More idea for you to chew on.

Mooglez · 2001-11-07T22:15:36

After reading punkphreak's thread, I thought I'd post an idea of mine so perhaps you guys can find a little more amusement while trying to rip someone's idea to pieces. Genre: Presistent online action/strategy focused on teamwork Graphic: 2d isometric; rather stick to basics than have something look ugly in 3d. Control: Keyboard or 6 buttons joypad Setting: Oriental; jung hu (I might have misspelled it. But it's the same setting as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.) Theme: Heavy use of ba gua/i-ching from the taoism/buddism; basically the eight forces in nature but it can also relate to seasons, directions, animals, and even fortune telling. Other thing that will be included are the buddism and zen buddism belief of eight paths to heaven and the eight gates of hell. Storyline: Haven't given much thoughts on that. This isn't the real focus, and I can easily whip something up later. Gameplay: Combat- fought between 2 sides on a scenerio map with limited time. Each player control ONE unit of his own on the battlefield. (I said action in the genre.) Each side consists of 10+ players; the limit depending on the network code. And the battle is fought like secret of mana, zelda style where you have to walk up and wack the enemy with your sword or shoot magic/arrow at it; simple. If you die in battle, just wait a few seconds and you can re-enter the battle in another form. The attackers wins if they manage to destory two of the three supply carts in the defenders' backline or a pre-set target, or beating the defenders' kill score once the timer runs out. (Though there will be a slight score advantage favoring the defender.) While the defenders win if they held out the attack within the time limit while their kill score is not lower than attackers. Bodies- The player's real form is a spirit that roams the land. What allows them to battle are the bodies that they can inhibite. Each player is limited to 8 bodies that can be trained to a specific type of martial art. There is a total of 64 "schools" that you can choose from. Each school correspond to the ba gua with the 8x8 elements. (If you have no clue what I'm talking about, do a search yourself or post a note on bottom and I'll explain further.) Different school have different attributes like one may walk faster, the other can withstand more hits, blah blah. But all starts with some sort of basic attack and a special move from their inherited two elements in ba gua. These attacks can upgraded later and the character can gain another 3 to 4 additional abilities from the adjecent element. Let me give you some examples. I'll be making up these school's name as I go along. Some do have a history behind them (obviously shaolin), but for the most part they're fictional. Lu school; character armed with a paint brush; specialize in writing chinese poetry; basic attack is he can write letters and gylphs in the air and they would float toward the enemy. (Yea I know it's pretty ridiculas, but so is running up the wall and fighting on bamboo trees.) His special abilities include writing special banners that can be posted to give different bonus to all friendly units in a certain areas and extend the hairs on the brush and entangle an enemy. Pai school; buddist nuns armed with two swords; specialized in fighting as a group. Basic attack = double slash from sword. Special abilites include a whirling attack required charging for a few seconds and special team techniques that requires other Pai school memembers to perform a seven star formation. There's tons of school out there that can be easily filled considering in Chinese mythology/fantasy, everything can be used as a weapon; needles, lute, cheese pieces, and tiny size bow hidden in the sleeves can all count. Resource/Region: 8 different resources corresponding to the 8 regions and the 8 sides on ba gua. The player in the region can only train the bodies in the school that contain the matching ba gua letter to the region. Another word, each region is limited to 15 schools; think of 8 by 8 squares. And if you want to learn the other schools, you gotta move to another region. This could be further limited to 5 or 6 if included a regional goverment system where the leader choose from the list per week. (Doing this will prevent overwhelming the new players with too many choices, plus it gives the player a good reason to be friendly and kiss up to be the leader; i'm making up random bs.) The resource will also be used to upgrade the corresponding ability and to pay for the spirit's link to tap the connection to bodies; heck it's better than saying paying for maintainace on your car. Basically this is one big complex system just to make the player get accustomed to moving and experience playing with others instead of forming a stationary elite group. (cause you will be force to seperate them, and they will start complaining about outside interferance.) Control: standard four directional, one button for attack, one for special ability (holding down opens a menu to cycle selection while releasing the button performs the action), one for message (same as abilities), one for having the character remain stationary while the view scrolls through the map, and one for special items like healing potion(haven't given much thought on this yet.) I think this covered all the basics without going too deep into ability upgrade, battlefield terran, those type of other stuffs. Edited by - mooglez on October 30, 2001 4:12:03 AM

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Started by Mooglez October 30, 2001 02:32 AM

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krez

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November 07, 2001 10:15 PM

quote:Original post by Mooglez
Perversity/Anger is the one that I''m having a little problem coming up with ideas on.

hmmm... maybe some type of fighting that involves... um... giving the opponent a disease? flesh eating virus? something that makes them vile and gross, whose very existence is an affront? i dunno, perversity is hard to do without being... well, perverted.

quote:I''m not trying to preach buddism to the players. It''s just that I want game imbeded with a deep atmosphere and enviroment that could rival the Ultima series'' eight virutes/runes.

not to bash your abilities, but nothing, NOTHING (NOTHING!!!) will ever rival the eight virtues.

--- krez (krezisback@aol.com)

--- krez ([email="krez_AT_optonline_DOT_net"]krez_AT_optonline_DOT_net[/email])

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