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denis3
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 Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: The Imperial Spork development |
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Hey. This is the official thread of the Imperial Spork development. The work started some days ago but was paused due to controversies. Now, before I start talking about the development of this spork, I wanted to quote some things.
| Quote: | By the record for implementing new ideas: New ideas, features, objects, etc. will be implemented and changed by the one who actually makes or does it! The nice thing with open source, one can suggest all one wants and come with a lot of ideas, but that doesn't mean that it is added into the game. The one who actually does the job decides what happens with the game.
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I never really trusted this way of working, first, because if people don't like it, all this work will be thrown into the rubbish. Just like it almost happened with my book, I didn't ask anyone to make a book/story based on Egoboo, I just started it and that's it. But later on, it's like all this work of 3 years was just a 2-paged document. That's what I fear, and that's why I ask people before developing my stuff, because later on, all this work could be in vain. (I didn't give up on my book yet though).
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Take PurpleSquerkle for example, since he made a lot of new particles (Which is quite a job) he made it so that with birdsey's help the Particle Engine was extended. I decide which puzzles go into the Catacomb, how the ultimate spork or not is done, which boss it is, what items are balanced, because I'm actually spending time and work on doing it Wink |
Yeh, I also remember the other day when I made a module title for Knife's Heist. I'm not angry about the fact that it wasn't very liked, the thing is I could have really asked if a picture like that would be accepted, which would have been a lot easier and saved some time. But anyways, that's not a big deal, it's just an example.
So maybe my work doesn't get accepted because I'm either not good at doing it, it doesn't fit with the Egoboo spirit, or it doesn't make the game fun. But I cannot really say that it's because I didn't work on it, so that's another reason to ask what I am good at in the forums and what sort of work people liked from me in order to work on it, which is what I am doing, working on the hobogoblin model, I'm sure people will like it. But I don't think I can decide what goes into the very main plot of Egoboo, obviously because I haven't played so many RPG games before and don't have much experience with it, but I still want to do something for it.
I'm going to continue working on The Imperial Spork and ask questions if necessary, I don't care if it gets accepted or not, I just want to do it.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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I think you forgot to put quote tags around your first one... 
And-- hey-- I just thought of an idea. What if the four sporks become the imperial spork AFTER you beat the whole main storyline? Then you could make it really an uber weapon. Well, still not unbeatable, but really good.
What color will it be, and how big?
I'm voting metallic rose-golden purple.
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denis3
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | What color will it be, and how big?
I'm voting metallic rose-golden purple. |
Well the one I am making is currently transparent and violet (and shiny). It has the same size as the other sporks. It still has the same spells as the wand of jester, and I want to give it new ones. I'll see what I can do with it on my way.
| Quote: | | What if the four sporks become the imperial spork AFTER you beat the whole main storyline? |
In my book, I did it this way: Loreanus, who is the main adventurer, walks into the deep caves with his followers and with the Snome army, who helped him battle his way to the ice palace. Later on, everyone runs away because of fear, when they saw ghosts that started appearing suddenly in random positions around them, and Loreanus is the only one who stays in the cave. Later on he mind-controls some creatures and asks them where the king is. They take him there. When he comes, the king is sitting in the cell, and the door is locked...
That's the only good part, it probably stopped being good when the king got rescued quickly, so I'll have to implement a new story into the book that goes like this:
The weak dark creatures become Loreanus' new followers. The lock in Lord Bishop's cell is magical and can only be broken with the will of the dracolich, so Loreanus goes to explore the catacombs and look for him. He hears whispers all over the place that give him clues of where the dracolich is...
I don't know if Loreanus should follow a puzzle to find the dracolich in the book, but after that, this is the sequence:
Loreanus enters the hall of the dracolich, tired of so much fight and walk. He then makes a deal with the dracolich, which is that he will bring peace to his lands during twenty years, but in return, he will come back and take over the whole island and bring back the dark times. Loreanus told him that he agreed to the pact, but as he walked back, he turned around and threw the spork into the dracolich's face. Air friction powered up the spork and gave it so much energy, that it flew like a lightning bolt through the dracolich's skull and turned it into dust. The headless dracolich just fell down in death. The spork was impaled in the wall behind the dracolich, so Loreanus walked over there to pull it out. Although the spork had another, sixth ability; to see the invisible. When he turned around, he saw a black smoke coming out of the dracolich's chest, which was his spirit. With the powers of the spork, he sucked up his spirit into it and the spork just became more powerful. Now he had the will of the dracolich charged up into the spork, but what Loreanus didn't know, is that the will gets transfered to his body in time for holding the spork, that's why he turns evil in the sequel...
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Make sure one of them has to do with COOKIES!
...or not.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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As for the game, maybe the king needs the united Imperial Spork. That is his scepter and it is what gives him the right to rule.
The reason he was able to be captured if that the Imperial Spork was broken up. The very smart kidnappers made the imperial spork the only key that could open the lock, and then broke up the pieces, ...
At the end, you free the king. He asks you for the Imperial Spork so ke can restore his kingdom. YO can choose to give the spork to him and he gives you a gift. OR, you could choose to keep the spork to become king yourself, but if you do you will have to fight a big battle OR maybe your alignment goes to something so that you are hunted by all creatures. Or maybe the spork breaks into its pieces after it is used X times. |
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denis3
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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That would change a little bit too much of the current works based on Egoboo and my current works based on the book, generally because the spork is meant to be "forged by the dark ones". But the good idea of your post is that you can give the player a choice, which makes the game fun to play, and letting the player make his own history, it's just a game after all.
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| denis3 wrote: | | That would change a little bit too much of the current works based on Egoboo |
It is a kind of paraphrase of the idea above. In your idea, recovering the spork is what makes Loreanus king, especially since his deal with the dracolitch is what empowered his ability to rule.
The idea of the spork breaking was based on the fact that you don't want an ultra-powerful artifact running around for too long, but also because you are not the Evil Imperial Spork's "chosen one" that is King Bishop...
OH, and also, ther was an idea that certain items would say things to the character every so often. A blade cursed called "Hunger" would complain about hinger if you didn't kill often enough...
What would the Imperial Spork do? Give you visions of Dark Glory??? |
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"%n, join me! It is the only way this can end!"
"No, %n, I AM your father!"
"One Spork to rule them all..."
"They say the idea of the Nazgul being invisible has a certain ring to it."
"Kill them. Kill them now."
"We are the Spork. Resistance is futile."
"Do you feel the anger coursing through you? Use it, %n. Kill me! If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
"Know the power of the dark side."
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| "All you SPORK are belong to us" |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Ohman, that's a good one. I can't believe I didn't think of that.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: |
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What does 'all you base are belong to us' mean anyway? 
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It came from a badly translated arcade game, Zero Wing.
It's filled with many little nuggets of nonsense hilarity, like "someone set up us the bomb."
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I hope the translators got hanged.
And how about "All you need is loathe"?
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