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Post by kalenraider40 on Apr 28, 2024 16:29:45 GMT -5
so uhh... a LONG while back i got RPGmaker XP for free on steam because of a sale that happened, i was vibin' with it for a while (y'know like watching tutorials and stuff) and made a silly project about sewers of something and also it had an gag with knucle's extended fammily, probably not gonna finish it. Butt i thought, why not we make an colaborative RPG game from the forums, i think i'd be fun!
Say if yaal like this idea we should start with an setting in mind...
What about low fantasy, in medieval times with magic not beeing comon to people, normaly made with an plot that doesn't involve an BBEG (big bad evil guy) but instead an story about the character conflict in the maing group, fairly booring if you like magic and those fantastical things.
Meanwhille high fantasy, the standard RPG setting, you know it you probably love it! But it's been done to death. this is the safe offer to anyone making an game...
But what about an cy-fy setting? I haven't heard that many cy-fy RPGs outside of final fantasy and the tales of series... and the xeno series... it has a LOT of potential, like an cyberpunk reality where humans and machines look more alike than ever, or an world where machines are more "eviromentalist" and analog like in the animes eureka 7 and bounen no xamdou!
Or maybe an story set in the times of modernity, anywhere between the 80's and well today! this one is mostly used for those "artsy games about depression or something" like omourei or [insert twitter fandom game here]... though those games are good in their own right people are anoying about them, we could do so much more with this setting like shin megami tensei series, revelations persona, persona 2 or persona 2. (not the rest of the persona series if you ask)
Maybe you want something more experimental and different an place where the imagination runs wildly and has endless possibility of where it could go. But it does have it's own repercutions how will you build up an idea without anything to back it up? will people like this even?
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Post by MilesMcSmiles on Apr 28, 2024 21:08:00 GMT -5
My "other" vote is for a post apocalyptic setting, perhaps something akin to SMT
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Post by mell on Apr 29, 2024 15:08:19 GMT -5
i also voted 'other', had the idea that the party members are exploring (and maybe trying to escape?) a shared dream
i'd love to help work on it, whatever you end up going with :] i have a bit of experience with vx ace, so it'll be fun to learn different versions of rpg maker
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Post by kalenraider40 on May 3, 2024 12:53:39 GMT -5
i'm gonna warn everyone by saying i'm closing the setting poll tomorow night, so if you wanna vote for it DO IT NOW!!!
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Post by kalenraider40 on May 5, 2024 6:47:07 GMT -5
looks like there's a tie between low fantasy and cy-fy. well we could either make an tie breaker poll for the both of them, or make a game that merges both low fantasy and cy-fy! if we are going with the latter what about making the setting be at first low fantasy but with a bunch of things off, like there beeing an ancient civilisation with tecnology far too advanced for the era they come from, or how most of the fields and places dotted around the world have theese giant gray walls with windows and trees and plants growing on it's sides.
Until we get an plot twist that the world is actually set in the post apocalipse where humanity was almost extinct only surviving through an cloning, but in consequence humanity was set back into the middle ages.
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Post by kalenraider40 on May 12, 2024 12:19:17 GMT -5
seeing that it is REALLY slow to do this in a forum thread... i decided to make an whole discord thing so it will be easyer for us to coordinate the process of all of this: it's this one i just think it's better to make it here instead.
