super-pgl

PGL Mario Bros. Remake

Game Design Document

Definition

This game is going to be a remake of Mario Bros. from the NES and SNES era. It will have 3 levels and a boss battle.

Requirements

Need to haves

• Environment (level design)
• enemies
• Godot
• 2D
• Controllable Player
• Boss
• Coins
• Lives
• Points
• Music
• Sound Effects

Nice to haves

• multiple types of enemies
• pickups
• leaderboard

Requirements

Environment (level design)

• Parallax 2D sidescroller
• Player progresses as they move to the right of the screen.
• They can move to the left, but as they progresses they are not able to cross the left border boundry
• Floor is at set level. Can include holes and traps
• Floating platforms exist as an alternate movement path. Encouraging collectables and coins. or avoiding enemies

enemies

• Simple predefined path. no pathfinding or AI
• Passive unless provoked
• can one shot player
• do not drop items on death
• when killed, gives player points

Godot

• required game developemt platform
• can build games out to browser
• relatively easy learning curve
• compatible C# and it's own native language.
• cross platform developement (Windows, Mac, Linux)

2D

• true to the nature of Mario bros
• 2D art/assets can be worked on with relative ease
• Will use defined open source sprite editor such as AESPRITE
• Simple UI

Music and Sound Effects

• "retro 8-bit theme song"
• Custom enemy and player sounds
• UI sounds

Controllable Player

• Keyboard/Mouse and controller support (boolean input only with curves for velocity etc based on time)
• jump
• die (enemy, leaving the screen, afk)

Boss

• last level
• need to beat boss to pass the game
• three stage fight (like bowser in SM64)

Coins

• collect coins for points

Lives

• 3 lives. get an extra life if you get 100x coins