Ideas for story, Post, discuss, debate on plot lines Options

[kayden997]

Title says it all. If you have an idea on a story or a plot that could be used for the R3 Community game, post it here.
As a community, we'll come up with a plot that most/all people will agree with. If you don't agree with the plot, simply explain why or create a new one. And remember, don't take the type of engine into factor. Let's start from here before we can work out mechanics and game play.

I'll post the the suggestions up here when we come up with some.

[bulmabriefs144]

(I've decided to do support in ideas rather than coding, XP script is a pain in the bum.)

What sorta humor? There's just light silliness. Then there's dark humor (example, the play version of Little Shop of Horrors had Audrey actually ask Seymore to feed he to the plant because then she'd be "somewhere that's green"). Then there's abstract humor, which requires people think in a really weird way to get the thing (some japanese works are like this). And then there's surreal humor, which pretty much means that something really weird might also be funny (or maybe not). There's even a type of humor where you string together quirky cultural references.

I think we could try a multi-layer reality story. Something like this:

Layer 1: Some such fantasy story involving certain characters. It should be pretty engaging until about a quarter of the game through, revealing nothing about its true nature (much like Star Ocean: Till The End of Time)

Layer 2: The story hints in bits and pieces (perhaps really weird dream sequences), before actually revealing that this is in fact an rpg that these same characters are player and have an offline life. Maybe something like Hack Sign.

Layer 3: Yes in fact, this is a game, but the so-called players from layer 2 are actually just sprites, made by programmers, and this too is a game.

Layer 4: It's actually an unwritten game, and the focus shifts to the people behind the screen. The real programmers need your help, because they have writer's block. Won't you please help them?

Layer 5: The game ends with a very strong impression that reality itself might have programmers (and they too have writer's block).

The enemies for layer one would be purely traditional fantasy enemies, layer 2 would have competing players fighting (or other "real life" concerns), layer 3 would have computer coding enemies (viruses, glitches, bugs), layer four would have enemies associated with void or nothingness and generally be associated with being blocked, and the final layer would being the ending have no enemies, to focus more on pure drama/comedy.

(Also it might be interesting if, like Despair said, people from the first chapter make cameos as real people in the later chapters)

This post has been edited by bulmabriefs144: Mar 23 2012, 09:39 PM