Lead Name
AXBT
Project Name
Wassie Battle Royale
Elevator Pitch
Put on your armour and get ready to take on your Wassie Frens and Frenemies in a fast paced top
down 2D Battle Royale game for upto 8 players with multiple modes where Wassies can blow stuff up,
kill each other and spill some blood or use blood as a payment to slay other Wassies
Project Description
Wassie themed 2D frantic Battle Royale game (with other game modes too) where the objective is
simple. Kill or be killed and watch your team lose.
You have a set spawnpoint at the start of each game where you respawn every time you die.
You will have help in the form of different abilities and power-ups spawning roughly every 30
seconds like different weapons (sword, bow & arrow, hammer, fork, bomb), shields / armour, your
own mount to help you run around the map faster (it will also act as a shield or health booster),
speedboots (boosts your running speed), freezer (freeze the lil sh*ts into ice cubes for a few
seconds to give you an advantage) and reset (resets all abilities that other Wassies have gained
back to default from the start of the game). These are some of the abilities that will spawn on
the map for you to use throughout the different game modes
Different Modes
To make the game fun you will have the ability to choose between different game modes depending
on whether you're riding solo or counting on your frens to bail you out. Once you are in a lobby
you will be able to choose between the following modes
1. Battle Royale
Let the all out Wassie massacre begin. Spawn in, grab a weapon and start slaying Wassies. The
Wassie with the most kills, once the time runs out wins. You will spawn with a knife and be able
to either upgrade it to a better knife or pick another weapon from the ones that have spawned
across the map.
2. An Eye for an Eye
Kill your Wassie frens, take their eyes and deposit them at the centre of
the map but beware, you better be quick or someone else could kill you and take all your
loot for himself and take the dub.
3. Domination
Solo mode. Dominate an area at the centre of the map for as long as you can. The Wassie with
the longest time accumulated at the centre gets the most points and wins
4. Team Deathmatch
4v4 Game Mode where your team battles against another Wassie team for most kills before
the timer runs out
5. Capture the Flag
4v4 mode. Take the enemy flag and bring it back to your base, all the while defending your own
flag from leaving your base as well, but beware carrying the flag is no easy task and slows the
flag bearer down so he will need the support of his fellow wassies. The team with most flags
captured once the timer runs out wins
6. Juggernaut
Solo mode. A Minigun spawns at the centre of the map, first person to get to it gets a massive
advantage but the minigun being heavy, also slows him down. Person with the most kills at the
end wins
7. Blood Money
Similar to Battle Royale but a whole new thing at the same time. Free for all Battle Royale with
multiple rounds where you have to fight each other and survive to the next round to be able to
buy better weapons. But buying better weapons requires a sacrifice.... a Wassie Blood sacrifice.
Each body part (head, chest, arm, fingers etc.) can be sacrificed for Wassie Blood. The Wassie
Blood can then be used to buy better weapons but sacrificing your body parts comes at a cost to
your melee and movement abilities so be careful what you are willing to sacrifice.
Blood of slain wassies can be used to heal your damaged body parts but your sacrificed body parts can
never return so choose wisely
These are some of the modes we are looking to work on but if the community likes the
game and wants more modes we have other ideas for a few additional game modes as well
How Does your project add value to the Bywassies community?
COD happens to be one of the biggest games in recent times and it covers multiple playable
modes in its playlist which include Capture the Flag, Domination, Battle Royale & Team DeathMatch
We are adding a Wassie spin to these modes in a fast paced easy to play 2D game whilst keeping
the same basic elements. This makes the game easy to run, fun, simplistic and hopefully addictive
for the average gamer whilst giving them a familiarity to a game like COD albeit in a different
format
I don't want this game to simply be limited to CT and would love to have it reach other gamers
as well and hopefully see them learn about Wassies through this game and expand the ByWassies community
Funding Request
Approx $64,250 (milestone based)
Financials and Task Breakdown
Design Lead and Project Administrator - Myself working on the project part time- $750/month (9 months) I have some experience in leading and being a part of engineering projects but not gaming related so this will be a slightly new challenge but one I would love to be a part of
Programmer - My friend with plenty of programming experience and keen to work on this game - $2500/month (average price) (9 months) Has worked on apps and game before
Additional programmer - $2500/month (average price) (9 months)
Website development for the game - Total cost could get to $3000 (estimate)
Artists - For In-game maps, Wassie & Armour Design, game visuals, animations and music - $1000/month (6 months)
Extra Costs - Costs associated with marketing, testing, servers and tournaments etc. - $3500 (Unsure at this stage exactly how much would be required but I have tried to come up with a reasonable estimate)
Total estimated cost - $64,250
I have assumed average costs for monthly prices and in other scenarios (website and extra costs)
assumed worst case scenario, therefore we should not overrun this budget. In the case where we end
up undercutting the budget, we intend to add more game modes.
Estimated Timeline
The total project is estimated to take approximately 9 months to complete. Having these different
game modes does add slightly more time to the schedule than ideal but it is a good thing to have
in order to make the game as enjoyable as possible
We expect to have an MVP of the game where you can play against AI in 2 different modes (Blood Money
& Battle Royale) ready in 3 months time. This will not have all the weapons and abilities but
it will allow you to be able to run around the map, kill wassies and have fun
By month 6 we intend to ship out most modes and have online versus mode in testing phase with all
weapons and abilities being functional in game modes at this point & by the 9th month we hope to
have all modes ready with online playability against other wassies as well as all potential
weapon choices and abilities being ready for your selection in-game
As there are 3 major milestones, the funding could be approved based on milestones whereby upon approval of the grant
we receive 1/3 of the grant to kickstart the project and get it to the milestone targets within the estimated time,
and then upon community approval, we move forward to the next phase and receive the next 1/3 of the grant and then
the last phase.
Deliverables
These are the game modes we intend to deliver
Wassie Battle Royale
Wassie Team Deathmatch
Wassie Domination
Wassie Juggernaut
Wassie Eye for an Eye
Wassie Capture the Flag
Wassie Blood Money
Current Project Status
Concept phase with an idea of how I want to map and game to look like but raring to get started given time and funding
Business Model
Currently there is no plan to monetise the game although in the future, it is possible we may add
skins/armour that players can buy for their Wassies to wear in-game. These will purely be for
aesthetic reasons and not for pay-to-win. In the future there could be a way where
Supporting Information (Image/Data/Video Files)
Adding some images of what the game maps could look like to give you an understanding of the game
mechanics such as map size/scale, spawn points, how will weapons/abilities spawn. The small nature of
the map should make it chaotic and that's just how we want it
The above image shows some examples of what the arenas could look like for different game modes.
The above image gives some examples of the spawnpoints in different game modes and the scale of the maps. The idea was to show you what the game and maps might look like as well as the scale of how big the wassies would be relative to the map and how/where the abilities could spawn etc. Hope you guys like the idea and I look forward to hearing feedback
