Now I’d love to be more active on twitter and whatnot but posting on social media does not get the game done, and that’s my priority right now. On the plus side it does mean I have lots of new things to show you which include the primary and bonus objectives of adventure mode (incorporating heavy enemy numbers and various pickups will come later).
Structure of adventure mode
Objectives for each stage
Every stage will have its own objective(s) to be completed to open a locked door (behind will be the exit). As each level is randomly generated it won’t be straight forward to find them. The objectives will be clearly identifiable with the colour of the lights e.g. a blue room will have some sort of objective in there; a green room is a completed room. Each theme will have the same structure which is as follows:
- Stage 1 – Find and activate 4 levers to open locked door
- Stage 2 – Find and ‘plug’ 4 enemy spawners to open locked door
- Stage 3 – Defeat mini-boss
- Stage 4 – Find and activate 2 generators (timing minigame) to open locked door
- Stage 5 – Survive an onslaught of enemies for a period of time
- Boss fight – More on this at a later time...
Within each of these stages however will be a choice of 3 bonus objectives
As you can imagine, bonus objectives are only optional and can be left alone if desired. However you miss the opportunity to reap the rewards if you complete them without dying/timer running out. All 3 of them are a challenge and will test your skills and dexterity. You will have to make the decision prior to activating them based on how much health/ammo you have to see if it’s worth the risk. If you succeed you are rewarded with a ‘loot chamber’ with health restoration/ammo and other pickups! These objectives are as follows:
Pit of Doom – You have to kick X amount of enemies into the 4 pits, enemies will not stop coming until you succeed, or die.
Death Run – Fight your way down a corridor of death and plug the enemy spawners, the further you get down the corridor enemies spawn less frequently.
Guard the Stash – Protect a massive mound of cocaine from enemies shoving their face in it for 2 minutes.
Next on the agenda
- Incorporating the hub shop. There will be a currency system, earn this while playing the game which you keep despite dying (you may be doing that a lot) and can be spent in the shop, you will gradually become more powerful over time.
- Various pickups. In particular the ‘drugs’ pickup will either give you a good trip or bad trip which gives you weird and interesting effects but only for a short time.
