VANAGLORIA (working title)

A team game with an emphasis on movement (with no shooting), inspired by Overwatch and Zineth

Main mechanics ideas:

• Teams start side-by-side and must get to objective
• Objective is a see-saw: have more mass on your side of point

Side mechanics ideas:

• After enough movement, player can switch characters (switching is a mechanic, not a meta-game! no one-tricks)
• Speed up slowly over time. Reset on switch

Current heroes:

• Active:
  • INDUSTRIA (Wallriding mfer)
• Offensive:
  • IRA (WallMAKING mfer)
  • LUSSURIA (An ATTRACTIVE mfer)
  • PAZIENZA (Slow down at a distance)
• Support:
  • CARITAS (Margarine)
  • SUPERBIA (Build portals)

Ideas for Heroes / Abilities:

• More active
  • Blink (like tracer) costs charge
  • Heavy guy - Slow, but very heavy for the see-saw
  • Climb and glide abilities
  • JUMPING
• More supportive
  • Switch places with a TEAMMATE
    • This is awesomely self-regulating because it's zero-sum
      • However, it can't really gain charge because it can still be abused
  • Boost - Area of effect or zarya-like cast, speeds people up
  • Flop - Changes side of see-saw for each team (should it be mechanic instead??)
  • Build - Build Zineth-like rails for anyone to use
  • (Combine with IRA?) Portal 2-like gels (bounce, speed, slow?)
  • (Combine with LUSSURIA?) Hook and swing on terrain
• More offensive
  • Lay traps
  • Freeze a hero. A teammate of that hero must unfreeze them! (Or n seconds or whatever)
  • (Combine with PAZIENZA?) Destroy buildings
  • (Combine wit LUSSURIA?) Hold, then release to explode enemies away

Key concepts:

• From mobas we take:
  • An emphasis on teamwork (Objective-based is a plus)
  • Rich, emergent interaction
  • Quick battles (very high replay value)
• From FPS we take:
  • Attention bursts / rationing
  • Fast pace
• From Zineth we take:
  • A rethinking of racing games
  • High skill cap, high(=easy) skill floor
  • Forgiving gameplay

Running

First, install godot engine (3.0). Then:

$ git clone https://github.com/CosineGaming/nv-moba && cd nv-moba
$ godot

Contributing

I'd love to have contributions!

Please open an issue first. As games are a creative project, I reserve the right to control the direction of the project.

Let me know if you have a better idea for a name :)