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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0003271Valley 1Gameplay IdeaJan 25, 2012 3:14 pm
ReporterChris_McElligottPark Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Summary0003271: Mutterings to self.
DescriptionMarisa and I were talking about introducing certain things in the game for the first time, such as when the players first encounter some new civilization from another time period, or when they first see a wrecked interior of a house, or when they first see an alien-looking sky.

Since the characters are alone most of the time, they'd need to stop and remark to themselves on this strange phenomena the first time. This would be one effective way of having drawing the player's attention to some of the stranger things going on, without beating them over the head with it or making commentary all the time.

When the character stops to comment, the character could become invincible like they just entered the area, and then the text window pops up. When they hit ok, it leaves them in the invincibility until they move or whatever, again like coming into the level fresh again.

Just wanted to note this down to remember it!
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keith.lamothe

Apr 15, 2011 4:43 pm

administrator   ~0011921

When I first saw the issue title I thought it was a description of your activity while creating the record, rather than a description of the feature you were thinking about ;)

But yea, some sort of "cabbaging" (the iconic example of which is the "Captain's Log" from Star Trek) is necessary for the character to pass some info onto the actual player. Making them invincible in the meantime could have issues, but not doing so would also have issues. Some games just tell you you've got a new lore entry or whatnot and you can look at it at your leisure, but that has it's own issues (notably, even relatively lore-interested players just not thinking to make time to do it). Will need to think about this one.

Chris_McElligottPark

Apr 18, 2011 11:37 am

administrator   ~0011953

All good. :)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Apr 15, 2011 4:38 pm Chris_McElligottPark New Issue
Apr 15, 2011 4:38 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status new => assigned
Apr 15, 2011 4:38 pm Chris_McElligottPark Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Apr 15, 2011 4:43 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0011921
Apr 18, 2011 11:37 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0011953
Jan 25, 2012 3:14 pm tigersfan Internal Weight => Feature Suggestion
Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Suggestion - Gameplay => Gameplay Idea