I need someone to help me write a story line for my game. Not the usual hero gets kidnapped, princess fights lots of generic units in a military base, princess saves hero, plot twist where hero is evil villain who's also the princess's brother, etc.
Just something.. different. Without predictable plot twists. Or without everything in a military base. And without too many generic units. I was trying to do it myself, but I've been brainwashed by so many games that I don't know how to end it without an exploding military base or ultra-predictable plot twist. That's the problem with having the story "write itself" .
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Sounds ok, just as long is it isn't as random as EA games's storylines .
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I would love to help too.
Storywriting is the one thing I am really good at.
Here is a beginning I have toyed with for awhile without using:
Greenland 18:45, an american research base in the centre of the island.
Mark: Where is dr. Case? The new research material has arrived and we need him here.
Mark looked very upset.
Patrick: Relax, he is right over there.
He pointed at a shadow who suspiciosly observed the sky on a snowhill. Dr. Case was a sincere looking, elder man wearing an eyepatch on his left eye.
Mark: Strange for a man just to stand there watching the stars
Patrick: It's not so strange. Every one needs a moment alone to just think.
Mark started walking towards Dr. Case, but was startled by a loud voice.
Random guy: Look over there!
Everyones eyes was now attached to a really bright star. The awkward thing was that it was just getting brighter. Suddenly, but too late, they realise that it was not a star at all. A large object was on collisioncourse with the base. It landed right infront of them with an explosion, pushing each one of them into the air.
Burning ice flew in every direction. The setllements caught on fire. The place looked deserted. The only survivor was Mark, but he was paralysed to the waist. He crawled towards Dr. Case, who had been far away from the explosion, seeing surprisingly unbothered. Mark whispered as loud as he could to him: Dr. Case... has you got anything to do with this?
Dr. Case didn't answer. Instead he pulled up the edge of his jacket covering his waist, thus uncovering his helster holding a gun...
Maybe you could use it somehow. It maybe isn't so wellwritten, but I haven't written a story in a long time.
The pickled donkey ate the osama hussian statue that was made out of old sheets of fabric softner. Then they went to mc wendys and orderd 231 hamburgers and threw them at the flying telephone poles. Meanwhile Jerry springs is getting his hedges trimed and suddely spontaiously combusts and gets on his 45 horse power goped and drives himself to Denver international airport and gets 4 tickets to ride the pony at your local king soopers.
I get the feeling you're not into something that's total comic randomnocity (my word. Yuh. I sue you if you use it).... that is unless it's got a solid backbone to it (so after a while, the stupidity almost makes sense, like The Simpsons).
What kind of thing do you want? Do you want plot twists, just not very obvious/clichéd ones? Or is the whole concept of plot twists a cliché that you'd rather avoid?
Would you rather have an unusual slant on the whole military thing, or is military in any form just so over-done that it's out of the question?
Do you want random, or is that just one possibility?
What game are you talking about Muz?
I was just about to tell you a plot i had for a game i was making in rpgmaker 2000 ages ago. It is probably a big pile of poop though.
An interesting genre you may want to try is the Typing Game. My first experience of this was The Typing Of The Dead (a tacky sequel to House Of The Dead). It looked rubbish, but after about 10 mins you found yourself screaming "such a bad game! So... why... can't.... I ... stop... playing!?"
You could do a form of sidescroller along that same basic vein. Enemies appear with text over their head. You have to type the text in order to damage them. Each letter you press correctly does more damage. Get a letter wrong, and it does nothing.
In your game, you could have a basic line-of-sight system where the player is always firing objects in the direction of every on-screen enemy. If the object hits the enemey without being blocked by obstacles, then the enemy is in sight. If this is the case, it displays the text above the bad guy's head, and he gets added to the list of enemies you can 'tab' through. Each time you press 'tab', it cycles your focus to the next visible enemy (shift+tab cycles the opposite way). If an enemy walks out of your line-of-sight (eg: under a platform, or behind an obstacle), then you lose focus and you can no longer target them.
They start with easy text, like "Fred", "Bob", "Jack", "Claire", but gradually get longer - "Jefferson", "Gillian", "Michael", "Anderson", "Jackson", "Jonathon", "Phillip", and so on. As the game gets worse, you get two names, "Martin Muggwotch", "Bob Dylan", "We Couldn't Be Bothered", "Need 4 Deoderant", etc. You may be able to throw in extra special bad guys who have special characters like "¶" (ALT+0182).
Anyway, story. Little Bob was a disturbed child who used to go to sleep when he was 5, and dream of a world filled with weird fluffy animals and trees made of pillows, etc, etc.
Now he's 10, he suddenly dreams of the same world once again - this time it's filled with puffins trying to take over. To get rid of them he must use his power of geekage to type their 'name'.
I was thinking of some futuristic fantasy game, i.e. dragons in concrete lairs, with the main character being some chick with special magical powers, being hunted down by the government's anti-magic squads, and her assistant being and old elven sheriff (rather than the usual annoyingly cute sarcastic creature).
But then... I just don't know how to continue the story. There's so damn many ways to go that I end up spinning in circles with a really crappy storyline that seems similar to those cyberpunk vampire games. Main character's under 18, so no bars or nightclubs .
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