Mech Knights

Traverse treacherous obstacles, battle your enemies and capture their flags in the 8-bit science-fictional fantasy world of Mech Knights

Core Game Description

Mech Knights is a 2D platformer game where the main objective of the game is to travel to the enemy’s base, steal their flag, and return it to your base. However, Mech Knights isn’t an ordinary Capture the Flag game. In order to travel and capture flags, players must pass through various obstacles. They will need to run, jump, and defend themselves from enemy players. Obstacles in the arena include: platforms, moving platforms, submerging platforms, ladders, springboards, spikes, monkey bars, and portals, anti-gravity zones, buttons and electric panels. Players are able to pick weapons that can be used to eliminate enemy players. Five different guns with limited ammunition will be able to be picked up. An SMG, Assault Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Grenade Launcher and Solar Flare. Each weapon has different stats, dealing different amounts of damage, fire rates and projectile speeds. Each player has 5 health points and will die and respawn if their health depletes to zero. Weapons will spawn in randomly after a timer at designated power-up bases.

There are two teams, Red and Blue. Each team will have up to two players. Players can select what character class they want to be at the start of the game. They will not be able to change their character mid-game. 

A possible feature of the game may allow the player to upgrade their character’s health/armour.

Narrative

An outbreak of civil war has occurred in the Mech Knights’ regiment of space, each team fighting for their lives and land, causing families and friends to become enemies and threats to one another. The only way they can decide to win is how ever can capture the most power orbs or eliminate the remain of each other's team. There will be a celebration held for the winners and the losers will be left in the dungeon.

Characters 

There will be at least two different characters the players will be able to play as in the first version of the game. 

The first character is called “Defender Bot”

The second character is called “Mid-Knight”

Players will be able to pick which character they want to be at the start of the game. The character they choose will be the colour of their team. In a 4 player game, player 1 & 3 are on the red team and player 2 & 4 are on the blue team. In a 3 player game, the third player will have a choice for what team they want to be on or to be chosen a team to be on at random.

How The Game Works

Points will be awarded to a team when they capture the enemy’s flag. Points will also be awarded if they kill an enemy player. More points will be awarded for capturing the flag than killing players in order to give more emphasis for the players to play the objective of the game, which is to capture the flag. Once a team has reached a certain amount of points, a victory screen for the winning team will be displayed and the game will end. The players will then restart the game or go back to the main menu.

The game will consist of two teams of up to two players on each side. Each team will have a distinctive team colour, red and blue, in order to tell the teams apart. If a player is on the red team, their character will be dressed in predominantly red, with the same logic applying to the blue team. Each player will pick the character they want to play as in the pre-game menu and they will not be able to change their character mid-game. Each player should be able to upgrade their character throughout the game by getting better weapons or by getting  better defensive gear.