I Tried Making a Combat System Without Weapons...

In this video I explore the idea of creating a telekinetic combat system. It's a bit jank but it was fun to make!
Music used inn order:
Fading Star - Lama House
Subliminal Space - Lama House
Prescient - Howard Harper-Barnes
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Prototyping Begins
01:14 Polishing Character & Anims
01:54 Lock on System
02:22 Adding More Abilities
03:11 Final Prototype

[@TomHanssensYT]

Hello! If you have any suggestions on how to improve this idea, or if you have any grand combat system ideas of your own be sure to reply to this comment so I don't miss them! I'll do my best to realize some of these ideas in another video. :)

[@evali5201]

It would be cool if the enemies were squishable and you defeated them by denting and smooshing them when you hit them repeatedly!

[@d3bugged]

Look into fighting games, Scarlet Nexus and DMC and Bayonetta and try to apply some of the combat design philosophy (multiple inputs, timing based attacks, cancles and parries). Every since Force unleashed and Scarlet Nexus I've wanted a pure telekinesis games so finding this video is really cool.

[@SkillhackTV]

The Ultimate Movement Game: Add all core mechanics that make other Movement games great into one f.e. Wallrunning, Sliding, Grappling Hook, Dashing, Surfing/Air strafe, etc. Could start as a Race game where people can create own maps for Speedrunning (+ high skill PvP potential), like Counterstrike Surf Or kind of a mix between GunZ The Duel, Mordhau, Titanfall. Gosh I’m dying for some high mechanical skill game.

[@thatguytj1183]

It would be cool if you added different objects that have a different effect when it hits a target, like fragile objects that shatter on impacted and leaves harmful bits of glass or whatever its made of on the ground or walls, Or a object that moves slower when you pick it up but does more damage. You should make each hand be able to do different things like, basically multitasking so you can hold a group of objects or one big object in one hand and a shattering thing in the other.

[@Fleopoo]

being able to rip out a rock from the ground if there are no objects nearby

[@XoneFobic]

Have a material system. Objects from wood only last a few throws, objects of stone or iron last longer. Also give objects an interaction range. So if something is floating and waiting to be used, if you move too far, you loose 'control' over the item. Maybe if you use an item and throw it towards a pillar or wall, it will crumble enough to also use the wall/pillar pieces as a projectile. And maybe also allow you to use yourself as a projectile, as a way of traversing longer distances in a shorter time, to get out of a dodgy situation. If you do some world building, this could actually become quite fun, even if it's a short but strong linear game.

[@blaise558]

Basically something like the physics of The Finals would be cool

[@drizztdourden4929]

How about fire, explosive objects, oil, water, electricity and more. So you have object and world interactions which you can use to combo even more

[@jackofclubs6229]

Ooh, denser materials consume resources, meaning you can only carry 3 iron objects at a time, while you can carry around 6 wooden objects at a time

[@maxximus6418]

They could also use the orbital mechanics as a weapon, either using them to whack enemies or using it as a personal shield

[@baitposter]

Can't say I fault you for remaking Control's telekinesis, it's one of the best parts

[@panpan3233]

Ok I’m not the only one that thought this

[@bobyjoegames2]

Kinda gives avatar the last airbender vibes, you basically implemented an earthbender

[@jomesias]

Not the movie one though 😂😂😂 Remember when it took 3 earthbenders to throw a small rock at the firebenders? 😂😂😂

[@zun-viik]

No It's not. This is as much earth bending as a basic fireball Is firebending. Rumble is an earth bending game.

[@revimfadli4666]

So Rumble but Jackie Chan

[@revimfadli4666]

​@@zun-viikand that is comparing prototype to released game

[@chrono9503]

@@zun-viikKeyword: "Kinda"

[@tiffykakei]

Can you have the ability to clump up the items into a bigger projectile? And or could you add different densities to the items so that they potentially move at different speeds? Maybe enemies could have different Hp bars that affect the size of the enemies making higher HP easier to hit and they visually change colour and change in size as they lose health?

[@sprites4ever482]

