📃 Wasteland Extraction GDD

🎮 Core Overview

🏷️ Genre

Top-down Extraction Shooter

🎯 Gameplay

Enter the Wasteland, eliminate bandits, loot resources, and successfully extract or lose everything you've collected.

📖 Game Description

Dare to enter the Wasteland and challenge fate. This is a brutal fight for survival where you must eliminate bandits to claim precious resources. Every excursion demands ruthless efficiency: secure your valuable loot, and successfully extract. If you die, you lose everything. Are you prepared to pay the ultimate price for survival?

🛠️ Core Mechanics

This section details the primary systems that define the high-stakes core loop of Wasteland Extraction.

💰 Looting and Itemization

Scarcity: Resources and high-value gear are scarce and randomly distributed across the map, encouraging exploration and risk.
Item Burn (Durability): Items have durability and can be destroyed or repaired at a cost, ensuring a continuous item sink and maintaining value in the economy.
Inventory: Players manage a limited inventory space, forcing strategic decisions on what loot is worth the risk.

🗺️ Procedural Map Generation

Replayability: Every instance of the Wasteland is procedurally generated, ensuring unique layouts, extraction points, and enemy placements for high replayability.
Dynamic Risk: Loot spawns and danger zones are dynamically placed based on the generated seed, forcing players to constantly adapt their strategies.

⚠️ High-Stakes Extraction

Extraction Zones: Players must reach designated extraction zones to secure their loot.
The Loss Mechanic: If a player is killed before a successful extraction, all items carried (equipped gear and inventory loot) are permanently lost to the Wasteland.

🛡️ Combat and Ballistics

Armor & Penetration: A detailed ballistics system governs projectile interactions with armor, where successful penetration is based on the difference between the bullet's Penetration value and the armor's Protection value.
Weapon Degradation: Weapon performance (e.g. accuracy and recoil) degrades as item durability lowers, requiring active management and repair.

🧪 Survival Mechanics

Survival elements add a layer of complexity and management to every session.

❤️‍🩹 Health and Provisions

Health: The character's primary life pool. Lost health must be restored using medical supplies.
Energy & Hydration: Key status effects that must be maintained using provisions (food and water). Failure to maintain these stats results in performance debuffs and, eventually, death.

☢️ Future: Radiation System

The upcoming Radiation System will introduce environmental hazards, requiring specific gear (protective suits) to navigate high-risk, high-reward zones.

💻 Technical & Design Details

🖥️ Platforms

Web Desktop

💡 Key References & Inspiration

These titles shaped our vision for core mechanics and atmosphere:

Escape from Tarkov / Zero Sievert: The high-stakes, "Extract or Die" premise, intense scavenging loop and complex itemization/ballistics.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R / Fallout: The desolate, post-apocalyptic atmosphere, radiation and survival mechanics.