Bad Omen

Game Title

Bad Omens

Game Genre

• Point and click puzzle
• Narrative
• 2D

Platform

Android

Number of Players Supported

Single-player game

Game summary

Bad Omens is an adventure puzzle game inspired by Tiny Thief. 

In an Aztec temple, 2 brothers must work together to overcome the obstacles, traps, and enemies to reach their goal at the center of the temple.

Play through the game to discover and overcome the difficulties of growth and change.

Premise Summary:

When children come of age, they must enter the temple of Xolotl to take part in the “Coming of Age Ceremony”, where Xolotl will directly transform the children into adults.

Xipl the elder has now come of age and his younger brother, Catl, must stop the ceremony before the irreversible transformation takes place.

Catl must find his way through the temple and save his brother from Xolotl, the God of Death.

Characters:

Xolotl

Depicted as a monstrous dog

God of fire, lightning and death

Associated with sunsets

(The adults/enemies represent Xolotl, darker tone, insectoid, scary)

Quetzalcoatl

Depicted as a feathered serpent / flying snake / dragon

God of wind, air, and learning

Associated with sunrise (Creative license, trying to mirror his brother, Xolotl)

(The children represent Quetzalcoatl, feathered and colorful (at least more colorful than the adults anyway))

Twin 1 name: Catl

Variant of Ihuicatl

Meaning Sky

Younger brother

Twin 2 name: Xipl

Variant of Xipil

Means Of fire

Older brother

Full Premise:

When children come of age, they must enter the temple of Xolotl to take part in the “Coming of Age Ceremony”, where Xolotl will directly transform the children into adults. (Death of childhood)

Xipl the elder has now come of age and his younger brother, Catl, must stop the ceremony before the irreversible transformation takes place.

Catl must find his way through the temple and save his brother from Xolotl, the God of Death.

Intro:

Xipl has been taken to complete the Coming of Age ceremony.

Catl begins his quest to stop the ceremony.

Starts by sneaking into neighboring temple, belonging to Xolotl’s twin brother’s temple, Quetzalcoatl.

He is immediately trapped in a room where he learns a power that allows him to progress through the temple.

On his way, he meets Quetzalcoatl.

Catl convinces Quetzalcoatl to help him. (Sympathetic)

Body:

Quetzalcoatl can create a construct to help him. (Gods cannot directly intervene)

Catl creates a construct of his brother, Xipl.

Quetzalcoatl serves as guide/mentor/companion, helps Catl advance his power, overcoming all obstacles in their way until they reach Xipl.

Conclusion:

Catl finds that Xipl has already changed/grown. He is too late.

Catl looks in a mirror nearby and finds that he has also changed/grown over the course of the game.

Quetzalcoatl explains change is difficult, but it is something they do out of love. The Gods change humans so that they may be strong enough to protect themselves, just as Catl slowly changed in order to protect his brother.

Lesson:

Like a parent and child relationship

Transformation/growing up is painful but necessary to move forward, as shown in narrative and game mechanics.

USP mechanic

2-character control

• Player controls 2 characters, 1 of Catl, the younger brother, and 1 of Xipl, a solid construct of his older brother. Players control both at the same time and each can do things that the other cannot. Both must be utilized to reach goal.
• Eg. 
• Catl the younger can climb and jump and crawl.
• Xipl the elder can interact with items, levers, etc.
• Some interactables can be affected by both characters, such as weights.
• Players can swap character positions (Inspired by The Swapper)

Hardware requirement: ANDROID device

Download & install instructions:

1. Use ANDROID device (Phone)
2. Click on Download
3. When download has completed, allow app permission to install
4. Open app
5. Game will start momentarily

Please give your feedback in the comment section below or the Google Feedback Form provided in the link below.

https://forms.gle/rDSKJJiBDYsnWu6r7

*WARNING: 

This game was not optimized for all devices. Possible  technical issues include:

• Inability for app to function on older generation Android devices
• Characters moving strangely
• Levels partially blocked due to smaller screen size

* The "Moving Ladder" Level

Has an issue where the collision box for Catl and Xipl are affecting one another, resulting in the younger character becoming trapped inside the ladder.

To escape, use "Swap Character" button .

The following link will direct you to our PUBLIC PLAYTEST FOLDER

Which includes:

• Game Build
• Game Source
• Presskit
• Production Documents for Art, Tech and Design

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FWQ-YXJDWMeG9V4lw1hAqH0atws7foGz