Kezza921

Characters is the issue since you are the only character. That being said there are a few characters that do show up very frequently to help or hinder you (depending on which side you take). The problem is that most of the time you are the only one fighting, you do have the odd time where you're a leader. On the side of the story I have general ideas for all the paths including the last part, which will boil down to one thing. Some of the factions saw this coming but it took most by surprise and well things get worse from there as the factions have to fight for survival. There will be hints on how to battle them throughout the game (a bit cliche and it needs work).

The age system will truly only effect humans because the others are to long lived. This may seem unfair to humans but they have a ton of things that make it up to them and many ways to stop the aging process. Also if you have been playing my game long enough to die of old age I will be very surprised (for a single year with totally uninterrupted gameplay (Travel, Researching and other things time skip) you will need about 121 hours to reach another year older.) As I have said in my blog, I will be looking for people to help after I have finished the foundations.

Once I get stage 1 out of the way I will be seeing if I can get others to help.

This is the start of a BIG project I am working on so here is the idea. I hope to finish Stage 1 (foundations) in two weeks time. WORLD: Well the actually main world is in the real modern world but that wont be it. This "plane" is only one of many each with it's own civilizations and some civilizations control more that one "plane" while other are similar to this world in they don't think it exists. It will be running on a time system so even while your off somewhere doing something a war might be raging that you don't know about. (I have half an idea how I am going to do that). Some myths and legends from history will play rolls in the lore and races you will encounter. This is also true with some artifacts/relics you may be able to find. CHARACTER: Well first off you are the only character in your party, however you can summon things to assist (get to that later). It starts with a very short description of your past and how little you know of it but it goes into a quiz sort of thing and that will define your gender, race, skills, abilities and if your a good person or not. Your race governs some of your starting abilities and your later ones that you get much later on...and yes even being a normal human gets there advantages. The skills you would have are for things like diplomacy, magic, researching etc Races: (Most of them have sub-races that appear as you progress though the game and as you go further into your heritage) Dragon Elf Demonic Angelic Shape-shifter Human MAGIC: Magic is an interesting one...especially in this world. You have a fair few different types of magic (Arcane, Elements, White, Black, Astral (Summoning and dealing with other planes) and Tech (Pretty much magic based technology where magic is the power source)). Your choices that you decide in the quiz gives you your base starting spells and skill in those spells. Most spells require components to use (But you cannot carry everything with you at once *inventory will be limited*) and you are unable to learn some spells if you don't have the right amount of skill in that are. The more you use spells from that area the more skill you have in that area. Cantrips (basic spells the require little or no mana and require no components have to skill requirement). When looking at the spells not all are to be used in combat some are to be used outside of combat. A bit more on how your "alignment" will effect your summoning. For example if you were to try and summon a helper if you were an evil person a demon or another evil creature would come to your aid and the same for your good aligned creatures. STORY: Well I will be honest here the story is a work in progress, the current running idea at the moment is the game is very open world where you pick your path but it will all lead to one inevitable end. As stated before it was to start with the quiz and then a small gap of a few years with you in your home town. Where you receive a letter from the person you asked you the quiz the years before asking to meet them in London. You leave your town say your goodbyes etc and when you get there you get taught the ropes and get given your starting gear and that's it for the tutorial. From there you are almost on your own, you can ask your teacher for ideas on where to go or you can look at a book in your starting gear which will give you a few places you could go to find work and explore the planes before you. GAMEPLAY: Pretty much as stated before time will pass so if a war is raging some planes will change the controlling faction over time. This is same said for your character and any family you may have; you will age over time and this will be shown on your character and you will eventually die of old age (Different old age death for each race). This will happen unless you find a way to stop the aging process and this would be done by a few different ways...some will effect you more than just you no longer aging. To get anywhere in the planes you will most likely have to earn it. You get your starting gear and that's it...no more freebies, if you want a spell or something you need to either research it (random roll based on your research skill), get taught it or you have to go out and find it. The world will not circle around you. If you go to a plane where giant man eating monsters who can kill a man easily; are said to live...you are going to see those giant man eating monsters there. So before you want to go into the unknown try to get information beforehand. There will be an encyclopedia and bestiary you can look into and it will grow as you discover more (I need to figure out how to do that and any help would be amazing) There will be a ton of secrets out there such as artifacts/relics, spells (That have been lost to the sands of time) and perhaps a plane for you to build on. However not all the secrets are good secrets, some things might be better not found as they might cost you your life.

