Mage duel action deathmatch game, what u all think bout this idea....

Codejoy · 2003-02-11T16:55:47

Also any comments or input..here is the summary: You play a mage class (necromancer, evoker etc...) depending upon what mage class u pick is what kind of spells you can cast. You cast spells via a Gesture system like black and white. You run ur mage around using something like wsad keys, and the left mousebutton fires a spell and the right one gets u into cast spell mode (where you do the gesture). The view is yet undetermined, its probably going to be either FPS (doubtful requires a lot more resources than i have). Third person view (like fps doubtoful). Top down sorta diablo view 2d (most likely with my current resources). The game play should be fast, like a death match (though the very nature of the casting of spells will slow it down some). You say a gesture system is flawed, and u can miss gestures...thats on purpose and by design, since the magic casting games i like to play have a fizzle chance or a wild magic chance, and the gesture system captures this element. the idea is you run and stafe as ur casting and then unleash the spell. I would like the game to allow players to join a server, pick their name their characters and enter the game (the server tracks then stats for a brag board sorta of different mages that enter and play in a server). Id like the players to have characters that level by gaining experience and perhaps can also up some statistics. Now keep in mind this is meant as more of an action game, so the leveling will have to be fast, and balanced.... There are some obvious design crossroads I am at with this little idea, i.e. the best view for the game...exactly how to gain experience, and keep the levels balanced (I mean u probably get levels by killing a mage, but then one mage keeps getting higher and higher and harder to kill and more powerful...perhaps a level cap or making harder higher level spells to cast longer to cast (more complex gestures thus leaving the mage open to die) a bounty idea was also suggested. Id like there to be many spells in the game for each mage, some are cast on the mage himsefl as a buff, some as area effect, some taht alter the level enviroment and some that actually do damage... So any ideas? additions? changes or anything, just tired of thinking in a box, want to tap out to see what other ideas are out there (any endevour is benefited by more brains working on this at once) look forward to hearing more! -Shane

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Started by Codejoy January 27, 2003 11:19 PM

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RandomTask

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February 10, 2003 11:59 AM

Good points. Basically there is a fundamental immbalance with the gesture idea anyway. Because "gesturing" is difficult to do you reduce much of the skill in the timing to a matter of "gesture ability". Also, a mouse movement program could easily pull off a gesture WAY quicker than a human could. I probably wouldn''t use the gesture system or what I''d do is allow them to gesture but don''t actually start the spell casting until AFTER they have completed the gesture, at which point the other player has their time to react. This means that the casting time isn''t dependent upon the time it takes the player to gesture but rather on a static time, predetermined for each spell.

RandomTask

Vlion

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February 11, 2003 04:55 PM

I dunno, a magic-based FPS soudns cool to me...

A change from the usual UT.

I''d say the very concept is semi-innotative enough not to get hairy over the other stuff...

I''d go for a skill/level system where the more you use spells the more skill you get; the more skill you get the better the spell gets and you can get more spells.

I wouldn`t do gesture stuff- it might work, but it would probably be a headache to learn. I''d say that it would be better for a sword game.

For controls, I would do functionally UT-type controls:
wasd, plus numbers for spells(you can hit a button multiple times and cycle through), then point with the mouse.

Interface- again,I like UT.

You might get special items/powerups from places in the level(remark: this would be much more believeable in a magic setting than in a tech setting like quake or UT.)

Bigger spells are at the top of the level system(yes there is a level cap- make the skill points go up exponentially), and take longer to cast.

So anyway, I say a 3d FPS with option to switch to follow-player view. Much like Jedi Knight/JUedi Outcast.

I would buy that if the demo was fun.

Codejoy: look into Jedi Knight aka Dark Forces 2. The demo ''should'' be floating around online somewhere.
Its a 1997 game, so the sys specs shouldn`t be too bad.
The graphics arn`t bad with a Voodoo3 accelerator.

If you really feel like making life fun and fulfilling, you can find the GPL Q2 or Q3 sources and hack that into a mage-based FPS. Dunno if UT''s had its code GPL''d.

V''lion

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