Steal This Idea: Hungry Horde

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Elevator Pitch

Hungry Horde is a real-time strategy game where feeding your army of mini-monsters mutates them in strategic ways.

Gameplay/Mechanics

Hungry Horde is a game in the vein of Pikmin and Overlord with a twist- empower your monstrous units, called Noms, by feeding them different meals as you play.

• Noms
  • Build your Noms into units with different types of strengths/weaknesses.
    • Fat (def HP/insulation)
    • Carbs (run energy/attack frequency)
    • Protein (attack/lifting strength).
  • Noms change appearance based on their intake balance, ranging from muscular, to rotund, to lanky.
  • Divvy up food to create very specialized units, or balance the scales to make units better overall.
• Food
  • Enemies you kill during your journey are used for 2 different resources- Goop and Macros.
  • Enemy corpses are brought back to your lair and ground up and used to make Goop- which is molded to make new fresh-slate monsters (think McDonald’s chicken nuggets). They are blank slates yet to be molded.
  • Harvest Macros from fallen foes to act as ingredients to make meals for your horde. Each food recipe requires 3 components to make out of Fat/Carbs/Protein.
• Combat
  • During harder fights, when your units fall in battle, you have to regroup and harvest enemies to rebuild your army and outfit them with the right stats.
• Puzzles
  • Puzzle components that need to be lifted require a certain number of monsters with strength stats. Cold areas can only be survived by monsters with a certain amount of insulation, hot areas kill off insulated Noms.
• Special Upgrades
  • On your journey, unlock Utensils of Power to help you command your troops.
    • Spatula: use to flip units up and over obstacles and put them in the enemies back line.
    • Whisk: create a tornado that disrupts and scatters enemy units.
    • Pizza Cutter: creates a path through enemy lines.
    • Shrink Wrap: take a unit out of the fight and preserve them until they’ve healed enough to rejoin.

Story/Theme

You are a culinary sorcerer in the Kingdom of Tastelot with an appetite as ravenous for power as it is for food. Conquer the 3 fiefs: the scorching Plains of Barbeque, the sugary Frosted Heights, and the refreshing Celery Woods.

Marketing/Promotion

Hungry Horde blends gritty strategy harnessing the power of monsters with a playful world full built from vibrant foods.