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Hail-Mary
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High Concept Document

Author
Henrique Lima
Last Edited
Aug. 25, 2016

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OVERVIEW
Hail-Mary is top down handball game where certain items periodically drop from the sky
to help or hurt your chance to win.
The main character is a girl named Mary who has the ability to dash to quickly evade
oncoming projectiles or create space to score.

GENRE
Hail-Mary is an action/sport game.

Target Customer
Target Audience:
- Competitive Players
Gender:
- Male
- Female
Age Range
Ages 10 - 25

DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL
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For distributing the game, Steam is to be used.

TARGET HARDWARE
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Minimum specs required.

TARGET PLATFORM
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Main platform is PC.

ENGINE
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Unity 5

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CORE MECHANICS
Camera:
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Static camera that will be fixed to a side angle, or top down view.

Players can be hit up to three times, depending on the weapon used.

Health will slowly regenerate when not getting hit.

Death occurs when the player is out of health.

Collect the ball and throw it in the correct goal to score 5 points.
Scoring also occurs when a player kills another (+1).

The winner is declared when the time limit is reached.

A winner can also be declared when a predetermined score value is
reached.

Health:
Death:
Score:

Victory Condition:

GAMEPLAY
Gameplay Modes:
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Single-Player

In single-player mode, the player and one AI is trying to score the most points against
two AIs adversaries.

Multi-Player

In multi-player mode, the player, with up to 3 other friends, share screen space and
compete to see who is the best handball player on campus!
Other Things That May or May Not Happen...
- If you havent scored in a while, items will begin to drop.
- Players can collect these items by walking over them.
- Players may not use items if they have the ball.
- Players may only use items on their side of the field.
- If player dies they get respawned on their side of the field.

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GAME ART
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Inspirations:
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I want it to have a, Nuclear Throne / Enter the Gungeon, look.

Isometric
Pixel Art

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PROJECT PLAN

MILESTONES
September Milestones:
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Player Movement
Weapon Implemented

Scoring
UI

Friendly AI
Enemy AI

October Milestones:

November Milestones:

ALTERNATIVE MILESTONE:
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Local Multiplayer