Mage Weaver Game Design Doc

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Mage WeaverGam e Design Doc um ent

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TableofContentsGame Analysis .................................................................................................................... 4

Target Audience .................................................................................................................. 4Features ............................................................................................................................... 4

Game Goals ......................................................................................................................... 5

Competitive Analysis .......................................................................................................... 6Story Overview ................................................................................................................... 7

The World ........................................................................................................................... 7The Player ........................................................................................................................... 8

Stats: ................................................................................................................................ 8

Strength: ...................................................................................................................... 8Endurance: .................................................................................................................. 8

Intelligence: ................................................................................................................. 8

Spirit:........................................................................................................................... 9Charisma: .................................................................................................................... 9

Schools of Magic ................................................................................................................ 9

Earth: ................................................................................................................................. 10Fire: ................................................................................................................................... 10Wind:................................................................................................................................. 11

Water: ................................................................................................................................ 11

Holy: ................................................................................................................................. 12Shadow:............................................................................................................................. 12

Demonic: ........................................................................................................................... 13

Electric: ............................................................................................................................. 13Nature:............................................................................................................................... 14

Ice:..................................................................................................................................... 14

Arcane: .............................................................................................................................. 15

Poison:............................................................................................................................... 15Schools of Magic Table .................................................................................................... 16

Casting Styles.................................................................................................................... 17

Overview ....................................................................................................................... 17Styles ............................................................................................................................. 17

Standard Casting: ...................................................................................................... 17

Rune Casting: ............................................................................................................ 17Enchanted Magic Focuser: ........................................................................................ 18

Spell Blade: ............................................................................................................... 18

Magical Tattoos: ....................................................................................................... 18

Dragons Blood: ........................................................................................................ 18

Characters ......................................................................................................................... 19Controls ............................................................................................................................. 21

Xbox 360 Controller Layout ......................................................................................... 21Xbox 360 Controller ..................................................................................................... 22

Playstation 3 Layout ..................................................................................................... 23

Playstation 3 Controller ................................................................................................ 24Spell Combo Chains ......................................................................................................... 25

Overview ....................................................................................................................... 25


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How to perform a Spell Combo Chain ......................................................................... 25Finisher Spell .................................................................................................................... 26

Overview ....................................................................................................................... 26

The Finisher Spells ....................................................................................................... 26Spell Fusion ...................................................................................................................... 29

Overview ....................................................................................................................... 29How to Spell Fuse ......................................................................................................... 29Spell Fusion Difficulty .................................................................................................. 30

Items .................................................................................................................................. 31

HUD .................................................................................................................................. 32

HUD Elements .............................................................................................................. 32HUD Layout.................................................................................................................. 33

Systems Menu ................................................................................................................... 34

Magics Menu .................................................................................................................... 35Spell List ........................................................................................................................... 36

Spell Layout Menu ............................................................................................................ 37


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GameAnalysisMage Weaver is a single player third person action adventure game

that gives the player the ultimate power over magic and lets them

tear up the battlefield with it. Magic has so many uses to it that theplayer can complete environment based puzzle with his/her

magical abilities. The player can explore the giant city of Ionus,

travel to the smaller villages for quests or explore dungeons for

treasure. To get to these towns or dungeons, the player will

adventure through gauntlet style paths filled with enemies, puzzles,

and hidden unlockables.

TargetAudienceMage Weaver is a game that is for people of age 15 and up,

targeted for male audiences that enjoy fantasy games that are based

on story and have a in depth single player experience. This game

will also appeal to people that enjoy playing hack and slash type

games as well as action role playing games.

FeaturesBe the master Mage Weaver

Master the 12 Schools:Train in the 12 schools of magic anduse them offensively against your enemies, defensively on yourself

or supportively as utility spells to solve puzzles.

Obliterate the battlefield:Battle several enemies at once anddevastate them with your magical powers or battle a single

powerful boss enemy that requires the player to strategically take

them down by using certain spells on his weaknesses.

Chain Spells for combos:Chain spells together to do moredamage, heal yourself or regain your mana. Chaining spells

together will allow you to strategically create devastating spells

combos that destroys your enemies and save your butt in battle.


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The Finisher: Finish your spell combos off with the terrifyingFinisher Spell. This spell can only be obtained by completing a

spell combo. A Finisher Spell will cause massive damage in an

area of effect.

