Pancakes vary a great deal, seemingly more than any other food, jumping wildly between "vomit-inducing" and "I've never had anything so good in my life, unless it was a waffle I guess, man I love waffles."
Got my "Level Up!" book by Scott Rogers out again for a second read, since I'm thinking about making games again.
Its already got me thinking.
My game idea doesn't have a strong main objective, which could be irksome.
Then again, there are some very good games out there that don't.
Fallout, Oblivion, Might and Magic, experimental indie games.
Those games are full of several smaller objectives that follow the rules of the world.
The Sandbox of tools and toys.
If I were to make a game about a help-for-hire videogame service, then it may need to go in that direction.
Maybe have a Overworld/Map with different locations and factions, and people and stuff to play with, but have missions scattered around with various bounties.
I'm still stuck on the core character concept. But if I went this route, then maybe I shouldn't worry so much, as I could make the sprite customisable (which can be done by splitting the character into parts that one could change), and then I could make various different sort of parts and character designs, and then people could mix and match.
Would help Story-wise, since I have a feeling that it would be extremely difficult to make an interesting story out of a odd premise like this.
Besides, focusing on just a Supervirus that targets videogames would get pretty boring.
Plus I could do missions based on things that have ACTUALLY happened.
Like:
- being hired to sneak into a game show and steal a game's source code.
(Okay so the guy wasn't hired but its still a fun idea)
- Track down every copy of a terrible videogame and literally cover the whole thing up. In mud
- Help "Activation" dissolve their subsidaries. (Which may involve actual dissolving! )
As for the tools to play with, I have nothing interesting enviromentally, but in terms of weapons, I have a few ideas:
1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete
You main weapon. Its a beam gun, that you can use to manipulate objects and terrain.
Has two modes:
Delete mode:
Acts as a standard energy beam, damaging everything it comes into contact with
Alt/control mode:
Allows one to not damage, but move an object. When held, one can use the mouse to reposition that object, even change its orientation (so if its facing right, you can make it face left) or angle, (so you can rotate it (though to the limit of the game itself. So if the game has 4 direction it can rotate in 90 degrees angles))
(This one was inspired by Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts (love that game! ))
Possibly a Control mode too.
(Would be cool to be able to hide and control ingame and main world objects and characters)
2. Debugger
Acts like a Debug tool would.
(So long as the game has function, you can use your tool to create and place objects, maybe even move your character to somewhere normally inacessable. Depends on the game though)
3. Console
Maybe a console function could be handy, but with the other two I'm not certain.
(if each game restricted and had different range of tools available, it could work. Would need a lot of testing)
4. Univeral Inventory
(Not a weapon, but one would need it to store equipment, ingame items, and samples)
As for graphics, I think placemaker and sprite rips would work fine for now.
I think tomorrow, I shall start trying to draw up some simple levels (using my book to help me).
With a time lapse of three days, I have consecutively had a dream about the same girl, a non video game princess, in the same exact, albeit fantastical, place, with a time lapse within the dreams as well. Yet, according to dream two, dream one was a dream within a dream, and dream two was the "real" dream. If I can manage a dream where she remembers me, maybe I can carry out a relationship through dreams.
Wouldn't that be absolutely amazing. How many people have done that I tell you. What...stop looking at me like that. Don't judge me, I tells ya.
Mostly anime characters, IIRC. Also Harley Quinn. Because everyone likes Harley Quinn.
And by anime characters you mean Asuka and Rei. Because that's all you know. That Asuka bitch wouldn't pull her shit with me. We all know what she really wants. A cheezburger. That's why she's such a bitch.
Therein lies the problem. Those pancakes in that image are flat and rolled up like tortillas.
That's even worse. Different is not the same as wrong. Friar, pack a bag, get yourself to Austria and let them serve you Palatschinken. Yes, that's pancakes in Austrian. If you can uphold your hate then, I won't bother you with "European" pancakes any more.
Ohhhhh and while you're over there, treat yourself with something called "Frittatensuppe". That's actually pancake soup, I'm not kidding you. If I killed myself eating too much of that stuff, I'd consider it a good death.
I could ruin IHOP for you, but I'll keep from going on with my flapping pancakes and swinging sausages and syrup speech, which in this case would involve Pants and Mortis.
I could ruin IHOP for you, but I'll keep from going on with my flapping pancakes and swinging sausages and syrup speech, which in this case would involve Pants and Mortis.
I could ruin IHOP for you, but I'll keep from going on with my flapping pancakes and swinging sausages and syrup speech, which in this case would involve Pants and Mortis.
More like Comrade Gimp. It's like if someone took a huge bite out of a sausage at IHOP but left the tip. In between Comrade Mortis's order of sizzling hot pancakes. You keep trying to pull your sausage out and she keeps pulling it in. In and out. In and out. Then someone hits the syrup bottle and it erupts all over her pancakes. Then they get all sticky.
EDIT: No, your syrup bottle would probably be empty.
More like Comrade Gimp. It's like if someone took a huge bite out of a sausage at IHOP but left the tip. In between Comrade Mortis's order of sizzling hot pancakes. You keep trying to pull your sausage out and she keeps pulling it in. In and out. In and out. Then someone hits the syrup bottle and it erupts all over her pancakes. Then they get all sticky.
