Goals

1. To reward creative decision making and adaptation more than quick reflexes
2. To embrace and fully leverage the spatial nature of 3D games
3. For the player to be passive, circumventing threats instead of eliminating them
4. To feature combat where the player can be surrounded by enemies of all types and not only survive but also have time to plan and react
5. To maximize and refine the core challenge of the player moving around a dangerous environment before layering on abilities and RPG elements
6. To reward strategy when practical

Rewarding Decisions

Tactics

• Most of this will boil down to tactics
• Tactics is not my favorite type of gameplay, but I can still get into it
• I prefer strategy, but that is so much harder to inject into a game like this

Time to plan

• I'm not looking for frenetic gameplay
• Ideally, I would like to have the best of both worlds between turn-based and real time
• Giving the player that much time to think is not possible—compromises have to be made
• When push comes to shove, the gameplay will need to fallback to frenetic gameplay, but that should be a last resort

Spatial Foundation

What are the most defining aspects of a first person 3D game?

1. Player location