Survival Mechanic, survive the Waves of Enemies and Defend the Holy Blob Altar. We are now in the "Tower Defense" Area, but instead of Towers there will be Blobs running.

Rhythm Theme:

How in the World you gonna make a Survival Rhythm Game? We still have no Clue because those are 2 Genres that not match particular good. But how previous said, Survival can be stretched alot. But we had an Idea to implement at last a Rhythm Mini Game and thats what we are Implemented.

Hold yourself for

The Mating Game

So heres the Survival Rhythm Mechanic of the Game. Since Survival always implies to survive, its relative Simple, survive the Rhythm Game and you will be Rewarded.

You gonna play the Mating Songs of the Blobs. The Mating Songs Changes depending on your Blobs.

But what does this Mechanic makes in a "Tower Defense" Game? Mhh Blobs are Cute and they wanna Mate, so how about if the Player Mates the Blobs and can Create a new Blob? Stronger? Bigger? Faster?.

This Mechanic will be our Upgrading System for Blob Strike by Stusse Games . While Playing the Blobs gain Interest to other Blobs. If the Interest is High Enough you can Start to Mate them. If you are Successful the 2 Blobs will turn into a more Powerful Blob.

The Game itself will Stop playing the Background, so all Blobs and Projectiles will remain at the same Position until the Mating Game is done. This will ensure that the Player does the Mating and not risking to Loose the Game in the Background while mating, or that one of the Mating Bloob dies.

Since the Core Gameplay is the "Defense Game" we wanna make the Mating Game very Quick. So depending on the Blobs that get mated, there will be a timespan of 4-10 Seconds to complete the Mating Game and return to the Main Game.

The 7 Days of the Game Jam

So we have now 7 Days to make a simple and fun Prototype (3 Days and ~1 Hour Left when this Post is posted)

We are sticking to the Basic Mechanics we are Chosen and gonna work out a good Prototype / Mini Game for this 7 Days.

After the Game Jam

We already have a Bunch of Ideas how to Continue the Game and give it more Depth. But for now we want to know how our Survival and Rhythm Mechanics are liked by you the Players.

How we gonna add More Depth to the Game in the Future:
Adding More and Unique Blob Styles
Research Area - Researching new Blobs in a Labour, Add additional Power to Blobs.
Game Challenges - Special Designed Challenges in the Game
Different Levels with unique Look
Blob Traps - Placing Traps on the Gamefield against the Enemie Blobs.
More Mating Song Variations or different and random choosen Mini Games for the Mating.