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Post by MilesMcSmiles on May 29, 2024 19:50:13 GMT -5
looks like there's a tie between low fantasy and cy-fy. well we could either make an tie breaker poll for the both of them, or make a game that merges both low fantasy and cy-fy! if we are going with the latter what about making the setting be at first low fantasy but with a bunch of things off, like there beeing an ancient civilisation with tecnology far too advanced for the era they come from, or how most of the fields and places dotted around the world have theese giant gray walls with windows and trees and plants growing on it's sides. Until we get an plot twist that the world is actually set in the post apocalipse where humanity was almost extinct only surviving through an cloning, but in consequence humanity was set back into the middle ages. I have had a idea similar to this brewing in my head for a few years now and I've been meaning to share it here ever since I saw this. I could go on for pages and pages about this but I'll try to keep it short. So the idea I had for a world like this is like a post apocalyptic world where a huge nuclear war took out all of the worlds governments, but the world is set several hundred years after the apocalypse (like 300-500 or so range) and it's to the point where its not really a post apocalyptic setting anymore, the world has returned to a new normal and its now in a medieval like state. So the world is now kind of like the middle ages/ renaissance times but at the same time humanity still has knowledge of how to make things like automatic guns and they have modern science knowledge. But at the same time they don't have access to oil or large amounts of fossil fuels and no way to refine them like we do today so there would be no engines or tractors to help with farming or cars or anything like that. They also wouldn't produce electricity on a big scale like we do. (Another aspect I imagined is there are a bunch of different countries/governments/states all competing for power, kind of like the warring states period in ancient China or the Sengoku period in Japan.) So pretty much the world now operates like the middle ages, not because its trying to copy the middle ages, but because this is just the point where humanity is at, if that makes sense. BUT there is a twist, somewhere, there is something manufacturing large amounts of digital technology, like screens and wires and circuit boards and computers and shit like that, (and I also imagine this "center" where all this is coming from being in like the middle of an old world city, or somewhere that is otherwise really built up and developed, before the bombs dropped that is. Also realistically after like 400 or so years most major cities are probably not going to still be standing, especially the ones that were affected by the bombs but it makes for a cooler setting if we ignore that lol.) and so now there's this one spot in the middle of some old city or something somewhere that inexplicably has all this like cyberpunk shit going on, and it becomes a hotspot of interest for people and different governments/states. I also think it would be cool if the world ended like sometime in the 2000's or something so all the technology and computers that are coming back is all stuff from like the 90's/00's, like classic computer stuff. And maybe the war happened not because of an alternate history with alternate global tensions, but just because of a freak and suspiciously surgical accident that launched a bunch of warheads and caused everything to very quickly devolve. (perhaps the thing at the center of this bastion of digital technology is behind this? This would also make it so we don't have to make up an alternate history that caused a nuclear war to happen, it can just happen.) So the rest of the world is like this natural middle ages like landscape where people ride on horseback and wear metal armor but also people have guns, and all of the structures would be made out of like wood and stone. And then in the heart of this old city made out of modern concrete and rebar you have a bunch of digital technology popping up, and you have like clubs with techno popping up, and its full of wires and screens and circuit boards and CD's and all this stuff, it would be kind of a like a Serial Experiments Lain -esque labyrinth of 90's/00's digital technology. I also imagined the thing at the center to be like the anime girl angel from Killer7. Like a somewhat generic, doll like, perfect looking anime girl angel. I'm not entirely sure what the plot would be but the idea I have is maybe the protagonist is connected somehow to the angel at the center and is called forth by it for some reason. Maybe the protag somehow existed/lived before the bombs dropped and has deeply buried memories from that time and that makes them special and something of interest for the angel? Maybe a government/clan/country has a monopoly over that area and its an allegory for big corporations controlling the internet or something. Something I thought of that the main character might wear and something that exemplifies this "new normal" middle ages -esque world is a metal helmet that also functions as a gas mask and it's shaped kind of like a great helm. TL;DR: Its a post nuclear-apocalypse world that is several hundred years (300-500) after the bombs dropped and the world has returned to a new normal, not really post apocalyptic anymore. This "new normal" is a world that operates like the middle ages, but people still have modern knowledge of things, so people still know how to make automatic guns and electrical generators and things like that. But no cars, no engines, no instant messaging, no electrical grid, no industrial revolution type stuff going on, things more or less operate like middle ages times. But there is a twist, in the heart of some old world city or something, a bunch of electronics and digital technology from like the 90's/00's era is inexplicably popping up, and its amassed a lot of attention from individuals visiting it and also governments/states/countries are also interested in it. So you have a middle ages like world and in the middle of it is this weird cyberpunk "city" has formed that doesn't belong to any one particular person or country that has re-introduced electronic/digital technology to that little region. Ok I've spent a lot of time writing and my brain is kind of fried and that ended up being kind of long lol but yeah I have a looot of ideas about this world and this setting. There are even more things I could say about this but I hope I got it across well enough. This is also just an idea that I had I wanted to share to help brainstorm, it doesn't have to be and end all be all type of thing. If anyone has thoughts/ideas id love to hear em!
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