GameGoals Deliver an in-depth action game: With role playing

elements and strategic spell chaining, the game will be far

more enjoyable than just beating up people.

Magic: Give the player a fun experience with magic that isless about standing still and more about actively moving

around and tossing spells at your enemy.

Simple yet challenging: Mage Weaver must be fairly easy toplay and shouldnt require loads of time to get good spells or

items. Yet there should be unlocks that must be challenging

so players can find the really powerful spells.

Linear levels with different paths: The dungeons and travelbetween areas are going to have a definite goal that the player

must get to but he/she will be give a couple of choices as towhich path they can take to achieve that goal.


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CompetitiveAnalysisMage Weaver is a mix of several genres, so the competition will be

quite fierce especially against the more established game series

that it will be competing with. Mage Weaver will be competingwith games that are Action Adventure or Role Playing

Competition:

Legend of Zelda Series

God of War Series

Devil May Cry Series

Dragon Age: Origins

Dynasty Warriors series Diablo Series

Fable Series

Star Ocean Series

Final Fantasy Series

Bayonetta

What Makes us DifferentMage Weaver is different from these other games as it will use aunique combo system that rewards the player from completing

combo. It also uses the new Spell Fusion mechanic that combines

the spell together to create a much stronger spell. Also unlike our

competition, what the player chooses for his/her casting type and

spell schools will directly impact how they will play the game.


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StoryOverviewIn the great land of Arcanus, magic flows free as if it was water.

Here great mages control and weave the power of the 12 schools of

magic. For the last 75 years, peace has been held as the greatArchmage ruled over the 12 schools and enforced the rule of

peace. Many people flock to Ionus, the city of magic, to learn in

the arcane arts and to unlock the secrets that are hidden in Arcanus.

Recently the Archmage has died and did not name an heir. Now

the 12 schools fight over who should be the next Archmage and a

war has begun. Ionus remains peaceful due to the treaty that the 12

schools signed but the lands of Arcanus are ravaged by battle. The

player begins as a student of the Basic Magic College and must

choose his school. Upon choosing, the player is tasked withresearch of ancient relics, defending him/herself against enemy

schools and becoming more powerful through experience and

knowledge.

TheWorldIn Arcanus, Ionus is the capital and is the largest city on the island.

The island of Arcanus is also populated by several small towns andvillages. The area is very rocky and mountainous so travel between

the towns must take place along set paths. Arcanus is a very old

place and houses several hidden dungeons, monasteries and crypts

that hold several magical relics and artifacts. Since the land of

Arcanus is the center of magic, almost all the items are enchanted

and even the basic soldier knows a little bit in the arcane arts.


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ThePlayerThe Player can create his/her on a set amount of predefined body

parts. This means that the player can choose what face, head or

body type he/she wants to play. The overall look of the player doesnot have any impact on any actually gameplay or missions. It is

just there for the player to create his/her custom avatar. After

creating the physical character, the player will be able to alter the

starting characters statistics. There are a few stats that the player

can alter and will have a significant effect on how the character

will perform under different circumstances.

Stats: Strength Endurance

Intelligence

Spirit

Focus

Charisma

Strength:Strength determines how much the player can carry in his/her bagat one time. The more points in strength, the more he/she can

carry. Strength also increases the Spell Blades attack.

Endurance:Endurance increases the players health, armor and resistance to

status afflictions.

Intelligence:

Intelligences increases the players mana pool and the critical hit

chance of all magic attacks.


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Spirit:Spirit directly effects how fast the player will regenerate health and

mana in and out of combat.

Focus:Focus affects how potent spell effects will last. It also slightly

increases the amount of damage of Combo Chains and Finisher

Spells.

Charisma:Charisma determines how much extra experience the player can

gain from completing quests. It also affects the chance of getting

deals when buying items at a shop.

SchoolsofMagic Earth

Fire

Wind

Water Holy

Shadow

Demonic

Electric

Nature

Ice

Arcane Poison


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Earth:

Primary Focus: Offensive Area

Secondary Focus: Defensive AreaAllied Schools: Nature, Water

Enemy Schools: Wind, Electric, Poison

Description: Earth Magic uses stone shards, spikes and quakes

to cause damage to an area. It can also erect walls of rock or

encase an area in stone for protective purposes. It is to be noted

that Earth magic has immunity to electric and poison spells but

is extremely weak to wind magic.

Spell Examples: Wall of Stone, Earths Grasp, Earthquake,Claws of Stone

Fire: Primary Focus: Offensive Single

Secondary Focus: Offensive Area

Allied Schools: Demonic, Electric

Enemy Schools: Water, IceDescription: Fire magic uses conjured up fire or explosive

power to take down enemies. The flame will continue to

damage enemies if they survived the initial damage.

Spell Examples: Fireball, Eruption, Explode, Rain of Fire,

Dragons Breath


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Wind:

Primary Focus: Utility/Control

Secondary Focus: Offensive AreaAllied Schools: Electric, Water

Enemy Schools: Earth, Nature

Description: Wind magic is a fairly low damage school that

focuses on disabling your enemies with heavy wind. What few

offensive oriented Wind spells will causes massive damage in

large areas fairly quickly.

Spell Examples: Tornado, Lifting Air, Gust, Wind Blade, Air

Blast

Water:

Primary Focus: Offensive Control

Secondary Focus: Offensive Area

Allied Schools: Wind, Earth

Enemy Schools: Ice, Fire, Electric

Description: Water magic is unique for having a fair amount ofhigh damaging spells that can disable enemies. Its true

weakness is that it has more enemy schools and is harder to

chain spells with.

Spell Example: Tsunami, Drown, Geyser, Hurricane


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Holy:

Primary Focus: Defensive Healing

Secondary Focus: Offensive SingleAllied Schools: Nature, Arcane

Enemy Schools: Demonic, Shadow

Description: Holy Magic is different as it gains huge bonuses

against enemies who fall under the Demonic or Shadow

schools. It is also the primarily the healing school as there are

several spells that will actively heal the player during combat.

Spell Example: Holy Nova, Holy Bolt, Hammer of Light,

Healing Light

Shadow:

Primary Focus: Offensive Drain

Secondary Focus: Offensive Summon

Allied Schools: Demonic

Enemy School: Holy

Description: Shadow Magic is a very powerful school whenused. The school allows the player to drain health from enemies

or summon the undead to do his bidding. The downside is it

doesnt have any major strength over the other schools and its

enemy school gains bonuses against it.

Spell Example: Raise Ghoul, Drain Life, Soul Steal, Vampiric

Aura


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Demonic:

Primary Focus: Offensive Summon

Secondary Focus: Offensive CursesAllied Schools: Shadow

Enemy School: Holy, Nature

Description: Demonic Magic is very different from the other

schools as it is less about direct damage and more about indirect

damage. There are a few high powered direct damage spells but

the player would need to invest a lot of time to acquire these

spells

Spell Example: Summon Hellbeast, Curse of Flesh, DemonicFire, Chaos Bolt

Electric:

Primary Focus: Offensive Single

Secondary Focus: Defensive Reflective

Allied Schools: Nature, Fire, Ice, Arcane

Enemy Schools: Water, EarthDescription: Electric magic has a very small spell list but it has

more allied schools than usual so it combines easily when fused

together. Its spells have a chance to paralyze its target as well.

Most spells conjure up an electric current from the casters

fingers or at a certain area.

Spell Example: Electric Shock, Thunder Storm, Lightning

Fence, Arc Lightning


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Nature:

Primary Focus: Utility/Control

Secondary Focus: Defensive HealingAllied Schools: Holy, Earth, Poison, Electric

Enemy Schools: Wind, Demonic

Description: Nature magic a mainly a support type magic. It

contains a lot of control and healing spells. It fuses well with

more offensive styles of magic and can allow the player root

his/her enemies and move to a safer position

Spell Example: Natures Grasp, Rejuvenate, Constriction, Fury

of the Wild

Ice:

Primary Focus: Offensive Area

Secondary Focus: Utility/Control

Allied Schools: Electric

Enemy Schools: Fire, Water

Description: Ice Magic has many spells that will freeze theenemy and cause a good amount of damage. It also has a slow

down spell effect that can occur after being hit by an ice spell

Spell Example: Deep Freeze, Ice Shard, Hail Storm, Frost

Breath


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Arcane:

Primary Focus: Offensive Single

Secondary Focus: Utility/ControlAllied Schools: Electric, Holy

Enemy Schools: None

Description: Arcane magic is pure magical energy so it is the

easiest to work with and has no enemy schools. It can also be

used to alter the shapes of things or even control the minds of

weaker creatures.

Spell Example: Arcane Blast, Mind Control, Magic Missile,

Polymorph Enemy

Poison:

Primary Focus: Offensive Damage over Time

Secondary Focus: Offensive Debuff

Allied Schools: Nature

Enemy Schools: EarthDescription: Poison Magic is another support school as it

mainly focuses on placing poison on enemies and causing

secondary effects. Poison spells can cause anything from

slowing down the enemy to paralysis.

Spell Example: Poison Nova, Viper Bite, Corrosive Poison,

Nerve Venom


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SchoolsofMagicTableThis table shows how effective an offensive spell from a certain

school will be against a defensive spell from another school.

1x means the defensive spell will block half of the spells damage.2x and 4x means the attack will break through the defense and will

do full or twice as much damage respectively. .5x is when the spell

will only cause 25% and immune means that spell will have no

effect. Absorb means that the spell will cause no damage and give

the defender 25% mana. Spells of the same school will always

cause standard damage.

Earth Fire Wind Water Holy Shadow Demonic Electric Nature Ice Arcane Poison

EarthFire

Wind

Water

Holy

Shadow

Demonic

Electric

Nature

Ice

Arcane

Poison

1x Damag

2x Damag

4x Damag

Immune

.5x Damag

Absorb


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CastingStylesOverview

Casting Styles change allows the player a different way to play

the game. These casting styles gives bonus to the player but also

have an added weakness that the player must consider when

choosing the casting style. The player will start with general

casting and around level 10 the player can choose to specialize

in a single casting style.

StylesStandard

Casting:

This style of casting has no apparent weakness or strengths. It is

the normal style of casting and the player starts with this style of

casting.

Strengths: Easy to use, standard spell damage

Weakness: Lacks Depth, No Bonuses

RuneCasting:Rune Casting is a slower style of casting, as the players avatar

has to draw the rune that has been empowered with the magicalproperties. This means the spells will take a longer time to

finish casting but the spell damage is higher than the standard

casting style.

Strength: 2x Spell Damage

Weakness: 1.5x slower casting speed


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EnchantedMagicFocuser:This style allows the caster to focus his casting into a focuser.

This allows a slightly faster casting time and higher damage

output for a single magic school. Due to the player using a

focuser of a specific tree, the players damage output of the

other trees will be weaker and the casting time will be standard.

Strength: 2x Spell Damage & 2x faster casting speed of

Specific School

Weakness: 0.5x Spell Damage reduced of other schools

SpellBlade:This style fuses the warrior and a mage together creating a Spell

Blade. Players benefit from having a higher defense and healthdue to the armor they wear but suffer from the armors heavy

weight. Their casting speed is greatly reduced and the player

cannot learn advanced to master level spells.

Strength: 2x Armor & 2x Health

Weakness: 2.0x slower casting speed & cannot learn advance

to master level spells

MagicalTattoos:By placing magical symbols on their body, the player can cast

spells at a faster rate and will regain mana at a faster rate.

Unfortunately the tattoos have to be visible so the player is

wearing less armor than usual

Strength: 3.0x faster casting & 2.0x faster mana regeneration

Weakness: 0.5x Armor Reduced

DragonsBlood:The player seems to be an unknown offspring of a dragon. Thisgreatly increases their spell damage and the casting speed. Due

to the tradition you feel, fusing magic schools is an appalling

idea and you never want to try it due to how dangerous it is.

Strength: 2.5x Spell Damage & 1.5 faster casting speed

Weakness: Cannot learn to fuse spells.


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CharactersThe player will have four rival characters that will try to impede

his/her progression. These people will serve as sub-boss fights as

they will provide a challenge but can be beaten easily.

Darius Von Rouk

Casting Style: Spell Blade

Spell Schools: Earth, Electric, Arcane

Description: Darius is a basic magic graduate much like the player.

He views everyone else as a lesser and wants to show off his

power.

Strengths: Since he is a student of the Spell Blade, Darius is very

resilient and can caste some very high damaging spells.Weaknesses: Darius movements and casting time is fairly slow

and can leave him open to several attacks.

Routine: Darius enjoys casting defensive spells on himself then

will attack the player with high level spells. Darius does not chain

spells or fuse spells.

Rufus Pyreheart

Casting School: Magical TattoosSpell Schools: Fire, Demonic, Shadow

Description: Rufus is a short tempered individual that wants to

prove to everyone that he is the strongest. This mindset got him

kicked out of several Magic Schools.

Strengths: Rufus will cast several spells at the player in quick

succession and also attempt to fuse spells together as well. Darius

will regenerate mana extremely fast.

Weaknesses: Rufus wears very little armor, so he will take a lot ofdamage. He also only use lower level spells as they take less time

to cast.

Routine: Rufus mainly casts offensive spells and will exhaust his

mana reserves for a few seconds. This will leave him vulnerable to

attacks.


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Marinda Faust

Casting Style: Dragons Blood

Spell School: Water, Ice

Description: Marinda is proud of her bloodlines history and deems

all other Mages without a Dragon ancestor as unworthy to usemagic.

Strength: Marinda castes high powered spells fairly quickly and

will uses several control spells.

Weaknesses: Marindas spell knowledge is fairly limited so she

will end up casting the same spells.

Routine: Marinda will always try to lock the player down so she

can cast her really powerful spells. Fortunately she only knows two

spell schools and her spells can be defended against fairly easily.

Urnest Valtrop

Casting Style: Rune Casting

Spell School: Wind, Holy, Fire, Electric

Description: Urnest is your best friend from Basic Magic School.

Both the player and Urnest were always competing to see who the

best was. He will cross paths with the player and challenge him to

see how much he has learned.

Strengths: Urnest knows a large variety of spells and can be very

unpredictable. He will also actively counter the players defensive

spells.

Weaknesses: Urnests one true weakness is his long cast time.

Routine: Urnest will always adapt his routine to try and beat the

player. His cast time will make him vulnerable to attackers for

short period.


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ControlsXbox360ControllerLayout


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Xbox360Controller Spell A

Spell B

O Spell CX Jump

Left Joystick Movement

Controls

Right Joystick Camera

Controls

D-Pad Select Spell

Layout

L1 Finisher SpellR1 Spell Fuse

L2 Spell D

R2 Spell E

Start Button Pause/ Systems

Menu

Select Button Magic Menu

PS3 Button Turn off

controller


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Playstation3Layout


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Playstation3ControllerX Spell A

Y Spell B

B Spell CA Jump

Left Joystick Movement

Controls

Right Joystick Camera

Controls

D-Pad Select Spell

Layout

Left Bumper Finisher SpellRight Bumper Spell Fuse

Left Trigger Spell D

Right Trigger Spell E

Start Button Pause/ Systems

Menu

Back Button Magic Menu

Xbox Button Xbox 260

Dashboard


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SpellComboChainsOverview

Spell Combos Chains allow the player to quickly deal lots of

damage over a short amount of time. Successfully completing a

combo will reward the player with increased damage, more

experience generation or faster man regeneration.

HowtoperformaSpellComboChainIn order to perform a Spell Combo Chain, the player has to take

into consideration the allied schools of each school of magic.Spells can only be combod together if they are allied schools. So a

Holy spell and a Nature spell can be combod together

successfully.

Another thing is that a spells in the same school will not start a

combo. The player must at the very least sequentially use three

different schools. Here is one example:

We will be using Fireball, Electric Shock, and Ice Shards.

The first spell we will be using is Ice Shards to slow down the

enemy; next we will use Electric Shock because Fireball and Ice

Shards will not work together since their schools of magic are not

allies. The very last spell we will use is Fireball because of the

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Magnum Tornado

School: Wind

Description: Several Large tornados engulf the battlefield, picking

up everything and tossing them around and into any solid object.

All enemies caught in the tornado will be stunned for 10 secondsand will lose 10% of their maximum health.

Poseidons Wrath

School: Water

Description: The entire battlefield floods and a maelstrom of 15

yards in diameter will appear. Anything caught in the maelstrom is

killed.

Heavens Blessing

School: Holy

Description: The caster is covered by holy light of 10 yards in

radius and is instantly healed to full health. Any enemy caught in

the holy light will take severe damage.

Army of the Dead

School: Shadow

Description: Hundreds of corpse are reanimated and fight any

enemy they encounter; all enemies that are killed replenish 30% of

the casters health.

Apocalypse

School: Demonic

Description: The player releases a large amount of chaotic energy

that instantly destroys enemies within 50 yards of the caster.

Short Circuit

School: Electric

Description: The caster releases several waves of electricity 30

yards outwards, all enemies caught takes a large amount of damage

and are paralyzed.


