Group Task - Initial Development

CHARACTER ABILITIES

Walk

Run

Jump

Lasso 

Running Jump

Items Interaction

Health Regeneration

Walk

Character walks at 1 unit per second. 

Run

Character runs at 2 units per second. 

Jump

Jump takes 2 seconds from static, followed by a 2 second pause (to regain balance) before the player may move again.

Lasso  

Ledge Grab

The character may grab on to an upper right edge, upper left edge or exposed edge of an object and can hold this position until ready to either climb on top or drop down.

Swing

The character can stick the lasso on to various objects within the environment and use a pendulum motion to swing across (or up to) inaccessible areas.

The character also has control of the length of his arm during this action, and can shorten or lengthen (up to 10 units) his arm to allow him to reach higher or lower places.

The lasso may get caught on an edge during the arc motion, which will thus increase the distance and speed the character is traveling. This would be useful for areas like below. 

Abseil/Climb

Player can use the lengthening and shortening of the lasso to scale up and down the environment (restricted to 10 units up or down).

Grab

Player can simply hold their position whilst performing a climb or abseil action and could then continue to simply let go and drop on to an enemy from above.

Running Jump

Jump takes 3 seconds, followed by a 2 second pause (to regain balance) before the player may move again.  

Items Interaction

Lasso could be used to activate levers or buttons further on in the level than their character could normally physically reach. 

Pushing environmental objects would be dependant on the scale of the object vs. the player, and also the player would be required to be within 1 unit of the object to be able to physically move an object (as apposed to activating it/modifying it).

Health Regeneration

Players could regenerate health by eating enemies by grabbing them with their lasso tool, and pulling them in to their mouth. Other methods of regeneration would be through collecting specific items (such as test tubes) which would boost health.