Chibi Champions – Game Overview:
Chibi Champions is a chaotic third-person tower-defense/brawler game, where players take on the role of three mutated animals fighting to defend the cure for their mutation. Set in a dystopian world ravaged by the Big Boom Boom, players control Drumstick, Rolfe, or Potter—each a tortured lab subject. The game features a mix of building powerful towers and engaging in fast-paced combat. Players gather scrap to upgrade their abilities, team up with others, and protect themselves against waves of enemies. The ultimate goal is to survive and protect the cure.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Vision Holder/Idea Generator: Established the overarching vision and narrative for the game.
Character Design: Created original characters such as Potter and Rolfe, defining their motivations, backstories, and personalities.
Enemy Design: Developed unique enemy concepts and their role in the game world.
Powerset Creation: Designed distinct abilities for characters and enemies, enhancing gameplay variety.
World-Building: Developed the setting, including the story behind the game’s dystopian world and the nature of mutations.
Game Mechanics: Designed turret mechanics and how they tie into the gameplay.
Story Development: Created the core story, including Drumstick’s journey and the narrative structure around curing mutations.
Collaboration: Worked with other departments to ensure a cohesive and engaging experience.
Story Excerpt:
After escaping from Factory #1163, Drumstick travels across a desolated planet, searching for hope after the disastrous Big Boom Boom event. This catastrophe wiped out most of humanity but left animals mutated, yet still alive. Along the way, Drumstick discovers laboratories performing inhumane experiments on animals, attempting to replicate mutant DNA for humans. Driven by empathy for the animals' suffering, Drumstick frees Rolfe, a half-dog, half-spider hybrid, and Potter, a half-plant, half-octopus creature.
As the trio journeys across the wasteland, they intercept a distress signal from a rogue scientist claiming to have a cure for the mutations. They rush to the desolate laboratory in hopes of meeting the scientist. However, upon arrival, they find the scientist desperately typing in front of a large vat of liquid. In a last-ditch effort to protect the cure, Drumstick, Rolfe, and Potter prepare for battle, determined to defend the cure at all costs.
Big Boom Boom:
The catastrophic event responsible for the world’s desolation, the Big Boom Boom was caused by a massive stick of dynamite, lit by a colossal hand and giant lighter. It led to the widespread mutation of animals and the eventual downfall of humanity, leaving a new, dangerous world behind.
The catastrophic event responsible for the world’s desolation, the Big Boom Boom was caused by a massive stick of dynamite, lit by a colossal hand and giant lighter. It led to the widespread mutation of animals and the eventual downfall of humanity, leaving a new, dangerous world behind.
