Blog Post 2/26

A new juicy leak from the Chief Idea. Try not to drool too much as you read it, although I know that E3 is begging for our appearance. This is just a plot preview though, no art or trailer yet. This is the sequal to On the Hunt (still in production). 

Doug Hunt

A DGAF Production Studios Game

Plot Draft by Frank Feder

Opening Cinematic

                Douglas frolics through a green field, flowers and butterflies flying left and right. Douglas is gleeful, happy music and singing in the background, sun shining bright. Douglas finds a Huge metal object in the middle of the field. Ominous music plays as Doug investigates what is inside the object. As he opens the door hands from behind him push him roughly inside, knocking his head on the ground, making him unconscious.  He awakes later to find himself in a room with huge green vats with humanlike figures in them. He looks down at his hands to see that they are made of metal, and each of his fingers has a hole like the barrel of a gun at the end of them. He inspects the green vats more carefully. He shouts in horror: “Oh my god… They’re clones of me!!” and at that moment a Dougzombie cracks through its vat and starts sauntering over to Douglas.

Scene 1: Tutorial

                Player uses their hands (right is red, left is blue) to hit markers on the screen. When the player’s hand is in the correct place, the hand will have to be held there for 1.50 seconds (upgradeable between levels later on). The screen and background will move on its own [to envision what I’m thinking of, think of the credits in Super Smash Bros Melee where you have to shoot the names, or in arcade games where you have a gun. The screen will move on its own, but the player will have to shoot the Dougzombies when they have a chance.] This is a run and gun level. The player will learn the basics of shooting D/Z’s. Douglas will make it out of the factory and out to the field where he spots FEROZ. “Who are you? Are you the one that kidnapped me?” Doug asks, and FEROZ answers “No, I work against them. But that’s not important right now. What’s important right now is that we go on a DOUG HUNT.”

[DOUG HUNT LOGO FLASHES ACROSS THE SCREEN, THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

Upgrade Period after level 1:

                Help boxes will show the player how to use their hands to spend the points on upgrades in Feroz’s Wares Shop. The player will be given 500*(level number) for completing each level. The help boxes will instruct the player to buy “FAST FINGERS I” for 500 points, lowering the channel time of the gun by .5 seconds to make the gun only take 1.00 seconds to fire. There will be an “ARE YOU SURE?” window to make sure no accidental upgrades are bought. There will be no refunds from Feroz’s Ware Shop. Also bombs will be available, triggered during a level by putting your hands straight up above your head.  Each bomb will cost 250 points, with a maximum carrying capacity of 2 bombs at a time.

Scene 2: D/Z Duck hunt

                FEROZ tells Doug that he has modified the bullets to home in on far away targets. The field looks similar to the DUCK HUNT series field, and FEROZ says “Oh my god, they’ve mutated! They have wings!” the next sequence will be the player shooting homing shots at the flying D/Z’s. Also rabid D/Z’s will run at Douglas, and the player has to shoot them before they get too close. The player can let 3 D/Z’s through before losing and having to start the level over. 20 points are awarded per D/Z shot.

BOSS SCENE 2: PIANOZOMBIE

                A giant D/Z with a grand piano starts blasting musical notes at Douglas. There are two pretty easy phases to this: The first where regular bullets are shot at the approaching quarter-notes and eighth-notes, the second being a phase where the player must swipe across the screen to clear the grass on the screen to see the notes coming at them. After about 10 notes have been blocked the boss will be vulnerable to a red and blue shot (both hands) to its head. Two rounds of this and the boss will be defeated and it’s back to Feroz’s Ware Shop.