# Laniakea ## Elevator pitch A game about a parent and their super smart and supernaturally powerful daughter traveling across a semi-physical digital world, with both the parent and the child complimenting eachother's skillset. ## Laniakea, the network to rule them all The year is 20XX, most people live in a pseudo-physical interconnected network known as laniakea, laniakea is visually a big endless sea with spheres, each sphere is a separate world. In this timeline the EU banned encryption, resulting in important data and cargo has to be trusted to humans who will protect it with their life while travelling across Laniakea in their trusty travel ships. Laniakea is not like a typical virtual world, people inside it are not merely controlling an avatar from a room somewhere, but they become physically converted into computer data, meaning if your data gets erased (AKA you die) you're also forever lost in real life. ## Milk Milk is the companion daughter character, she is a smart young girl with psychic and telekinetic powers, she has a twofold purpose, she's a character we want the player to grow attached to and want to protect, but we also don't want her to be a sitting duck. She's a "glass-cannon" character, she's super strong but has low health. She also has some utility, such as being able to be sent through small holes (like ventilation shafts) to access areas you otherwise can't. Milk is special and physically immortal, she's not able to die, however if she takes enough shots from enemies her powers will become temporarily unavailable. ## Parent-daughter complimenting each other Most games with companion characters are tedious and either have them permanently attached to the player (such as in pokemon and death stranding) or have them walking around and potentially become an annoyance due to technical reasons such as path-finding. For this it is reasonable to do a middle of the road solution: She can walk around but she's super slow, making carrying her the most reasonable option. You can carry Milk with you in various different ways, on your shoulders, on vehicles or at your back, you are also able to leave her behind in the PS050 if you feel like she's not needed for the mission. ## The PS050 - The moving base ## A world made of independent spherical worlds Each spherical realm within Laniakea can be visited with the ship, each one has its own "biome" from 3 possible ones, each one has unique terrain. The biomes are: - Desert - Tundra - Forest Realms that are part of the story can be authored by hand (by using procedurally generated terrain as a base and modifying it afterwards), but fully procedural worlds can also be explored for secondary missions. ## Survival The overarching theme of the game is survival in the face of adversity, this is why we shouldn't have something like a revenge plot or an overall conflict with a