Yahtzee Croshaw said:
Extra Punctuation: Interactivity
Why BioShock 1's intro sequence was so much better.
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Yahtzee,
I fear you will not read this, but man could i save you a hell of a lot of time....
Basically i have a much easier way for you to complete that space game your making
I think i get what your after so here goes,
ok, first hire out a large empty warehouse. Next get about 15 or so people blindfolded and a sack of rocks for each person. Then get yourself some bins and fill them with stuff, some valuable stuff and some worthless, spread them out across the warehouse. Finally make yourself a space suit and bring a tennis racket and a torch and your ready to go.
The controls are simple, you use your legs (rocket propellers) to explore the dark warehouse (space) the faster you move them the faster you go. You use the left arm for the torch (spaceship laser probe) to A)see incoming rocks (asteroids) randomly thrown at you by the blindfolded people and to B)search the bins (planets) for valuable resources. The right arm has two functions firstly to use the tennis racket (deflector beam) to repel the incoming rocks (asteroids) and secondly to reach down (tractor beam) into the bins (planets) to collect the valuable material posing an interesting dilemma that you can't rummage through the bins (explore a planet) and deflect the rocks (asteroids) at the same time.
Now that's immersion and interactivity taken to the greatest scale you may even forget you're still on earth!!
Of course you could then make it more complex and have other people (spaceships) in the warehouse to or even teams, make leader boards for most bins (planets) searched or rocks (asteroids) deflected. You could not give some people tennis rackets (defense beams) but better torches (space ship laser probes) and you could either ally yourself with them and be good helping them by using your tennis racket (defense beam) to escort them to safety or attack them and steal what they have for youself. Now you've got yourself a morality system!!
You could add a backpack (storage deck) to store your items in, now you have an inventory system. Even get another person to stand at a table (space station) where you can exchange the things you've collected in your back pack (storage deck) for upgrades like bigger backpacks (storage decks) or better tennis rackets (deflector beams) and there you have an RPG!
You could even charge people to come to "Yahtzee's space game the game" and be fellow explorers in your warehouse (universe) with you and they could go about doing these things as well, now you've made yourself a MMOG!!
Ahh the possibilities are endless, don't worry about royalties this ones on me.
It's just a shame you'll never read this and waste all that time sat at you're computer.....