Starting to write a game design document to guide development based on a simple cooperative camping and crafting survival game, very similar to “Don’t Starve Together”

Goal

Go camping in the wilderness and survive as many nights as you can.

Rules (v1)

• 1 to 5 players
• A Day is 4 minutes long
• Sun starts setting at 3:30 of that day
• All players need to be in a tent by Dusk, 4:00
  • Debuff condition: if a player is not in a tent by Dusk, the next day they are slowed down, .75 move speed, until they go in a tent to rest for a minute (1/4 of the day)
    • Math: they can do 75% less than normal this day
• At the end of the day, night falls and creatures come to visit camp, steal food, and may destroy camp structures along the way.
  • Tent has 4 hp
    • Lose condition: if tent is fully destroyed during the night, the game is over
  • Fence has 1 hp
  • squirrel: steals 1 food and deals 0hp damage to structures
  • deer: steals 4 food and deals 1hp damage to structures
  • wolf: steals 0 food and deals 2hp damage to structures
• Night fall lose condition: if there is no CampFire, the game is over
• At Dawn, 0:00 of next day, all players need to consume 2 units of food
  • Lose condition: if a player cannot consume 2 units of food (food is either in the tent or in their own inventory), the game is over

Idea Dump

• Players can build additional tents and a campfire to expand, allowing further exploration