Target Audience:

• Teens or 17+ Mature
• Bartle taxonomy of player types: Explorers

Tone:

• Dark fantasy, often with bad endings and hard choices.
  • Note: the game is not grimdark. The player shouldn’t feel like their journey is always pointless, and that they are always powerless. Sometimes, things do go well.
• Anime-inspired. Tropes of the genre are welcomed, as long as they aren’t used in a cartoonish manner.

Systems:

• Grid-combat

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• RPG leveling, consisting of the following attributes: strength, magic power, and speed.

• As a player levels up, they can also unlock skills linked to certain types of equipment.

• Four skills can be equipped at once.

• Three characters, counting the player, can go into the dungeon at once.

• Changable equipment, and consumable items consisting of: weapons, armor, and potions (+ “others” - Quest items?).

• The player can change the equipment and level up their companions, too.

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• Perma death.

• Variable friendship levels; friend, hostile, amorous, neutral (presumably).

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• Visual novel-like dialogues

  

• Vendors

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