Airborne - Gameplay - a multiplayer air combat game in Unity.

A breakdown of the prospective gameplay roadmap of this plane combat game.

Overview:


As the player, you control a plane.
The plane can be one of many types - each with different weapon layouts, and controls.

Controls that will change are:

• Roll speed
• Pitch speed
• Bank speed
• Thrust speed
• Dive speed

The Weapon Layout is made up of three parts:

• Primary gun (e.g: machine gun)
• Projectile weapon (e.g: bomb)
• Tactical item (e.g: smoke cloud, boost)

The Weapon Layout elements that will vary between planes are:

• Primary gun
• Rate of fire
• Power of each hit
• Scatter range
• Projectile weapon
• Rate of fire
• Radius of effect
• Power of effect
• Axis of operation (e.g: drop straight down, fly straight forward) 
• Tactical item
• Custom behavior 

This should lead to enough variety between planes to make selection a tantalizing and game-making choice.

See the earlier game overview post with video for an outline of rate-of-fire and scatter range.

Objective:

Single player:

• Destroy all targets on the ground in the fastest possible time.
• Dogfighting - potentially, we shall see the AI complexities of this. 

Multiplayer:

• 1-to-1 dogfighting.
• Many-to-many dogfighting.
• Team match (e.g: 5 vs 5)
• All of the above should be functionally identical, no custom code required.
• Protect and attack
• One team / player must destroy as many ground targets as possible, while the other attempts to stop them.
• Potentially: defender may use ground-based anti-aircraft guns.
• Stunt run
• I would love to implement a stunt run, awarding points for things like... flying close to the ground, buzzing buildings, diving, etc.

That's more or less the vision at present. It will clearly be implemented in a priority order (e.g: single player before multiplayer)

Let's see how it goes.

Questions, comments?