Game Idea: RPG

[accrazed]

How would you describe the genre of this game?

• Roguelite
• Skill trees
• Doing "runs" to upgrade your gear / power
• 2D Neon Ninja Trove

  How would you describe this game, using other games? (i.e. cyclic final fantasy, AFK game)

What's the primary mechanic(s) for the game?

Extra Ideas

[VargentSomnium]

Ive been brooding on this idea for a bit and I think I got my thoughts down.

• Player character is a swordsman. Most attacks will involve some bright texturing.
• Game play is a classic RPG turn based combat. At the end of each combat you will get some loot to choose from. After every 5 rounds you will get to pick up a new skill going down in tiers. Tiers will be unlocked after unlocking an amount of skills from the previous tier. These should be flexible to allow many different "builds".
• After you loose a battle you are returned to the beginning where you are able to spend points you got during the run on permanent stat boosts.
• The main background would be a scifi city illuminated with blues, purples, greens, and reds. Maybe the occasional cop whizzing by.
• Enemies will be thug-like with variations for ex. brawlers, fighters, slicks, Jetters, and so on. -Different types of enemies (Flying, human, animal) dont need may just enough to not be repetitive
• BGM will be synthwave/vaporwave loop to add to the scifi feel.

side note We want to be as cartoonish as possible so maybe some gags and jokes.

[accrazed]

I like the idea but am worried that a turn-based game with a single character could make early-game combat repetitive, since you'd have a limited amount of skills and it feels like it could devolve into a back-and-forth of making the same attack over and over. I suppose more broadly speaking, what would we do to ensure the player's feeling challenged in a diverse yet fair way?

Maybe we could add other characters and adopt the FF style turnbased combat entirely?

Or maybe make a top-down turnbased, like Fire Emblem or XCOM, to add an extra level of strategy?

Those suggestions also increase scope may be problematic if we want to finish this up before the deadline, assuming that yall would rather spend your time working on a different game engine for something with a larger scope. I have a hard time corresponding a level of scope to time to develop, however, so I'm curious to know your thoughts.