Outdoors area

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• [x] Design area concept (@rustrix)
  • [x] Art concept
  • [x] Level gameplay feel
• [ ] Choose area-specific features
  • [ ] Enemy or two
  • [x] Abilities
  • [ ] Platforming challenges?

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Will be World 2.

Abilities/Milestones:

• Initial abilities: Attack, Jump, Dash, Super Jump
• 1/3 checkpoint (CP): gain Grapple
• 2/3 CP: gain Health or similar minor upgrade
• Next step is to go to World 3 for a "key" to unlock next section
• Boss: gain Double Dash #46

Sections:

1. Super Jump focus, very vertical
2. Grapple focus, more horizontal
3. Both, maybe more enemies

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Concept: Night-time, moonlit. Covered in snow and ice. Skyscrapers, transmission towers. Black/grey with cyan highlights? Maybe moonlight yellow or cyan when reflected off snow and ice. Or magenta for contrast, but maybe not -- that's a cyberpunk cliche, and we're going for post-apocalyptic ruins, not flashy eye-catching advertisement hell.

Required tiles:

• [ ] (just for very bottom of area) ground, could be totally snow-covered and/or manmade (asphalt?)
• [ ] Steel I-beams, vertical, horizontal
  • variants covered in snow or ice?
• [ ] allow-jump-from-bottom thin horizontal platforms (hard-light bridges?)
• [ ] collapsing horizontal platforms (any one+ of: glitchy hard-light bridges, crumbling brick, cracked ice, powdery snow?)
  • No animation needed, can fade them out, but would be nice
• [ ] Other tiles needed to make convincing ruined buildings?

Wishlist tiles/props:

• [ ] Icicles!!!
• Lights
  • [ ] Broken advertisements?
  • [ ] Very functional/gov-mandated lights, like the subtle blinky red lights on transmission towers, or dim red emergency power lights. No power in rest of ruins.
• Overgrowth
  • [ ] Tall evergreen trees
• [ ] Glass windows

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Mood: climbing up high, alone despite things trying to kill you. Rain World, Celeste, Getting Over It

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Rainworld, saint campaign: https://rain-world-map.github.io/map.html?slugcat=saint&region=SI

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Substitute aurora borealis for the neons you'd get if the city was a normal cyberpunk one pre-apocalypse?

Manmade ruins = skeleton, aurora = ghost, or the neon bleeding out