This is extremely cool! I especially like the easy pick-up ability, as well as the barrage with random targets. Some suggestions for mechanics off the top of my head: -Maybe add weapons that can't be wielded by the player, but you can fling them around telepathically. -It would also be interesting if you had two different types of damage, "Blunt Trauma" and "Applied Force". Throwing a barrel at someone would obviously cause blunt trauma damage, but doing the same with a sword would deal applied force damage. This could further be differentiated by the size-to-mass ratio of the objects. e.g. a cardboard box is big, but deal little blunt trauma damage due to its low weight, whereas a metal marble is small, but way heavier, dealing applied force damage like a gun bullet. -Perhaps make it so that, the smaller the object, the faster you can move it around, and the faster it'll be when thrown. -Not a fan of the typical magic in video games trope of limiting magical abilities via "Energy" points, so what about limiting it via the specific objects' weight instead? Your character would have a typical "Stamina" meter for dashing, jumping, dodging etc., which recovers as long as you're not doing any of these actions, but it would also deplete when using telekinesis, with heavier objects being more draining. -You could also perhaps display some sort of color-coded glowing "Rune" to immediately communicate the object's weight class. -Enemies could have two different sets of hit points, to go with the two types of damage. "Armor" Points would be drained more efficiently with blunt trauma, whereas "Body" points would be more susceptible to applied force. There could be enemies that have a mixture of both, and some that have just one. -Enemies could have specific attacks that would require unique strategies. Perhaps one type can catch and reflect anything you throw at them with their own telekinesis, but only as long as the things you throw at them are in their direct line of sight. Another could alternate between being susceptible to blunt trauma and applied force, And yet another could slowly absorb nearby objects off the ground to increase their own physical strength or speed. -If you get to designing environments, you could have specific, immovable props that activate certain effects if specific objects are near them, removed from their vicinity, or thrown at them. Obviously, the obligatory red barrel would explode if you throw a torch at it. Or maybe a Tesla coil that shocks and stuns nearby people (including the player) with arcs of electricity, but is only activated if there's a comically large battery nearby. Hope you find some of these inspiring.

[@TomHanssensYT]

These are certainly inspiring! I appreciate you taking the time to write these out. I especially like the idea of having enemies that require different strategies to defeat.

[@darkblade732]

Everything seems fine besides the stamina system like you are literally doing the same thing with the stamina that you could do with a energy bar cooldown based makes more sense to avoid just spamming the strongest abilities

[@sii-gul5852]

Loving the telekinesis idea! looks great! loved Control and so cant wait to see how this turns out!

[@michaelsparkson]

Fixing the block to not kill the enemy on touch should be pretty easy. Maybe add a modifier that causes them to only do damage when they're an active projectile or traveling over x speed. Maybe have different damages based on the speed and more modifiers after they bounce. Maybe be able to pull pieces through environmental effects to set the on fire and whatnot. But awesome looking prototype. The idea really grabs at the imagination. Oh. Look up "yutapon cubes." You could have a lot of fun with that. Hopefully I'll be able to beat this depression pretty soon and actually feel like getting back to my would be projects.

[@TomHanssensYT]

I'm liking these suggestions, thanks for taking the time to provide some feedback, I really appreciate it!!

[@reed6514]

Good luck with the depression, mate. When you're feeling better, remember to enjoy your life too. I give so much of my healthy time to my projects that i sometimes forget to enjoy my friends & unproductive hobbies.

[@realmaggymage]

@@TomHanssensYT if you do it based on speed, you could also have them deal different damage depending on how quick they are moving, and then have them either accelerate or decelarate when they travel further

[@fonkwindy1990]

Really cool! I loved Control so much. I also made a 2D game with this system and it was really fun.

[@SuperheroWannabe]

I love this! Telekinetic traversal mechanics could be fun too; objects with wheels that you can cling onto after pushing them. Rugs that you stand on can be slid across the floor. Maybe the only rule is, you can't use your power on yourself. So no flying around

[@duultakdestroyerofcatnip5607]

I know multiplayer games can be an absolute chore to make, but imagine how much fun telekinetic duels could be! I'm imagining all the different techniques you could use like throwing curve-balls so the opponent can't catch your projectile out of the air, or making a ring of swords orbit you and running at the enemy like a human buzz-saw. Or even having a mid air sword fight where you and the opponent are trying to knock giant tree trunks out of each other's telekinetic grasp! Sounds like a lot of fun, but it's probably would hard to make and balance though.

[@Carlos-Perez]

There's a VR videogame about something like this

[@user-gl3ew5pe2z]

A rope/whip that has movement that can be controlled by mouse movements but has physics. Flick your mouse to throw it and do a loop with your mouse to wrap it around the target then click to constraint the target. From there you can move/bash the target around. Idk.

[@sprites4ever482]

Lol, ever tried programming realistic rope physics in a 3D game? Telling this beginner developer to try that is like telling Leonardo da Vinci to build a nuclear reactor.

[@TomHanssensYT]

​@@sprites4ever482you're right! Real time physics do have their challenges, I work full time in the game industry as a tech artist so I don't think I'd have the time to implement such a complex idea into my little side project 😂. Though I don't think it would be as hard as building a nuclear reactor!

[@user-gl3ew5pe2z]

@@sprites4ever482 I made a lasso a few months ago with the cable component in unreal but it was not very good. think i would have to make the rope in blender with bones and make it a skeletal mesh in unreal to get better control.

