Olympigs

A silly sports game about pigs and taking risks. Play the Olympigs with 1-6 friends. Go pig or go home!

It should just be ¾-view in 2D. Players are pigs running over a racetrack. (Like a stadium for athletics in the Olympics.)

Players are locked onto tracks. This makes the controls simple:

Move up/down the tracks.
One button for jump

By changing the terrain for parts of the track, and placing bystanders/obstacles around it with special powers, you get a varied and tactical race with just a few buttons.

Here’s a sketch for basically the entire game idea (and perhaps rough attempt at visual style).

Modes/Campaign

Each mode has its own silly title:

Go Pig or Go Gnome
Go Pig or Go Stone
Go Pig or Snow Cone
Go Pig or Go Home => basic mode, just a simple race (very short rounds), every time someone is eliminated. Or, they are actual homes that pop up, and running into them (by accident) means you’re out of the race?
- Maybe homes have things like “good smelling food” or “store with discount” which lures players to automatically go there.
Go Pig or Go Drone
Go Pig or Go Rome
Go Pig or Go Foam
Go Pig or Go Phone
Go Pig or Go Loan
Go Pig or Go Alone
Go Pig or Go Blown
Go Pig or Go Flown
Go Pig or Go Roam

Make this the campaign as well? So each level has a title like this, which is also the unique element being added?

Should have some main mechanic or unique rule that has to do with:

The meaning of the saying (“Go big or go home”)
Pigs and how they look/work
Becoming/being big

Can you crash? (Maybe by default you just can’t overlap. But if you bump into someone fast enough, or you have a certain powerup/state, it causes a crash?)

Controls Idea

This game basically only requires one “joystick motion” per player. (A button that can indicate 4 directions.)

This means we can use shared controllers, with up to 3 people on the same controller:

One using the regular joystick
One using the other one
One using the four buttons

It’s a feature I wanted to build anyway, so it’s great if we can do it now.

How would it work?

In the code where we create all “input devices”, create separate entries for these three locations (joystick left, joystick right, buttons)
In the UI, per controller, allow setting 1,2 or 3 players.
In the code, per player, simply poll input for 1,2 or 3 of the sections.
- If someone owns the whole controller, poll input for all 3 locations
- If it’s split between 2, the first player polls left joystick, the second right joystick + buttons

Marketing Trailer idea

Show a match (or a collection of matches) and cast it like it’s a real, important, exciting Olympics match. (Take cliché sentences from Rocket League, Trackmania or Soccer casting.)

When it switches to a different game, do something like:

Caster 1: “Woah, the whole game just changed!”
Caster 2: “Nah, that’s just for the trailer.”
Caster 1: “Ah—alright.”

A silly sports game about pigs and taking risks. Play the **Olympigs** with 1-6 friends. _Go pig or go home!_ It should just be ¾-view in 2D. Players are pigs running over a racetrack. (Like a stadium for athletics in the Olympics.) Players are locked onto tracks. This makes the controls simple: - Move up/down the tracks. - One button for *jump* By changing the terrain for parts of the track, and placing bystanders/obstacles around it with special powers, you get a varied and tactical race with just a few buttons. Here's a sketch for basically the entire game idea (and perhaps rough attempt at visual style). ![](mockup-olympigs.png) ## Modes/Campaign Each mode has its own silly title: - Go Pig or Go Gnome - Go Pig or Go Stone - Go Pig or Snow Cone - Go Pig or Go Home => basic mode, just a simple race (very short rounds), every time someone is eliminated. *Or*, they are actual homes that pop up, and running into them (by accident) means you're out of the race? - Maybe homes have things like "good smelling food" or "store with discount" which *lures* players to automatically go there. - Go Pig or Go Drone - Go Pig or Go Rome - Go Pig or Go Foam - Go Pig or Go Phone - Go Pig or Go Loan - Go Pig or Go Alone - Go Pig or Go Blown - Go Pig or Go Flown - Go Pig or Go Roam > Make this the campaign as well? So each level has a title like this, which is also the unique element being added? Should have some *main mechanic* or *unique rule* that has to do with: - The meaning of the saying ("Go big or go home") - Pigs and how they look/work - Becoming/being *big* Can you **crash**? (Maybe by default you just can't overlap. But if you bump into someone *fast enough*, or you have a certain *powerup/state*, it causes a crash?) ## Controls Idea This game basically only requires one "joystick motion" per player. (A button that can indicate 4 directions.) This means we can use **shared controllers**, with up to 3 people on the same controller: - One using the regular joystick - One using the other one - One using the four buttons It's a feature I wanted to build anyway, so it's great if we can do it now. How would it work? - In the code where we create all "input devices", create separate entries for these three locations (joystick left, joystick right, buttons) - In the UI, per controller, allow setting 1,2 or 3 players. - In the code, per player, simply poll input for 1,2 or 3 of the sections. - If someone owns the whole controller, poll input for all 3 locations - If it's split between 2, the first player polls left joystick, the second right joystick + buttons ## Marketing Trailer idea Show a match (or a collection of matches) and *cast* it like it's a real, important, exciting Olympics match. (Take cliché sentences from Rocket League, Trackmania or Soccer casting.) When it switches to a different game, do something like: - Caster 1: "Woah, the whole game just changed!" - Caster 2: "Nah, that's just for the trailer." - Caster 1: "Ah---alright."