Alakajam! 6

• Theme: Duel
• Setting: C Y B E R P U N K
• Genre: Point 'n Click + TBS/puzzle-ish

Synopsis

You are «name», a decker living in «city». Looking to make a name for yourself, you look towards AIC0, a mysterious facility in the military complex. Rumours have it an AI is watching the contents of this facility like a hound. Many have tried, and they have never been heard of again. Will you succeed?

Core elements

• point 'n click
  • dialogues
  • inventory
  • time aware?
• metro
  • navigate around the city
• cyberduel
  • Spybotics: the Nightfall Incident inspired combat
  • fetch quest type: you need X to open Y (collected in p'n'c parts)
    • alternatively try brute force

The city

Locations

• military sector
  • AIC0
    • duels
• civilian sector
  • Westend
    • military checkpoint
      • fake papers check
  • Market
    • the clinic
      • biosoft implants
    • AIC0 thermal vent
      • exit after successful mission - agree with TODO to pick you up
  • Manor subsector
    • home
      • practice battles
      • run decker missions? for money
  • REC-7
    • Bob's Bar
    • Kino7
  • Fortress
    • Police station
  • Elephantine
    • Hospital

People

• You
• Bobbard "Bottles"
  • barkeep
  • friendly
  • source of rumours, know-who's
• Soldiers at checkpoint
• Bar fodder
• Ada Core
• ...

Graphics

• flat colours
  • Batterycorp, Flashback: QFI
• characters
  • hand-drawn
  • maybe post-process?

Music

• cyber duel - battle music, hackery, tactical combat
• home - chill, downtempo, ambient
• bar - techno, rave party
• checkpoint - stealthy ambience
• metro - ambience + noise
• jack-in - when entering the cyber-space
• leaving cyberspace successful
• game over
  • win
  • dead

Sfx

• duel
  • unit move (each tile)
  • unit attack
  • unit destroyed
  • credits collected
• ui
  • button press
  • panel moving (similar to door hiss below)
• speech - short generic, "phrases"
• RAIN AMBIENCE
• footstep
• rainy footstep
• lightbulb flicker (very short)
• door hiss - sci-fi door, open / close

TODO

• graphics
  • backgrounds
    • checkpoint, AIC0, outside ...
  • characters
    • soldier? ...
• scenario
  • dialogues
  • main plot points