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[Morgan]

I, too, agree that we should all join efforts. Many people on one project is better than a bunch of tiny ones.

[Razgrizblaze1]

This does seem to be an interesting prospect and I would love to discuss it more, particularly on my skepticism of making the game an RPG. Aside from my initial question of whether it would be turn-based, real-time, or action, there's the bigger question on scripting the entire leveling system, abilities chart, and UI. The complexity of such a script leaves me with a headache at the mere thought of programming it. I'm up for combining for a community project, but only after discussing just what EXACTLY this game is going to be. I don't want to jump into this before a consensus is made, or else we'll be marching into failure because an impossible decision was made early on.

-Blaze

[Razgrizblaze1]

Well, judging by what you've just told me, it looks like you don't need my help. I really don't know what more I could do for you except model, and that gets boring without anything else to break up the monotony. (Like character scripting, animation, and graphics design.) Right now I'm testing out the Static Ambient Occlusion for my original project and the tests, while a little unstable, are giving me good feedback. I'd be happy to give you guys models as I create them. (IF you need them...which I'm sure you're going to come up and say to me you have a great modeler already and point me to the door.)

Still skeptical about my involvement since it looks like I'd be more of a roadblock!

-Blaze

[Valerie Valens]

I gave out some basic info on the game a while ago during a spontaneous brainstorm session. To add to what Tyrone says, the gameplay will be very much modeled after Secret of Mana. However, the question of whether I am able to flesh it out fully remains since I am already working on designing a platformer/fighter/adventure game myself. In any case, I shall see what I can do. I already am toying with ideas to streamline the combat system so that large-scale fights can be implemented.

If things fall through on that end, you can always count on me to do music and concept art.

Oh by the way, I will most likely be registering a channel on esper to discuss our ideas on the condition that I will see you guys connect regularly. Once we get something off the ground, I will start a collaborative development blog where all members of the development team can post entries to.

There is going to be a lot of document sharing, and it will be messy. So I really urge you to get a google account so you can use Google Docs. With google docs, one could share and edit each other's documents freely with the given permissions. My Google address is ValkyrieProductions@gmail.com

EDIT : Okay I set up a channel. You can connect via your IRC client here or use the following info to manually connect :

Server : irc.esper.net
Port : 5555,6667
Channel : #FUS-Gamedev

Looking forward to seeing you there.

[acstrife]

Well, Im no programmer or artist. I can offer any voice acting, or story ideas if that is of any use to your project?

[SBaby]

I wouldn't be able to invest enough time to actually be on the team itself (by that I mean the time I would be able to invest probably wouldn't be enough to help you all that much), but at the very least I can give you a bit of advice about a SatAM RPG. Most of it is just opinion, but I am a dedicated RPG fan and I've seen alot of engines that work really well, and many more that don't work quite as well. Anyway, there are two suggestions I would like to share with you.

First (and probably the most important one), make sure each character has at least one distinct field ability, thus getting the player to use every playable character in the game. Most characters in SatAM have one thing they're particularly good at, so if you go off that, you should be able to put the whole cast to use in the gameplay.

Second, if you're using any type of turn-based battle system (I don't know if that's what you meant by the above post), I highly recommend a Grandia III-like battle system. I know I tend to go on about this part and I don't normally link to videos, but let me show you a couple real quick. Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1GgQed ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2e18nKFA9U

As I said, I don't normally link to videos, but there usually seems to be alot of skepticism when the words Sonic and RPG are used in the same sentence. But as you can see, with a battle system like the above, the action gets plenty frantic and definitely keeps the player pumped without feeling like it drags the game down. I think it could work for a SatAM RPG.

[Valerie Valens]

Actually the gameplay will be quite simillar to Fallout3/Oblivion, only with a lot more stealth and some massive fight scenes.

Thanks for the suggestion anyways.

[randomizer]

If you actually mean PhysX, then you're limiting the physics capabilities of the game to NVIDIA hardware. You're not going to add a TWIMTBP logo as well are you?

[Valerie Valens]

My role is as a composer at the very least.