Game Mechanics: Development of Unique abilities

After having decided on what our game was going to be out about as a team, I started working on writing up the game mechanics that we plan to implement in our game. Most platform games are pretty basic and require you to jump around the level using platforms whilst collecting items. Our game will also follow this concept but we decided to add a little twist. When coming up with ideas on how to make our game special, we agreed upon giving the player various unique abilities. The following image shows examples of the abilities we will be adding and how they function.

The ability the player will be utilising the most, will allow them to interact with objects in their environment. These abilities will automatically upgrade as the player progresses through the game. Obviously these won't be the only abilities the player will have access to. The rest you will have to discover and see for yourself once the game has been developed and released for play testing. We will be reviewing each ability that we come up with before adding it to the game.