Random DBD Rip-off concept part 1: Basic overview
Even though I’m not a game designer, I’ve had this idea of a DBD-like game in my head for a while. I want to make it like DBD but more fleshed out and actually balanced. It’ll obviously never come to light since I’ll most likely never even come close to designing or developing a video game, but I figured it’d be fun to share my mental concept with the DBD community.
Game title: The Cycle
Story:
In the distant future, humanity has travelled the stars and visited all sorts of new galaxies, meeting and forming relations with many alien races, including but not limited to the Fethrians, a tribal race of birdlike people; and the Vixtar, a scientifically advanced but culturally savage reptilian race. With all these advancements in technology, humanity’s capabilities seem to defy nature.
However, even the unnatural falls powerless to the supernatural.
A shadowy being haunts all the corners of the known universe. Known only as “The Ghost”, it draws unknowing victims into the black depths of the places it has possessed, ensnaring them within its sinister plan. It wants to hold them, to toy with them, to slowly make them its property as part of its sadistic nature.
But the Ghost’s power is not infinite. All have the chance to escape. Should they fail, though—and the Ghost’s minions will ensure as such—they will fall victim to the Ghost’s demonic powers, once and for all becoming its new toy.
Roles:
Cleansers—The “Survivors” of the game. Their job is to completely destroy the five demonic altars scattered throughout the map, thus restraining the Ghost’s power enough to grant them the opportunity to break down two exit ways and escape. Four Cleansers will play in a round and are capable of assisting—and betraying—one another.
Darkened—As possessed slaves of the Ghost, their job is to ensure that their master can get its claws on the Cleansers before they can escape. They do so by pinning them to “Void Walls” where the Ghost’s power is the most strongly concentrated, allowing the shadow demon to slowly but surely ensure the Cleanser’s soul and eventually take them for its own, turning them into another one of the Darkened. Only one Darkened may spawn per trial.
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That’s the basic overview; I will go more into how the game works and what each role does in other parts. For now, just tell me how it sounds so far. Again, it is meant to be a DBD ripoff—it’s never going to be made, so I’m just focusing on creating DBD but better.