Less Than Qualified

Less Than Qualified
	A heist game
Studio	Kabeljau
Publisher	Kabeljau
Plattform	Windows, MacOS, PS4, PS5, XBox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch
Spiel-Engine	Unity
Genre	Heist game
Spielmodus	Single Player
Sprache	English
	PEGI PEGI ab 12 Jahren empfohlen

This is a Game Design concept, as well as the Game Art, from the team Kabeljau.

Concept

Premise

You are the coordinator for a heist team - but everything goes wrong. From the safety of your van, you use your hacking abilities to guide your operatives through a building to steal valuable artefacts.

Target Audience

Whether you are a hardcore real-time-strategy player, a casual couch gamer or a mum who wants to have a little fun after work - this hilarous heist game has an appeal for everyone. The age rating is 12 and up.

Objectives

You want your team to steal the artefact(s?) and escape with as few incidents as possible. Unlock all the quirky and diverse characters to carry out the perfect heist and discover every ending.

Core-Rules

Game Mechanics

Your role in the team is to coordinate it, meaning:

Hack electronic devices inside the building to guide your team, distract enemies and ensure chaos.
Give commands to your team to get them to move, hide, interact, attack and distract.
Put together your team and learn the operatives’ quirksYour role in the team is to coordinate it - meaning:
Hack electronic devices inside the building to guide your team, distract enemies and ensure chaos.
Give commands to your team to get them to move, hide, interact, attack and distract.
Put together your team and learn the operatives’ quirks.

Character Mechanics

Characters generally respond to your commands, although they can have a mind of their own sometimes, depending on their personality.

Generally each character is able to move or not move, interact with environmental objects, incapacitate guards when in stealth and take the artefact.

Each character has a default action they go back to when left alone for too long without a task.

Characters' quirks can work in or against your favour when put together. Meaning their abilities clash or complement another. For example, if Mudman walks through a doorframe, The Cleaner won't be able to walk through the same one before it's clean again.

Basic Recources

As you succeed in heists and sell the artefacts, you gain money. Use the money to hire new operators for your missions.

For computing-intense hacks, you have to wait for it to complete before able to interact with anything else. The camera feeds are still running, although they are dropping frames.

Outcome

There are multiple, possible outcomes of every heist mission:

Bring your team back alive with the artefact
Bring your team back alive without the artefact
Lose your whole team
Bring back some of your team with the artefact
Bring back some of your team without the artefact
All employees live
All employees die
Some employees die
Everyone dies (Shotgun Shelly killed everyone in the building and comes back to your van)

Writing & Art

Characters

You play as a hacker, who is set out to carry out the heist despite their utterly uncapable team.

This game features a wide variety of NPCs that have their own characteristics and quirks.

The Cleaner
- Obsessed with cleanliness - won't touch door handles.

The Crafter
- Uses suction cups to move on walls and ceilings, but is slow and gets stuck on puddles.

Shotgun Shelly
- She's a trigger happy fella, prone to shooting everyone in sight - even team mates!

Mudman
- He despises shoes for some reason... leaving footprints in his mud trail everywhere.

Revid
- They are fish. Fish can't breathe air, so they are wearing a fish tank as a helmet. Due to the water hose, they can only go so far. Don't lead them around lots of corners or the hose could rip.

Ritterrösti
- An austrian knight, still relying on his trustworthy armor for every job he does. Unfortunately, that means he is very bad at stealth.

Poseidon
- How he ever agreed to this mission is beyond you. However, his guard-distracting-abilities are superb. You don't know if it's the whales he can summon or the fact, that he's topless.

Linus S. A.
- Linus is a sorcerer. Actually, he's a sorcerer's apprentice, who's failed his sorcerer's exam. He has little cheerful little will-o'-wisps that follow him everywhere.

Concept art :3:

Poseidon (King of the Sea)
reviD (reverse diver)
The Security
Shotgun Shelly

Game Interface

The user interface is mostly diegetic, on-screen windows on the main screen are used for this purpose.

Environment

Art Style

The overall look of the game is done in a simple, colourful 3D art style. The OS interface is inspired by computers in the early 2000s (like Windows XP).

Games with a similar artstyle:

A Short Hike, Moving Out, untitled goose game, Donut County

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