I had a lot of fun listening to kyle and chat wander through the crazy parts of this jam.
Decided to work up ideas for all 8 characters, then focus in on my fav. (which is based around Alexandria).
But just for fun, wanted to share the other discarded ideas.
(would love to hear other people's discarded ideas. or if you want to use any part of any of these, please feel free)
1. Izil
(little tuft covers his abs. can't make them work. has little sword. denim vest. if buffed, vest breaks and never returns. strong peter pan influence. a little flutter when he jumps. can't hoot. Snot head? )
: maybe he's a cyber hacker sort of pirate. maybe Egyptian? Maybe the runt of the litter in a owl crime family in East LA. 3D prints knives and shortswords (Untraceable).
-Random google:
"filoplumes" are hairlike feathers on the beak and feet that act as "feelers".
So... topknot special attack: hairy little beaks emerge from all over Izil's body. filoplumes all around them. it's the only way he can feel.
- Family is super religious (birds of PRAY). He kinda hates spirituality but doesn't want to take away their crutch. Ultimately his little petty crimes get his whole family arrested. For life. So now he wants to find a religion that matters to him. Will travel the world fighting everyone he meets, until he understands what god is. and/or raises enough money to free his family (legally or otherwise...).
- Maybe they all have nose rings with little religious icons. And longer "filoplume" hair than any other bird family? Izil idolizes his big buff ... brother? father? sister? (and that's who he turns into, when gaining self respect)
- Random google: origin of the word bandana:
"European snuff users of the 18th century suffered from an embarrassing problem: Blowing your nose into a white or solid-colored handkerchief left behind dark tobacco stains. Found a stylish solution in India, where textile makers employed a millennium-old tie-dyeing technique called bandhani"
THE GAME: modern Q-BERT ?
- Izil 3D prints blocks of cocaine. Sort of minecraft meets solomon's key. So, block puzzles. Touch any block to turn on it's physics for 3 seconds (then it freezes again).
- Maybe the level is covered in a grid of laid out square bandanas. Each square he enters turns that bandana yellow, like Q-bert. Or he picks it up. So you have to cover the whole level to collect every bandana to complete. No stone unturned. maybe baddies spawn from the places that you haven't been yet, so that function as a way to find the few remaining bandanas you haven't touched yet.
- or maybe instead it is all a wild car racing game and he is like a little wanna-be dominic toretto (vin diesel style VO). with tourrete syndrome? His big brother is Dom, and Izil wants to be like him. so he's been racing. uses a broken samurai sword as his gear shift and carries it everywhere. ... maybe it's like
GAME : the map screen for Overcooked,
a cartoony open world and you just drive around through everything... starting multiple street races. maybe it gets hard to keep track of how many different street races you're currently in, and where all their finish lines are (different colored lines stretch out from your car to various finish lines all over the map). maybe other levels are in ridiculous places (a chop-shop junkyard. supermarket aisles. the local court of law. the prison where your family is kept. an aviary at the zoo.)
WIN QUOTES: "ow! ow! OWL!" (in final buff form)