Futuristic RPG...Online...not MMORPG...like PSO
by Travis Bolek · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 06/26/2002 (1:13 pm) · 1 replies
This is an idea that I have had in my brain that's been put on the back burner. I am an avid Sci Fi fan, though in almost every single movie, where foriegn worlds are concerned...aliens almost always speak english. That bugs the hell out of me. A world several million light years away from earth and coincendentally they speak English? What gives? Granted there are some movies that don't do that, the Star Wars saga is a good example.
The game will start on a small starcruiser, one who searches the galaxies for habitable worlds, as the human race is expanding at an expentional rate. Actually the pure human is almost a thing of the past thanks to genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentations. On the cruiser, it supports several crewmen. The number has yet to be determined, but this is where you will gather online and create your crew. Or if you choose, you can go it alone.
Something goes wrong on the space cruiser, I'm thinking of asteroid striking the ship, but it holds alien beings. Anyways, your crew disposes of the menance but has to crash land on the planet you were orbiting. Thankfully it has life. The problem, you can't understand their language. Well...except one alien does understand the English language as humans were there before, they were just killed....thinking of a way to incorproate that there.
As the game progresses you look for parts to fix your ship and to find things that will have you learn the alien language. Right now all I have is the basic storyline. And even that is just incomplete. I just wanted to do this to get it out of my head so I don't forget. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas to make it a bit better? I wouldlike to avoid as much Sci Fi cliche as possible, make it fresh is all.
The game will start on a small starcruiser, one who searches the galaxies for habitable worlds, as the human race is expanding at an expentional rate. Actually the pure human is almost a thing of the past thanks to genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentations. On the cruiser, it supports several crewmen. The number has yet to be determined, but this is where you will gather online and create your crew. Or if you choose, you can go it alone.
Something goes wrong on the space cruiser, I'm thinking of asteroid striking the ship, but it holds alien beings. Anyways, your crew disposes of the menance but has to crash land on the planet you were orbiting. Thankfully it has life. The problem, you can't understand their language. Well...except one alien does understand the English language as humans were there before, they were just killed....thinking of a way to incorproate that there.
As the game progresses you look for parts to fix your ship and to find things that will have you learn the alien language. Right now all I have is the basic storyline. And even that is just incomplete. I just wanted to do this to get it out of my head so I don't forget. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas to make it a bit better? I wouldlike to avoid as much Sci Fi cliche as possible, make it fresh is all.
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Travis Bolek