EDIT: No, your syrup bottle would probably be empty.
I'm going to pretend to forget I read this and just move along.
Comments
DO YOU LIKE WAFFLES?
Ambitious. Now I'm going to try and predict what you'll come up with for this.
YES.
YEAH!
Its already got me thinking.
My game idea doesn't have a strong main objective, which could be irksome.
Then again, there are some very good games out there that don't.
Fallout, Oblivion, Might and Magic, experimental indie games.
Those games are full of several smaller objectives that follow the rules of the world.
The Sandbox of tools and toys.
If I were to make a game about a help-for-hire videogame service, then it may need to go in that direction.
Maybe have a Overworld/Map with different locations and factions, and people and stuff to play with, but have missions scattered around with various bounties.
I'm still stuck on the core character concept. But if I went this route, then maybe I shouldn't worry so much, as I could make the sprite customisable (which can be done by splitting the character into parts that one could change), and then I could make various different sort of parts and character designs, and then people could mix and match.
Would help Story-wise, since I have a feeling that it would be extremely difficult to make an interesting story out of a odd premise like this.
Besides, focusing on just a Supervirus that targets videogames would get pretty boring.
Plus I could do missions based on things that have ACTUALLY happened.
Like:
- being hired to sneak into a game show and steal a game's source code.
(Okay so the guy wasn't hired but its still a fun idea)
- Track down every copy of a terrible videogame and literally cover the whole thing up. In mud
- Help "Activation" dissolve their subsidaries. (Which may involve actual dissolving!
As for the tools to play with, I have nothing interesting enviromentally, but in terms of weapons, I have a few ideas:
1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete
You main weapon. Its a beam gun, that you can use to manipulate objects and terrain.
Has two modes:
Delete mode:
Acts as a standard energy beam, damaging everything it comes into contact with
Alt/control mode:
Allows one to not damage, but move an object. When held, one can use the mouse to reposition that object, even change its orientation (so if its facing right, you can make it face left) or angle, (so you can rotate it (though to the limit of the game itself. So if the game has 4 direction it can rotate in 90 degrees angles))
(This one was inspired by Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts (love that game!
Possibly a Control mode too.
(Would be cool to be able to hide and control ingame and main world objects and characters)
2. Debugger
Acts like a Debug tool would.
(So long as the game has function, you can use your tool to create and place objects, maybe even move your character to somewhere normally inacessable. Depends on the game though)
3. Console
Maybe a console function could be handy, but with the other two I'm not certain.
(if each game restricted and had different range of tools available, it could work. Would need a lot of testing)
4. Univeral Inventory
(Not a weapon, but one would need it to store equipment, ingame items, and samples)
As for graphics, I think placemaker and sprite rips would work fine for now.
I think tomorrow, I shall start trying to draw up some simple levels (using my book to help me).
Oh yeah. It's going to be a good Dragoncon.
Wouldn't that be absolutely amazing. How many people have done that I tell you. What...stop looking at me like that. Don't judge me, I tells ya.
Trust me, you do not want to hear the details of that dream. Remembering it freaks ME out!!
DOOOOONNNN'T JUUUDGE MEEEEEEH
Silently judging.
But everyone likes Tali.
Oh, I know you'd amputee motorboat that. Putting amputee before things as an adjective makes them seem different than normal things.
I'm a dick.
This coming from the guy that likes Lucca.
And 90's Animated Spiderman Mary Jane
Mostly anime characters, IIRC. Also Harley Quinn. Because everyone likes Harley Quinn.
The Balls are Inert!!
Therein lies the problem. Those pancakes in that image are flat and rolled up like tortillas.
Here, try IHOP (International House of Pancakes)
Now that's better.
And by anime characters you mean Asuka and Rei. Because that's all you know. That Asuka bitch wouldn't pull her shit with me. We all know what she really wants. A cheezburger. That's why she's such a bitch.
And I'd gorge her on cheezburgers.
Joker all the way!
Fun discovery of the Day: The Chameleon from Spiderman actually secretly loved Peter and kills himself when Peter laughs upon finding this out.
1. Those are CREPES, Chyron.
2. I agree. That IS much better.
There is a single "European" pancake variant? Oh geez, then I must know them all by eating just one. :rolleyes:
That's even worse. Different is not the same as wrong. Friar, pack a bag, get yourself to Austria and let them serve you Palatschinken. Yes, that's pancakes in Austrian. If you can uphold your hate then, I won't bother you with "European" pancakes any more.
Ohhhhh and while you're over there, treat yourself with something called "Frittatensuppe". That's actually pancake soup, I'm not kidding you. If I killed myself eating too much of that stuff, I'd consider it a good death.
I'm hungry now. AND THERE'S NO IHOP NEARBY!
Are we!? ARE WE!? ARE WE!?
Even then, they're still pitiful.
Wait, you mean Comrade Mortis, right?
More like Comrade Gimp. It's like if someone took a huge bite out of a sausage at IHOP but left the tip. In between Comrade Mortis's order of sizzling hot pancakes. You keep trying to pull your sausage out and she keeps pulling it in. In and out. In and out. Then someone hits the syrup bottle and it erupts all over her pancakes. Then they get all sticky.
EDIT: No, your syrup bottle would probably be empty.
I'm going to pretend to forget I read this and just move along.