Restless Souls/Wishlist

Oni 2 game

Engine

If we had a real option to create an Oni 2 with modern engine I would root for Unreal Engine 4.

It works on PC and Macs and it is free for non-commercial projects.

There's a big community, documentation and tutorials.

It supports weapon and h2h combat. Of course Oni's unique fighting style would have be re-written. But everything else should be supported by the engine. Particle, trigger volumes, wide environments, details characters. What else could you wish for?

Features

Besides new levels, characters and story... How about new gameplay elements? Since the Daodan is an core element of the story it would be shame not to make use of it.

Primary Daodan traits

• Healing (stopping a heavy bleeding and recovery speed)
• Power (stronger attacks, throwing or using heavy objects and enemies as weapons (e.g. using a skriker as Nunchaku with maxed out power))
• Speed (faster attacks, running, reflexes (dodging, counters))
• Adapting (mutation speed (biological computing by means of "Oni cluster" cells))
• Mechanical resistance (adaptions to pressure and kinetic damage (e.g. graphene enhanced cells))
• Physical resistance (VDG, plasma, phase stream projectors (electric isolation))
• Chemical resistance (acid, poison (lead bullets, mercury bow bullets))
• Biological resistance (screamer cells, infections by untreated wounds)
• Thermal resistance (extreme heat - fire, extreme coldness)
• Nuclear resistance (depleted uranium ammunition and surviving contaminated areas)

Basically you can "tank up" against weapons and don't need to worry about ammo.

To keep balance you could add more dangerous weapons as the game progresses.

Secondary Daodan traits

The Daodan is not almighty. It has certain weaknesses you should watch out for.

• Your Daodan abilities depend on Daodan biomass which means you can either unlock new abilities or enhance existing ones. And there's a limit to your abilities, because your cell count is limited.
• There should be one or two "ultimates" in Imago stage that depend on your evolution.
• Your number of Daodan cells depend on taken damage and recovery that happen in the last level.
• But too much damage can cause too high growth rates (temporary sudden pain and fever resulting in moments of reduced vision, shooting accuracy, "getting blocked" rate) or it simply kills you because you exceeded the maximal healing capacity of the daodan.
• Sytropin can help you in lowering growth rates. Be aware of increasing drug resistance as the game progresses.
• Reverting an existing mutation takes more "work" than establishing a new one. Basically your course of action is directed evolution.

Improved movement set and h2h

• prone mode
• sneaking at walls and through vent channels
• throw foes over obstacles (e.g. wall jump connectable to a flying knee)
• extend h2h with Parkour elements
• use pickable objects as weapons (either throwable or usable as a club)
• ledge grab (not a must-have)
• swimming (not a must-have)

Miscellaneous

• controllable drones, robots, mechs, vehicles
• dynamic lighting, wearable lights (flash lights) for dark environments
• temperature affects characters (not a must-have)
• emotions affects characters (not a must-have, rage enhances Daodan powers to a limited degree)

Oni 2 game tech demo

Everyone could pickup one of these points and investigate how to implement it.

If successful that person would write down a mini-tutorial here on OniGalore so others could see progress and learn from the documentation to perhaps pickup the next, somewhat more complex point.

There could be project files on a cloud drive as long as there aren't too many people involved (otherwise a SVN). New files could be uploaded into a revision folder. Users could test the changes and then update the project in the cloud.

Features the demo should include:

• two levels (to test normal level load routine and level streaming)
• skydome
• lightning
• main menu
• background music
• save game state
• read game state
• HUD ("circular" health bar, item slots)
• text pages for diary, etc.
• fbx import of old objects
  • static
  • pushable
  • animated
• animated objects with collision box to stand on
• objects that can be thrown
• CJBO equivalents (characters, console, door, trigger (laser), trigger volume, ...)
• compass (objective)
• LSI
• fbx import and usage of old characters
  • combining character parts to one model
  • rigging the model
    • minimum TRAC-TRAM integration I (walk cycle and idle)
    • minimum TRAC-TRAM integration II (combat idle, punch, kick, block, half-damage, unblockable, super)
    • minimum TRAC-TRAM integration III (throws)
    • minimum TRAC-TRAM integration IV (throwable objects)
    • overlay animations
      • aiming
      • holstering
      • h2h weapons
    • prone mode
• keyboard and mouse controls
• healing by hypo and level areas
• particle (attachable to env, weap, char)
  • weather (rain, snow, wind, dust, lightning)
• two weapons
• ammo type: ballistic ammo
• ammo type: energy cell
• AI
  • patrol paths and pathfinding
  • recreation of basic ONCC properties (incl. shooting inaccuracy)
• h2h-specific animations
  • startle
  • stun
  • knockdown
  • blowup
  • got hit animation
    • got hit animation (CBPM-specific)
  • throws mechanics
  • follow me command, stop command
  • alarm behavior
• CBPM-specific bullet hit behavior
• add effects via ONIE-TMBD-MTRL mini complex
• driving a truck
• finding a BSL equivalent
• team support (easy methods to make project contributions)