[RMMV] REUSING ASSETS

I decided for the sake of this dungeon to just cut out the dungeon part and leave it to the 3 rooms for the Council Temple, and revisit the floors later on for the Ministry's Temple (I was going to separate the 30 floors into "Realms". I.E. Portals that you have to go into to open the main door in Council Temple, which would've fit with getting it open without having 30 floors (it'd still be 5 areas per Realm, but only 4 of the Realms would've been visited at all, Space would've been sealed off in the Council Temple).

For Ministry's Temple, I MIGHT revisit the idea of the Realms and/or having the Floors be 5 floors per Concept.

As for the target audience, it's for the Hololive folks (it is a Hololive fangame). The reason I brought it up was I'm relatively new to the thing myself (since August), and just found out a couple days ago that they were the exact same place lol. Hence the topic question...

This is what I had for the Council Temple.



As you can see, by default I have 3 rooms for the entire area. The outside area (which is the hub world btw, so you come through here throughout the entire game), the inside area (which opens up at late game), and then the hallway that's meant to led to the interior that's sealed off because of time distortion stuff happening at the time (and the player is never able to go back into this hallway after finishing Timeless Era afterwards). The idea for Chaos sounds good, my thought was to do something like the Tyranno Lair teleport thing, but I debated if that was even a good idea lol...

IF I were to keep the idea for a dungeon for Council Temple, for Civilization, I had it so that you start in a dirt cave, then as you progress through the door maze (that's the best I could think of without doing full on puzzles or gimmicks), the maps become more progressively futuristic (the 5th floor is completely sci-fi). Nature was going to be similar in that it starts off as a complete barren wasteland, then snow, and at the 5th floor, complete forest. No puzzles or gimmicks in that one either.

IF I were to try to make Council Temple into a dungeon, should I bother with the gimmick/puzzle aspect of it, or should it be axed as a dungeon? I've talked to a couple people about it that's from the fandom, and ultimately, one says that trying to make both areas the exact same is causing too much creativity problems, and the other says that it would slow down the pacing of the story that's happening at the time (to which I agree on).

author=Marrend
For Space, I might recommend something a bit more sci-fi/futuristic in it's design, rather than, well, an open barren location. Time... maybe a puzzle-dungeon based on setting clocks? I dunno. I vaguely recall a few places in World of Xeen where you set clocks to a certain time, and <things happen>.

For the Space segment, that sounds like a good idea. I do need ground and stuff for the player to stand on and whatnot, after all lol. I could probably use that for the Ministry's Temple since it wouldn't be sealed off there at all. I could reuse the idea I had for Council Temple in that there are the 5 realms that you have to go through in order to release the seal to the inner sanctums (there's 5 bosses all based on Super Fans from each of the 5 members the realms are based on, so it'd work there).


EDIT - An idea I just came up with, and this will probably be used either for Timeless Era or Ministry's Temple, is for the Civilization path, there would be traps associated with civilizations (boulders, spikes, etc.). Now the question is, how would it be best to implement these (I never actually implemented traps like these in my previous game, so I never tried this lol). For the Nature path, I can probably do status tiles related to flowers (I did this in one dungeon in Touhou Fantasy, though I don't know if the story or dialogue hinted at that...TF didn't do a lot of things good, I'll admit). So like stepping on a mushroom might give you Confusion, stepping on ivy would probably give Poison, etc., but you could also gain buffs from stepping on the right plants too. There's no Nature part in Timeless Era (that's split up between 4 characters instead), so that'll probably be for the Ministry's Temple. So that'll take care of 2 of the 5 Realms for Ministry's Temple. For the Time Realm, I think using the Clock idea could work, and changing the clock in the main room could change where the exits go in other rooms perhaps?? Or perhaps it changes what's in rooms (i.e. if the clock is at 9 PM, then you set it to 3 PM, then perhaps there will be a switch that's unveiled or a statue that's moved elsewhere in other rooms??). Chaos Realm could be the teleport maze (everyone love those, right??), but that one could probably have more ideas associated with it.

I COULD probably actually use these in the Council Temple too, but...as mentioned earlier, it might be better to just ax it out entirely from there?? For those wondering why 30 floors btw, Ministry's Temple IS the final dungeon of the game too. Don't worry, I learned to NOT make super big maps, though some maps will still seem quite large.

...You know, you do make a good point about X/X-2 lol. I didn't even think about that bit!