Topic: The Mayor: The Game (Read 18360 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #100 on:** June 08, 2008, 10:37:05 PM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on June 08, 2008, 10:28:11 PM

As long as we're brainstorming, maybe a character with a choice of several types of moustache? Nothing as bushy or luxuriant as the Mayor and/or his sidekick, but user-configurable between the Dali, the Stalin, the Burnside, the Fu Manchu, the Chaplin, and such.

Don't forget:

Arc · « **Reply #101 on:** June 09, 2008, 07:59:04 AM »

Another nice point to Longcat is that it can just be palette swapped for Tacgnol later into the game, an old Dragon Quest standby.

Raptor Jesus, Pedobear / Shotacat, Anonymous, O rly, HA! HA! GUY, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Afroduck, Flying Spaghetti Monster, I Has a Bucket, LOL WUT, Limecat, Staredog, JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR!, Hamster Dance, Rape Clock, Scared kitty, and ME-tan are candidates for the Bestiary.

Brentai · « **Reply #102 on:** June 09, 2008, 08:00:09 AM »

Leek-Twirling Girl and Abortion! are two entirely different enemies. So is Orihime.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #103 on:** June 09, 2008, 08:13:38 AM »

There should be an entire class of monsters dedicated to Kiyohiko Azuma.

Arc · « **Reply #104 on:** June 09, 2008, 08:15:43 AM »

All copyrighted characters.

Keeping it down to parties of three per path so enemies don't have to always roam in packs to even out the challenge.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #105 on:** June 09, 2008, 08:25:38 AM »

If you want a diverse array of internet monsters, why not take the turn based tactical RPG approach (Shining Force?). Then you can just put story text panels on top of a wargame engine. Because if four frames of hero combat animation worked for the Sega Genesis, it's good enough for anybody.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #106 on:** June 09, 2008, 08:51:55 AM »

I think coming up with original cannon-foddery enemies (and also bosses, I guess) may be an issue.

Consider a finite plane, whose horizontal axis extends from "Shin Megami Tensei" to "Paper Mario" and whose vertical axis extends from "Mother" to "The Elder Scrolls". Where on this shall our grunts lie?

Arc · « **Reply #107 on:** June 09, 2008, 09:20:32 AM »

The Bestiary simply need be culled from Encyclopedia Dramatica. Plenty more to go, no shortage there. The key is to avoid copyrighted characters, real persons, and to target strong or recognizable memes. If The Mayor ever has the option to be a commercial product down the line, we should keep that option open by playing it smart now.

Sticking with the Dragon Quest Battle format allows us to skip character animation (while freeing us to be creative in the descriptions of attacks), keeps the beast animations minimal, and cuts out layers of random terrain complexities.

Onto the second of four minigames: Cooking. Given only ingredients that could lead to FOOD FAILURE. Picture a chef's toque covering the tophat.

Niku · « **Reply #108 on:** June 09, 2008, 09:45:07 AM »

Quote from: Arc on June 09, 2008, 09:20:32 AM

Picture a chef's toque covering the tophat.

picture the ceiling of the top hat swinging open like a hinge, the chef's toque popping out like a demented jack-in-the-box

Brentai · « **Reply #109 on:** June 09, 2008, 10:11:08 AM »

Quote from: Arc on June 09, 2008, 09:20:32 AM

Sticking with the Dragon Quest Battle format allows us to skip character animation (while freeing us to be creative in the descriptions of attacks), keeps the beast animations minimal, and cuts out layers of random terrain complexities.

I've got a demo for an active-time Dragon Quest battle system around here somewhere. No character animations, but the monsters have idle and attack anims.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #110 on:** June 09, 2008, 11:40:58 AM »

oh oh oh oh I just came up with a cool first boss:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AOyGlmf-HlU

He'd work like one of the first bosses from Final Fantasies 4-7: when he's looking the other way you should attack him, but when he dramatically turns don't do anything or he'll counter.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #111 on:** June 09, 2008, 11:42:04 AM »

I want to fight legions of green-headed Anon.

Norondor · « **Reply #112 on:** June 09, 2008, 11:45:02 AM »

is there some way i can hide this thread

Sharkey · « **Reply #113 on:** June 09, 2008, 12:26:28 PM »

Quote from: LaserBeing on June 08, 2008, 04:59:54 PM

Seemed more doable before I actually tried. CoH doesn't have much in the way of asymmetrical options.

Arc · « **Reply #114 on:** June 09, 2008, 01:31:40 PM »

Time to start the creation of the game's bible.

But first, ice cream.

Brentai · « **Reply #115 on:** June 09, 2008, 01:34:47 PM »

In the beginning, there was ice cream. And then there was Ghod.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #116 on:** June 09, 2008, 03:37:11 PM »

Quote from: Arc on June 09, 2008, 09:20:32 AM

Encyclopedia Dramatica [...] avoid copyrighted characters, real persons

Yeah, we're gonna need to make originals.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #117 on:** June 09, 2008, 04:06:16 PM »

What, you don't think that the Shoop da Whoop could provide an epic boss fight?

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #118 on:** June 09, 2008, 04:10:38 PM »

It takes a lot of different grunt monsters to make an RPG. Even with palette-swapping, I don't think enough suitable original content there to populate this game.

Brentai · « **Reply #119 on:** June 09, 2008, 04:12:14 PM »

Perhaps you've forgotten how short this game am!

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