Design Doc

Purpose

The purpose of this design document and prototype is to create an additional portfolio piece that is more in line with the job being applied for and to be completed and submitted no later than August 7, 2023.

Scope

Prototype and create just enough of a stand-in for Towers and Titans to show unique hero designs based on current knowledge of the game. Balance the game so that each class can win by using their special ability, but will lose if left to just auto-attack.

Heroes

Kalabeth

• Kalabeth is a fire-wielding wizard who uses a wand to cast his spells. The wand is a fairly organic-looking stick with some slight bends to it and remnants of branches that once protruded from it. It comes to a point and has a crack running down the center. The crack still has embers burning inside of it.

• Kalabeth has traditional wizard robes dyed red with a burning tail along the back. He is old and graying with long hair and an equally long beard.

• Kalabeth's auto-attack is a fireball that does moderate damage. His special attack is an explosion that knocks enemies backwards allowing for longer opportunities to stop them.

Azureal

• Azureal is an ice mage who wields a staff that conjures ice. His staff is a large branch that is not quite smooth with a jewel of ice adorned at the top.

• Azureal’s robes are dyed blue, with white speckles of frost all around. The ends of the sleeves have bands of heavier frost, making for a cuff-like appearance. He wears a traditional pointy wizard hat. His beard is not gray, like his brothers’. It’s shorter and comes to an icicle-like point.

• Azureal’s auto-attack shoots shards of ice that deal fair damage. His special attack drops a massive chunk of ice, which will slow down enemy movement.

Händelas

• Händelas is a druid of nature, who uses a focus to channel his magic. The focus has a handle made of bone, with an arch connecting both ends and is wreathed in leaves with teeth and fangs as adornments.

• Händelas’ robes are an earthly brown, but are covered in so much moss that his title became "the Green.” His hair and beard are salt and pepper colored, and as wild as the company he keeps. While he doesn't wear a hat, a raccoon has been known to nest atop his head. 

• Händelas’ auto-attack uses the raw power of nature to do great damage. His special attack covers an area in venom that does damage over time to enemies that walk through it. An alternate special that isn't in scope for the time frame is a special that transforms him into a hawk that flies across to a designated point and deals damage to any enemies caught in his path while repositioning him on the map.

Flavor Text 

Abandoned in the woods, three children found an ancient power deep in the depths of the forest. Decades later they emerged as Kalabeth the Red, Azureal the Blue, and Händelas the Green. These magic-wielders would eventually go on to found the Cliff's Maw School of Mystic Arts.