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]

Or an incoherent fashion. Let's see, Sparrowhawk wants a multilayer universe, MEands wants sorta character perspective, Amerk said something about noobs taking over a treehouse. And Vvalking said something about happiness and the fight against boredom. Put em together and what do ya got? (Bibidi Babidi Buu) A coherent plot, sorta.

The setting starts as some group of kids, whose main purpose is "to seek adventure and defeat boredom" get knocked out of their treehouse by some thugs (noobs). They try to fight to get it back (but this is one of those battles where the party loses horribly no matter what they do). They realize that they need to go on an EPIC QUEST to get their treehouse back (it's kinda tongue in cheek, but it might get more serious later), picking up some impressive sword or something. On the way, by accident, one of them fulls down a hole and finds something else, a box named Pandora that he accidentally frees from its chains. It runs off, or rather hops off (this later becomes a semi-recurring boss, and the final boss, until the true final boss, if you did everything right for the best ending, the programmer). Meanwhile, the story sets up a very much false final boss, which you actually end up killing in the first game. There are 10 short chapters: Chapter 1 is the main party's story, eight more chapters of individuals in single or pair and how the fake final boss slighted them (these become the reserve teams and extra members, and we could look into having a double or triple party, which can solve puzzles). In Chapter 10, they all get together, and fight the final boss. Right after that, we have a sort of moment where a group of teenagers/college kids are in an arcade talking about their victory. That ends the first installment (whew... though it lasts only about 3 hours). The second, would be showing these kids in chapters of their own as they go to school. At some point, one of the finds a strange box, and after opening it, decides to toss it into the trash. This story revolves heavily around gamers involved in some sort of event in the "real world". Let's go with sort of an Earthbound theme, of violent humans and animals becoming wild. They figure out the cause of this menace, and stop it. Which switches scenes yet again to a bunch of programmers talking about their latest realistic RPG. That ends the second installment (this should be shorter than the first). Over the course of this next installment you find out about the various programmers, and that what you thought was real life teenagers was in fact the very RPG they just mentioned. This should first mention the programmer who is to be a final boss. Also, during this chapter, and exploring the town that these programmers live in, there's echoes of previous chapters, teenagers getting eaten by wild dogs, and some kids finally manage to reclaim their treehouse with a "sacred" baseball bat (yes, I've watched Paranoia Agent). There should also once again be a brief appearance of this strange package, but here it should be minor, like a background even happening while the main characters are all talking about their next big game. There should at this point, be some pretty heavy hints that this world isn't really real, through surreal imagery. At the end of this installment, a character wakes up from a dream (doesn't get shown officially until the next one, for reasons you'll see). This is the player, who unlike the others is chosen by name and sprite and this chapter is entirely about him rather than switching perspective. It ends with him ordering an urn from Amazon, which attacks him, and reveals that it is the container of evil, Pandora. The box talks about switching dimensions, and we see the background change a few times during the battle. It also says something about how the world YOU (yea you there, watching this game) think is real could also be an illusion (you then have to fight the screen itself). After this battle, we meet the evil programmer, who made all this, by flunking computer science. And then whatever ending we can decide on.

If this is okay with everyone, I'd say start a character design page.

This post has been edited by bulmabriefs144: Apr 1 2012, 08:38 AM