I return once again to update the world on my quest to become the greatest pokemon master... wait, wrong blog... the greatest game designer in the world. Anyway, today's developments include a tour of Bioware, offered up from some extended, extended family.
My current tour of duty, includes working the stockroom at HMV, playing Neverwinter Nights and Diablo 2 (in the little spare time I have) and working on a module for the writer position at Bioware. I have much more experience with writing than I do animating, and thus feel more comfortable and confident in my work. Sadly, I have limited experience with the NWN Toolset and playing the game is helping me out a bit in understanding how they do things. I wish there was a toolset class, but I'm sure the world wide web won't let me down... as it does so often.
My character in NWN is probably my favorite persona I've taken up in a role playing setting. He is a kleptomaniac who must steal first, ask questions later. Yeah, I've received some ray of frost discipline from the party mage, but I'm innocent. It's my hands that are guilty! My bag of holding is being put to wonderful use although I've always wondered why you couldn't put a bag of holding into another bag of holding. Would that create some sort of dimensional warp? Anyway I am pretty much earning the party money by pickpocketing during battles and slinking around cracking open chests. It's a great life all in all, but I wish we had more time to play together. Also this is inspiring me to create a 4th Edition D&D campaign, but at the same time I'm afraid of 4th edition. Might have to get over that.
Oh the new Game Design Challenge is about crates... make something to replace them. Sure thing, anyway here are a few of my ideas.
Blobs - Plain and simple, you're on a world and there is experimental goo everywhere. Use it to make stairs, ladders, slides, supports, etc. The goo is also highly flammable and withers away after flames touch it. It also sticks to walls, itself, other characters etc. Not bad for some goo eh?
Trees - Where do crates come from? Trees! And there are trees generally in any environment so why not use them? Maybe not big trees, but they can also be propped up to make walkways, ladders, traps etc.
Psychic Energy - Sci Fi always needs something to do with enhanced mental capabilities. So why not have just concentrations of energy your character can see that can be pushed and altered into shapes your character might have seen allowing for unique puzzles (ex: transform the energy into a sphere, and get it into an air duct and then turn it into a box to clog the air duct or just to stack. )
Magnets! - Everyone loves magnets, just imagine a factory of magnets. Kind of similar properties to the goo, but imagine throwing an intense magnet at an enemy and watching their armor or weapons attach to it.
Anyway until next time, wish me luck!
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