Toybox Heroes

Team: Shirt
Theme: Action Figures/Super Heroes
Genre: Beat 'Em Up Fighter
Engine: Half-Life 2
Cohort: Cohort 05, Mar '07

Toybox Heroes is a Half-Life 2 project that takes its cues from such games as Super Smash Bros. and Power Stone. Designed in the style of a console fighting game, Toybox Heroes is meant to be played on a single screen with Playstation 2 style controllers.

The game takes action figures and pits them in gladiatorial combat against one another. Players battle in real world environments like a sandbox, an attic, a dollhouse, or a garage sale. At this miniscule height, everything is a weapon. Sticks and crayons become swords, jacks and Rubik's Cubes are hurled with deadly accuracy, and barbecue grills become deadly traps.

Players can choose from one of four characters: The Bomb (an arrogant super hero whose biggest fan is himself), Major Danger (a no-nonsense army man back from his latest tour of duty), Princess Manda (a valkyrie warrior who is more than a dress-up doll), and Techni-Cow (a transforming bovine android from the bottom of the dollar bin).

Each character has his/her strengths and weaknesses, as well as distinctive personalities. During battle, characters will build up rage and be able to unleash a deadly and unique special attack.

Team Shirt is: Jacquiline "Kim" Acuff, Arturo Caballero, Christopher Cotton, David Demaree, James Farmer, Mark Flieg, Ryan Jenkins, Jonathan Long, Dane Munkholm, Jonathan Pittman, Adam Reynolds, Brandon Souders, Daniel Talaber, Benjamin Wagley, Eric Young.