Lance's mechanic revision

Due to my absence on Tuesday I didn't have a partner for the revised game mechanic. However I do have a new idea for the game. Lumberjacks are deforesting the area your squirrel clan lives. The player's goal is to collect a set amount of resources and get back to the tree cannon. Once the task is complete the player fires the cannon at the lumberjacks. Three shots will get the lumberjacks to leave the forest alone. However, if the player does not defeat the lumberjacks in a set time frame, their tree will be destroyed along with the rest of the forest, and the squirrels will have to find a new home.

Now this strays away from the strategy gameplay. However, the collecting mechanic is still there and actually makes the collectibles useful. Most other platformer titles usually make the pickups near pointless (the four hundred different item types in Donkey Kong 64). Instead the player has to find enough acorns or nuts, or whatever item we choose so they can fight against the lumber jacks. Let me know what you all think in the comments!