Plot, Continuing from Ideas. Options

[Sparrowsmith]

The closest thing we have to a plot synopsis can be found here: http://www.rpgrevolution.com/forums/index....st&p=557072
but there is still a lot of work to do.

Mainly, we need to work out some characters. Who are they and, more importantly, how do they behave/develop?

We have a few character outlines:
-The 'main' protagonist. The first one to log off the game/one who returns to his original body in layer 3
-The fighter. One of the two members of the group who does not own the game. He is an adept martial artist of some kind and spends his introduction robbing a warehouse for a copy of the game and then saving the 'main' protagonist from a group of monsters.
-The fighter's accomplice. An unwitting ally. Also doesn't have the game.
-The programmer that shoots the Rogue Program
-The programmer that contacts Matryoska (spell fail) might be the same programmer as above
-The Rogue Program (quite developed, but still a little weak in characterization)

We need to develop these, and make some more, then develop them as characters. I'd rather not have us submitting characters, but trying to work out how these people should act according to their situation.
Let's get these characters worked out, nice and logical like. Also, any additional plot points. We gotta work them out too.

We're kind of slowing down here, let's not have that.

[MEands]

Hey I'm reviving this thread because there's no real thread that covers the game as a whole, we seem to have separate sections for stuff.

So I just wanted to point something out that might cause this game to be very interesting. What it seems like is we're enjoying the puzzle aspect of this game, and the way this game flows, there really isn't all that much room for leveling. (Considering most of it takes place in a "real" world where levels don't exist). I was just thinking, what if we officially call this a puzzle game, not a boring "solve this puzzle and go to next room ooh you're smart, but a game like half-life, where the puzzle isn't really a puzzle, it's more of a real world the player is trying to navigate. Now of course layer 1 is going to have puzzle rooms because it's a generic MMO, but once we get to layer 2, we can get cool things going, like navigating the junkyard and hiding in the dark, once the monsters come into layer 2 we could have puzzles that involve finding what their weaknesses are in real life. Once we get to layer 3 we get to some of the more difficult puzzles. If the blind girl character stays in the game we could have some sort of sound based puzzle, perhaps even through the use of voice acting.

Basically it would be something like this
Layer 1: Artistic, but generic MMO puzzles.
Layer 2: More innovative puzzles. Strict timing, hiding, reaction, thinking outside the box.
Layer 3: Hardcore mind puzzles. Physics puzzles. Sound puzzles. Decoding.

What do you guys think? Yes? No?