Well, bulk of the game is when it's more than 5% of the coding. Yeah, it's exaggerated.

Quote: Originally from Orymus
I've seen progressive games where achievements increased with a variable number.
For example, 100 headshots would be followed by one with 1000 headshots, and so on. Adding difficulty levels could work too. Eyeshots :P

Is an example why the coding will take a while because you have to have unique codes for the different skills, but also a function that counts how much accomplishment for the reward. So overall, you need a two layer functions of coding to simplify this matter.


One way to present these challenges is to have other characters refer to previous Heroes. These characters will speak of the accomplishments of heroes of the past. It's also about a historical development for the game. You need a background. The background story is a possible way to give the player hints towards getting achievements.

Quote:Original post by JasRonq
I see. Sort of besting your predecessors to earn your place.

That seems more of a MMO/XBox Achievement sort of dynamic. Or am I misunderstanding?

Quote:Original post by Platinum_Dragon
Alpha_ProgDes, I will suggest that since we have a party of 3, that the "special" experience should be unique to the individual character while the general experience is together for the party.

Special experience is the accomplishments that the characters can possibly do.
General experience is the basic experience the characters get when they kill a monster.

Why give the special experience uniquely to the characters? This is so the player can create unique party roles for the characters.

I like this idea. For the sake of easier coding and gamer maintenance, I would let the player choose a discipline to grow in (ex: warrior, magician, thief, gambler). Then allow the player to grow not only the general stats, but the discipline (special) stats as well.

But we can take this one step further and have the weapon gain experience as well. Therefore a powerful weapon can be wielded by an equally powerful character (as opposed to waiting 10 hours of traveling and having 50000 rouble to buy it).

An example. My character Balsk the Mage has her weapon of choice: the Emerald Lance. As she fights with her weapon, the weapon gains experience. It goes from a standard melee weapon to one that increases magic attack power by 25% percent. As Balsk channels magic attacks thru the Lance, it's able to produce a shield at the next level up. Continued (and successful) use of the shield makes it an encompassing barrier around Balsk.

Granted I could take this concept in many different directions.

I love this idea. It's taking the achievement concept to the next level -- achievements aren't just icing, they are how to get "experience". Obviously the achievements have to be tailored to the game, like a Diablo clone couldn't have a headshot achievement but it could have a "no potion" achievement. I think it's great. Run with it.