Revamping ideas

[partouf]

• Don't have bossfights, but make the level really difficult, and with reaching the end, you get a new mechanic and you will need to use that mechanic in the next level (downside, we'll need to think of those and have that be somehow be reflected in the randomized design of the map)
• Have a backstory and have mechanics that explain that story throughout the world, like books you can read, posters and signs you can read, conversations that you can overhear (with your superhearing)
• Abilities with a visible cooldown period, for example a special jump/run that makes you jump a couple blocks, but you need to save it until you really need it because you can do it only every hour and time is ticking away

[hawnsbrix]

• Sunlight prevents use of (certain) abilities.

• Empty tiles in between occupied tiles (like buildings) have shadow cast on them, i.e. block sunlight and allow abilities.

• A powerful enough vampire character is allowed to 'recruit' up to 3 Ghouls, starting with 1.
  Ghouls are made by giving a mortal victim some of your blood. A blood tax is created and at certain point your Ghouls will need to recoup their strength by taking some of their masters blood.

Ghouls are not controlled directly but operate in the background and can be given a couple of tasks to complete while the master is doing their own thing. They will steal things, gather information, or capture someone for their master to drink/eat.

[partouf]

• Sunlight prevents use of (certain) abilities.

Hm right. I was initially thinking about sunlight just killing you, so there's a time aspect to the game. If you don't get on in time, it's game over. But there's of course the moments of sunrise and things blocking the sun, so there's definitely room for this, I think.

• Empty tiles in between occupied tiles (like buildings) have shadow cast on them, i.e. block sunlight and allow abilities.

Yes, good idea

• A powerful enough vampire character is allowed to 'recruit' up to 3 Ghouls, starting with 1.

Sounds cool, like a necromancer

Ghouls are made by giving a mortal victim some of your blood. A blood tax is created and at certain point your Ghouls will need to recoup their strength by taking some of their masters blood.

Ahh yes

Ghouls are not controlled directly but operate in the background and can be given a couple of tasks to complete while the master is doing their own thing. They will steal things, gather information, or capture someone for their master to drink/eat.

Sounds like a lot of AI to write though.

I would be more into taking control of the ghouls body and doing things, but then the question arises; why wouldn't you just do it yourself?

[hawnsbrix]

I was thinking that it wouldn't really be animated except for in a special screen where you can track what they're up to. Which would be just 3 profile shots of the people you ghoulified. So it would be just numbers going up in the background, with a chance for authorities to spawn in the masters vicinity. They followed one of your henchlads while they was criming.

[partouf]

Ahh interesting

[hawnsbrix]

xD

[hawnsbrix]

• We might want to have a Wanted/Reputation/Influence meter that dictates how many law enforcement or other enemies can spawn.

• Figure out if we want drained victims to be actually dead or just replaced with a almost bloodless husk of a person that sort of recuperates over time. Killing them doesn't seem super lore-friendly to me but should probably be an option.

• If a potential victim is not alone (there's at least one other person in a nearby tile) you cannot feed on them and they need to be lured away? This would emphasize the feeling of hunting and stalking. It would also give a lot of options for special abilities. Seducing, ambushing, mind controlling, that sorta thing.