[@evali5201]

WOWOWOWOW very cool. The character looks like they're doing the sprinkler 😂

[@jomesias]

Great idea!!l allow me to share a bit of the technical dark side : The collision system definitely will help out with the damage . (On overlap event gets triggered whenever the box hits the enemy’s trigger volume, you can detect if the tag is a telekinetic weapon. That way you avoid other objects making damage) Now, on to the throwable weapons: again a huge trigger volume for the blueprint of the boxes can do the job, an overlap combined with a button/key press sounds about right (think picking objects from the ground for example, same functionality different animation!!) That would make it so you can only pickup boxes whenever you are close to them. Now, you can also do this in blueprints, you’ll have to ray cast an area though and get those objects and “arm” them. These are just a bunch of possible solutions, but you get the idea!! Cheers

[@SOOH27]

I'd like to see this combined with a decently complex movement system. The idea of flying through the air, picking up random items and throwing them at whatever's in your way is incredibly cool.

[@oliverdumrique6269]

Some ideas! - Offer objects that deal debuffs / more damage BUT place them at hard to reach places. Then you can explore platforming/traversal mechanics and the player has to juggle between that and using other attacks - Add objects that cause problems to the player if picked up, like bombs that need to be thrown quickly, or objects that damage you over time - Have a move that blocks enemy attacks by moving objects in front of the player - Catch enemy projectiles with a "parry", where if you time it right the object is thrown back with more power - Lift and throw enemies after they've been weakened - Hover the objects in different defensive formations that the player can switch between for different scenarios (like above for attacks coming from above, or in pillars that block different directions for crowd control) - Limit hovering based on an energy system, where energy has to be picked up from enemies, consumables, or items in the world

[@DoubleDotStudio]

This is a really unique system and I love the idea of being able to use the things around you as weapons. Keep up the good work.

[@toxic_icecream]

I never liked the systems where you pick something up, it flies to you and then you launch it at the enemy. They feel like so many potential interactions were removed from telekinesis. For example killing the enemy by interacting with object behind him, launching objects upwards/downwards. But the alternatives are always clunky, like there are no effective control schemes that can handle this mechanic. Thats why I liked the auto pick up and flying objects firing themselves into enemies ideas of yours. Maybe you can just mark the objects and the targets for them to fire into, but it may remove too much of player control to be fun. Also an idea of moving yourself with telekinesis only can be fun

[@JoshKings-tr2vc]

This is how KZbin should be. Simple idea. Overlook of the process. Finalized project. And natural editing and execution on delivery. (Plus it’s not long trying to get ads)

[@FireFox64000000]

My favorite way to beat people up with telekinesis was always the good old fashioned telekinetic energy BLAST!!!!!! As seen in both Mass Effect and the Star Wars the Force Unleashed. Commonly just called push.

[@dfisher79]

Love it! Could you put in the ability to lift and move enemies? Or what about pulling an object towards you and hitting an enemy from behind on the way?

[@theoriginalsoundwavesurfer1814]

Even if they don't add moving enemies with telekinesis, moving their corpses shouldn't be too hard, and it might be kind of amusing.

[@uc22_swo1p]

a cool concept would be where objects have durability and the most significant portion of damage comes from objects aswell as the durability of said objects which there are a limited number of meaning one has to be both resourceful or figure out creative ways to get more materials to work with. Without any materials there would be a basic telekinetic attacks that aren’t very potent and requires accuracy but can disable enemies when hitting them at their limbs or kill them when hit at the neck. Like a basic telekinetic cut/punch focusing on disabling and killing and very potent for unarmored targets but doesn’t disable them long term and is ineffective against armoured bodyparts which require materials. A shield against guns and other telekinetics but it leaves the user unable to attack while it’s active. A leap and dash ability for platforming, dodging and movement in high speed segments. an awakening of some kind which is done by gaining meter formed by dealing damage or successfully dodging/parrying and allows for powerful combat without requiring materials such as telekinetically slamming ur enemies into walls directly and destroying the enviroment with ease, flight and a limited autoblock ability allowing them to take a limited number of shots without taking damage. Which forces the player to quickly deal with enemies in this powerful state or alternatively escape from that environment while progressing in the level. And a psychic stamina meter for using telekinetics which recharges over time meaning sometimes unarmed combat or gunplay is incentivised or alternatively , hiding behind cover and analysing ur environment. And the player must not be a damage sponge so it punishes players for: - just running in guns blazing - not dodging, or blocking - overusing/spamming their powers While rewarding - resource management of their psychic energy reserves - resource management of nearby materials - creating tactics fitting with their limited resources - good reaction time - accuracy

[@morosizz9606]

Very satisfying to watch! Loved this video :)

[@iAmAkronox]

I believe this idea has a lot of potential. Play Control if you can and havent played it, the combat system reminds me of this. Well done!

[@PizzaMineKing]

It would be cool if the game had a) the ability to grab enemies as projectiles and b) player abilities for enemies, maybe even the ability to steal objects from each other, have the enemy hold the player and vice versa at the same time, causing them to orbit each other, as well as the ability for enemies (and players) to conjure a swarm of magic missiles while not holding anything

[@mitchhaelann9215]

This looks nice. Some graphical assets, a storyline, a more robust movement system to get around more complex levels, more complex levels, and enemies that pose a threat and you'd have a really good game.

