| 08-24-2005, 03:30 PM | #1 |
Im interested in starting a linear/open rpg, which means you will be able to follow a story or just travel around the world doing whatever you wish. The map will contain these basics... - Number of Players: 1-5 - Map size: 192x256 ------------------- - Camera based on the original wc3 view, though with slight modifications such as that it follows the heroes line of sight all the time. - Several diffrent races, each race has its own upside and downside and special abilities which might fit to one type of character but not to another, when you pick a race you do not pick a class, there will be no classes, however you will be able to place points as you gain level in diffrent stats such as Strenght, Speed, Intelligence, Agility, Endurance and maybe some more. - Weapon and Armor system that uses upgrades instead of items, this is plainly because i hate it when such items fill space you might want to use for something else, it makes it impossible to use two items at once, you can pick up any item since there is no race specific items. - Spell System built out of spellbooks, each spellbook will contain 11 uniqe skills that is available as soon as you aquire the book, though you might not have enough mana to use it. - A detailed world with tons of tales, legends, secrets and mystical creatures that is almost all somehow tied up with the linear quest. - Optional quests that can be aquired throughout the world by most NPC's. - "Professions" for example fishing and mining, you will not be able to level in these skills, but they will be quite profitable if you come up with an efficient way of for example catching rare fish or mining rare minerals. - All the world will be acessable from the start, exept for some places that will be reserved for the linear quest only. - Save & Load System which will save pretty much everything (including how far you have got in the main quest etc, though it might not save the exact part of your current quest). (I will add more ideas later) ------------ Storyline... Note... You will be able to select one of two options, "Load Character" wich loads a previous game character, (you dont have to see the intro movie then). and "New Character" which starts out with showing you the intro movie. "The Beginning of the End" The night closed in quickly around the town of Rinul in northern Arilac, the rain fell heavy upon the ground and thunder could be heard from the south, suddenly a loud crash and a piercing cry was heard at the southern gate, when some bewildered inhabitants of the town approached the gate they saw a strange creature lying dead on the ground pierced with arrows, the gates were lying scattered in the mud. From the onlooking crowd, the town elder came forth and eyed the dead creature with a grave expression, for he had heard of these beeings in ancient tales and legends. The guards that shot the creature had allready started barricading the broken gates when several cries were heard from the slopes of the mountains, the hearts of the villagers were frozen to ice with horror of what might be lurking in the darkness outside... "Troubled Sleep" Somewhere in a prisoner ship on the raging seas north of Arilac someone awoke from sleep feeling troubled by the dreams, in the dream dark shapes moved between the trees in the dark gloom that lay over a forest, they strode towards what looked like a village, or town, then he heard the piercing cry and remembered no more of the dream. "Rage of the Sea" The ships captain had trouble navigating in the massive waves that sorrouned the ship, he saw to his horror, when a wave came crashing down on the ship that they were heading for the cliffs, he knew he could do nothing to prevent what was about to occur, so he simply prayed, the ship hit the rocks with a tremendous power and you could hear the wood crushing against the hard cliffs, then all went black... "Strange Luck" Some of the prisoners surived the impact, and found that their prisoner cells were broken, they managed to get off the boat and onto the cliffs, not a second too late, just a moment later the ship were totally obliverated by the tremendous forces at work this dark night... Note... This is where your story begins and you get to choose your race, from there you are free to do anything you wish. (there will also be some sort of directions that you will have to follow if you go for the linear adventure). (Dont think i promise more than i can handle, im well aquainted with advanced triggering, detailed terraining and other things such as skinning) I wont lie, so i say it now, this project will take quite a while to finish and ill work on it whenever i feel like it and got the time. Also, dont ask for screenshots, i will post those when i feel i got something genuine to post (all screenshots will be ingame, because thats what you are going to play). Another thing, im not asking for additional team members, i know how to make all the things i need. -Dremora |
| 08-24-2005, 05:57 PM | #2 |
Well this seems as a pretty good project, though I don't realize why are you posting here seeing you won't be needing more people on your project (only if you wanna brag around which if fine by me). Also this site isn't known by its acceptance of new projects. Project seems quite big and I hope you will finish this.Good luck  . Nice story and everything, very promising. Now to wait for Flad ;) |
| 08-24-2005, 06:28 PM | #3 |
Heh, well reason i posted here was, to be honest, that im having trouble finding my way around in the forums nowdays after all the changes, also i dont mean to "brag around" as you put it, well, if any mod reads this thread i'd like it moved to wherever projects should be if you aint gathering a team for it. |
| 08-25-2005, 08:34 AM | #4 |
You aren't the only one who is getting confused. I have been here for quite some time already, and still I am searching the right ways :P While the update of the site is going, I am not able to move threads, or any other moderating function, so you'll have to wait for that :P On a last note, the thread is fine here. Oh yeah, I haven't read the thread yet. It's too hard to read carefully when you're waiting for a phone call. |
| 08-25-2005, 01:14 PM | #5 | |
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Ok, forgot i read that somewhere some days ago, well ill start on creating the terrain for the map (the map will be using cliffs, thats because i want it to fit more appropiately with the caverns that will exist. (Caverns and mines will make up for about half the map size, since the story originates in the dark below the ground). |