Timewaster's Guide Archive

If I were programming it, I would need to do it on the computer.. Consoles just don't have the buttons to allow the flexibility that I'd like to see in a system like this...

Basically, I would set it up like a First Person game, since  they would allow for more versatility in the movements and actions... Mouse control to move the sight... Right click would lock viewpoint and make the mouse move within the current viewpoint for the sake of selecting a given 'strand' when steel or iron are activated... Selection of the powers would be done via hotkeys, with flares controlled by hitting it twice in rapid succession...

Any metallic object would be given a variable that would indicate its weight, and when fed in an appropriate algorithm, would equate to a semi-translucent bluish beam of relative width when you have Iron or Steel activated... Atium would be done with a bullet-time like system where a semi-translucent shade would be the actual form, and the real would just be a second or two behind it, but capable of being killed..

Emotional Allomancy could be used both in conversations and possibly as a sort of 'jedi mind trick' style thing, where you could increase / decrease the hostility of someone... Imagine the fun of being a rioter and just sitting back and making a guard freak out on a guy for no reason to get into some place without having to kill someone...

Pewter would both increase your attack damage, reduce your damage taken, and when flared, allow you to continue playing even after your life / hp / stamina / whatever is used is depleted... Decrease / eliminate your chances of falling while balanced precariously or something as well...

Hmmmm, the more I think about it, the more I believe it would be a fairly complicated system to actually play effectively, unless you dumbed it down... But the potential fun that you could have in a sandbox like design would make it well worth it, in my opinion... A lot of the concepts would be fairly easily represented, the only thing that I think would prove a challenge for a game designer would be to make zooming through the air, and effective pushing / pulling into a fun thing... I would definitely do it as a first person game though, I don't think that anything else could do the combat / air travel justice.

I've always had the nightmare that Egwene had in the Ter'angreal during her raising stuck in my mind. As an Amyrlin who has never sworn the oaths now in the clutches of Elaida and her flock, I would really love to see if this was a ter'angreal induced Dreaming, or just some weirdness...

There is more, of course, that I'd like to see resolved, but I'd be content with this and Asmodean explained

I enjoyed the story closer to the end, but found in v. 3 that the beginning took a while to hook me and make me really care about things. I hope that subsequent versions have more interest capturing things to go with the implications of the color based system that you have developed.

I will likely pick up the book just to support an author I enjoy, but I don't think I cared for the story quite as much as I did Mistborn or Elantris. That said, once it hit halfway or so, and things started really happening, I was very impressed, and really enjoyed the story.

This makes me wonder if I'm the only Canadian here.

Not the only one! I've actually been trying to get the population of the Wheel of Time based Neverwinter Nights server that I co-created into reading Brandon's work after having read Mistborn.