Ramuthra wrote:

Sentynel wrote: You should join a computer games programming company.

Yupyup, I plan to when I'm done with schools.

(quick question. Anyone know where I can get a pic of the Amulet on it's own?)

Well, you can have a smilie named after yourself sometime in the future.

Post wrote: It would work fine with Baldur's look and engine. Not the system.

As for Ramutra's idea; I doubt it. We're looking at Medium Budget, Medium Imagination game; I'd say 5-10 Forms and Baldur's gate or Planescape style Spell System. Most of the game will be recycled.

No no no. Nobody is going to make Barti into a 2d isometric RPG. It takes a lot of work to make a game like that, and it wouldn't feel right in any way. You'd need three dimensions. Half of the places Barti breaks into require a third dimension.

It'll either be a cheap, quick, highly limited run-through-the-film, or they'll put some proper effort into it.

Idea: How about an interactive film thingy like the 'house of the dead'? With a bit more interaction...

Lowest common denominator of gaming...

lol, thats true

hooray i am an Uttuku

Lowest common denomitar? Ever heard of Max Payne?

Max Payne is a shooter, and the story is told via comic-style images, and the occasional cutscene. It is not, in any way, an interactive film.

It is officailly called: "A interactive film noir Love Story."

ok and that changes what?

'Film noir' is the style/mood of the story. Nothing to do with it being like a film.

Haha - well done Post

*Takes bow while dogging rotten bananas*

And Sentynel, where does 'interactive' fit in?

*Continues acrobatics*

at a guess i would say as you interact and change the storyline

It says interactive in case someone's casually browsing and thinks it's a film/whatever, based on the 'film noir' bit.


Nate - warning for flaming. "Haha - well done Post" wasn't needed.

I'd say it could be in the style of Legend of Zelda, Ocerina of Time...

Before you toss bobchus at me, I'm not talking about the overall style, I'm talking about the way it's done, a rotating, 3-d, button-prompting, adventure game. It could also borrow from Majora's Mask's day-and-night time-meter, to show how long Barti has to complete his current charge. There would also be some type of action button that would prompt you to do something when you get near it (open/smash doors, seep through keyholes, dodge attacks) And you could assign spells to buttons for easy access. Form changing could be done from a menu. Select the form from the pause screen, and Barti does it. RPG style just doesn't seem right for this, in my opinion.




((New smilies? Gladstone, you geneus!))

I mentioned Psychonauts earlier, which is a similar kind of idea, but nobody picked up on it.
I think it depends. If it's a straight run-through-the-film job, it'll be in the Psychonauts/Zelda style and likely rubbish.
If it has more work put into it, it could be a good first or third person free-roaming RPG, with all the numbers hidden away, a la Morrowind/Oblivion, with you playing as a magician, or a similar idea, but with you as a spirit, under the command of a magician, but able to do sidequests and so on while out on missions, as long as you get back in time.

Hmm... It's budget will be judged by the success of the film. Blockbuster= Top of the range eye candy... (Fear anyone?)

Yes they are new smilies for you.

Its got to be free roaming, has to be, you should be able to travel all around london *dreams* like fighting spirits and similar.

All around London would be feasible; relatively easy, even. Look at GTA, Thief or Test Drive: All Out.

Yeah, i was thinking of GTA when i wrote that post. As long as some of the people look different.