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Here are some design outlines for the UE4 game I’m working on with Kada. It’s inspired by Spout by Kuni!

You control a rocket and try to get as high as possible by boosting yourself upwards with a jet engine.

The flames spouting from the jet engine is also the only thing you can use to hurt enemies and destroy the blocks in your path.

Spent today planning out how weapon damage scales. Very important!

Basically, each weapon has a base power, and then for each stat, a scaling factor and a requirement. You can use a weapon regardless of stats, and you will always do at least its base power in damage - scaling is purely a bonus.

It works on a log2(1+n) scale for every point you exceed the requirement (which is then factored against the scaling and power), which means that you see the highest scaling after a few points into that stat. It continues to scale indefinitely, but quickly levels off. For reference:

+1 above req stat: 100% x scale x power

+3 above req stat: 200% x scale x power

+7 above req stat: 300% x scale x power

+15 above req stat: 400% x scale x power

etc.

This is all summed up and added to the base power. In any case, what this means is that this can be used to make a variety of weapon types, such as weapons that scale well early, scale well late, don’t scale but have high power, or start as absolute crap and progress constantly as you increase in stats.

This determines the raw damage, which then gets converted into different damage types depending on the weapon: Slash, Crush, Pierce, Fire, Frost, Lightning, Magic, Occult, Poison, Bleed, Disease, Curse, etc. Most weapons have 100% scaling on a single type, so a Falchion would do 100% slashing. Or maybe a magic Javelin that does 80% physical(pierce) and 40% lightning. Or a knife that does slashing and bleeding damage.

Concept: Sim/RTS game where you play mother nature in a minecraft/terraria style world where your resources are being rapidly plundered by AI dudes punching down trees and lil miner dudettes spelunkin' down into your guts for your precious gems.

You have to use nature powers like bears and earthquakes (oh my) to prevent them from doing so.