An odd little idea I had

01/08/2012

"I've released an early build of the engine with a simple tutorial image:

Node.exe

Although I missed out one important thing, right click changes the direction of the nodes (for direction and jump nodes)

Default resolution is 1366x768 so people with lower res than that will encounter issues."

Here is the image

By the way If I go ahead with this and make it a full blown project, I'll keep posting and images to a twitter I just set up, if anyone's interested that much.

Just an idea I had for a game mechanic concept, and that's the engine for it so far.

The left is the nodes laid out, the right is the characters path taken .
(All the numbers are for debug purposes, just try to ignore them)

Basically, the player can survey a level before hand, and lay out their nodes. Though in some levels the amount of nodes one can place would be limited to actually add the challenge to the concept. When the player has finished laying nodes down, they can then send the character on its way.

So far there are: Jump nodes, climb nodes, run nodes and stop nodes. I plan to add more like sliding and diving, this concept will have a lot of focus on the parkour element; wall jumping, sliding under obstacles etc to navigate around levels quickly. There should be enemies, but I'm still thinking on how combat should be done, either having to predict their movements and adding shoot nodes down, or when an enemy comes into sight the player gains control of the characters weapon temporarily.

So what do you guys think of that as a game mechanic?

No giveaways hidden here, so you leeches can go away. I shall show you the way out.