This document provides an overview of Band of Adventurers, an upcoming action RPG that combines exploration, combat, crafting, and town building. Players will create a custom character and embark on quests to help expand villages, while battling enemies and unlocking new abilities. The game aims to blend mechanics from pen-and-paper RPGs, roguelikes, and modern action games in a fantasy open world. It will feature character progression, customizable skills and equipment, procedural dungeons to explore, and a village that grows based on a player's contributions.

1. Band of
ADVENTURERS
ADVENTURERS
Band of

2. SUMMARY
Adventure, discover, build and survive your
way to becoming a legend!
EXPLORE
& FIGHT
START
RUN
LOOT &
LVL
FINISH
RUN
DIE
EARN
UNLOCKS
Adventure, discover, build, survive: The world is still unknown
and villages require resources to expand. Will you travel far and
wide across vast landscapes in search of relics and materials to
craft advanced equipment, upgrade merchants, and build a home
to call your own? If challenge is your calling will you choose
instead to hunt out ancient foes to test your skills in combat?
Band of Adventurers come forth, the time is now!
Combining mechanics of modern action role playing
games with the comforting drop-​
in drop-​
out freedom of
roguelikes, Band of Adventurers is a rare gaming
experience where both randomness and destiny
compete for the player’s mastery. The true adventure is
as custom as the players themselves!
Can you handle the many mysteries and survive long
enough to see the town honour your memory as their
greatest Adventurer?
ACTION
ADVENTURE
RPG
3D
SINGLE PLAYER
FANTASY
EXPLORATION
THIRD PERSON
COMBAT
SURVIVAL CONTROLLER
CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
MAGIC
BUILDING
CRAFTING
PROCEDURAL GENERATION
ROGUELIKE
DUNGEON CRAWLER
LOOT
SOULS-​
LIKE
CROWDFUNDED
The target age bracket is geared towards 18 - 34 with
enough accessibility and progression options to
encourage and capture an audience with < 18 as well.
Band of Adventurers is bringing the depth from
pen and paper RPG's straight into a modern Third
Person action game, letting players design original
characters and explore unknowns in a fantasy
setting. Development is focused on providing
some core features surrounding:
CORE LOOP
Modularity
Customisation
Accessibility
Community
Learning
Start by selecting an available Adventurer and
head off to discover a village in need of legends.
Explore the surrounding wilderness
encountering ruins, dungeons, lost travellers and
more quests then one hero could ever handle.
As your character grows in experience so will you the
player, as you'll surely fall to an ill fated end eventually.
Worry not, you can invest your earnt rewards into the same
village that will soon support and encourage the next
adventurer you decide to roleplay!
Who is this game for?

3. GAMEPLAY
Attributes
Stats
AVATAR
ITEMS
Skills
Status
Effects
Equipment
Weapons &
Armour
Enemies
Bosses
Merchants
Dungeons
Beastiary
Customisat
ion
Tools
Saving
Skills
History
CHARACTERS
Classes
Level
Talents
EXPLORATION
Preperation
COMBAT
Locations
Crafting
Resources
Research
Technology
Tools
Clothing
Traversal
Recipes
Furniture
Structure
Decoration
s
Emotes
Formulas
Followers
Combos
Housing
STORYTELLING Lore Heroes & Villains
Quests
Challenge
Tasks
Puzzle
OBJECTIVES
Navigate Destroy
Collection
Achievements
Highscore
Home
Collectables
Life isn't always exciting, but exploring the
unknown is the best chance you'll get to
uncover something no-​
one has ever seen
before, which means fame and glory for your
name. New adventure, new adventurer!
Mystery Shop
Storage
PROGRESS
Buildings
Village
Character Select HUB Town
MENUS Looped X Linear X+1 Linear X+2
Boss Rush 1
RETURN
Alternative 2
Branch A1 Branch A2
Branch B1 Branch B2
Converge 1
Secret 1
TELEPORT
LOOP
LOOP
RETURN
END 1
END 2
Challenge 1-​
X END 3
PROCEDURAL
DUNGEON
GENERATION
LINE
PROCEDURAL
DUNGEON
GENERATION
LINE
Just like in real life, if you don't live to tell the tale
then no one will know of your glory. Achievements
only count if your character manages a return trip
and shares all the nitty gritty details!
Which came first, the Location
or the Quest? Either way you'll
need to prepare first and be well
equipped to adventure forth into
the wilds if you want to survive ...
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to
travel this far from safety. You've
already encountered a few nasty
surprises and supplies are running
low. You're beginning to tire and
only have enough materials left for a
single camp fire. Hopefully you
track down a spiders nest and craft
some tasty chewing web to get some
energy back ...
The tavern keep said this was a small goblin
cave NOT home to a Troll Giant!
Luckily you came prepared with the right
tools and weren't too fatigued that you couldn't
use skills to combat and counter everything the
large smelly beast could muster.
Now you are once again safe in the village
gates it's time to sell your wares, replenish
supplies and hopefully with any profits left
manage to finish building that training
dummy in your front garden. Need to be
ready for when you can finally retire and call
this adventuring life a thing of the past ...