Well I have started making my game and I thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback on the base idea for it. Well basically the game mostly revolves around magic so if you want a pure fighter class it might take some effort to be at that stage. I will start off my explaining the world, character/s, magic, story and finally gameplay. (I wont be explaining 100% of it but you will hopefully get the idea) WORLD: Well the actually main world is in the real modern world but that wont be it. This "plane" is only one of many each with it's own civilizations and some civilizations control more that one "plane". It will be running on a time system so even while your off somewhere doing something a war might be raging that you don't know about. (I have half an idea how I am going to do that). Some myths and legends from history will play rolls in the lore and races you will encounter. This is also true with some artifacts/relics you may be able to find. CHARACTER/S: Well first off you are the only character in your party, however you can summon things to assist (get to that later). It starts with a very short description of your past and how little you know of it but it goes into a quiz sort of thing and that will define your gender, race, skills, abilities and if your a good person or not. Your race governs some of your starting abilities and your later ones that you get much later on...and yes even being a normal human gets there advantages. The skills you would have are for things like diplomacy, magic, researching etc MAGIC: Magic is an interesting one...especially in this world. You have a fair few different types of magic (Arcane, Elements, White, Black, Astral (Summoning and dealing with other planes) and Tech (Pretty much magic based technology where magic is the power source)). Your choices that you decide in the quiz gives you your base starting spells and skill in those spells. Most spells require components to use (But you cannot carry everything with you at once *inventory will be limited*) and you are unable to learn some spells if you don't have the right amount of skill in that are. The more you use spells from that area the more skill you have in that area. Cantrips (basic spells the require little or no mana and require no components have to skill requirement). When looking at the spells not all are to be used in combat some are to be used outside of combat. A bit more on how your "alignment" will effect your summoning. For example if you were to try and summon a helper if you were an evil person a demon or another evil creature would come to your aid and the same for your good aligned creatures. STORY: Well I will be honest here the story is a work in progress, the current running idea at the moment is the game is very open world where you pick your path but it will all lead to one inevitable end. As stated before it was to start with the quiz and then a small gap of a few years with you in your home town. Where you receive a letter from the person you asked you the quiz the years before asking to meet them in London. You leave your town say your goodbyes etc and when you get there you get taught the ropes and get given your starting gear and that's it for the tutorial. From there you are almost on your own, you can ask your teacher for ideas on where to go or you can look at a book in your starting gear which will give you a few places you could go to find work and explore the planes before you. GAMEPLAY: Pretty much as stated before time will pass so if a war is raging some planes will change the controlling faction over time. This is same said for your character and any family you may have; you will age over time and this will be shown on your character and you will eventually die of old age (Different old age death for each race). This will happen unless you find a way to stop the aging process and this would be done by a few different ways...some will effect you more than just you no longer aging. To get anywhere in the planes you will most likely have to earn it. You get your starting gear and that's it...no more freebies, if you want a spell or something you need to either research it (random roll based on your research skill), get taught it or you have to go out and find it. The world will not circle around you. If you go to a plane where giant man eating monsters who can kill a man easily; are said to live...you are going to see those giant man eating monsters there. So before you want to go into the unknown try to get information beforehand. There will be an encyclopedia and bestiary you can look into and it will grow as you discover more (I need to figure out how to do that and any help would be amazing) There will be a ton of secrets out there such as artifacts/relics, spells (That have been lost to the sands of time) and perhaps a plane for you to build on. However not all the secrets are good secrets, some things might be better not found as they might cost you your life. Thank you for reading and I look forward to any feedback you might have. and sorry for any mistakes it was after 2am that I did this.

I am working on my games and it revolves around magic in a unusual setting. For magic spells I have two ideas on how they will work. First off they both require components to cast spells but the problem I have at the moment is how they will be used. There are similarities between the two such as a spell focus and item that is required to cast a spell through. You also have cantrips minor spells that use no component and requires little or no mana to cast. The first idea (and personal favourite) is you find/buy some components and say they have 10 uses. You use a spell that uses 1 of those so you cans cast that spell 10 times. However some more difficult/powerful spells might you 2 or 3 of those components. In this instance you will have to keep finding/buying new components. The second is that you find the components and that's it you don't need to get any more because it assumes you will always have enough to cast. However for some special components the first idea will still take place. So please tell me which one you prefer and like I said I am partial to the first one.

I found this and just wow I fully intend to use it.

I am making a game and I intend to put high tech stuff with magic. I am not sure how it would go since there are two combat styles 1. is in your mecha 2. is on foot I have several races while they look the same the each give bonuses to each. While in your mecha I plan to have it so that you can use magic but its not ideal for it (e.g. you can make a magic shield or charge a weapon with mana). While on foot is when magic comes into its own very good for attack and defense. What I really want to know is how people think they would work and would it be any good? Any replies are appreciated =)