ARCADE / IDEASUNRANKED PROPOSAL · v0.4
Create your rave.
Build a rave from light, lasers and video; merge the rig, shape the atmosphere and keep favorite nights with the Festly cast in the world.
Design only. Naming remains open: Show Merge is an internal working title. No playable build, start date or release position. Estimates are excluded from committed totals.
THE PROPOSED GAME
Merge equipment at the workbench, then shape your warehouse rave. You own the rig, creative choices and progress. Choose a saved Auto Show or cue it yourself. The same show earns the same rewards in either mode, including with sound muted or reduced effects.
Two unequipped items of the same family and tier become one item of the next tier in one inventory cell. Different installed families combine as a show without being consumed.
Each item occupies one cell of a 4×4 board. Invalid or cancelled moves change nothing. Characters are never merge ingredients.
Install owned lights, lasers and video in compatible slots. Preview a small, visible power budget. Swaps are atomic; an item cannot be in two places.
A non-sellable starter rig and recovery shelf keep a basic show available at zero coins. Starter gear cannot satisfy ownership missions.
A show freezes its rig, look, mission and rules revision. Reward, wallet and mission changes settle together once per show. Reloads, duplicate tabs and repeated results must not duplicate earnings.
Undo ends at an economic transaction. Abandoning a show gives no payout and loses no purchased gear.
YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD
The player designs and operates the rave directly. Stikman can offer a short tip from workshop help; no named cast member is a mandatory player identity. Active play keeps the stage, HUD, controls and Pause/Exit clear of persistent guide dialogue.
Your own avatar may appear at the controls later. Avatar editing and profile integration are separate, unestimated proposals. Changing appearance must preserve the player’s gear, coins, missions and album; canonical cast IDs never own the player’s progress.
NINE FAMILIAR CHARACTERS
You run the show. Froggy stays the star mascot, and all nine canonical characters participate in the world. Stikman’s guidance is optional and dismissible; skipping it never blocks progress or rewards. Approved static or cel appearances are proposed for the MVP, without nine newly animated avatars.
Supporting world character; brief, optional workshop guidance when requested.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.9
Star mascot, welcoming fans and celebrating each room.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.9
DJ at the raised booth and rotating set participant.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.9
Dance-floor personality and colorful-look collaborator.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.9
DJ and creative-brief collaborator.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.9
Set participant and bold-visual collaborator.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.9
Robot stage technician beside the rig.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.13
Live visual artist with palette and brush.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.13
House grooves and the dance circle.
Reference: floorbreakers-0.6.13These are proposed game roles, not recording credits or claims about real people’s work. Keep Stikman’s approved identity and Froggy’s golden Colorado River toad markings and raised texture. New concept poses require review; this page does not assign or approve character files.
FIRST CHAPTER · THE EMPTY ROOM
The MVP proposes eight missions. The full first game adds rooftop and desert chapters for 24 missions total. Definitions and rewards are design material; the evaluator and solution fixtures are not implemented.
Make one legal light merge to tier 2 or above.
Discover the twin wash and rig placement.
Install light, laser and video within the room’s power budget.
Unlock preview and the starter show preset.
Finish and settle one Auto or manual show.
Open the show album and gentle look.
Save a valid look with a changed parameter.
Keep a named preset and album marker.
Finish a show with warm wash and horizon video tags.
Add warm-room decor.
Meet the gentle brief within its power budget; Auto qualifies.
Discover a slow sweep pattern.
Serve 90 attendees across unique settled shows.
Add seating and a venue story beat.
Finish the chapter with quality 70 or above; a free preset must meet it.
Keep the warehouse chapter stamp and replay choices.
No mission requires daily attendance, sound on, reduced motion off, a purchase or manual play. The MVP finale offers replay, not a button to an unbuilt venue.
Later chapter ideas include skyline staging, warm/cool contrasts, a saved rooftop favorite, sunset palettes, geometric skies and a three-look set. Their completion predicates still need authoring and validation.
ECONOMY EXPERIMENT
One spendable currency: fictional show coins. Quality combines coverage (40%), brief fit (30%) and phrase completion (30%). Auto can satisfy every phrase; precision tapping adds no economic multiplier.
30 attendees · quality 80/100
30 attendees · quality 80/100
Example wallet: 40 starting + 54 show income − 20 equipment purchase = 74 coins. These are design arithmetic, not measured balance.
Experiment with 6 coins per eligible hour, capped at 24 hours: at most 144 on return. Never pay idle income during active foreground play or a paused foreground show. Store one interval and settle it once; clock rollback pays nothing and large forward changes are capped.
A finite five-tier gear ladder cannot promise months of play. Proposed longevity comes from three venue chapters, favorite looks, a local album, feasible optional commissions and retained theme packs. No streak loss, absence penalty, mandatory prestige wipe or expiring reward track.
Cloud saves, public sharing and music-portal onboarding require later scope. Enjoyment and voluntary return matter more than simply extending sessions.
UNCOMMITTED DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE
One warehouse · eight missions
Includes MVP · three venues
Developer working days, provisional. Complexity 4/5. No release date, sprint allocation or committed-total contribution.
One experienced developer, part-time art/audio, available shared systems. New cast poses and service/approval/device wait time additional. Re-estimate after P0. Not additive to v0.1 baseline.
One warehouse rave owned and operated by the player; all nine canonical cast appearances; optional workshop guidance; 4x4 workbench; 3 families x 3 tiers; 3 stage slots; Auto/manual show parity; 8 missions; local album/save, recovery and bounded idle settlement. Player avatar editor/profile integration later and separately estimated.
Three fictional rave venues, 24 authored missions, 5 tiers per family, 6 looks, feasible commissions, personal album, accessible controls and release checks. Includes MVP. No cloud, UGC sharing or portal onboarding committed.
v0.1 estimated 10–16 MVP days and 30–50 full days. Those ranges are historical, superseded by mission/recovery/content scope; do not add them to v0.2.
After launch, one retained theme pack could take 6–10 developer days plus art/audio. A compatible music/artist-portal slice could take 15–25 additional days after the shared APIs and rights records exist. Neither is part of the launch commitment.
BEFORE A KICKOFF
Separate workbench and live-show views; entire stage, safe areas, touch or tap-select/tap-target, keyboard and accessible Pause; immediate gesture fullscreen request, harmless refusal, input cleanup, interruption pause and explicit Resume; per-game manifest/icons/install help.
During a show: stage, small HUD, three cue pads and Pause/Exit. Installation help, display settings and music links stay on title/pause/results.
Original/local electronic rave loop with build/drop/outro cues; music, effects and crowd levels; equal rewards muted; later authorized master music/artist portal integration.
Use bounded layered effects, a representative crowd and capped character reactions. No rapid flashing. Keep cues readable when muted or using reduced effects.
Paper-play two sessions, check legal inventory ownership and Auto/manual parity, demonstrate affordable mission solutions, and test recovery after interruption. Re-estimate after the first loop and phone-rendering experiment.
Physical iPhone/Android, native safe areas, installation and listening remain required before release. No runtime verification is claimed for this proposal.
The v0.1 anonymous equipment studies and v2 Stikman-centered cast composition are historical. The oversized Stikman and runs-the-rave title do not represent the current player-led direction. No replacement image or final name is approved. These are mood studies, not character assets or implemented screenshots; merge results still occupy one inventory cell.
