Hello you lil rascals!
Since I have finished my last project a few months ago already, I am desperate to make MORE GAMES. So today the muses were nice to me and gave me a concept that promises both interesting gameplay and a story worth telling. Here is a short version with some thematic background intentionally left out:
A mermaid at the bottom of the ocean has a penfriendship with an earth person. They decide to meet their friend at the top and make their way to the surface. The gameplay is reminiscent of tower climbing games, the world is at most one screen wide.
This is all I have so far:
Controlling the mermaid is already great fun!
I'm trying to be very open when it comes to the scope of the game. Of course every one here who has laid hands on a game project will know how hard estimating workload is.
What I would be interested in hearing from you: How would you do a tower climbing game without platforming? I have never seen something like it before, so I would be curious for new ideas. I myself always wanted to do something vaguely like Pikmin, in this case maybe recruiting little fish to help with removing barriers upwards???