[@coolsheng]

I'm Lemon Doto, and This Is My Favorite Video on the KZbin

[@Moby398]

Wow underrated video quality and effort! Deserves more subs

[@blockbusterjack4357]

3:59 "it's probably about as fun as punching a child, you feel cool and powerful at first but you get bored after a while because there is no challenge " Quote of the day for sure!

[@claytonwood8839]

I got one concept regarding telekinesis from a dream a while back, where this character would pull metal from the dust in a Colosseum-like arena and compress it into a projectile to launch at enemies. I also agree with the concept a lot of people are saying that of giving each thing durability, as this will make the player have to adapt to what's available. You could also balance by giving limitations to the ability, either weight, volume, count of objects, range of effect, or even have the player become weaker the more they manage.

[@dumbghost3109]

Control did this very well in my opinion. the basic attack of not needing to grab an object is just holding and releasing instantly, firing the object from its original position so you can either fire it instantly, or pull it towards yourself first. and you dont need to aim at objects because if you dont select one it just pulls the nearest one to you or to your reticle (or rips a chunk out of the nearest wall)

[@internetdweller1961]

this is so cooool!! I would HIGHLY recommend looking at the game Control for how to stylize the look of this since that game has a lot of telekenetic typa combat

[@ItzBrandyC]

"As fun as punching a child" no shot... that shit got me choking on my coffee XD so unexpected...

[@julianemery718]

Suggeations... 1. Different sized objects deal different amounts of damage. Smaller = less damage. 1.5. A combo system, so even the small objects have merit. (Condition could be: less than a second between each hit, making each object deal 1.25x or something damage instead of normal.) 2. A sort of "energy" bar that is constantly refilling, but is used when picking up and/or throwing items. Bigger items use more energy to pick up. 2.5. Depending on how fast the energy fills, maybe there could be a way to regain chunks of energy. Either as rewards for performing certain actions or as consumables, either on the ground or dropped from enemies. 3. Environmental stuff, I.E, throwing something associated with water at something ellectric will cause nearby enemies to get shocked and stunned. Throwing something metal at something electric or hot will conduct. Throwing something at a bag of flower will blind enemies. Throwing sharp or heavy objects at explosives will make them explode. 3.5 Weather. Thunderstorms will hit metal objects. Cold weather will freeze water. Heavy rain will make it hard to either see or move. Strong wind will move objects, maybe even thrown ones if they're able to.

[@dr.unventor]

I love this concept! Definitely could harbor a lot of emergent gameplay

[@jenbooob]

Some thoughts: Allow for the player to increase the orbit speed of held objects. Makes it a defensive option that pushes things away that get too close Let players manually aim to try for headshots for additional damage Let the player condense all nearby objects together to make a front facing wall to act as a shield, could also then perform an attack that shotguns the objects outward Limited flight using a single flat object to carry yourself around would be interesting Charge attacks could be fun too, drop all other floating or held objects to charge a single powerful throw that keeps travelling until it hits the ground or a wall Enemies that can catch your projectiles with their own telekinesis, so you have to overwhelm them with your own attacks or time your attack to land right after they throw

[@ScoutOW2]

Honestly, this IS how the best games are made! You make a single mechanic, then evolve the game around that mechanic, adding more mechanics that enhance the core mechanic. Its how all Nintendo games are designed, so honestly id say keep at it! Check out the video of "Nintendo - Putting Play First" by GMTK! So you have an issue, the mechanic gets repetitive and theres no challenge. 90% of the game should just be different sections of the game that explore that question in different ways. Exploring ways to use your core mechanic. A way to reduce the feeling of repetitiveness is by adding depth. When God of War throws his axe at the enemy, the axe bounces up, if you retrieve it with perfect timing, it comes back, making your next launch do more damage! Programming wise this would just have a 0.5 seconds delay after bounces off, display a spark particle, then have a 0.1 second window to retrieve. If you miss the window, it just retrieves it normally. Another example of good timing would be rhythm games and the reloading in Gears of War. A good watch is "Depth, Mastery, Vanquish" by GMTK again. Also the random target def reduces the thought process of attack, making the game basically play itself, which heavily reduces depth. Could have a slow motion and a lock on system while aiming, a lot like Kingdom Hearts' Shotlock. Check the video by Mix and Jam for pseudo-code of how to create it (he did it in Unity, but it works similar in Unreal). Also slow motion is easy to set up, its 1 node called time dilation. Or instead of time stuff, could have a charge period creating a risk vs reward while you aim, walk slowly being vulnerable while you charge for stronger launching and launching more of your objects, rather than shoot all without charge. Could have enemies shoot missiles at you, and you spin them around you and then shoot them at tough rock enemies who can only be destroyed by explosives? Some kind of elementals might work, fire guy who shoots fireballs you launch at plant guy. Water guy that shoot water balls you launch at the fire guy. Also a basketball minigame is a must! A designer's job is less about coming up with ideas, and more figuring solutions to problems. Hope this helps! I look forward to seeing more videos in you designer journey!

