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[Hungry]

Well after some setbacks, I finally got around to my project...

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood
Chapter III: Fall of Armok

So far all I've got complete is the title screen and some history compileing, due to the extreme task of making a realistic whole planet in ascii...by hand.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm ganna post revised the histories later because if I post the whole thing it'll ruin the fun...

[Muz]

Dude.. you need more than a title screen screenshot

My only visualization of this game is that there's going to be a bunch of dwarves building up a fortress and Armok is going to fall down on them.

[Hungry]

Well unless you want me posting my retarded planets, lame ships, spoilerly unfinished history figure list, or the concepts for the user interface I'm working on...you'll have to wait.

You'll have to wait even if you do...

[eerr]

Ahhhh, I almost forgot to read that yellow line, and therefore almost called you out.

[ein]

I didn't even need to read it to know it was a parody.

[G-Flex]

I read it all and I'm still not entirely sure what it's supposed to be.

[Cheeetar]

It's a game, similar to Dwarf Fortress (I think?) that is also a parody of Dwarf Fortress.

[Hungry]

Heres a link to a related thread G-Flex...

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=41073.0

Or read this...

Spoiler: conceptual storyline (click to show/hide)

First off, dwarves in space was the original intended result. With time and work I've expanded the storyline either way into the past and future, starting from Toady's creation of the DF universe to needed plot points like the enslavement of the dwarven race by Armok, to DF in its finished state, and from there well into the future of events like the first intended traveling to space that will consist of much of the game.
Seeing as this game would have a begining and a ending it inherently must be set in those points, but everything in between will be random.

Also, I need to work more on an accepted univeral history, and planets(seeing as they look like defective jawbreakers)...

This is going to be intended as a fan made parody continuation of DF with less world randomness and a storyline...

[G-Flex]

You've typed all this stuff, but what sort of game IS it? I still can't seem to figure that part out.

[Hungry]

Right now, its still a game concept.

It doesn't turn into a game until I start laying down code.

As to the game's future alignment, I cant quite say, but its solo-player partially random generated dwarf space explorer with DF like action in ascii...

[G-Flex]

Yes, I'm aware it's a game concept. I just wasn't grasping what the gameplay was supposed to entail at all.

By "DF-like action" do you mean moving around and interacting with stuff on a tile-based grid, like Adventure Mode, or managing stuff like Fortress Mode? The former is really more roguelike than DF-like specifically.

[Hungry]

Considering that I covered this...with tri-layer

I'm making controling ship systems one of the main features of the game, and haven't we all tryed to emulate space on DF at least once, I worked out the space suit problems with temps but brought up water issues...and frozen/molten world actually work sometimes...

A basic rundown of how the game will function in tri-layer...and that dont mean three z levels.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The first tri-layer is the entire game universe, like how in DF there is a global map where you generally see what a block of map contains by its figure, this is probably the most important to whole game world and will track all the stars.

The second tri-layer is a solar system and veiwed by what is around a star/star cluster, this layer tracks planets, asteroids, meteors, and ships as individual units (being controlled by player, or ai), much like when you travel around in adventure mode in DF.

The last is of course individual ships, planets, asteroids, ect... this veiw is the only z layered part of the game, and in is like most DF fortress mode in the exemption that things outside move around as the ship moves, and this layer is the only one where actual dwarven entities can be seen in game.

Of course I'm thinking of adding a lower layer in controlling an individual, flying shuttle pods, and going off alone to do things most dwarven, but this is for the game a frill, that will come later in its life.

[G-Flex]

Oh. Damn. I missed that post, I guess.

So what are you planning to program this in, out of curiosity?

[Hungry]

>.>
I dont have that yet...
I'll finish the concept before I get to that point anyway.

I way leaning toward parallel programing to DF, but I'm still not concrete.

[Rilder]

Use a language that's a parody of the code toady uses!