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POSITION
Game Designer, Narrative Designer, Director
DESCRIPTION
An action RPG where players must manage their resources, save NPCs, and escape a forgotten city of the future before time runs out!
YEAR
Spring 2022 - Ongoing
GENRE
Action, RPG, Survival
PLATFORM
Consoles & PC
Overview
What happens to the things we abandon?
Do they stay frozen in time...
or do they move on without us?
Introduction
Beyond the Sea is a 2.5D Action RPG with survival game elements. Players must manage their time and resources to defeat dangerous sentries, save quirky robots, and escape an abandoned futuristic city before time runs out!
Setting
A deep sea research institute, once known as the City of the Future.
Player Format
Single Player
Target Audience
Ages 15-21, Fans of Indie RPGs, Metroidvania Fans
Player Types: Explorers & Achievers
Objective
Explore the map and complete the main story before time runs out.
Challenges
Navigation, Resource Management, Strategy, Enemies & Bosses
Actions
Movement, Firing Projectiles, Interacting With NPCs
Story
In Beyond the Sea, players take control of Trace, a lone human who has awakened from stasis in the heart of an abandoned deep-sea research institute. The facility, once an experimental city of tomorrow, now sits as an artifact of forgotten dreams for the future. If Trace wishes to survive, they must escape from the city and return to the surface before the facility’s power runs out for good! The world is cold and lonely, but Trace finds companionship and assistance from their partner, Ready-Bot, and the facility’s robotic caretakers. However, not all of the city’s inhabitants are welcoming to strangers, many have become corrupted by the facility's AI maintenance system, MER-4000, and will viciously attack anyone deemed as a threat to the city. Trace must now fight to save not only themself, but also their quirky mechanical friends.
Mechanics & Gameplay
Core Pillars
Exploration:
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Players will explore the overworld charting their own path, finding secrets, and the most optimal navigation routes to save on time.
Time & Resource Management:
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Players have a limited amount of time to complete the game's main objectives, as every 10 minutes an in-game day passes. Depending on the Player's chosen dificulty they will only have 12-36 in-game days to complete the game's main objectives.
Projectile-Based Combat:
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The player will use a variety of ranged weapons to do battle with the baddies that occupy the world of Beyond the Sea. Players will run, dodge, and blast their way through hordes of hostile enemies.
Character Interaction & Humor:
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The player's secondary objective besides escaping the facility, is to save the many quirky robots who call the city home. Each bot has a distinct personality and once saved will aid the player on their journey with a variety of helpful effects.
Core Statement
Beyond the Sea takes the fast paced action of games like Hyperlight Drifter & Metroid Dread and combines them with strategy/survival elements from games like the Pikmin series in the foggy depths of a forgotten futurist city.
Commercial Viability
Beyond the Sea has been inspired by the recent success of indie Action RPGs and Survival Games. Fans of the genre have been fervently supporting developers of these titles.
Hyper Light Drifter
1 Million Copies Sold
& $12.6m Gross Revenue
Hollow Knight
2.8 Million Copies Sold
& $59.5m Gross Revenue
Don't Starve
5.3 m Copies Sold
& $42.9m Gross Revenue
