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Eisenstern : The RPG project

by Aardappel_ on 05/10/2006 01:20, 317 messages, last message: 12/12/2010 14:57, 205186 views, last view: 12/09/2021 04:10, closed on 12/12/2010 15:10

As you all know, we have been silently prototyping the RPG project for a while now, mainly in the form of Levels and design.

Today marks the day of the more official start of the project, with a name, a domain, and something hinting at a game design.

Check out the website: http://eisenstern.com/

Particularly note the design notes linked from that page. If you want to have your say about the direction this RPG is going, or feel that certain features "won't work well", then now is a good time to discuss that, in this thread :)

Just because we have a website doesn't mean that we should start announcing this project everywhere, unlike most people, I don't like advertising thing that I am going to do, I prefer showing what I have done :) But it is good to have a home for the project, because we'll shift a lot of our focus towards it as the FPS is getting more mature.

I will be doing some of the core gamecode for this project soon, so people can start to play around with it.

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#25: Re: ..

by Aardappel_ on 05/11/2006 05:43, refers to #22

I think you're all misinterpreting the "no levelling" thing. We will have no levelling, but the way the gameplay with items works it has almost the same effect. i.e. by progressing you'll collect more and more items that when carried, will have an effect on your stats.

So for example for damage, you will start out with weak weapons that do a certain amount of damage, and migrate to be able to find/afford more powerful versions. In addition to this, you will be able to carry special artifacts that enhance you damage. Some these artifacts can be produced from combining things you collect from the monsters you slay, etc.

The net effect will be similar, except that you are now much more flexible, in that instead of gaining levels by repetition, you now can additionally gain them by stealing/buying/selling/combining items, trying to kill specific monsters out of your league etc. Just more variety, more creative solutions to gameplay progression.

We will have a stats window that displays for every attribute (such as damage), what the current items you own add up to. This functions similar as levels.

Passa: we're doing a LOT of things different than any RPG before us. But you could do worse than look at oblivian/morrowind, or gothic I/II. Though our game will not be like these games, they come the closest, and have lots of good ideas.

Storyline will be more organic/atmospheric than just linear storytelling. Think of being in a world where every character has their own weird things going on, and as you progress, this will form more and more into a "story". In games, YOU should MAKE the story, it should not be TOLD to you.

Yes, maps will be bigger and heavier than the FPS, so you need a higher pc spec. But its still minimal compared to Oblivian :)

shadow: as the text says, you are naturally limited to a small part of the world, because you will get you ass kicked if you venture out too far from the initial area. As you gain power, you naturally can go into more areas. The world will be populated with monsters from weak to super strong to give you something to discover as you grow more powerful, and the quests will take this into account.