Are slides planned to be usable in the full game?
#Usable Slides
exotic tinsel
Advantages:
Slides provide a new way of getting around and add to exploration. Slides are one-way and so allow for a method of getting from one section of the map to another without the option to back-track.
Slides are fun and interesting.
A room with multiple slides encourages you to revisit rooms to see where the different slides go.
I always found tunnel slides scary as a kid, especially those in indoor playarea buildings.
The ability to go into and out of tunnel slides gives them more depth and makes it seem like those holes in the wall (slides) actually go somewhere and can amplify the fear of something coming back out.
I would also suggest adding wind ambience to slide entrances (see my earlier psot on tunnel ambience) to further add to the implication that they actually do go somewhere.
Disadvantages
Difficult to implement sliding mechanics
More complexity in linking slides
Impossible or dangerous slide configurations may not be used for slides with an accessible entrance (eg super steep slides, slides to inaccessible areas)
Every accessible slide entrance must go somewhere
The current dreampools demo has some incompatible slide configurations
Usable Slides
peak lagoon
**Advantages:**
Slides provide a new way of getting around and add to exploratio...
What about just running down the slides? No sliding down them just running thrue or down them? No slide configuration needed!