SPITE Breakdowns

Player Kit Design

• Aggressive Defense: By focusing purely on melee oriented combat, I could tune the players kit around incentivizing their aggression, making sure there was never a dull moment

• Limited Move Set: Limited move sets provide an excellent base for players, allowing them to fully master the systems of the game, and encouraging experimentation within those systems

• Skill Expression: Providing players with multiple defensive options, allows players to express themselves and tackle the encounter however they see fit

• Healing Systems: Tying the healing systems directly to performing successful parries incentivizes skilled play and rewards players for taking the riskier option, and succeeding

Enemy Kit Design

• Varied move set: Multiple moves with similar tells, as well as randomly selected attacks reward player knowledge and punish inobservance or stale play

• Ranged and melee Options: Ranged Options ensure the player is still engaged with the fight if they decide to run away, and pushes them towards a more dynamic playstyle and more tense decision making

• Multiple Phases: Multiple phases provide both a reward for players persistence, as well as a change in pace, keeping the fight entertaining

• Simple implementation: The relatively simplistic implementation is a boon both on a development and performance side, but also limits points of friction for players by not introducing obtuse, one off mechanics

Game Feel