4. MECHANICS
Controls for Common Mechanics, Researched and
Referenced from Popular & Unique Titles:
L2: Skills Toggle
L1: Defend
R2: Attack-​
B
R1: Attack-​
A
N: Menu Wheel
Radar
Quests
Journal
Attributes
Status Effects
Compass
Character
Inventory
Skills
E: Evade
W: Interact
S: Jump
R-​
Stick: Rotate
L-​
Stick: Movement
Up: Bar 1
Right: Bar 3
Left: Bar 2
Down: Bar 4
N S E W
DISPLAY
L-​
Click: Sprint / Crouch R-​
Click: Weapon Switch
Items bar
Traverse Icon
Weapons
Skills
Toggle
Developing for and playing through such a popular mix of
genres gives me a lot of inspiration to draw from regarding
Input and UX, the goal is to achieve both intuitive and
accessible controls that still remain immersive for the player.
Thankfully a lot of the industry now has agreed on what that
is... somewhat.
The current display and default controls are based around
rather standard and accepted inputs from Third Person
action titles but contain layout variations to accommodate
extra features required for the genre blends.
Fortnite
GTA
Genshin Impact
Elden Ring
Rust
Rainbow Six Siege
Among Us
Roblox
Spelunky
Risk of Rain
Battlefield
Super Smash Bros.
Terraria
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Valheim
Hades
Hand of Fate
Kingdom
The Binding of Isaac
Spellbreak
Vampire Survivors
Magicka
Orcs Must Die
Diablo
Sea of Thieves
Chivalry
Yooka-​
Laylee

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Develop story + lore
Scene flows + Initialisations
Quest variations + types
Character customization rig
Progression "Save & Load"
Variable data + balancing
Achievements (player)
GUI - functioning + designed
GUI - reskins ++ w/ Animator
Visual development overhaul
Town & Dungeon Loop structured
Merchant upgrades + unlocks
Loot table designs
Value chain (crafting) designs
CMS setup
CMS category locks
Key enemies injected
Narrative / dialogue options
Stats + Attributes + Effects Formula tables & graphs tweaked
CMS category expansions
Traversal options implemented Machination simulation testing
Formulas balanced
Bug fixes
Alt Mode designs
Community engagement
Success interviews lol
Possible DLC ?!
DA Procedural dungeons
Object interactions system
AI behaviour formats
Skills implementation
Inventory system
Adv Melee + Shooter UX synergy
Easy Build System for "Home"
PGG content producer
Visual maintenance
Odin Editor formatting
Plastic SCM sync
HUD Navigation system
Audio hunting + edits
Dialogue exchanges
...?
Following the finance plan and budget proposed I'm
accounting for a 24 month period to fully develop, market,
publish and support Band of Adventurers. Besides myself I
aim to have a dedicated Artist hired from Vertical Slice till
v1.0 Release plus ad hoc Contractors filling in for skill gaps
throughout.
Depending on your expectations and familiarity
surrounding the genres it might seem like an aggressive
plan considering the mechanical scope and content
required but previous personal concepts and industry
research leaves me with nothing but confidence. I've
designed a technology stack based on a professional suite
of established tools that remains flexible enough to bring
innovative new concepts to market.
Patreon setup + content batching
Formulas drafted