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Serefan

 Aug 26, 2009, 12:37 pm
Ok, this is a thread I think I\'m going to like. I want everyone to dig deep into their sick, absurd, twisted minds, and come up with everything they would like to see in IVAN.

The reason of this is I just think it\'ll be fun when I complete my project, I\'ll be able to add whatever I like to IVAN, because I\'m the sole programmer (at the moment), and I\'ll know all my coding by heart.

What I\'ll do is, every idea that comes here, I\'ll put it in a respective category, maybe make some comments on it, stuff like that. These ideas won\'t be used until I\'ve completed my single player engine, but I\'m sure there will be some great ones here, and I\'ll definitely want to use them, so it\'s useful to have all ideas in a single thread.

It\'s also because I\'ve talked about it a bunch with EagleV, and I keep forgetting the ideas we have because we never write them down or anything. To start off, I\'ll post some of the ideas I can remember.

Serefan

 Aug 26, 2009, 1:12 pm
*This is the list which I\'ll update when new ideas arrive*

Spoilered for size.


SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text.


I believe dragons have already been added in a mod once. At any rate, I want them too, maybe some friendly ones, and a dragon related quest of epicness and death.

[quote=\"BDR\"]Doom Siren



[quote=\"4zb4\"]Giant Tentacle Monster



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CHARACTER STATUS
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(i.e. How do you want to extend the detail in characters; name, status alignments, equipment slots, etc.)

[quote=\"Serefan\"]Add organs to injuries


It should be loads of fun if \'violently carving through your intestines\' is really that. Or you get a stroke when having sustained a mental trauma.

[quote=\"EagleV\"]Shoulder pads slot


Yeah, we were just making fun of WoW when we thought of this.

[quote=\"Alveradok\"](reverse) Telepathy as an extension of ESP



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GAMEPLAY
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[quote=\"Serefan\"]IVAN multiplayer, naturally



[quote=\"Serefan\"]Shouting, chatting, and whispering



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COMBAT
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(i.e. Do you want new possibilities related with combat; ripping off the leg of a giant spider and stabbing it with it\'s own leg through the head)

[quote=\"Serefan\"]Disarming in melee combat


I thought of this just as I was typing the \'i.e.\' part. Fencing and making the enemy lose his sword, stuff like that.

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ITEMS
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(i.e. What would you want to get your hands on, what new stuff do you want to explode in your face, what do you want to eat and get swine flu off)

[quote=\"Serefan\"]Bows and crossbows


I believe this has been discussed a lot, but I\'m going to put them in anyways I think. Coming across Zol\'Khas, the Chaotic Elven Bowmaster should be fun.

[quote=\"EagleV\"]Ear coverings in the helmet slot



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MATERIALS
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(i.e. What materials would you want to see, and what would you do with them?)

[quote=\"Serefan\"]Feces, coprolite, urine


Not just having these materials, but really doing something with it. You have to take a shit, so you start having aches in your intestines, you have a bladder infection, making you get hurt when you pee. (Maybe related to character status - organs?) For people who wonder, coprolite is fossilized shit, the scroll of harden material has to do something, doesn\'t it?

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GODS
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(i.e. more gods = more fun)

[quote=\"EagleV\"]Some god of randomness


Maybe as an easter egg, some secret altar to find, this guy is really a pain in the ass but you never know when you get something good of him.

BDR

 Aug 27, 2009, 4:45 am
I can\'t recall if I reposted this one, so I\'ll just stick it here.

Doom siren: A creature who, like the sirens of Greek myth, sings men to their deaths. Unlike those sirens, though, they live in the dungeon, and so instead of singing lovely songs that cause men to sink their ships trying to reach the seemingly loveliest voice, they sing songs of such deep sadness and pain that those who hear it are driven to suicidal acts. A kobold carrying poison for his hunting drinks it in despair; a kamikaze dwarf becomes a fine mist at the seeming loss of his god\'s favor; a dark mage electrocutes himself trying to bring his power back. Those wishing to slay such monstrous demons may stop up their ears, though fitting items be few and far between; braver men may attempt to fight through the magics of the song, but the doom siren is not a weak maid to be killed easily, and all the while such a man\'s body would be prone to turn treacherous such that whatever weapon used is turned against him.

translation: this monster has the ability to make players and monsters do things that lead to death, like hitting themselves with their own weapons, setting off known nearby (1 square distant) traps, blasting themselves with wands, etc. (It activates the same way as the enner beast\'s ability.) I have heard this would be really hard to program and I don\'t doubt it, but you asked for ideas......

4zb4

 Aug 27, 2009, 10:38 am
I\'d like to see a giant tentacle monster where the tentacles are treated as individual monsters (so they die without the main monster dying), but remain attached to the main part (let\'s call it the \"core\".

Serefan

 Aug 27, 2009, 11:30 am
[quote=\"BDR\"]Those wishing to slay such monstrous demons may stop up their ears, though fitting items be few and far between; ... but the doom siren is not a weak maid to be killed easily, and all the while such a man\'s body would be prone to turn treacherous such that whatever weapon used is turned against him.

...but you asked for ideas......



EagleV talked about something in the helmet slot for covering ears, that would work well with this one. I\'ll add both.

I\'m thinking about something looking like a beautiful woman, until their true nature is revealed: an ugly-ass demon.

Hard to program, I don\'t know why, but I\'ll think about it when the time comes, I think it\'s a great idea though!

[quote=\"4zb4\"]I\'d like to see a giant tentacle monster where the tentacles are treated as individual monsters (so they die without the main monster dying), but remain attached to the main part (let\'s call it the \"core\".



Awesome idea, but I\'d figure it should be a pain to program. Maybe some coding similar to Genny is possible... But a giant tentacle roaming a cavern should be quite a pain. Maybe only the head of the tentacle is killable, and you can see the rest slithering through the dungeon, but you can walk over it?

chaostrom

 Aug 27, 2009, 11:45 am
Serefan you never ever put \"beautiful woman\" and \"giant tentacle\" in one post lest you summon the spam bots.

Also I\'m the ideas thread is right here.

Serefan

 Aug 27, 2009, 2:09 pm
Yeah I know, I kinda missed and put it in programming, how can you change this?

capristo

 Aug 27, 2009, 7:02 pm
[quote=\"Serefan\";12395]Yeah I know, I kinda missed and put it in programming, how can you change this?


do you want me to move this thread to another forum ?

Serefan

 Aug 27, 2009, 7:19 pm
[quote=\"capristo\";12406][quote=\"Serefan\";12395]Yeah I know, I kinda missed and put it in programming, how can you change this?


do you want me to move this thread to another forum ?



Well, it\'s not necessary if it\'s tedious, but I think it would be appropriate, since it\'s all about ideas. I\'m just so focused on my programming that I\'m starting to post everything I want to post here.

Sorry about that.

capristo

 Aug 27, 2009, 7:21 pm
so i mean, which forum do you want me to move it to? it\'s only 2 clicks, not tedious at all

Serefan

 Aug 27, 2009, 7:44 pm
Wait what, sorry, I\'m wrong again, for a moment I thought there was a separate forum for IVAN ideas, but Chaostrom was mentioning another thread instead of another subforum.

I don\'t know if it should still be moved. Apparently Chao already made a general ideas thread a while ago. Don\'t know what to do with this now. Suggestions? They couldn\'t be \'merged\', could they? Well it\'s not that this thread already has a lot of stuff in it anyways.