A charas project community game?

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

i am downloading it as I read your post =D

And I am a big fan of chaptered games.

[Prpl_Mage]

What I meant with the maps is that they need space. If enemies have knockback attacks or stuff the player can get in deep **** if he's stuck between two trees.

And yeah, We'll start of with a short game. After that we can continue to build on top of it. Like a sequel. Only it's the same game.
Hell we might even make a "parallel story"-kinda game as well once we finish.
But that's not a high priority now; what we need is to get something started. So it'll be great if you could send that old stuff to the story writers. They can use it if they want. Or they might not. Their choice. I won't try to change everything, this is a community game after all.

[Shady Ultima]

Well, I'd like to be a part of the story team as well.

You should post who's volunteered for what on the front page.

[fruckert]

He already has

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Also put me on character design/planning

Give me character details and stuff  andI can start fiddling later on this day

[Shady Ultima]

Sorry, my mistake. I'd also like to do Charsets and story.

Here's the story that we had come up with (or at least the set up, I'll see if I can find the rest, it wasn't much though)

The most powerful empire in the world has been dealt a tragic blow. It's emperor had been brutally murdered. He was well protected, and his attacker left no trace of his actions.

The emperor's general has been named the new emperor. This has caused tension between the empire and its allied nations. Many rebel forces have made names for themselves against the empire.

Amidst the tension, you play as the General's son. You act as an ambassador, smoothing out relations with other nations by making personal appearances. In your spare time, you fight insurgents against your fathers empire.

On one such trip, you come across a maiden. She is of a strange ethnicity that you have never seen before. She is being attacked by a group of thieves.

After saving her, you are startled. You suddenly come under attack by a strange mystical force. You are in severe pain. You eventually wake up to meet the woman taking care of you. You learn that you are under the attack of a powerful curse. The curse gives you strange and ominous dreams of the past, as well as untold physical strength.

Things take a turn for the worst when a nation launches an attack on the empire. War is on the horizon. The girl wants to follow you-to monitor your condition. You seek to at least meet with your father the emperor, while trying to solve the mysteries of the curse.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

That actually doesn't sound bad.

[Prpl_Mage]

That sounds like a story to me.
I'd say we go for it unless someone disagrees.

[fruckert]

I'm not liking it so far...a lot of it's concepts are very cliche, such as the emperor getting assassinated and then tension arising because of the new emperor
However, as it is a skeleton, we could probably develop this a lot more and make it tremendously more interesting

EDIT: That means I'm with it

[Prpl_Mage]

I'm not liking it so far...a lot of it's concepts are very cliche, such as the emperor getting assassinated and then tension arising because of the new emperor
However, as it is a skeleton, we could probably develop this a lot more and make it tremendously more interesting

Well, it's pretty obvious that there is tension when a general takes the power after a sudden death of the old leader?

BTW, are we decided on an ABS yet?

[DedlellyDeth]

The girl is obviously cursed and he must decide to leave her or deteriorate or something.

The game I think should focus more on diplomatic action or puzzles or something than battles, I think. It's just a suggestion.

One choice, though cliche, would be to make the main character the murderer, being somehow dazed of the event and then remembering.

[fruckert]

Well, it's pretty obvious that there is tension when a general takes the power after a sudden death of the old leader?

Yeah, I know...my writing style/taste is usually centered around surprises...I'm always far more interested in twists that make your brain explode than obvious things
I already stated that I'll work with it though, as it is a pretty solid skeleton at the moment

EDIT:

The girl is obviously cursed and he must decide to leave her or deteriorate or something.

That's too predictable
I say the General is evil, and sent assassins into the other kingdoms so he can absorb them, or something

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Is woman taking care of him the same as the one she meets?


Fruckferts point is one that I thought of, but i realized it could be worked on once we got into it.  Instead of assassination we could make it look like a supposed suicide and then the queen taking over but she gives too much space to a new guy. just throwing out ideas.

[Shady Ultima]

Well, like I said, I have half of one entire finished, and there's mine (which is inferior to Aboutaso's in EVERY way)

I did message Rahl, he hasn't got back to me yet. If there are any other programmers here who think they could take a look at it, I'll send it to them.

And actually Dedlelly, that wasn't the way we were going with it at all.

I know the story sounds cliche, but it got pretty deep. The story was pretty dark. I believe she was the only remaining sorcerer, and every other one was wiped out by his father, which caused a lot of people to hate the empire, and causes the character a LOT of emotional issues.

But, that's just a backstory really. What we had could go anywhere. It's a good jumping off point.

[fruckert]

May I have a look at the full story so far?
It sounds like you guys have some stuff written down so far