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Mostly a rewording of a thread I made 11 days ago or so.
I was thinking of making a game based on what I'd like to call Instances (they are quite like chapters). Every Instance is a non-linear moment in the story (so Instance one can be in the middle of the adventure, in the second you are almost in the final boss... stuff like that) but you also control different characters. If there is Hero party and then the Villains, you will eventually be using both. The thing is that you will experience the game in 1st person view from one character - for example, say in Instance Two you are controlling Lea the elven hunter, well she is in the forest with his little brother when he meets a villain or something, so she goes to XXX place to stop him. You would, for example, end the Instance seeing how she arrives at XXX place and in (bare with me) Angus the dwarven paladin's Instance, you experience the moment he finds and joins Lea in XXX place.
I'm looking forward to:
* Separate character inventories so in every instance you won't have access to all items.
* Characters retain their levels from previous Instances. If a character appears more than once, he will retain any spells, levels or items you acquired as him previously.
* Non-scaling difficulty. The first instances will be easy, but later ones (even if they approach early moments of the story and you must kill slimes) will be hard no-matter-what because characters will keep leveling.
*Side-quests to obtain new skills and rare items. Not all skills will be learned with levelling. Maybe there should be one or two per character that they may learn in an unique way.
* Replayability. Boss too hard? Fine! Just head back to the main town in the Instance, go to the Instance Selection menu (map) from there and farm those bats.
* Dynamic dialoges. I want to let you choose what you wish to say, and maybe add some variables here and there so I can make different endings and scenarios based on what you did.
Feedback? Ideas? Any tips on how am I supossed to be eventing a Instance Selection? I don't really seem to find any script for something similar with chapters.
I was thinking of making a game based on what I'd like to call Instances (they are quite like chapters). Every Instance is a non-linear moment in the story (so Instance one can be in the middle of the adventure, in the second you are almost in the final boss... stuff like that) but you also control different characters. If there is Hero party and then the Villains, you will eventually be using both. The thing is that you will experience the game in 1st person view from one character - for example, say in Instance Two you are controlling Lea the elven hunter, well she is in the forest with his little brother when he meets a villain or something, so she goes to XXX place to stop him. You would, for example, end the Instance seeing how she arrives at XXX place and in (bare with me) Angus the dwarven paladin's Instance, you experience the moment he finds and joins Lea in XXX place.
I'm looking forward to:
* Separate character inventories so in every instance you won't have access to all items.
* Characters retain their levels from previous Instances. If a character appears more than once, he will retain any spells, levels or items you acquired as him previously.
* Non-scaling difficulty. The first instances will be easy, but later ones (even if they approach early moments of the story and you must kill slimes) will be hard no-matter-what because characters will keep leveling.
*Side-quests to obtain new skills and rare items. Not all skills will be learned with levelling. Maybe there should be one or two per character that they may learn in an unique way.
* Replayability. Boss too hard? Fine! Just head back to the main town in the Instance, go to the Instance Selection menu (map) from there and farm those bats.
* Dynamic dialoges. I want to let you choose what you wish to say, and maybe add some variables here and there so I can make different endings and scenarios based on what you did.
Feedback? Ideas? Any tips on how am I supossed to be eventing a Instance Selection? I don't really seem to find any script for something similar with chapters.
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