Equipment System

The mutant's limbs are replaceable, allowing you to equip different arms and legs. Unlike other games where equipment are used in fighting enemies, in Excalistia you use them in puzzle-solving and platforming. For example, you could equip claws to climb walls, kangaroo legs that allow you to jump farther, wheels that increase your speed, USB cables to hack computers, flashlights for dark dungeons, or axe-arms that cut through trees. This will require a large amount of sprites, but I think it'd be worth it in the end.

Below is your default mutant sprite, followed by a mutant with customized equipment. In this example he's equipping a drill in one hand, a rope in another, and flippers. This allows him to drill through rocks to make a path or mine for gems, use the rope to climb, and swim using the flippers. The possibilities are endless!



The equipments in the sprite are something I made quickly for this post. Hopefully they won't look so silly in the final version. :P