I’ll do it on monday!

Well I was talking to some guys on irc about adventure game design. The one guy I was talking to came up with a list of things to work on, and I sort of revised it. Here’s my progression:

So essentially Story, Characters, Puzzles, Inventory, Dialog, then visually, background and character design, background art and character animations, sound effects and music, and finally scripting to put it all together.

Essentially i’m working on the story part and characters. I’ve already settled on a few characters which I may mention at a later date. But I wanted to talk about something i’ve wanted to do every since I played Maniac Mansion 2 : Day of the Tentacle (or DOTT as it’s affectionately known), multiple player characters. In rpg’s you sometimes have a whole team of characters who venture out with you. My idea is to do it more like DOTT, each PC has their own story to tell which supports the main story. You’ll get to switch inbetween characters, and possibly use their stories to help you out on your own (ie the main player character).

I’m also planning to have a highlighting system on things you can interactive with - if it doesn’t light up you can’t do anything with it, so it will possibly help with pixel-hunting, and all too common problem of point’n'clicks in the past.

Your thoughts?

Previously: Enchanted Lands Magical Resort

Keith

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