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Wow sounds like an awesome video game, i hope that gets accepted

Just the idea of being able to shift yourself makes the concept of the game amazing, but powerups should be fluent throughout the entire game, not just the end of it

well yeah but you dont get any of the really gruesome ones until after the incident.

story is strangly familar to max payne just with powers

I like the idea with the upgrades and teleporting etc, ...
I just have a question, is it a 2D sidescroller or 3D, a bit like Trine?

well if you have ever played the turtles arcade game i was thinking that but a little faster paced. Either that or like Super Metroid.

Sounds like a fun game. I would like to try this in real time lol It does sound cool

Great Concept... Btw I Played Similar 2D Flash Game.... You Got My Hands Up!

I like the concept for this game! I hope it has a lot of levels though. It is about time that 2D sidescrolling beat em' ups come back into the mainstream! Those were one of the best game genres from the 1990s! I like the idea of the health as well. Also be sure to add a variety of enemies as well!

First off, cool concept, I like it. The bottom line for any game that is successful is that it creates an excellent experience. This can be through gameplay, story, etc.

It sounds like what would drive this game to have a wide appeal is the game mechanic of teleportation and allowing the player to be creative with it.

This is something you'd really have to think about (and I think you've already done a good bit of that). It may work like this... one stage you're going grab a burger, but someone is being a jerk holding up the line by comlpaining that his fries are too short. you use your power, the game time goes into slow mo or pauses, you have the power to move the jerk anywhere you want .... maybe into the frying oil, onto the grill, to a mens bathroom stall occupied by a burly homophoic biker....

I like humor in games, so that's the direction I'd personally go in, but I get the impression you want to go into the serious realm.

But anyway, focus on somehow giving the player creative freedom. The downside is, this is very difficult to develop as a game maker I believe.

An alternative might be doing this in 2d where you just teleport them anywhere on the same screen, so maybe teleport them in front of a bus, on top of a lamp post where they get impaled, etc. In this scenario, there'd be less ways to kill, but enough to keep it fresh for a few play throughs.

In terms of laying out the game, you can't keep it from being really fun until the second half of the game for the sake of the story I think. When someone tries your game, it needs to be crazy fun to hook them in.

If you wanted to do it flashback style where the first level of the game is you in current times, then later levels being flash backs to how you became that way, that might be ok.

Good luck!

I probably should mention that he has to be touching the object to teleport it.

If he has to be touching the object to be able to teleport it, does that mean that he can pick the area that he can teleport it to by thinking about it, or is it that he simply can phase himself out.

I'd also like if you gave somewhat an accurate description of these "brutal moves" and how they would work, because if some of these moves, such as dismemberment, would involve him touching them, then it does not seem like he can phase internal parts of a human

hmm, sounds... interesting, im thinking i would not work so well in a side scroller, and would make more sense being a fighting/RPG type game, and i think the story may be a little weak, and is almost identical to spiderman ( robber kills grandfather who gets stopped after he kills ) , and why did he have these powers ( was it a "virus", medical experiments, a gift from a supernatural force? ) , and this game sounds alot like a mimic of the game singularity, where you are gifted with a glove that can shift the earth, dissolve people and shift things through time
, IMO, it could use a bit of work, but i guess its your pitch, so you make the best out of it

And god damned!, i am so envious, ive got SO many ideas id like to pitch to gaming gaming companies (mostly VALVE and Rockstar), witch i honestly think would turn out nice, i even have a near finished idea of what Half life 3 should be like, and a few completely separate game ideas for rockstar

Only thing I would say is that there is a pretty popular online flash game called shift, might want a different title. Otherwise if it had great combat and a pretty compelling story for a beatemup then I would totally play it.

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