I had a big long preamble for this, but it wasn't particularly interesting, so ( Read more... )

*blows away the cobwebs* Been a while since I posted on this, but then it was never particularly my intention to post on here regularly - just whenever I had something to write about.

This post was actually inspired by tehexile, who mentioned to me at Fruitcake about one of the people in the story she was writing being the plotsmith, which is an idea I ( Read more... )

There have been plenty of games where parts of the game are based on user data. Vib Ribbon is an obvious one; levels based on your music. Wikipedia also informs me that there's a semi-sequal called Mojib-Ribbon which made levels based on text files (I have no idea how that would work, but there we go). Even here on Livejournal there are no small ( Read more... )

I'm going to start this entry with a story; a tale of two heroes fighting against impossible odds in an epic struggle for the fate of mankind.

* Nuya attacks Vyyonu for 4532 damage
* Distu attacks Vyyonu for 2453 damage
* Vyyonu attacks Nuya for 6312 damage
* Nuya falls unconscious
* Distu uses Phoenix Down on Nuya
* Vyyonu attacks Distu for 4234 ( Read more... )

This is an idea that I had several years ago, although it's gone through various iterations since then. Its current incarnation is basically an ability(/combat) system for an RPG which attempts to give character building a similar feel to deck building with Magic the Gathering, in terms of flexibility, while still being simple enough that players ( Read more... )

This idea was originally inspired by playing Hotel Dusk on the DS. Basically, during conversations in Hotel Dusk, you occasionally have choices between two things you can say, however, inevitably the choice is essentially between being a wanker and being a bastard. Presumably the justification for this is that that's the character you're playing ( Read more... )

This is an idea I had years ago, inspired by rewatching Prey Alone very many times (I believe overall I'm currently up to around 25 viewings now). If you haven't seen Prey Alone, it can be downloaded for free from the makers here. Its in no way necessary to have seen it to understand the idea (its "inspired by", not "based on"), but its a really ( Read more... )