Wiggledinks Spec

[Braymatter]

WiggleDinks

A Pheromone based RTS, spawn wiggledinks, that act according to pheromones and attack the enemy base

Design

• 2D, Tilemap based
• Hand Drawn, On Graph Paper
• Whimsy

Creatures

• Two creatures, both collect resources, will reproduce or attack the enemy based on certain conditions
• Navigates to the nearest marker within a specified radius
• Die when they run out of pheromones
• If the tile they are on is below a threshold of friendly pheromone, deposits some of its pheromone periodically

Wiggles

• 'Melee', Rounded, Flask Shaped creatures that fill themselves with Pheromone and reproduce after a set time period, or expend their pheromone on tiles that are empty, or have enemy pheromone

Dinks

• 'Dinks', Rounded, Flask Shaped creatures with a nozzle that shoots pheromone over a distance

Emitters

• 'Flowers', initially neutral, will 'fill' WiggleDinks nearby with their pheromones, or drop them on the ground
• Can be converted between factions by having another WiggleDink move near it for a period of time

Terrain

Dinks can shoot over canyons but not cliffs

• Tiles
• Cliffs
• Canyons