Dryad - AlexisBliesener/Bewitched GitHub Wiki

Overview

  • Name: Dryad
  • Type: Caster
  • Stage Range: 2
  • Threat Level: Medium-Extreme
  • Biome: Root places
  • Role: Harassment, area denial
  • Concept: Concept Image
  • Mood Board: Mood Board

Behavior & AI

Core Behavior

  • Aggression Type: Passive until spotted, large detection range, then will continue to try and get a shot at the player, keeping them at bay. At lower health, will become much more aggressive.

  • Attack Pattern: Keeps her distance, throwing projectiles at the player. Uses her secondary barrier ability to block the player to push the player away if they get too close without dealing damage/stun.

  • Behavior:

    • Holding hands to the side in idle
    • Solitary
    • Only show up by themselves in rooms, max 2 to a room
    • Wants to stay off in corner on their own
    • Not wanting to interact with others
    • large detection area
    • Roots in the environment lead to the Dryad
    • Always locked after aggro
    • Keeps their distance at all possible when on normal heath
    • Approaches when on low health, less time to dodge the projectiles
      • wall goes behind player, not trying to block trying to trap
    • When at low health
    • Gets desperate, "goes off the deep end"

  • Movement design:

    • Quick, long and exaggerated strides
    • moves in big bounds
    • triple jump esc movement first two jumps part

  • Jump: Same height as the witches jump

Movement Classification

  • Ground
  • Speed: Medium
  • Pathfinding: Will move around obstacles to get a clear shot at the player. Should remain in the open so the player can see where they are attacking from

Combat Stats (need to be tweaked still)

Attribute Value Notes
Health 35 Very easy to kill
Damage 6 Low damage
Attack Cooldown 2.5s Time between attacks
Range 10m For ranged attacks
Magnetism None Projectile Attack
Speed 6 units/sec Moves slowly

Abilities & Attacks

[Decayed Growth]

  • Type: Ranged
  • Description: The Dryad will hurl a dart of purple energy at the player in a direct line (palms up, fingers down, like pushing water gently).
  • destroyed on contact with the environment or a target.
  • The dart travels very quickly across the screen
  • When fired by an enemy, telegraph in advance. Will lock to a target location 10-30 frames before firing, so the player has a chance to move out of the way
  • When fired by the player, the attack auto-aims the same way the melee attack system does. Meant to interpret the player's intent rather than test their aim

Proposed Redesign

[Spore Blast]

  • Type: Close range reset tool
  • Description: The Dryad quickly summons a cloud of spores in front of herself. Targets hit by this attack will be launched across the room
    • "Get off me" tool meant to disrupt enemies rushing the dryad down. See Guile's Flash Kick from Street Fighter.
    • Punishable on whiff
    • Low or no damage
    • Alternate take: could push spores out in a radius around her, hitting enemies on all sides of her.

### [Nature's Blockade] - Type: Terrain creation - Description: The Dryad will bend to one knee and place her hands on the ground before rising to her feet, and raising her hands with her. When doing this, a wall of roots will be raised from the ground at a location within range (max distance = 3 times height of the Dryad). The wall is very long across, about 2 times the Dryad's height, blocking line of sight and lasting 20 seconds. The wall will deal damage upon spawning, and also has hit points to be destroyed (About 2 times the Dryad's health pool to start). ~~ ~~ - Groot's wall from Marvel Rivals is an inspiration for this ability

Death Behavior

  • Death Effect: Falls to the ground and roots pile over top and the roots pull it back into the earth
  • Item Drop Chance:

Camera Changes

  • When the player controls the Dryad, lower the camera perspective to help the player see enemies further away