Game Design created by Gonzalo Alvarez
A hand-drawn local multiplayer brawler where two prehistoric tribes compete to hunt, kill, and return a large boss creature to their base, in a game of capture the flag.
Use the meat and creature's parts to unlock new unique weapons and create your own hunting strategies. Pray to the deity of your choice to unlock powerful attacks you can summon during battle!
Defeat unique prehistoric bosses to unlock new areas and discover what mysterious creatures and inhabitants lie at the end of the world.
Players create a tribe of 4 unique characters that they can switch between to compete against an opposing tribe in hunting down, killing, and returning the boss creature of the area back to their base.
Up to 4 players can play locally and be a part of either tribe. Characters not controlled by a player will become an AI until controlled.
Both teams will also choose a deity of their choice that grants a special attack once they have dealt enough damage to the boss.
This mechanic rewards players to play the objective and promotes dealing damage to the boss creature as these special moves can change the tide of the game.
When the game starts, both teams will be placed on opposite sides of the map and will be tasked to find the room with the boss. Each room will randomly contain smaller creatures, obstacles, and enemy players that will try to kill the player and deplete their lifepool. Once a teams life pool of 15 lives has been depleted, that team is out of the game.
Bosses will each have their own fighting style that players will have to strategize to overcome and kill while surviving against it and the enemy team. Once the boss is killed, a meat item will drop that initiates the second half of the game where both teams fight to grab and return it back to their base for the win.
Meat was as valuable as gold in the prehistoric era when man was forced to hunt to live another day. Now you must build your own tribe and survive against the many dangers of the wilderness. You will face opposing tribes and dangerous creatures in your hunts to find large beast that can feed an entire tribe while providing supplies to create powerful new tools. This new tools will allow your tribe to migrate to new lands and conquer stronger beast's and foe with the ultimate goal of finding out what mysteries lie at the end of the world.
Prototype build of the game with only the basic mechanics and game play loop. (not final artwork and much of it is subject to change)
example of the HUD
SUMMON BAR TOP LEFT - Fills up red as you hit the boss creature. Once filled can unleash your deity's super attack.
MAP TOP RIGHT - Shows the different rooms available, teams player's location, and boss location once its been discovered.
LIVES BOTTOM LEFT - Displays the teams remaining number of respawns.
CHARACTER HEALTH- BOTTOM LEFT-RIGHT Displays the 4 characters class and life. Symbol represents character class, and dots represent 5 points of life. Dots are lost as player takes damage. Color used to distinguish different human players. (EXAMPLE: Player 1 is blue, and when he switches to another character, that characters icon will be blue.)
Paleo Hunter will have a variety of asymmetrical characters with unique weapons and abilities unlocked by defeating the various boss creatures in the game's single player.
The main 4 classes will be spear, hammer, bow, and shamans, but will also include specialized characters.
Each character will have their own normal attack, special attack, and evade depending on the character.
| Abilities | Wasp Warrior | Spear Warrior | Frog Warrior | Saber Warrior |
| Attack | Hammer: Smash Attack | Spear: Stab Attack | Hammer: Smash Attack | Claws: Slash Attack |
| Special Attack | Ranged attack: Summon wasps | Ranged attack: Spear Throw | Melee attack: Inflate spikes for larger radius | Mid-range attack: Foward Leap Slash |
| Evade | Roll | Roll | Roll | Roll |
The Boss creatures are the central focus of the game. These will range from real to fantasy prehistoric creatures that each have their own fighting style. Some may fight from up close, far away, or behind cover and players will have to strategically create their tribes to defeat these creatures.
Upon defeating these creatures, players will use the resources acquired to unlock armor/weapon sets based on the creature that will grant new move sets and abilities.
The game will feature different areas and biome's such as forest, jungle, tundra's, plains, mountains, deserts, and many more places with their own local creatures and bosses. The maps where players will compete in will be created through multiple rooms that are connected with randomized creatures and obstacles. Maps will also feature random events that are triggered such as environmental hazards and other ways of hurting or confusing the players.
Multiplayer View for up to 4 players
Single Player View
A computer with a decent amount of graphics.
A graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.2.
200 MB of memory.
Latest version of Java (Min. 1.8-111).
Windows 7 or Mac OS X Yosemite
Preferred Resolution: 1920x1080.
Variables
Variables:
Non-inherited Variables:
