Containment
Containment is a single player platform game being developed on 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
The aliens
Taking hints!
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
The aliens
- The aliens can spread throughout the world using Sludge creep, which is a substance creeping around the world taking everything over. Aliens can then proceed to spawn from it at a random location.
If you have some of it left behind your own lines, the aliens can spawn in from there and attack you from the rear. The Sludge creep will eventually spawn a Sludgecreeper on it's edges if you leave the Creep alone for a while. This Sludgecreeper will start spreading the Sludge Creep once more. Making it vital to take care of it.
Taking hints!
- From the Lost Vikings, using four characters in this case
- From the start the player takes control of all four characters and can switch between them to use their specific skill sets. Eventually the characters can unlock the following skills during a round:
- Jarvis Miller can hack doors, take over computer systems and can activate droid nodes, which will start spawning droids to attack the aliens.
- Joseph Shepherd (Joe) can blow up doors, can put down sentries nodes and can use heavy weapons. While also being able to repair doors and equipment
- Ervin “Boss” Reid can support by dropping ammo crates and medkits, he also buffs the other characters when he is near them and is able to drop mobile power generator modules
- Chass Emeka is very fast and can use this to his advantage to take out heavily armored targets by attacking them from different vectors. Basically outflanking them using his speed.
- From DOTA/HON/LOL
- Leveling system, with a total of five levels, the characters can level up to level five. Making it possible to go back to the main base to upgrade their skills or purchase new weapons. During combat they receive experience and credits, which they can spend on new or better equipment.
- Territory control, the game is all about territory control.The more control nodes you have under your control the faster droids will spawn. The same goes for the aliens, the basic alien attacker is a charger, which are quite similar to the droids in their behavior of mindlessly attacking anything that is near them.
There is also a timer to keep track of when you or the aliens area able to spawn a more powerful droid. The aliens are also tied into the control nodes, but in the opposite way the player is.
While the player has to control more of the nodes to get access to more powerful weapons, the aliens defense system gets more powerful the more territory they lose. At first they like to spawn a lot of aliens, which are powerful in a group but once caught out in the open, quite easy to deal with. Once you start closing in on their base, they will start spawning increasingly powerful creatures at a slower rate.
This is because they don’t use a leveling system and is in fact a counter to the player’s leveling up system. The slower rate at which these increasingly powerful aliens life forms spawn, is your window of attack. Once you’ve taken down a big one and still are able to attack at just the right moment. You could crush them, otherwise you’re in for an increasingly difficult battle.
- Leveling system, with a total of five levels, the characters can level up to level five. Making it possible to go back to the main base to upgrade their skills or purchase new weapons. During combat they receive experience and credits, which they can spend on new or better equipment.