SAM'S PROFILE

Hey guys, first of all, yes, I am alive. Second of all, I was thinking of opening my game with the party at levels 34, 37 and 35 respectively, having the player go through a dungeon area kicking arse and taking names, and reach the boss. At this point in the game the boss will, in this order
1 - Overpower you
2 - Strip you down to level 1, removing all your abilities and equipment
3 - Toss you off his airship

From there on out the game's structure would be similar to that of a normal RPG, you slowly gain your levels again, buy your weapons again, relearn your skills, and so on and so forth.

As for why I'm considering opening the game this way, it shows the player the kind of powers and abilities they'll get to play with, let's them learn how the game is going to work. It also allows me to get straight to some action and get the player engaged straight off the bat. By then taking the powers away, the player has a reason to hate the villain, has a reason to fear the villain as they got their arses handed to them, and knows the potential of each one of their characters.

Of course it could backfire, throw the player off, then make the player simply stop playing and leave the room when they're demoted.

What do you guys think?

I was half tempted to say take a break for Christmas, but then I decided we've all been taking too much of a break as it is. I mean, we've not even had screenshots yet and were almost a third of the way there! So yeah, those of you who have time off for Christmas, do something to your projects!

Thanks to everyone for the descriptions of their worlds last time, I think that's the longest topic we've had since week 1! Apologies for this being late, appropriately this week it's time for a...

Roll Call!

Who's still in this? Who's given up already? And have you (yes you) changed your project entirely and restarted already?

Hey guys, sorry this is a day late. Got home from work last night and a good friend quickly turned up to talk about some stuff he's going through and we ended up chatting til quite late and I've had work again today.

So yeah, four weeks in. Can you believe it's going so quickly? You know the drill ^^;

OK guys, second week in! How's everyone doing so far? It seems we're already at different stages and taking different routes, but that's OK, we all have different methods and workflows, we also have different commitments outside these forums which is what helps make our community so varied and will help give each of your projects a sense of identity.

I don't want anyone to feel that they're not working fast enough or not making much progress. You have until June, Christmas is round the corner and we all have jobs/ college/ whatever, it's perfectly OK if you don't have a single map yet.

Right, after that semi-pep-talk-thing, let's begin week 2!