Containment Windows game

Introduction
Containment is a single player platform game being developed in the Scirra Construct engine, a DirectX 9.0 engine for Windows. It is about territory control with some kind of tower defense backing it up. There will be four main characters at the player’s disposal, these guys are the main characters of the webcomic Existence Unknown.

They will have to contain the alien threat, which moves around the world using Sludge. Sludge is a creep which tries to cover everything in the world and gives buffs, healing abilities and spawn points to the alien life forms

Main features

• The game will revolve around interaction with the environment and the unique skill sets of the player characters to access or deny aliens access to certain areas
• The aliens will have a creep called Sludge Creep, which will spread throughout the world by the Sludgecreeper. This Sludge Creep will give the aliens buffs, spawn points and healing abilities and will also disable or damage equipment and doors
• The game will have a leveling and credits system for the player characters to gain access to better skills and equipment
• Tower defense, using alien strongholds which can be taken down and setup as a forward base of operations
• Mindless drones and chargers will spawn at a set interval to have a constant stream of disposable mobs to be used as a distraction, similar to DOTA/HON/LOL
• A Dynamic environment, due to the dynamic nature of the Aliens and their Sludge Creep. Each world you play will be be a new experience, because the aliens lack any form of predictability outside of their standard attack patterns

Taking hints:

The Lost Vikings is a big inspiration for Containment, in this case using four characters in a sci-fi setting instead of three characters in a (sci-fi) Viking setting. All the characters have a unique skill-set to get access to certain areas of the map, the others can't reach or access. And there will be temporary (or persistent to some extend) area denial using skills, weapons or equipment

DOTA/HON/LOL are also a big influence in terms of tower defense and drone spawning. The world will have certain strong points which have to be overcome. While fighting the aliens your characters will level up and earn credits. They can spend these skillpoints and credits back at their base or ship to get access to better weapons and skills.

When you take down an alien stronghold, this stronghold can be set up as a forward base to start spawning drones or setup a temporary armory. The aliens will have a mindless drone of their own called Charger, right from the start. As the game progresses your characters can also gain this ability by setting up drone nodes.

Progress page
I've set up a progress page where the development progress on the game and individual features can be seen. Using icons to show what has been done and what is being worked on for the current build, I hope this will give an interesting insight into the progress made on the game.

You can follow the development progress here