Idea Info Name: Armed to the Teeth Index: Primary Category: Fighting Submitted: 9/27/2002 8:30:53 AM Written By: ShieldBreaker Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition Book Highly Recommended !

Game Overview

Common Questions

What is the game?

Armed to the Teeth is a turn-based strategy fighting game.

Where does the game take place?

The game takes place in the distant future in a battle arena. A futurist, steel, gladiator arena. 

What do I control?

                You control one of 15 characters.            

What is the main focus?

                The focus of the game is to keep your character alive, build up their equipment and win each of the matches.

Gameplay

Overview

How Combat Works:

Each turn the player is given 3 targets. These targets are selected at random from the opponent, based on the size of the target. For example, hitting the torso is easier than hitting the eyes, so it is more likely that the torso would be a target. The player may or may not be able to damage the target. It depends on if the opponent has armour protecting that attack point. There are two ways to overcome armour.  One is brute force, if you are armed with a hammer, you can attack armour and damage the armour, and possible the opponent as well (If your weapon damage is greater than the absorption rate). If the armour takes enough, damage it become useless.  The second way is if your weapon fits a vulnerability of the armour.  For example, regular eye goggles may protect against impact weapons, but a laser would still get through.  Alternatively, a needle weapon could get through chainmail. The player will need to know what works and what doesn’t.  If they select the wrong weapon, they basically waste a turn.  The Target Display will indicate what armour is protecting the target.  In addition, to make it easier, only valid target will be selectable (i.e. not grayed out).

Outside the Arena:
 

Items can be bought, sold, equipped and repaired from this screen. The character has an inventory and it has two representation of their body.  The one on the left represent their offence equipment, the one of the right represent their defense equipment. Defense equipment can cover all possible attack points. When in battle there are 14 points to target attacks:

Target Points:

                Left Foot: Mobility point, small target

                Right Foot: Mobility point, small target

                Left Leg: Mobility point, normal target

                Right Leg: Mobility point, normal target

                Stomach:  Large Target

                Torso: Large Target

                Left Arm: Mobility point, normal target

                Right Arm: Mobility point, normal target

                Left Hand: Mobility point, small target

                Right Hand: Mobility point, small target

                Neck: Critical point, small target

                Teeth: Pain point, very small target

                Head: Critical point, normal target

                Eyes: Pain Point, very small target

Mobility points: Effect Damage and Target Selection. Therefore, if a Mobility point is severely damaged, the chance of open targets is reduced.
Critical points:  Severely Damaged leads to death, even if hit points are not zero.

Pain Points: Greatly reduce Target Selection.

Items for Defense

Listed worst to best

Armour Types (parts for all except eyes, neck and teeth)

                Cloth: Absorb very poor, vulnerable needle  

                Leather: Absorb poor 

                Plastic (kind of like sport equipment), can’t take heat

                Chainmail: vulnerable needle and electrical

                Steel: vulnerable electrical
                Genetic Organic:  Good Absorb, immune electrical and heat

                Future Plastic:  Good Absorb, immune electrical and heat

                Power Armour:  Great Absorb, headshots of electrical make you lose a turn

                Continuous NanoArmour: Great Absorb will never take damage to itself. 

Special Items        

                Collars:  heavy cloth, leather, and spiked leather

                Goggles : Plastic, vulnerable light/laser

                                : Tinted Plastic, immune light/laser

: Eye coverings, made of steel they have slots or tiny holes in them to let you see. Reduce chance of eyes being targeted, and protect against impact. Vulnerable needle and light/ laser.  Look like goggles with strainers overtop, or a band (visor like from StarTrek: TNG)
: Fly Eyes: goggles looks like multi-prism eyes like an insects. Immune light/laser.  Made of either Genetic Organic or Future Plastic
: Power Goggle: part of Power Armour, look like night vision goggles, immune light/laser. Best Absorb.

                Teeth Guard: Plastic, or Future plastic.

                Nano-Emitter: bonus feature that some items may have, auto repairs armour during battle.

Nano-Emitter Strong: bonus feature that some items may have, auto repairs all armour during battle. Rare item.

Attack Items:

Feet: spiked toes, cleats

                Arms: spikes, blades

                Hands: Tazer, hammer, mace, sword, needle glove, clawed glove, mini-buzz saw,  heating element

Teeth: Fangs, Injection Fangs (Poison, effect hit points each turn and impairs targeting), Electric Fangs (sparks shoot between them in the inventory), Fangs are needle weapons and only work on items that have a vulnerability to needles.

                Eyes: Light and Laser, good only against eyes. 

Story

Each character would have a story. 

5-Evil characters would probably be criminals sentence to fight,

2-Characters trying to get to another character as retribution over some past misdeed

4-Showoffs wanting attention. (Ex-military, wrestler, down and out action actor, billionaire (lots of money little skill) 

2-character trying to gain status in an underground organization.

2- insane characters that think they are vampires start with fangs.