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Natures Revenge

School: Nature

Description: Several vines erupt from the earth grabbing all

enemies immediately around the caster and pulling them under the

earth itself. All enemies that were engulfed are killed and heal thecaster 5% per dead enemy.

Winter Chill

School: Ice

Description: All enemies with 70 yards of the caster are frozen

solid and are then instantly impaled by spikes of ice.

Arcane Storm

School: Arcane

Description: The caster fires an enormous amount of energy into

the ground. Arcane energy burst through the floor and instantly

disintegrates all enemies with 100 feet of the caster

Plague Poison

School: Poison

Description: The caster releases a poison that rots all enemies

within 150 feet of the caster. All enemies affected slow down and

die after 10 seconds. Upon death they release another cloud of

poison that will infect everyone in 50 feet.


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SpellFusionOverview

Spell Fusion is mixing two spells together to create a more

powerful spell. For example we can take a fireball and an ice bolt

and fuse them together to create a frostfire bolt. A Spell fusion is

basically putting the two spells together. Arcane blast and Electric

shock would be Arcane Shock, which is really arcane blast and

electric shock together but with a 2.5x damage increase and the

spell effects increased by 100%.

HowtoSpellFuseIn order to do this the player must activate Spell Fusion bypressing the Spell Fuse button. When this occurs, the player must

complete a button sequence that must be completed within a

certain time limit. Successfully completing the button sequence

within the time limit will make the player caste his spell fusion and

it will also give him a critical hit and save 20% of his mana. Only

completing half or more of the button sequence within the time

limit will only make the player caste the fusion. If the player

cannot complete at least half of the button sequence, then theplayer will not caste the spell and he will lose 30% of his mana.

Spell Fusion will always fuse together the spells in Spell slot D and

E.

Damage(%)Mana Saved(%)

> 50% Button Sequence completed 0% -30%50% to 99% Button Sequencecompleted 100% 0%

100% Button Sequence compelted 300% 20%


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SpellFusionDifficultyThe difficulty of the Spell Fusion is based on what the spell level

(i.e. fireball is a level 2 spell; Explode is a level 7 spell). The

difficulty is also based on the spell schools allies/enemies. Fusing

school allies will lower the overall difficulty and enemy schools

will raise the overall difficulty. The very last thing that is

considered is what the players personal mastery level is in both

schools of magic. If their mastery level is low in a specific school,

then it will add difficulty to the spell fusing process.

Added Difficulty to Button Sequence(%)

1 - 2 Spell LevelDifference 0%3 - 4 Spell LevelDifference 30%

5+ Spell Level Difference 70%

Ally School Spell Fusion -10%Neutral SchoolSpellFusion 0%Enemy School SpellFusion 10%School Mastery level>30% 50%School Mastery level

>60% 30%School Mastery level>=90% 10%School Mastery Level


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ItemsItems in the game can either be bought at a store or can be found as

treasure in dungeons. These items can enhance the players stats

just by equipping them. There are only a few equipment slots thatthe player can use and he/she will have to decide on what items

will benefit him/her the most. The player will have the following

equipment slots available:

Head

Body

Wrists

Boots

Finger x4 Neck

Focuser (Only available for Enchanted Focuser CastingType)

There are only two types of items:

Stat Enhancer: This will boost a certain stat by a little bit.(i.e. +4 Strength)

School Enhancer: This will only boost the effectiveness of acertain school. (i.e. +50 Fire Spells)


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HUDThe HUD must be clear and easy to understand, the player will

have several enemies on screen at once and he/she must be able to

identify each HUD element.

HUDElements Player Portrait: The Player Portrait is so the player can

relate to his character and allows the player to see the

characters face while in combat.

Health Bar: The Health Bar is used to show the charactershealth. The health bar will flash when the characters health

is low (about 20%)

Mana Bar: The Mana Bar is used to show how much manathe player currently has.

Map: The Map will show a top down view of the player andanything within a 50 yard range.

Spell Layout: The Spell Layout visibly shows the playerwhich spells are currently at his disposal. Each Spell has a

graphic that is easily identifiable

Spell Layout Selection Menu: The Spell Layout SelectionMenu allows the player to switch between pre built spell

layouts.

Fusion Button Event: The Fusion Button Event will onlyappear when the player initiates Spell Fuse. A series of

buttons will appear in the box and the player must hit the

correct buttons in the correct order.


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HUDLayout


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SystemsMenu


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MagicsMenu


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SpellList


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SpellLayoutMenu

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