[@CaarabaloneDZN]

The idea is very good. I can see some rooms with just tons of enemies and objects floating around. One of the few games that I watch devlogs that I can actually see myself playing.

[@nTu4Ka]

Idea is pretty interesting. Try removing unfun part and enhancing fun part: 1. Different abilities with different effects. Throw all objects at once in all enemies (e.g. in cone in front of you). Throw all objects at 1 enemy, objects are thrown in a row. On later stages you can infuse objects with effects: slow zone, burn, etc. Or. There can be interaction based on object type. If it's wood it will burn. If it's stone it will knockback the enemy. Something like this. 2. Add physics to game mechanics. Damage scales with impact force. Force diminishes with distance (e.g. gravitation starts working at some distance). 3. Great idea with enemy projectiles. It can be bombs or energy balls - things that fly slower. You can catch them and throw back. Damage is higher and AoE. 4. Feels like enemy hard lock can be removed. Make it automatically (crosshair may be needed still). If you throw an object somewhere near the enemy - autolock will throw it at the enemy. If too far - it will miss. Similar to what you did with determining closest enemy to lock to. 5. You can add power progression. Pickup radius, projectile speed, etc. 6. Not sure if will be interesting. Object mass is considered. At first you can pick up only light objects. Later - heavier objects and small enemies.

[@Sunr1sen2]

Great work!

[@rojnx9]

There is a VR game called Rumble which is basically Earth Bending from Avatar with PVP. It does telekinesis combat in a really interesting way that also includes the ability to summon new objects of different shapes - which makes sense as it is themed around earth bending.

[@aasyn8040]

Combining items to form larger structures would be cool. You get a bunch of boxes and pull them together and make a giant ball you can hurl at stuff, or you make them into a long stick you can bash stuff with or you turn them into a wall to block attacks. Being able to step onto the stuff that's frozen in the air temporarily would also be interesting. Being able to spin the items you're controlling could be interesting. You cld make a beam structure by combining stuff and rotate it to face the enemies and spin it to make a fan or smth. I think just more ways to manipulate the stuff you're controlling would be quite interesting

[@realmaggymage]

"It's probably about as fun as punching a child" had me dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But i definitely get the feeling, so relateable

[@ClaraDunn-rf4pf]

One mechanic you could implement would be something like an ultimate/high-risk ability where all objects hovering around you are slowly merged together above your head into a meteor-like object that can target a single enemy. Being attacked would stop the concentration on the meteor and cause it and all the objects used to create it to be destroyed.

[@Nat-ri3ip]

I think the moves are fine. One big advantage of that system is the variety of weapons usables at once. You could have slow objects, fast objects, objects that transform after hitting the ground or enemies, objects that set things on fire, can be set on fire, break in smaller objects, are attached to the ground and can't move too far, are attached to the enemies or even the player to move around. You could set up combos by hitting enemies in a particular order, which mean either spending some time hitting with ojects one after the other or placing them farther from the enemy then sending them all at once.

[@ziplow]

Great implementation. A couple of thoughts: 1) Researching the laws of physics may help create some ideas for balancing. Eg. Every force has an equal and opposite reaction. 2) A defensive solution could be to have the objects spin super fast around you, blocking any incoming projectiles. 3) Each projectile picked up needs to have a health system, so a) the object cant be used over multiple attacks as it slowly deteriorates and b) you could code ai to target the items floating around you before targeting you, to try and break them before they are launched at them or to atleast damage their effectiveness. Hope you can work on this a bit more and turn it into a fully fledged game, also consider the idea multiplayer. Could be LOTS of fun to duel other players and strategising larger more damaging objects vs faster less damaging objects!

[@seeranos]

This would be a very interesting combat system to go up against guns and other raycast-based opponents, since they are very asymmetrical powers. The player would have the challenge of dealing with enemies whose attacks go too fast to be caught telekinetically. In general I like the idea of telekinetic characters going up against obstacles that can breach/avoid/ignore telekinesis, because it adds a need for the player to think through ways to use the telekinesis as a tool rather than just an attack to time.

[@trevb1976]

Here's an idea! I would love an in depth tutorial for these mechanics. It's so well done!!! You might consider the ability to grab stunned enemies and toss them around too, perhaps at other enemies in the group. It would be interesting to see a swirl of minor enemies being tossed at a boss enemy.

[@Nobody-rz2rt]

This would be so fun if used nicely in a game! Really cool idea!

