1. Combat: With food being a huge factor of the game’s theme, I wanted to incorporate the idea of cooking/following a recipe into the combat of the game.

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1.1 What immediately came to mind was Minecraft’s crafting system of taking certain ingredients and combining them in the right formation/order to create items. I initially thought I could implement something similar. However, it seemed too meticulous and precise to perform especially during fast action situations.

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1.2 I also remembered a game from a while back called Magicka, where players would perform a series of key inputs (e.g. Q -> E -> A -> A) with assigned elements (Earth, Arcane, Life, Water, Fire, etc.) to cast specific spells. Rather than elements, I can use ingredients that I collect from the level/enemies to perform these “spells”. However, with the scope of ingredients I want to implement, along with the inventory management I plan to add, it’ll all be very overwhelming

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1.3 The final idea I ended up going with was to have the player use the ingredients to create food-based items/weapons/spells that they can equip during the level.

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• They’ll collect ingredients, either through combat, foraging, or looting, and store them in their inventory.

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• The player (whenever they want) will then be able to summon a pot that they can use to create food.

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• The players will throw their ingredients into the pot to create food which they can equip (up to a maximum of three) and use in combat until they expire at the end of the level.​

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• ​Each food will have their own unique use and can work in tandem with the other foods the player has equipped to help the player achieve their goal, kind of like a combo in an RPG.

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By doing this, I’ll be able to implement the food crafting I liked from Minecraft, while at the same time implementing the key combinations in combat that I liked from Magicka.

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