Magicat Demo: Herding

Another day another magicat demo

The Big Idea

• Lower stakes, non-traditional combat while still having a combat feel
• Instead of worrying about player HP, the main focus is protecting the houses
• Instead of reducing enemy HP, the main focus is repositioning enemies
• Instead of "combat", it's actually herding

Future Iterations

• Implement house HP
  • Instead of houses being destroyed and the player constantly cleaning that up (not fun)
  • Houses that are attacked enough get "cursed" and the curse will affect the NPCs who live there
  • You can restore the house and NPC by alleviating the curse (possibly more than one way to do it, more fun)
• Implement magic stamina
  • Maybe stamina meter Only for the trap attack
  • If an enemy touches the player, then some of the stamina is depleted
  • When all stamina is depleted, magical girl detransforms and the night is over
  • This promotes having more than one enemy per trap attack
• Implement enemy loot
  • Destroying more than one enemy per trap attack can raise chances for better drops
• Implement enemy AI
  • Right now they are not smart at all
  • Also their physics are wild
• Implement "light blue power square"
  • The idea behind this is there are multiple potential places in the village that these can be built/moved to
  • During the day the player can strategize where they want to be able to put their trap attacks by moving these squares
    • Maybe also can move them during the night but they are heavy and make you move slow so its a waste of time
  • Early game only has a few places to put them, and only a couple can be created
• Implement better moveset
  • Right now there are only 2 ways to move enemies (wave attack and dash)
  • Think about what kind of moves for repositioning would be fun
    • ex. Making a big ghost hand and picking up to throw/carry enemies
    • Play a song to lure enemies to follow you
    • Lightning chain grapple enemies
    • Big map wide disruption wave to buy time