[COMMUNITY PROJECT] MISSIONGARDE -- CLASS REFINING IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the latest hairbrained community game idea from your most beloved admin kentona! My goal is to create a generic mission-based RPG in RM2k3 with the communty's help! Together, we will design a game framework which I will implement in RM2k3 - classes, weapons, spells, items, attributes, conditions, battle commands - afterwhich I will make a basic mision, then pass it off to another community member to make the next mission!



My game-designing itch is back, and while I have some rough ideas about a potential Generica II, I think Missiongarde would be more fun to make.

My previous attempt at a community game (Generica (not my latest game, but the old community project from which I stole the name)) failed primarily because the scope grew far too large for any one person to handle. But some good came of it - Hellion which used a lot of the skilltree and outside-of-battle skills ideas we tossed about, and Generica which used the story, history and setting we cooked up as it's basic premise. Neither one lived up to the original Generica dream, but something good came of it, right? (Right?)

So, it got too big. Solution: limit the scope to arbitrarily small limits! The game framework needs to be small enough for one person (me) to make in a reasonable amount of time (3 weeks, say). After we decide on some basic points, I will create the game, and make a Mission - a collection of related quests with a conclusion. I will then pass off the project to one person, and they can create their own Mission. I will set some guidelines up, and some structure beforehand. We can restrict missions by requiring the player to have certain thresholds they have to meet before they embark on a mission - say, average party level, or certain items (like a key), or certain classes (like, say, a female-comprised-party-only mission!).

Thus, I make the framework based on a community designed game! And then it becomes a chaingame.



The basic premise is this:

- You are a group of heroes in the city of Missiongarde
- You have a stable of 8 blank slate party members (4 males, 4 females (makes things easier))
- You can assign party members a class, provided you have the associated Class Crystal in your inventory
- Class Crystals can be purchased with Class Points, with more powerful/advanced classes costing more
- You change your active party by visiting your Stable
- You embark on a mission by doing something (talking to an NPC) in Missiongarde
- Do mission, win gold, EXP, and class points.
- Repeat!



- I will be using RM2k3.
- I'm using Generica as a base model for things like Attributes, general stat progression for classes, tileset, and battle system template
- I'm using Dragon Warrior IV graphics and music (at least, that style)
- max 8 party members only - adding more charactrs adds a lot of tedious work. (I'm open to the idea of fewer party members, like 4)
- 4 party members are male, 4 party members are female - no picking of genders (again, because it's less work)
- be detailed in your design ideas
- I will create the framework and first mission




This section will contain our designs as we finalize them.

Classes


Battle Commands


Spells


Attributes


Conditions


Equipment


Usable Items







So, first things first! Let's draw up some class ideas!

For now, I figure we have about 8 playable characters, thus we should probably decide upon at least 8 classes. Realistically, though, I wouldn't go with more than 20, because it jus gets unweildly from there, and we start getting a lot of overlap in skillsets.

The Class Rank is just a generalization of how powerful you feel the class is relative to other classes. Like, a Soldier would be a Basic class, while a Paladin would be Advanced (a soldier who can heal!) while a Templar (from Hero's Realm, who can heal, cast black magic and effect magic AND can attack x2 per round) would be Elite.

For spells, and magic in general, let's go with the FF5 style for designing. Like, say you were suggestion a Mage who deals with attack magic. His battle commands would include:
FIGHT
BLACK MAGIC
ITEM
ESCAPE
...and his spells would list the type of magic spells he can cast.

For spells, I think that general Fire 1, Fire 2, FireAll 1, Heal 1, Heal 2, Haste, HasteAll, etc... will work (unless you guys want Fire/Firemore/Firemost-type spell names?). Explain any non-obvious spells, please.








Soldier
Class Rank: Basic
Class Points: 500 points (arbitrarily chosen)
Description:
The basic fighter class, with access to good equipment. Slow, good HP, and packs a punch.

HP: 6
MP: 0
STR: 6
DEF: 5
INT: 1
AGL: 1

Battle Commands: (Explain any new ones)
FIGHT
ITEM
ESCAPE

Spells:
None

Condition/Attribute Resistances:
None.

Dual Wield? No
Mighty Guard? No
AI Control? No
Lock Equip.? No
EXP leveling: Average
Equipment Notes:
Can equip heavy weapons, heavy armors, heavy shields and heavy helms. Can't equip mage-like weapons (like wands or robes) but can equip most anything else.
*This will be refined once the master equipment list is drawn up*

General Notes:
A basic fighter class. Probably should be available from the start of the game. The cost of 500 class points is a good base cost. Most basic classes should cost around 500 points (more or less depending on the class's usefulness).



DESIGN SIGN-UPS ::..
1. kentona
2. Fallen-Griever
3. Darken
4. Craze
5. Max McGee
6. Liberty
7. NoblemanNick
8. ChaosProductions
9. GreatRedSpirit
10. Mr.L
11. GameOverProductions
12. AeroGP
13. yamata no orochi
14. Blitzen
15. maia
16. MayorAnime
17. Natook
18. Karsuman
19. DE
20. Chartley
21. Mr.Nemo

Did I miss anyone? Or include someone who's not in?

CHAINGAME SIGN-UPS ::..
1. kentona
2. ??

Well, I already have rips from NES DW games and made some battlechars out of a handful of them. Plus they are really easy to work with (for someone of my talent level).

But if someone can get a hold of them (and a bunch of matching monsters - FF4 monsters?)

Or we can use FF4 and FF5 style graphics.

I like both those classes, btw.

Why Fire spells though?