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Hero Prop/Toy

After much discussion,  my instructor and I came to a conclusion that i was going to work on Jet boots as my hero prop. Principle: For jet boots to work, the player must  obtain minimum of 1 power up  to activate his boots to  jump/ glide over the obstacles. Basically, more power ups you claim the  higher  or further you can jump/glide. Based on which  i made a prototype design of the level and the 3 main obsticles that the player will face in the tutorial level.

4 Prefreable ideas

After thinking about the game mechanic, I decided to do some research as to what ideas i preferred for the hero prop. Since the prop is to be used as a third person player game... i started to wonder how will the player interact with the prop and how would the prop work in regards to obstacles? What would be the obstacles that would require the player to  use the prop, what sort of fundamentals can i use from the rela world and the past games that require a hero prop that would function well and looks cool? Divulging myself into these question I made few basic isometric drawings of few of the idea that I thought would be cool to have. 1. This is a iteration of the claw glove idea. As i thought more about the Claw glove, i thought it sounded more wolverine sort of an idea. As i looked further as to what king of glove I should make... I thought  why not go with medieval era  armor gloves. And after which i thought  how about I give  it a cylindrical compartme...

Hero prop game mechanic - Brian storming ideas

1. Retractable Spear Ball -  this is a weapon inspired by chinese two sided spears with a mix of star wars  weapon used by darth mole. The weapon is simply a holo tube that consist of  layer of tubes. once activated the  metallic poles come out from both ends and a small sphere with holes come out towards the end. There are small blades  that come from the inside of the wholes  and stiks out the spikes. This can also be customized to have a hot elements inside instead of the tiny spears , this making it a deadly weapon 2. Umbrella blade weapon -  a reverse umbrella, which has sharp blades that are retractable chains and at the same time can shield players  from getting attack. it can be used as wide range in a circular motion to attack large number of enemies all sides 3. Claw glove: A mechanical glove that is made out of metal robotics armor. it had the ability to high energy pulse to the player around them that causes his  en...