The new minimum scale requirement is 100 sq ft! now more of you should be able to transform your living room into a battleground 🔥. But why can’t we take it lower than that? ⬇️ 

Tidal Tactics is an action-strategy mixed reality game which offers real movement 🏃 and explosive hand gestures 💥 (to bomb the floor) as a part of the core loop. Given the physical involvement the gameplay experience is super fun and excellent when played in a space ranging between 100 sq ft to 300 sq ft - bigger the space = bigger the battlefield, bigger the explosions, more you get to run around, aim from far away, and feel that tension engulf your muscles and your entire living room. 

Playing in a very small battlefield while retaining the present core loop and rules will “limit” the experience in the following ways -

- the aspect of running around to collect energy orbs will be weaker as the orbs will never spawn too further from the player position 

- After a certain threshold the weapon size will become larger than a single tile size, altering the ideal impact radius of the weapons (the weapon sizes should not be reduced because they will look strange when held in a fixed size glove)

- the core action of swinging the arm for bombing will have to be performed more carefully (which will omit the fun and wildness of it) because small tiles = difficulty in precision 

- The explosions, the smokes, the splashes etc would feel underwhelming 

Don’t get me wrong, playing in an extremely small battlefield- table top, would work wonders. the game would feel really cool if it is shrunk down to a table top version as the miniaturised vfx, animations and the enemy hovering around will be a sight to behold 🤩. But it’s the awkward in between that we need to be careful of. 

We are exploring how the gameplay will be affected if 
- the min space requirement is taken down to 60-80 sq ft, with…

- reduced number of tiles (retaining the tile scale to a decent value), and…

- accordingly reduced no. of ships (down to 3) 

Let’s see..

Comment your thoughts. 

#BreakYourFloor


We are reducing the space requirement for Tidal Tactics!! But why is it challenging? - read below