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A story-rich stylized 3D platformer!

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Mariposa and the Galaxy Man Exploration
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PROJECTED RELEASE: March 2024

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A story-rich stylized 3D platformer set in a galaxy with colorful planets based on different decades of the 1900s. Save space creatures, platform precarious places, solve physics-based puzzles, and interact with fun characters as you zoom across the galaxy to save a man made of stars.
Similar to: "Hat in Time", "Psychonauts" and "Sly Cooper"
  • PROJECTED PLAY THROUGH TIME: 9-16 hours
  • PROJECTED DISTRIBUTION: Steam, Epic, PS5/PS4
  • PROJECTED LEVELS: 20 with five (5) acts, four (4) chapters per act
  • PROJECTED STORY WORD COUNT: 56,400
  • CREATED BY: Ink Rose Inc., in collaboration with Syndicat and TYM Studio
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2 Hour Demo

In the demo, Mariposa has a large hub world in the form of an animal rehabilitation center. This large open area will contain collectibles, story bits, interactive animals, and platforming challenges. Within this hub world are four mini-levels to complete, which are represented by big domes in the open area. The domes act as controlled environments for the rehabilitating animals.

Game Play

Gameplay consists of platforming, exploration, helping alien creatures, conversing with characters, and collecting, while also implementing Mariposa’s zero-gravity abilities.
Platforming
Mariposa can jump, double-jump, sprint, dash in the air, and float! Like all Fluttikans, Mariposa can use the Nectra that flows through her body to activate a zero-gravity state. This will continue her into whatever direction and speed she was at when activated. You can use zero-gravity to reach new heights and speed forward! Nectra can also be used to make objects and enemies float, which ties into the combat system.
Mariposa and the Galaxy Man Platformer
COMBAT
Combat is mostly puzzle-centered, similar to how Portal handles getting rid of turrets. Mariposa must shoot zero-gravity liquid at attackers. Once they are sufficiently coated, they are put in a zero-gravity state and are able to be manipulated by Mariposa.The goal of combat is to get the enemy trapped or somehow incapacitated using your 0G abilities. Often, there will be some kind of cage or trap to get enemies into.
Mariposa and the Galaxy Man Combat
EXPLORTATION
Each world will have an open HUB area to explore from which the smaller, instanced levels will branch from, similar to Spyro’s system. These areas will contain secondary quests, collectibles to find, and characters to interact with.
Mariposa and the Galaxy Man Exploration
CHARACTER CONVERSATION
Talking with characters is an important element of the game. Listening to them and helping them with their issues will unlock additional rewards and dialogue.
Mariposa and the Galaxy Man Dialog
COLLECTING
There are various types of collectibles for Mariposa to find! From finding lost creatures to collecting patterns, thread and cloth to create new outfits, there is much to find.
  • Galactic Ven: A standardized currency that can be used to buy all manner of things in the market. Not normally found in the wild—but can be given after quests and found in caches.
  • Flutterstars: Little glowing flying bugs that can be found on almost every planet. Certain collectors will pay good Ven for large amounts of them! Flutterstars are counted in the corner of the screen.
  • Fabric & Thread: Can be purchased in shops and online, fabric and thread are components used to craft new clothes. Also can be earned in quests and found in the world.
  • Patterns: Mariposa needs inspiration to make her clothing patterns. Pattern Inspiration can be found in certain locations on different planets or levels.
  • Enamel Pins: Can be bought or found in the world. Pins allow stat modifiers and other fun stuff, like changing power colors.
  • Lost Animals: A few injured and lost animals can be found in levels. When interacting with them, Mariposa will give them medicine and sometimes take them to a med-station.
  • Core Stars: Found at the end of Boss levels, these stars give core abilities and upgrades.
  • Small Stars: Found at the end of most levels and some quests. Certain numbers of them can be used to upgrade powers.
MUSIC
We plan for our music to vary in style widely depending on which planet/time period the player is experiencing. For our demo, we went for a more spacey, synthy vibe to represent the space adventure to come! Both vocal and orchestral tracks will be used.
GAME hub

Travel in Style

In the main game, Mariposa’s hub will be her spaceship van in which she travels the universe. She can chat with characters, play with/take care of pets, and select destinations from this area. She can also use supplies she’s collected to craft custom clothing and hairstyles.
CUSTOMIZATION

Passion for fashion!

Mariposa has a passion for fashion! Collecting fabric, thread, and patterns will allow her to craft clothes the player can equip and swap at their leisure! Most of Mariposa’s clothes will be styled to her 70s sensibilities, however, as she travels to new planets, she will gain inspiration to create clothes more fitting to her setting. The 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and cyberpunk-inspired clothing and hair choices are all planned to be included.
LEAD CHARACTER
A recent graduate of Floros University with a BA in zoology, Mariposa is at a strange crossroads in her life. She feels content working at her Aunt Dawn's animal rehab center, but can’t help feeling like she’s earthbound and unable to take flight--both metaphorically and literally. She’s half-human, so thus far has been unable to go through metamorphosis and gain wings like the other people of her planet. She wonders if she’ll ever gain them, or if she’ll only be relying on her 0G abilities to help control her flight path for the rest of her life.
Her parents are both career marines in the joint Earth-Fluttika military effort to drive away strange star-consuming monsters from the galaxy called the Cavum. Unfortunately, due to the main bulk of the war happening at the far reaches of the Milky Way, both parents are weeks of travel away. Mariposa can only hope that the threat of the Cavum is one she will never have to face.
LEAD CHARACTER
After crash landing on a Fluttika moon, Alex, a quirky, energetic man with a weird way of looking at the world, is excited to travel through the Milky Way. Alex’s true name is unpronounceable to Mariposa’s tongue. As such, she nicknames him Alex. Naturally extroverted, Alex likes to meet new people and see new places.
He’s a being made up of stars and planets, solar systems and nebulae. He’s a living galaxy on the run from the star-eating monsters threatening the stars as well as Green Star and Supergiant Corp, massive energy companies seeking to capture him and use him for infinite energy. He’s not the only of his kind, but is currently alone, as he had fallen into a black hole and was warped into the Milky Way.

