Game Design

(Elliott) #1
She lost her leg in a zeppelin accident due to Zeffir’s lax safety standards. The
Electric Priestess continues to love her brother, while despising the
money-hoarding madman that he has become. The Priestess dresses in a long
jade-green dress with a large black hat that partially obscures her face. She has only
one leg remaining, the other having been replaced by a clunky, robotic prosthesis.


  • Ike:In Harmony Sam meets Ike, an old robot assistant his parents had some years
    ago of whom they grew very fond. Unlike many owners, when Ike got old Sam’s
    parents released him from his work for them instead of just shutting him off, and
    allowed him to return to Harmony to live out his time with other robots. Ike is quite
    smart, though his memory is failing, as is explained in the Game Progression
    section. Ike does not say much, but once his memory is activated he will speak with
    great love and respect for Sam’s parents. Ike looks a bit older in design than many
    of the other robots Sam will find, with a boxy, clunky shape and a larger frame than
    many newer robots, such as Scrap. He is also quite slow moving because of his age.
    Ike moves around on tank treads, and was designed with only one arm, a long,
    five-jointed limb connected to his torso in the middle of his chest.

  • Tool:Tool is the “robot doctor” whom Sam will need to locate in Harmony in order
    to save Ike. Tool is a huge robot who looks like he would be very violent and
    destructive. Instead he is very kind and caring, in a “gentle giant” sort of way. Tool
    is mute, and speaks only through a text display in the middle of his chest. Tool
    floats through the air a short distance above the ground using an anti-gravity unit
    he wears around his waist. When “operating” on robots, Tool does not use the
    massive arms and fists that are attached to his upper torso. Instead, a small
    compartment springs open in his chest from which small, spindly robotic arms pop
    out to do precision work.

  • Moonies:“Moonies,” as Earthlings call them, average about four feet in height
    and hop around on the lower half of their bodies (they have no legs). For arms they
    have two tentacles, one on either side, which are quite long and strong, yet
    prehensile enough to use a human pen to write. Though the Moonies are asexual,
    there are two different physical varieties of the creatures; one with two heads that
    sit atop their bodies as humanoid heads do (which Earthlings call “Bi-Headers”),


Appendix A: Sample Design Document:Atomic Sam 565

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