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Plan for Bryan Edds
| Name: | Bryan Edds | |
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| Date Posted: | Apr 19, 2004 | |
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All up in dat Midnight Ryda click. A little description of our new project. Keeping your design small to allow creative input from your teammates. Allowing creative input from your teammates in order to give them a much bigger stake and interest in the project.
Hooray for Midnight Ryder Technologies!
It's been really fun working with Davis, and I have this gut feeling that this whole crazy project is actually going to work. In fact, I don't see any possible way for things to have worked out better so far. Things are kind of slow, but Davis is taking the proper time to try and flesh out the story side of the game design. In my attempt to keep the design iterative, I had only designed the gameplay side of the game. That way, we can decide on a story appropriate to the development time we'll want put into it.
There's not a whole lot I can say about the game (not sure how tight Davis [The Boss] wants to keep it under wraps). But, I figure I can get away with a few details... ;)
Essentially, the game in question is a stealth horror first person shooter game. I always thought the combination of the stealth and horror genres would be very synergistic in their effect on the player. There is nothing more intense than trying to carefully sneak about quietly in a stealth game, and there is nothing more scary than something just popping out of nowhere to shock you! Combine those 2 moods, and I think we're on to something.
To keep things as interesting as possible for others, I purposely narrowed down the design as much as possible in order to allow as much creative input as possible from teammate(s). This is a VERY important thing to do, IMO, because it gives your teammate(s) a personal interest in the project that they would not otherwise have. I looked at the game development process, and found the most rewarding part of the project to be the initial creative design. I figured the best way to keep one's teammates interested in the project is to give them as much creative input into the game as possible (so long as they don't break my core design!). There is nothing more rewarding in game design (other than pay) than watching your own ideas come to life. There often may comes times in your team's life that this creative stake is the only thing that may keep them from quitting the project. Allowing creative input is really a win/win situtaion.
It's been really fun working with Davis, and I have this gut feeling that this whole crazy project is actually going to work. In fact, I don't see any possible way for things to have worked out better so far. Things are kind of slow, but Davis is taking the proper time to try and flesh out the story side of the game design. In my attempt to keep the design iterative, I had only designed the gameplay side of the game. That way, we can decide on a story appropriate to the development time we'll want put into it.
There's not a whole lot I can say about the game (not sure how tight Davis [The Boss] wants to keep it under wraps). But, I figure I can get away with a few details... ;)
Essentially, the game in question is a stealth horror first person shooter game. I always thought the combination of the stealth and horror genres would be very synergistic in their effect on the player. There is nothing more intense than trying to carefully sneak about quietly in a stealth game, and there is nothing more scary than something just popping out of nowhere to shock you! Combine those 2 moods, and I think we're on to something.
To keep things as interesting as possible for others, I purposely narrowed down the design as much as possible in order to allow as much creative input as possible from teammate(s). This is a VERY important thing to do, IMO, because it gives your teammate(s) a personal interest in the project that they would not otherwise have. I looked at the game development process, and found the most rewarding part of the project to be the initial creative design. I figured the best way to keep one's teammates interested in the project is to give them as much creative input into the game as possible (so long as they don't break my core design!). There is nothing more rewarding in game design (other than pay) than watching your own ideas come to life. There often may comes times in your team's life that this creative stake is the only thing that may keep them from quitting the project. Allowing creative input is really a win/win situtaion.
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Submit your own resources!| Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr (Apr 19, 2004 at 19:18 GMT) |
| Bryan Edds (Apr 19, 2004 at 19:30 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
Well, we could always do what Konomi did with Metal Gear and call it "Tactical Stealth Action"... And tack Horror Game at the end... and First Person at the front...
"First Person Tactical Stealth Action Horror Game"
FPTSAHG.
Fiptysag!
It's a FIPTYSAG!
Awesome.
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Edited on Apr 19, 2004 19:52 GMT
| Alan Kantz (Apr 19, 2004 at 19:35 GMT) |
;)
| Bryan Edds (Apr 19, 2004 at 19:37 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
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Edited on Apr 19, 2004 19:51 GMT
| Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr (Apr 19, 2004 at 19:40 GMT) |
| Bryan Edds (Apr 19, 2004 at 19:48 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
A puzzle game does have _multiple_ solutions to the same puzzle, BUT, they are always the same set of solutions each time you play it. In this game, it all depends on where enemies have moved (since they are constantly moving about the stage), and what other random things might occur (as you can see from the design, there is a lot of random things going on which will vary each experience). Puzzle games, to me, don't generally have a sense of upredictability and surprise that I hope we'll be able to acheive, nor do they have the replayability this game is shooting for either. Now, there is certainly a "tactical" and "strategic" aspect to this game, but there's no real static puzzles to solves or anything like that. :)
Dunno. I'll let you have the last word on it, though. You's de' boss!
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Edited on Apr 19, 2004 19:54 GMT
| Nauris Krauze (Apr 19, 2004 at 21:34 GMT) |
And Bryan, puzzle is not a genre, puzzle is a state of mind :P
| Bryan Edds (Apr 19, 2004 at 22:12 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
I guess you could say that this game has many similarities to System Shock. The biggest difference is that, for the most part, you'll not want your enemies to see you at all. To accomplish this level of stealth, you are given an ability that, if used with skill, allows you to locate your enemies without them being able to locate you. You'll have to basically sneak up on most of the enemies from behind in order to take them out with a gun or even a sword. But despite all your efforts, there are certain enemies that will simply pop out of nowhere, which will you have to take out quickly before they can attack you. And there are other forms of enemies which require even more and new tactics, but you'll have to wait for the game to find out what more there is waiting around the dark corner... >:)
There's not really any RPG elements to the game like System Shock. As nice as that would be, we can't add more features than those that are absolutely central to the core intended game experience. The goal is simple and effective stealth horror. :)
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Edited on Apr 19, 2004 22:17 GMT
| Nauris Krauze (Apr 20, 2004 at 19:58 GMT) |
and yeah, I understood that idea doesnt seem to involve RPG elements, but the mood and desperate sense of insecurity sounds like that:) Good luck, guys. Show more signs of life time to time so we know you`re alive and brewing :)
| Bryan Edds (Apr 22, 2004 at 11:16 GMT) Resource Rating: 5 |
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