Battle Design Options

[bulmabriefs144]

Okay, so we have a sort of reactive system, where enemies try to guess moves and play strategically (according to their type, more strategically as the game goes on). And we have a counterspell system. And we have an elements system:

Melee
Ranged
(Some things like ghosts are completely immune to both physical, and flying things are probably immune to melee and earth)
Fire
Water
Thunder
Ice
Earth
Air
Light
Dark
(At least)

There should also be all kinds of strategies for bosses, including some puzzle bosses. Ummm let's see... VX has TP, but I think you can turn it off, at least in ACE. Do we want TP system?

[bulmabriefs144]

- Bookcase puzzle should probably be 3-D. Something like, you start reading and stuff, and something triggers a plot event that lets you notice an upper floor (maybe there's a hanging ladder that you can't quite reach), and involves pulling out loose books from the shelves and stacking them up as stepping stones. You have a series of small puzzles that involve rotating/pushing/knocking over shelves, and some stacking of books. (And maybe a puzzle midway through that reveals a secret room, by organizing a bookcase)
- Pass for now. Mainly strong enemies that can't attack you if you're out of reach (i.e. on the upper level).
- I think we said something about a number/color puzzle involving two or more teams and a couple parallel rooms.
-Ummm, I'll pass there too. You guys probably have a better idea.

This post has been edited by bulmabriefs144: Dec 3 2012, 06:00 AM

[MEands]

- Bookcase puzzle should probably be 3-D. Something like, you start reading and stuff, and something triggers a plot event that lets you notice an upper floor (maybe there's a hanging ladder that you can't quite reach), and involves pulling out loose books from the shelves and stacking them up as stepping stones. You have a series of small puzzles that involve rotating/pushing/knocking over shelves, and some stacking of books. (And maybe a puzzle midway through that reveals a secret room, by organizing a bookcase)
- Pass for now. Mainly strong enemies that can't attack you if you're out of reach (i.e. on the upper level).
- I think we said something about a number/color puzzle involving two or more teams and a couple parallel rooms.
-Ummm, I'll pass there too. You guys probably have a better idea.

Biased opinion: I still kinda like my idea for the bookcase puzzle, mostly because I still dont really understand how this works. I suggest you draw a walkthrough for this puzzle so it's more clear.

Okay now to give normal thoughts on this.

-Dungeon bookcase puzzle: I like what I drew but yknow
-Plan for the battle in the main chamber: I was thinking after a short cutscene, an RPG style battle would commence. The graphic would be of him sitting in a throne room chair, with his right hand on "Pandora's box", which is sitting in his lap. idk if we still want to do him having the power to somewhat control your characters, it would be very interesting if we could implement that. Then, once he's at about 15-30% health a cutscene triggers, (it's risky to trigger an event at shuch low health however, because the player could do a strong attack that could knock him from 16% to 0% causing the event to skip and the battle to end). Once he is at the designated health, a text box appears, "You are stronger than I had anticipated. I never thought I'd have to use this against ordinary humans..." The box on his lap opens, some dark energy flows out, then stops, and the music stops, then comes back on in a stop-freeze manner. The screen moves a little to the right (by this point we will have put a picture across the battle screen and all this will be separate images), then the game crashes to a blue screen that we've edited. (If they happen to be playing in fullscreen it might make them worry a little). Then after .5-3 seconds it turns off and zooms out of a computer screen. You see the guy playing the game (would this be Johnny?) and then Act 1 is over.
-Is there a room after the bookcase puzzle?: I was thinking a short illusion puzzle, since that's sorta what Rasquel's specialty is, right? Right now I'm assuming this game is mainly puzzle based, since there doesn't seem to be much room past layer 1 for stat building.
-Main town design: Middle tower, stores, townsfolk you can talk to for hints and lore. We had a design in one of these threads, we should look back at it and figure out how to paralax map or something. (I don't understand that)

This post has been edited by MEands: Dec 8 2012, 03:12 PM