[@bradyhem]

Looks very fun. I imagine this would be very cool in VR

[@bradyhem]

Reminds me of the time I played Sport Mode VR and really wanted to be able to throw the bullets back at enemies in time stop mode

[@invis_potion]

Rumble but you don't feel like dying after shooting 3 rocks

[@Rix1Dev]

Your game pupped up and I enjoyed every second, I really want to see your game, keep it up and be careful from scope creep🙌

[@michaelburke4048]

I kinda love it. Hopefully someone reaches out to you to turn this into a real game with challenging enemies and creative play areas. As far as ideas go, how about using your telekinesis on yourself to jump great distances? How about destructable terrain items, or ye olde explosive barrel? Fun stuff. Kudos.

[@TobyChidolueT]

This was a great watch, and it really gave me some insight into how games are made. Obvious additions for your next try would be telekinetically attacking the enemies directly like using the GRP in Callisto Protocol.

[@joshuamcknight1819]

I love Telekinesis so much. I wish more games used it and more media appreciated it. So I love that you’re doing a creative project around the power set. I’m curious, is your telekinesis more magic based or scientific meta mutant superpower based. I think determining that could give you some ideas around how the telekinesis should function, and the type of combat you want to see. Ideas: think using Telekinesis like different object could help as variety to the player’s combat: Picking up the shards of broken objects and releasing them to shoot shotgun. Or shoot a tornado of energy to collect small object that hit enemies along a path. And the size of the object could determine how much of the players power meter depletes: So, a huge bolder cost more “mana” than a small crate or a hand held object.

[@franciscorui]

An idea that could help is to make it look like a conductor when firing objects consecutively, that way it doesnt look like the animation is reseting everytime its fired.

[@BlackcatLuca]

-Add a sort of stun, like if you decided to do multiplayer, so the player would stun the enemy if their telekinesis hit. To avoid the telekinesis, add dashing. Each time they dash the lock-on disappears until the Enemy stopped dashing, during this dash, the character will be put into manual toss mode. -Add front and side dashes, front dashes if into an enemy shoves them back and does a bit of damage. -Add custom themes around the things you grab, (sorta like mob in mob psycho 100) and add multiple themes to choose from as the game progresses. -Assign custom moves as the player would level up. Sorta like the key " 1 " Would pick up debris off the ground and smash the opponent into the ground, allowing the player to front dash and knock them back, into an automatic telekinesis toss. (effectively creating a combo.) -Add special enemy's that redirect your telekinesis attacks, but instead of them hitting you, it would deflect into the environment, create a minefield. hope you enjoyed my suggestions

[@nevernether3368]

This is really impressive and i like it

[@cronchulus5489]

Always figured someone would try this route, telekinesis is such an impressive and underutilized power in gaming I think

[@StatueOfEthan]

This mechanic could be really fun in combination with a setting like trying to destroy as much stuff as possible in a precious dishware shop or grocery store, or you could make the character giant and make it build landscapes by tossing around clumps of dirt and stone, or some kind of psychic monster hurling objects around to destroy a city and fend off fighter jets and helicopters....

[@cheddargt]

the first soundtrack was such a joy to hear :)

[@ajdndbdjbdj]

Heres some ideas: From the thumbnail I thought that youd use different objects that each one has a unique way to attack enemies instead of brainlessly throw it, like using a sphere objects being bouncy, flat objects to function as a shield to block attacks with, pointy long spear shaped objects for long ranges, and some other objects to build structure to hide behind, or use them to crush your enemy while holding it, breakable objects that shatter to make AOE damage to use against swarms of enemies, use objects to get on top of them to get to places that gives you advantage

[@Icewind007]

Looks nice and smooth! Perhaps consider a telekinetically wielded weapon, like a distant slash with a sword or like Yondu's whistle dart thing from Marvel.

[@anthonyborn638]

This would be an amazing and refreshing combat system if implemented into a game. I would love to see something like this in a PVP game

[@discosheep2946]

This is so epic. It would be cool if you could hover objects over enemies and then drop or throw them straight down onto their heads. Might be cool to have objects with unique abilities based in their shape and size.

[@christophenurse3637]

the ability to ride on an object using telekinesis, or even creating the ability to reconstruct objects into different forms, like a giant fist, or meteor type attack, also having a cool down effect so that the play can't infinitely spam all the attacks as often as they'd like, making it into a skill tree type system to boost effectiveness and attack and defensive ability too

[@sansn4m130]

Different objects with different damage and interaction depending which object is thrown, like a sword would stuck to an ennemy and hinder its movement or pin it against a wall , a big box or rock would crush the ennemy for a massive amount of damages, smalls balls would barely do damage and very little knockback if at all depending on the size of the ennemy etc etc ... As well as a psychokinesis gauge that refills itself after a while so there can be some balance like between , between a small , special object (like a sword or such) and a boulder the amount of the gauge used would be the same to balance this system and make the use of one item over the other be depending on the situation and personal playstyle to avoid the "I'm just gonna go boulder everytime" As well as adding a beginning of difficulty by giving the ennemy a fighting chance.

