Timewaster's Guide Archive

Most of the information came from Brandon's blog, specifically the post at . . .

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/737/Poster-Near-Final-Version

Does he still sell those posters??

This is your project, but I have to say. . . that is the one thing that I really don't like about this project.  It is more appealing to players if they gain something from playing.  I personally hate it when I get nothing from a game the next time I play.

Since this is a FPS and not a true RPG it will not take hours and hours of game play to become maxed out in stats.  After maybe an hour, at most 2, you will have full stats again.  So when you come back it will not take that long to level back up.

Besides, if you kept your stats in a FPS, it will get really old very fast because you will have nothing to level up to.

I'm a programmer.  I know how these things work. 

BTW GUYS:  Brandon gave us the go ahead.

Glad to hear that Brandon gave us the go ahead.

But as for this game, it will definately not be an MMO.  I want to create something that is feasible (meaning that we can actually accomplish it) and will not take more than a few months (hopefully) to develop. 

Making a Half Life 2 mod will be the easiest way to go.  The game will focus on having fun but in a fast paced way that Half Life 2 engine is the king of. 

MMOs are not meant to be fast paced, nor will it be something that we can accomplish as they are a full time job with all of the patches and balancing that has to go into it.

After we make this mod and we all get a good understanding of how to code a video game and make them fun and exciting THEN I wouldnt mind at least looking into the idea of an MMO, but for now this will stay as a standard multiplayer HL2 game.

Hmmmmmm.

Not gonna lie, I'm not sure I like that idea.  I was under the impression it would be like a normal MMO except it's in first person.

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to create an MMO?  That would be a full time job for the next few years.  I don't have that sort of time, hence why I am only making a mod.

Quests...this is a multiplayer game.  There are no quests in this type of game.  This is just going to be a deathmatch, team deathmatch (with the three houses), or Capture the Flag.  All of those are the typical HalfLife2 multiplayer games.

The reason why we have experience is the make each player different.  You don't get the xp by doing quests, you get it by killing players with pewter burning.  Or flying over buildings. Or affecting people with rioting/soothing and the such.

Writing. I'd like to work on the writing.

Thanks for volunteering.  I have an idea that you can do in regards to writing.  You can draw/setup how the different menus are going to look.

What I mean is that we are going to need a screen/menu for when they launch the game...what will they see.  What does the screen look like when the user is filling their vial?  What does the HUD look like in a game?  Stuff like that.

To go into a little bit more detail:

If you actually decide to help us you and do this, make sure that the following criteria is met:

Vial Selection Screen:

• Needs to have a picture of an empty vial at first which fills up whenever they add the different metals to it.  This can be on the left
• On the right hand part of the screen needs to be 8 small pictures of something that represents each metal.  Maybe these pictures can be the same pics from the metal chart in the back of the Mistborn books.
• Also, if the user mouses over a picture of pewter, then a small description of pewter, what it does, what is the name of the 'class' that is well known for using it (Thug) and such and such...

Heads Up Display (HUD)

• This is what the user will mostly see.  As this will be the items on screen while they are playing the game
• This is going to need the normal stuff (minimap, 'spell' bar, experience bars (for the metals and for general),HP
• We will also have to add things that our game needs.  For instance, we will need a smaller picture of a vial which represents how much of each metal the Mistborn still has.  Every time 1mL of anything is burned away, then the vial needs to show that difference

I can not think of anything else off the top of my head, but you should get a general idea.

Whenever you are finished with this, can you get it to me somehow?  Through email or something?

Three houses in Luthadel? Or perhaps one from the outside (like Cett)? And are we just doing multi-player, or campaigns, rpg, co-op?

As far as the three houses, I don't remember the names of them really.  I guess that Cett could work if we can not find three good house names to fight each other in the city.  I was sort of thinking that each map in this game will be inspired by a different section of Luthadel.

And on to your other question.  Yes the game is going to be FPS multiplayer.  RPG would be too complicated as we would have to have voice acting, a ton of different models for the Mistborn to connect with and communicate with.  There would have to be a story and a many different levels that would have to be rather large.  So for now, it will just be multiplayer games.  If this mod actually gets largely popular maybe we can add on a single player section.  But for now, we are just focused on multiplayer.

Thanks again for showing interest in this game.  I hope that one day soon we can all play it and have a blast together.

OK!  So, I'm going to make another thread after a while to keep track of who's doing what and assignments,
but for now we can put it on this post here.

No need to create a new post.  I will just keep updating the original post with the current information as to who is doing what. 

Right now it is just you who is working on the coding and myself who is designing a level.  Hopefully we will get more people involved and actually need to have a new thread.  But until then I think we should keep it all confined to one thread.

I think that we should wait to contact Brandon until we have something actually made.  Right now we are just in brainstorming phase with nothing to show for it.