Bonnie

Jarmane
A sweet, shy girl with a kind heart. She loves exploring new worlds, cataloging wildlife, mapmaking, and long-distance flying.

Aunt Dawn

Fluttikan
The stren yet kind caretaker of a space animal rescue center who always has a soft spot for the animals or Fluttikans she looks after.

Heather

Fluttikan
A beautician-in-training who volunteered at the rescue center to use her skills to groom the animals. She's a bit of a beatnik and often waxes poetic about her life.

Bradley

Fluttikan
Works at the rescue center in order to rack up community service hours. He had the choice of either that... or prison time.

Kika

Fluttikan
The neighbor's kid who loves to hang out at the rescue center. She plays with both the animals and her toys there.

Kitty Rue

Lumerine
A former street kid turned famous multi-talented entertainer. She is known for her swing jazz music composed with her husband, Zindelo.
SUb-CHARACTERS

Interact with additional characters and learn their stories in the final game!

More characters coming! Examples include: Psyquines, unicorn-like aliens with psychic powers originating from their horns; Dracirons, tall dragon-like beings with metal bones and carbon fiber skin; and Lumerine, a race of lemur/cat-like beings with dextrous, strong tails.
PROJECTED CREATURES

Care for Alien Creatures

Since Mariposa works as an animal rescue worker, alien creatures of all kinds are important to her. We want to implement animal rescuing and care mechanics in the final game. Here are some of the creatures you'll meet with more to come in the final game!

Ferrether

Felmuria PLANET

Meerette

Space

Rarinoque

Noivesse planet

Moralug

Cajime planet

Flittay

Fluttika planet

Asteride

Space

Glacecid

Noivesse planet

Allocur

Allocur planet

Shrubbereep

Felmuria PLANET
PROJECTED PLANETS

Each Planet = a New 1900s Decade

The Milky Way of Mariposa’s universe is a setting where, after years of technological advancement, human kind made contact with sapient alien species. Curiously, these species seemed to have cultures and sensibilities similar to those of decades past. Increased ease of access to space travel led to many of these cultures and species mixing and starting families together across the cosmos. As the most technically advanced planet, Earth became a hotbed of innovation and a melting pot of all kinds of peoples.
The following planets are the only ones currently planned for the game, although others are referred to in the story!

Fluttika

a 70s themed planet
An alien world of giant flowers, butterfly folk, and a special blue nectar called Nectra which allows objects and creatures to float in 0G! Fluttikans have two hearts, one that pumps blood, and the other that pumps 0G nectar throughout their body.

Felmuria

a 20s themed planet
Felmuria is known for being host to the Lumerine people, a race of lemur/cat-like beings with dextrous, strong tails which are used to hang from branches, support their body weight, balance, and swing from tree to tree.

Cajime

a 30s themed planet
A world covered mostly by water and swamps, Cajime locals tend to do things the old fashioned way. The Jarmane are an amphibious people made from sweet-smelling slimes, and the Flista, are a humanoid species similar to dragonflies.

Noivesse

a 40s themed planet
Noivesse is home to the Psyquine, unicorn-like aliens with psychic powers originating from their horns. Psyquine build their large metropolises within the massive crystal caverns within the planet, mostly due to the surface being so bitterly cold.

Allocur

a 50s themed planet
The planet on which the Draciron reside-- tall dragon-like beings with metal bones and carbon fiber skin. They’re exceptionally tough yet extremely good-natured.The fauna species of Allocur almost all tend to be metallic in structure.

Earth

Cyberpunk future themed
Far into the future, Earth’s technology has grown substantially, bringing both progress and disaster. As such, humans have a reputation in the galactic community of being a species of cyborgs and techno-wizards.

Voice-Talent

Paige Guillory

Bonnie
"The VoiceoverPaige"specializes in voicing commercial, animation, and eLearning projects.

Nicky Mondellini

Aunt Dawn
An award-winning international voice actress who speaks Italian, Spanish & English.

Jay Preston

Bradley
An improv voice-talent who has appeared in the video games Wasteland 3 (Dorsey Brothers)
and Stormland (Riggs)

Artemis Rico

Kika
An up-and-coming child actor and voice-talent.

Megan Hensley

Dusk Connors
An actress for over 14 years with appearances in various TV and commercial projects.

Phil Snyder, MFA

Jacob Connors
Former voice of Disney's Jiminy Cricket, most known for his work in the Kingdom Hearts video games.

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