[@User-pu3lc]

Splitting up abilities into damage/defense/utility might add more depth to the combat choices. Utility could be buffs to the character or debuffs to the enemy for things like movement, ability to attack, strength of defense etc. Would recommend tactical things like temporary levitation for more interesting vertical play options, charged aoe “psywave” for group stuns or enemy displacement and some kind of “read thoughts” utility that would give strong indicators when and enemy attack was coming/some kind of time based advantage to the player.

[@robpenfold9500]

Absolutely loves games like this, especially as a coop. Games like Immortals of Aveum are so much fun, but would be 10x better with a friend/friends.

[@opiniggao-opn9638]

Amazing!

[@Asuraph]

Maybe instead of a large arm motion to throw, you can use a small low-key motion to activate the throw. (Like a finger snap. Or maybe having a kinetic stance makes it easier to simply point at an enemy, etc). The rapid flicking of the character's arm makes it hard to feel like the movements are realistic.I like how the motion of the objects seems sort of tethered. That looks friggin cool and satisfying. Playing off of that could make the motions seem more organic.

[@dean_allan]

"Is it fun? It's probably about as fun as punching a child. You feel cool and Powerful at first, but you get bored after a while because there's no challenge" 💀😆

[@real2late]

Really inspireing video!

[@Nitrohedge21]

This reminds me of Silver's gameplay from Sonic 06, i love it! :)

[@Igwanur]

hey, that's like control, love it

[@TheBlackGamingAntagonist-dy9ix]

I don't know if pre-existing ideas are aloud but I love how Psychonauts approaches telekinesis. Maybe you could implement a basic 3 hit combo of some kind that gets stronger with more objects in limbo? Perhaps a way to interact with the objects outside of just moving them, like heat, cold, density, size, etc? Perhaps a parry system using the pre-existing catch manuever you had to give bonus damage to projectiles.

[@sorcdk2880]

One thing I have seen in stories with telekinesis or equivalent, is the abiilty to execute complicated movements, like curving paths and so on, or dodging blocking moves. Would not exactly be easy in this form, but is a thing to consider.

[@lolstationvita5922]

Congratulations, you made Control!

[@Drekromancer]

On the one hand, there are interesting possibilities that would come from limits on the durability of objects, or limits on your reserves of psychic power. On the other hand, I'd almost caution you not to mess with that too much until you make the enemies a challenge. I'm thinking you're gonna need a massive amount of enemies (2-3x what you used in this demo), and they'll have to have several variants to work around. On top of the standard grunts, you could have archers who post up on balconies along the back walls and can shoot you with arrows. You could also have big men with armor that could take a few hits before keeling over. It might be fun to have certain enemy types that resist certain attacks, too. (e.g., maybe a shieldbearer turns out to be immune to direct frontal attacks, but remains vulnerable to the rebound attacks where you pull previously launched projectiles back in for another hit.) It might be nice to have a slowly recharging mana bar, too - so you can't constantly spam your most powerful move for free. Your basic attacks would drain little or none of the mana, but the special ones would drain a decent bit, which would lead to more interesting decision-making. That, plus enemy variety, plus a real sense of danger could equal a hell of a game. 🙂

[@namelesspotato4667]

a good inspiration is CONTRAL. amazing game to built upon its enjoyable combat without the gun. my suggestion would be to add enemies that throw back/use your own projectiles against you. Ultrakill did it well with V2 shooting the coins thrown by the player. suggestion 2, maybe add a mechanic of breaking the projectiles so they inflict a status affect on hit. like bleading from wood, poison from rusted metal ... etc adding diffrent types of projectiles which opens up a whole new level of interactions (liquid projectiles would be interesting, for example : throwing a ball of oil followed by burning wood...) lots of funny ideas. thank you for reading

[@tsumgye5370]

yo I love the direction this is going, telekinesis is wicked fun. But the tagline of making a combat game without weapons just begs the question, "Haven't you heard of martial arts?"

[@TomHanssensYT]

martial what?

[@evilbritishguy3581]

The appeal of Telekinesis is how you can make ANY object into a weapon. Currently the player has only one weapon, a projectile they can launch at an enemy, which is basically just a gun with extra steps. Consider implementing additional telekinetic attacks where the objects take different shapes and/or move in specific patterns e.g. a spinning saw blade like disc, a big wreaking ball that squashes and rolls up stuff like a katamari, or a telekinetic tornado. Also, while it does make sense for a Telekinetic to be able to fly i.e. surely they can grab themselves and go - this also means that they should surely also be able to just force choke all their foes. However, you probably don't wanna let the player kill their enemies so easily so instead, you could make a rule that says that Telekinesis doesn't work on living things. The player's weakness is life itself, which is fitting for a power that excels at causing death and destruction. Anyways, another way a Telekinetic could still achieve flight is for them to continuously build a floating path of projectiles.

[@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947]

From Infamous to Control, I think this gameplay idea is very good, telekinesis as an attack.

[@TidaliCreative]

This is cool!

