The Level walkthough presented is a mass-mob run and gun type of level featuring ranged combat. Much like Gauntlet. The purposes of this animation is to demonstrate a prototype of layout and major events that are key in a future level proposed for development.

NPC Library
NPC “Flee-er”	Yellow with White Cap
This is a non-combat unit that will run away from players.
Enemy “Slasher”	Red with Blue Cap.
This is a melee enemy, a basic “charge and hack” AI.
Enemy “Grenadier”	Red with Green Cap.
This is a medium range enemy who throws explosive projectiles. Normally they will be position overhead.
Enemy “Shooter”	Red with Black Cap
This is a long range enemy who uses a projectile attack
Enemy “Shock Wave Commander”	Black Pillar with Red Cap
This is a long range unit that shoots a C shaped pattern in either a direct blast or a split blast. This challenges the player to react, dodge, and attack to win. This is a more difficult unit that has more health than standard enemies.
Boss Enemy “Tentacle”	Green Spring
This boss will knock segments out of the bridge while the players are attacked with ground based units. The players will have to balance killing adds to stay alive short term with attacking the boss in order to kill it before they run out of land to stand on in the long run. Ultimately the tentacle will win resulting in another transitional cinematic.
Elephant	Grey Pillar
The elephant is a objective in the level that opens a path forward via a in game cinematic.
Boss Enemy “Commander”	White with Black Cap
This is the final boss of the level. Mixing a combination of attacks that need avoided (shock wave/charge) and defensive abilities (shield/dodge)

Story

The story I use in this level is a basic “fantasy” setting with a technology level similar to the 1890's. It is set in 2 locations, The first being a desert city atop a cliff. Imagine sand in the street's short clay buildings with colored awnings and markets. The second area is a more European setting a small castle on an island with terraces and hills leading from a lower town/market square up into a housing district and lastly a castle on top.

The story is the players are to stop the sand city's “King” From invading their home “the European city” They fight their way though the enemy city, using what they can find to fight though till they reach the ocean tower (rumored location of enemy king) only to find its a trap and face a summoned kraken. After falling into the ocean they use the fallen tower (avoiding the kraken, troops, and other sea monsters) as a makeshift doc to board a near by invasion ship. They fight on the deck of the ship as it makes its voyage across the ocean however they are too late the city has already been invaded. They now fight their way though the enemy troops who have invaded making their way to the castle where they can confront the enemy “king” before he causes any more trouble.

Weapons

While no weapons are directly depicted in the animation 4 basic weapons the player would likely have available to them are...

• Shotgun, 45degree attack, 9m range.

• Arrow (or other laser like attack) A straight line 80m that may penetrate enemies.

• Missile(magic or not) a medium range attack 40m with a blast radius 7m on contact.

• Harpoon Gun (can shoot but also grapple items)

Walk-Though

NOTICE: The entire animation is slightly accelerated and serves as a walk-though, actual game-play would include combat and additional spawning units in addition to more scenery and more cinematic speech and event segments. Overall play time would likely be 15+ minutes.

• Frame(F) 0-300: The player(s) enter the level and encounter a town square filled with merchants and guards. There is a vendor with an elephant in the corner that can be used to provide a path forward.

• F301-515: The now free elephant charges though the gate smashing the gate and bridge.

• F516-1639: The player progresses though a residential and confined space requiring them to climb on roof tops to find gate switches.

• F1640-1700: A above cinematic shot for dramatic effect shows the player enemy movements on a large scale into the market district.

• F1701-1900 The player fights though the market district triggering the next area to open.

• F1901-2470 Much of this part is not animated but what happens in this particular area is that the the player is tasked to open a gate by dragging one block to another. Waves of reinforcements from over the near by fence jump in to stop them, if they fail to defend the block the enemies will push them off, stunning them and begin dragging the block back to its original orientation. Once the block is pushed into place and the gate is open a large wave of troops will jump in over the fence to reinforce the ones killed in the lower street when the player first made contact from the market segment. Since I never “killed” the ones in the street in my animation I didn't bother animating this troop movement.

• F2471-2990 The tower is attacked by a kraken, the player must balance fighting off waves of lesser troops to stay alive with fighting the tentacle before they run out of bridge space. After the tentacle has taken enough damage it retreats into the ocean destroying the base of the tower causing collapse. The player also suffers a scripted defeat where they fall into the ocean.

• F2991-3560 They player uses the fallen tower as a make shift dock, enemy troops climb out of the windows on the sides and attack as well as lesser sea monsters and troops climb aboard chunks of tower impeding the player as well. The tentacle also returns to Finnish the job and will systematically eliminate tower segments causing the player to make haste to the boat at the end.

• F3560-3770 Much of this part is not animated In this segment the player(s) are on a boat and would fight off units while on the deck, the boat would likely be much bigger, feature unit spawns, may encounter the Kraken, its own mini-boss, and take a lot more than the 5 seconds depicted to reach its destination. However for the sake of this walk-though it was cut short as it would be much funner to play than watch at length with tubes and boxes.

• F3771-3815 The players arrive in their town too late, a brief cinematic shows cannons being shot at the town from the boat and villagers fleeing.

• F3816-7000 Much of this part is not animated In this section the player(s) explore the town to open the gates. While they are depicted as buttons in this animation they could be other mechanic's mini games or even low level boss encounters. Also during this part the city is still under seige which originally I was going to animate but frankly was taking too long and I did not want to keep you waiting. So in game there would be further degradation of the town over time. Eventually the players gain access to the castle where dialogue with the dieing king, the enemy king, and finally boss encounter with the enemy king all play out and conclude the level.