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Customization Mechanic - Diary
I have an idea for a fun, RP-centric character customization mechanic -- the Diary.
The basic concept is that at certain intervals, the main character/PC would write in their diary and respond to recent plot events. These responses would be player-controlled, and so would make intimate the experience of the plot.
Each plot event the character could respond to would be represented by a "keyword." When writing a diary entry, the player would choose a keyword from the word bank he or she had accumulated so far, and then choose a primary emotional response. (Note: emphasis on primary.)
For the more involved role-players, the player would also be able to type sentences containing a single keyword and then type responses containing a single emotional response word. (For example, you could type a whole paragraph denoting your feelings as the main character. As long as, per each keyword, there came an emotional response word before any other keywords, everything would check out fine.)
The data collected by these diary entries has any number of obvious consequences: you can use it to determine class customization, as a platform of abstraction for choices (that is, you can potentially make the plot change based on solely these reactions), anything you set your mind to.
Without regards to feasibility, does this seem like reasonable design to anyone?
And then with regards to feasibility, does this seem viable? It seems like if we could figure out how to make this, we could make it modular/pluggable enough that it could just be a shared script and people could import this functionality and use it at their leisure.
What do you guys think?
The basic concept is that at certain intervals, the main character/PC would write in their diary and respond to recent plot events. These responses would be player-controlled, and so would make intimate the experience of the plot.
Each plot event the character could respond to would be represented by a "keyword." When writing a diary entry, the player would choose a keyword from the word bank he or she had accumulated so far, and then choose a primary emotional response. (Note: emphasis on primary.)
For the more involved role-players, the player would also be able to type sentences containing a single keyword and then type responses containing a single emotional response word. (For example, you could type a whole paragraph denoting your feelings as the main character. As long as, per each keyword, there came an emotional response word before any other keywords, everything would check out fine.)
The data collected by these diary entries has any number of obvious consequences: you can use it to determine class customization, as a platform of abstraction for choices (that is, you can potentially make the plot change based on solely these reactions), anything you set your mind to.
Without regards to feasibility, does this seem like reasonable design to anyone?
And then with regards to feasibility, does this seem viable? It seems like if we could figure out how to make this, we could make it modular/pluggable enough that it could just be a shared script and people could import this functionality and use it at their leisure.
What do you guys think?
Not your average greetings post (I hope)
I've never understood these moments --
the moments where you stop, ask the world to look at you and accept you, risk yourself for the chance to extend your identity into adopting affiliation anew; and so often they are unfulfilling. Many will come here, receive welcomings, and know that they aren't known.
I want to mix that up a little bit.
What kind of person are you, the audience of this post? What of me can you see through the glass of your screen?
I have a hypothetical situation for you to consider, and two questions to answer. Feel free to disregard them, but it should be fun, and it'll help me in a number of ways:
Here's the scenario:
Now, my questions are:
the moments where you stop, ask the world to look at you and accept you, risk yourself for the chance to extend your identity into adopting affiliation anew; and so often they are unfulfilling. Many will come here, receive welcomings, and know that they aren't known.
I want to mix that up a little bit.
What kind of person are you, the audience of this post? What of me can you see through the glass of your screen?
I have a hypothetical situation for you to consider, and two questions to answer. Feel free to disregard them, but it should be fun, and it'll help me in a number of ways:
- I get to feel like an individual.
- I get to truly communicate (read: have two-way conversation!) with the community, hopefully providing some semblance of fulfilling relationship construction.
- You guys get the chance to feel fulfilled (if you find my questions interesting) just by thinking about things!
Here's the scenario:
I have, in the palms of my hands, a book and a pen. I want you to consider the relationship between these two objects. This book can only be written in by this pen, and this pen can only write in this book. This book is empty, holding only blank pages. Neither object has any utility outside of the constraints of their relationship (i.e. the pen can only be used as a writing utensil and cannot be used, say, as an eye gouger, and the book can only be used as a content storage and retrieval tool).
Now, my questions are:
- Do you think either of these two objects is more powerful than the other? Why?
- Do you respect either object more?
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