Liberty or Death

Main Idea

• Game where death is acceptable (not a "lose" condition)
• You lose by getting trapped

Actual mechanics ideas

• Hex tile based.
• Tiles recharge while you are not on them.
• Tiles drain while you are on them.
• Getting caught on a drained tile is how you lose.
• There is no stopping (well, enemies can block you but you can't stop on your own). Only changing direction.
• Other characters serve as obstacles to that.

Enemy Ideas

• Oblivious ones that just wander across the screen
• Black Holes that follow slowly but pull you in
• Ones with arms outstretched to block you from going
• Fast, small ones
• Versions of the above that try to get ahead of you, that try to follow, and that move randomly
• Killers that run away from you
• Killers that repel you
• Killers that move quickly but in short bursts
• Walls that don't move, but grow in one direction

Scoring

• Draining hexes makes the score go up
• score indicator - bar that goes up. When it gets full you get a circle. When you get 5 circles, you get a little star. When you get 5 little stars, you get a big star. When you get 5 big stars, you get an exclamation point.