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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Currently working on a game, but there are three directions I wish to take it and I am uncertain which would have the most interest. Three ideas I have are below.  Description length based on how long it would need to be to get the point across.

First would be a business simulator with various industries upon a randomly generated map and multiple AI corporations that handle portions of the supply lines not controlled by the players, as well as directly compete.  Included will be various abilities to boost production, sabotage, and influence both the government and the economy.  Other features would include an adapting economy, governments breaking up monopolies, and passing various regulations that affect your production.  May attempt to include wars and multiplayer.

Second, a metroidvania game wherein you are a mage creating various spells by combining a spell and another spell or a modifier.  Would have 15 regular and 5 modifiers.  Will attempt to have multiplayer.

Third, a roguelike in a jPEG style in a partially dungeonpunk setting with the story adapting to who dies in battles.  First character gotten would be cursed to have multiple lives.  Will attempt to use inevitability, failure, and insignificance in the story.

Which of the above carries the highest amount of interest?

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I personally love all the ideas, but the last one piques my interest the most.

[FallacyofUrist]

My preference is number one.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I personally love all the ideas, but the last one piques my interest the most.

There's a couple of ideas I am considering for that specific one that I listed below.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The standard 'kill the final boss' will not save the world, but instead accelerate the death of the world.

There will be an ending that will involve you having completed all the personal sidequests of every recruitable character and having them all survive to the final boss, wherein you use a command to attack one of them, then switch sides wherein you have to kill all of them, with another one of the characters spawning in to replace the dead ones after the prior's final words.  To make it worse, this ending will be where the world will last the longest.

An early quest will have you assist a sibling to a local lord (who when you meet him is trapped in a dungeon) seize power from his brother, using assistance from a local rebel faction that wants him in control.  Coming back later will reveal the old lord was a relatively benevolent individual compared to other individuals you would later meet, while the one you helped was a cruel and ruthless dictator.

The Emperor, who ascended to the position as a war hero, would have been dealing in sacrificing of prisoners according to dark cult rituals, nuking his favor with the populace, due to desperately trying to achieve the second ending I mentioned earlier.  Near the end he would turn to wholesale slaughter of the capital due to how little time is left and how much he needs to do to achieve it.

My preference is number one.

Any specific industries you want to see in it, if that one is chosen?

[XhAPPYSLApX]

I personally love all the ideas, but the last one piques my interest the most.

There's a couple of ideas I am considering for that specific one that I listed below.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The standard 'kill the final boss' will not save the world, but instead accelerate the death of the world.

There will be an ending that will involve you having completed all the personal sidequests of every recruitable character and having them all survive to the final boss, wherein you use a command to attack one of them, then switch sides wherein you have to kill all of them, with another one of the characters spawning in to replace the dead ones after the prior's final words.  To make it worse, this ending will be where the world will last the longest.

An early quest will have you assist a sibling to a local lord (who when you meet him is trapped in a dungeon) seize power from his brother, using assistance from a local rebel faction that wants him in control.  Coming back later will reveal the old lord was a relatively benevolent individual compared to other individuals you would later meet, while the one you helped was a cruel and ruthless dictator.

The Emperor, who ascended to the position as a war hero, would have been dealing in sacrificing of prisoners according to dark cult rituals, nuking his favor with the populace, due to desperately trying to achieve the second ending I mentioned earlier.  Near the end he would turn to wholesale slaughter of the capital due to how little time is left and how much he needs to do to achieve it.

My preference is number one.

Any specific industries you want to see in it, if that one is chosen?

Sounds pretty dang sweet if I do say so myself, best of luck to ya, man. If you ever need a hand with art, I can help make some

[Amperzand]

I do like the sound of Option Three.

[MoonyTheHuman]

I do like the sound of Option Three.

[FallacyofUrist]

Any specific industries you want to see in it, if that one is chosen?

Pizza delivery. With PIRATES AND VAMPIRES.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

For those that wound up choosing option three, are there any character archetypes you would like to see worn down over the course of the story?  I know I'll need four as a start-off point, wherein you get to the first battle and every one of them are killed, last one alive becoming the game's main character for that runthrough (don't count on them being too long.  A single path may only take 2-3 hours to complete.  Considering there's already at least 4 routes due to the above situation and will only branch further from there...).

[Amperzand]

It'd be interesting to see a standard quadratic wizard getting ground down. Power is not enough, nor is it the right solution.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

It'd be interesting to see a standard quadratic wizard getting ground down. Power is not enough, nor is it the right solution.

Maybe have the entrance of magic into the world be on a finite flow that is nearly full, and as the wizard grows in power, pieces of magitech start to fail?  Admittedly, the worst areas of that scenario seem to be more of a prelude to start the downward spiral rather than being a main driver of the spiral...

[Amperzand]

Spoiler: Large pile of words yo (click to show/hide)

I've been doing something similar to that in my game, actually. Basically, magic runs on a "Geothaumic Field", which the planet generates actively, and which is drained by use. For most of the setting's history, it remained at quite a high and useful level of energy, then something powerful started using all of it and basically cut the use of magic in the setting to a very low level.

In effect, any given area has a limited amount of power available in any period of time, and any magic use cuts into it, whoever uses the magic. Basically everybody shares one mana pool, so some players might, if they expect to face an enemy with an arcane advantage, intentionally use large quantities of power to run out the power supply and stop the enemy being able to use magic against them.

That said, my actual thought for this setting was something along the lines of A, the character dealing with the consequences of being so much more powerful that they render the large numbers of mooks most characters get a fair-ish fight against irrelevant, leaving them to handle having slaughtered mass numbers of people who couldn't harm them, and then getting put in situations where their capabilities aren't actually of any use. Diplomatic situations or famines, say.

[Nirur Torir]

I don't like option three. If you're working alone, it would take too long to get to enough content to really show its mechanics off and have a decent amount of content, while the other two should have playable versions showing interesting gameplay in weeks or months. Also, you're making it sound really dark, like it's main feature is some sort of lite psychological snuff.

I like option two the best.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

While 3 is the most interesting, I'm going to vote 1 based on practicality.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

While 3 is the most interesting, I'm going to vote 1 based on practicality.

Being perfectly honest, most of the ideas I'm getting are for Option 1.  It seems to be far simpler for me to come up with mechanics rather than a branching storyline.