[@Elratatopo69]

id love to see this game completed, also i think it would be good to make it in a more cartoon style, not so real, not only for fps, but i generally think it would be better

[@marie-joorbase1040]

One of the best vids I’ve ever seen

[@squoops]

i think itd be neat if damage was based off of momentum, and juggling items in the air would build up momentum (sort of like dangling a mob in the air with a lasso in minecraft). it could also add some rythm game type mechanics trying to keep all your blocks afloat. to keep yourself from juggling too much and not attacking, after building up enough momentum you could levitate the items like normal, preserving momentum in the object to do damage. i think it could add different play styles, like fast firing low momentum shots (kinda like an smg) or building momentum over a while to do a lot of damage in one shot (like a sniper)

[@user-wr8oy3cb6t]

This idea for a combat system really reminded me of Garry's Mod propkilling. I recommend watching some of the propkill 1v1s. They are insane.

[@theoriginalsoundwavesurfer1814]

It depends on the theme you want to go for. You might be able to work in some elemental weaknesses if it's fantasy or sci-fi, or perhaps debris that has special effects (think red barrels). Maybe bosses with similar powers. You could make a precision mode to aim at a specific location for puzzles and weak points. Perhaps a quick scroll feature for when you want to throw a specific item and you already have several. Another thought, if you use a telekinetic push on a fixed object, make it push yourself. Might make for some fun mobility for combat or at the very least for exploration. Also, you could incorporate the first way of doing it as an unlock later in the game, but at greater range, allowing you to pick up objects that you normally couldn't reach and manipulating it with a greater degree of control.

[@NortherrorZaGod]

Can’t wait for this game to grow!

[@maxcross5454]

Honestly, In the current implementation, this combat system doesn't feel as unique and immersive as telekinetic combat could theoreticly be. It's basicly just shooting projectiles with a few tweaks. It can be fun if done correctly (take a look at control for example). And it did started to evolve into something more unique once you started to play around with idea of building up a floating objects around enemies. Strategecly position objects around enemies could be fun! One of the best telekinetic combat system i've seen was in the game 'psi-ops: the mindgate conspiracy'. You don't just pick an object and throw it - you actually controll the object. You move your mouse to move the object in horizontal plane an use the scroll wheel to move it in up-down. So it's up to you what you want to do with an object you picked. You can pick a box, move it to you and use it as a cover, and when you move you have to move you mouse so object move with you. You can pick up an enemy and repeatetly smash them against two opposite walls of the corridor and only then throw them away. While looking from high up, you could pick up the explosive barrel on the ground, stealthly move it to the area with enemies and throw it. You can even pick an object, move it to you, climb on top of it and use it to fly around! I'm just imagining what could be done if someome were to develop this idea further. For example: * Instead of (or maybe in addition to) scrollwheel for vertical movement, allow using some modifier keys to switch mouse up-down to move object up-down, insteaf of forward and backwards. And some keys to just move object without mouse. Basicly - more controlls for skilled players. * Allow to "freeze" an objects in place, so you could manipulate another object in meantime. Build your own floating platforms! And add a modifier key to manipulate all frozen objects at the same time. Pick some boxes and accelerate them all towards enemies at the same time! * Maybe lower the amount of throw aim-assist. P.S Sorry for suggesting completly different idea instead of a ways to improve yours. Honestly, I just wanted an excuse to mention psi-ops...

[@solidVI]

An ability to spin the objects faster around you so they deal damage as an aura would also be cool. Maybe they would need to break after dealing a certain amount of damage or something, for it not to be OP

[@naiknaik8812]

this channel is so underrated man

[@stikbith9731]

I think the game Control had a good handle of it and had fun movement a strong feel to the kinesis. If it was multiplayer it would be awesome especially since its fills an area with all kinds of combat even without the enemies when the player has all abilities it makes great opportunities for counter attacks and the “energy” system is pretty ballanced

[@ctsnickeyjf1329]

GOD, Control is sooo good

[@ijerofei]

make a location with dangerous pits and walls so that you can’t hit some enemies directly. enemies of different sizes. A large enemy is only affected by a large weight, so it can be used to move small weights to a point above it, which opens up the view of small enemies (that are behind walls) that can be thrown into a pit.

[@TomHanssensYT]

Goated idea

[@Drekromancer]

The idea of object mass as a variable for damaging armored opponents is hype as fuck

[@CardboardRaider]

This is like my dream combat game

[@Mystic_Voice]

Reminds me of rumble VR, it's avatar style earth bending made very competetive. You might get some inspiration if you look at that, it's very well done

[@madstonegames]

cool stuff!

[@realgamer8247]

Amazing ❤

[@greggersonny]

“I tried making a combat system with no weapons” “IM RIGHT, IM LEFT, IM LEFT, IM RIGHT”

[@picklejho69]

Maybe it'd be cool to have a double jump+float combo by telekinetically levitating yourself, and a feature that if you launch an object while airborne it pushes you back a bit, as well as hazards in the air or high on walls to make you think about the way you're facing when you fire your shots