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SP Storyline Concepts

by geartrooper2 on 05/11/2009 05:31, 65 messages, last message: 05/25/2009 07:15, 34902 views, last view: 05/18/2024 21:46

Here is the place to post ideas for the storyline of the SP Campaign. I have a few of my own;

Castle Defense; Fixit and/or Snout are subject to waves of attack and must defend a mapmodel which the ai have been programmed to attack. The mapmodel has a fixed amount of hitpoints and once destroyed, the game is lost. This concept can closely be attributed to tower defense, where the waves of attack increase in difficulty. Perhaps there even could be barriers with hitpoints which the ai must fight through until reaching the final area. Winning might be impossible, the ultimate end being to post high scores of just how far along you withheld the attacking waves.

Trap Dungeon;
Player must navigate through increasingly difficult levels of traps while fending off attacking monsters, a la Indiana Jones.

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#36: Hull breach

by Megagun_ on 05/14/2009 14:16

You're a security/communications officer aboard a starship carrying hundreds of colonists in suspended animation. The ship is travelling at .85 times the speed of light, and is currently staffed by about 50 people. As soon as you departed your homeland, the staff made the decision that whenever they were to land on the planet they were going for, they would rule the lands and the colonists would be their slaves. You originally were against this plan, but eventually agreed with it, but at gunpoint.

It was any regular normal day without much hiccup, when suddenly an unknown starship of an unknown alien race (your race hadn't met any other aliens yet!) was spotted far behind you, travelling at speeds a bit higher than your own ship, matching course with your ship..

Immediately, a few xenobiologists are waked from suspended animation, to see if they have any valuable insight, but as soon as they figure out the 'plan' of the people staffing the ship, they refuse to cooperate any further.

Hours later, the alien ship is still getting closer and closer, and suddenly it deploys a grappling hook style of device, and begins 'reeling in' your ship!

About an hour later, the aliens begin cutting open the hull of your ship, and start enetering the ship, killing people. What follows is a large standoff between the staff and the aliens. The staff mostly uses improvised weapons, such as blunt objects and modified message/drilling lasers, as originally there weren't any weapons on board.

To you, it is rather clear from the beginning of the hull breach that the staff is fighting a losing battle, and that the colonists should be awoken to fight alongside with the staff, yet a large part of the staff -including the captain- do not agree (they might refuse! look at the xenobiologists!) and prevent you from doing so.

After an especially large battle where a large part of the staff is killed, you and a few likeminded folk manage to make it to the freezer units, awaken the colonists, and regain control over the starship.

After control has been regained, and you try to make the ship break free from the alien ship, you find yourself inable to do so (grappling hook!), and it is decided that the alien ship is to be attacked. From then on, it is an all-out assault against the aliens.