Pitch Deck | Game Design Document

Rift Punk is a first person shooter action platformer. It takes the best aspects from boomer shooters & 3D platformers and creates a cohesive cocktail. The player is tasked with freeing people and creatures of different punk universes from the control of the Rift King. The Nano Gauntlet and Rift Gauntlet are at the player's control. With the Nano Gauntlet the player can scan and then use any weapon they find on their journey. The Rift Gauntlet allows the player to traverse the different worlds, rift to different universes, and free the people of these worlds from mind control.

Overview

  •  First Person Shooter camera view and controls.

  • A story of redemption for a formerly mind controlled lieutenant of a conqueror of universes.

  • A game set in different punk universes.

  • Fight your way through different universes, save the residents, and defeat your former leader.

  • Wield the Nano Gauntlet to scan, use, and add new weapons to your arsenal.

  • Utilize the platforming abilities of the Rift Gauntlet and use its ability to traverse universes.

  • Collect a resource that helps destroy the Rift King’s mind control over innocents and unlocks more universes to the player.

Key Pillars

First Person Shooter with fast paced combat

  • Fast paced fps combat that integrates seamlessly into the first person platforming.

  • There is an assortment of weapons for the player to unlock, each with their own strategies.

  • The levels are open and incorporate height variability. 

  • The player must finish every enemy up close and personal for a reward, ammo, or health.

First Person 3D Platforming

  • Platforming that gets more complicated the further the player gets into the game.

  • The player gets various platforming abilities that help solve various puzzles and make earlier inaccessible areas accessible.

  • The main secrets in every level require the player to do some sort of platforming feat and puzzle solving.

The Setting

  • The game takes place in several different punk universes.

  • Nanopunk Universe: home of nanotechnology.

  • Bronzepunk Universe: A world with retro futuristic technology from the classical world and enriched by classical mythologies.

  • Stonepunk Universe: A universe powered and styled around stone age technology.

  • Dieselpunk Universe: Retro futuristic technology and industrial aesthetic of WW1 and WW2

  • Solarpunk/Lunarpunk Universe: Solarpunk is home to a future with an art nouveau aesthetic and overgrown vegetation. Lunarpunk is home to a future that is dark, gothic, and satanic in aesthetic, covered with bioluminescent fungi and vegetation.
    Collectibles and Secrets

  • Various collectibles and secrets that enrich the players knowledge of the worlds they are in and aid in making the player more powerful.

  • Most secrets are solved by platforming puzzles.

  • Some collectibles are only obtainable from bosses and mini bosses.

Story Summary

You are The Punk, a former mind controlled universe raider.

The Rift Raiders are an organization set on conquering universes and stripping them of their resources to sell to the highest bidder. They are led by the Rift King and their base of operations is housed in the Nanopunk universe. He controls all of his henchmen with a nanochip in their helmets and the people of the universe he controls with nanobugs that burrow into their skin.

On a delivery mission to Rinzler (the Rift Raider in control of the Bronzepunk universe), the Punk’s ship malfunctions and crash lands. The chip in his helmet was damaged beyond repair because of the crash. Although he is unaware of his past before the Rift King, he is aware of all he is done after. The Punk sets out to free the people of the many Universes under the Rift King’s control and defeat his former leader.

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