Level 2 Carnival Kick Off - Teddy Gainz

Teddy Gainz and the Festival Of Horrors - Patch 1 

Estimated deadline Feb 28 2022

Current scope

Team Gainz wants to create the level 2 we originally envisioned as our 'festival of horrors' that was struck from version 1 of the game in order to meet our deadline for the horror game jam 2. 

We plan on creating level 2 as we saw it and polishing up the rest of the game for a new version with updated and expanded content in March 2022. 

Writing

• Writing team to make needed plot changes to include level 2 after the changes we 

Design

• Carnival level with spider boss fight. 
• Chasing bug - can be the same bug or could be the spider?
• Mechanics for the level - rising balloon mechanic that helps the player get to higher platforms and access other parts of the level. 

Art

• When teddy falls off a platform would love a falling animation 
• Quick death animations - slow down the transition a little bit from where you die to when you respawn 
• Create Balloon and Carnival assets from assets list 

Sounds

• Most sounds for the level  2 update are already selected 
• Create a more uniform sound design for the whole game 
• Instrumentation of the overall sound compositions

Production 

• Have scheduled regular bi weekly meetings for teams with an asynchronous element on discord 

Level 2 patch wish list 

• Clean up what we have right now, smoother and more presentable 
  • Dialog boxes with character portraits 
  • Mini cut scenes between the levels, make them cleaner and longer 
  • Add thicc to more tutorial segments 
  • Dash and ghost bar indicators with more pizzazz 
  • IU in game maker is a nightmare but ricardo is killing it 
  • Smoother level transitions 
• Fix bugs 
  • Boss level bugs 
  • Collision bugs / stuck on corners of platforms (major fix has been pushed) 
    • Needs more testing 
• Unify sound design 
• Full screen option 
• Volume control for sound effects 
• Design a custom font for the game and marketing materials 
• Address the teddy doesn't wear pants and that thicc is wearing pants in dialog 
• Design a logo 
• Work on translation and localization (rika, japanese) 
• Platform that would work well, mobile? Feels like a game to play on the subway. 
  • How do we accomplish this? 
  • Adding controller support