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[Saint]

But both Ahab and the Whale die at the end because it has to be cliche.

[ein]

Y'know, I can actually see that working really well with the Wii's controls.
If somebody made this and I could find it, I'd have a reason to dust that fucker off.

[Biag]

Heres my idea of 'Ahab'

(You sail around there are whales.)

I think that would work.

Insanity mechanics are the best mechanics. Also, that's a really good tutorial design- maybe you'd be given the option to accept the tutorial boat and crew from your retired whaler father, which puts you in the tutorial, or strike out on your own to skip it?

[Saint]

Y'know, I can actually see that working really well with the Wii's controls.
If somebody made this and I could find it, I'd have a reason to dust that fucker off.

Throw the wiimote like a harpoon!
Aww I broke my tv.
  Fucking wii.
My cousin broke my TV by wii bowling, he threw the remote when he was bowling on accident.
 I had to sell the wii to help pay for the brand new 2000$ tv I just bought the day before.

[Moghjubar]

Go go achievements!

Call me Ishmael: Have one crewmember survive the final battle.

From Hell's Heart, I stab at thee!: Finish a whale with a hand thrown harpoon as it wrecks your ship.

[Rakonas]

Heres my idea of 'Ahab'

(You sail around there are whales.)

I think that would work.

Insanity mechanics are the best mechanics. Also, that's a really good tutorial design- maybe you'd be given the option to accept the tutorial boat and crew from your retired whaler father, which puts you in the tutorial, or strike out on your own to skip it?

Yeah, definitely be able to skip the tutorial.
Also I agree with this

Y'know, I can actually see that working really well with the Wii's controls.
If somebody made this and I could find it, I'd have a reason to dust that fucker off.

Thrusting my wiiharpoon into a whale would be hardcore, and bewildering to any observers.
Also it obviously should be a roguelike, but relatively forgiving. While to start you probably have a peg leg, every time you 'die' you lose another limb which severely reduces your effectiveness, making it the ultimate challenge to kill the white whale with two peg legs and two hooks. It could go like this for the most part, 1 Foot>1 Hand>2 Feet>2 Hands>Both Legs>Both Arms>Entire Lower Half>Death. Death will most likely come quickly if you're a fragment of a man, armless, missing everything from the waist down, holding on to life with only the thirst for revenge.

[Fanofgaming]

Also it obviously should be a roguelike

No.

[Moghjubar]

Right now this is lending itself to more of a 2d flash game (in my head anyway).

Of course, there's tons of different ways to do it, ways to style it, ways to set up the controls, etc. 

[Fanofgaming]

To reach the apparent requirement of epic, I'm thinking it needs to be 3D.

[Jusman]

Ah screw it, just make it an epic MMORPG (Come now, my captain.)

[Moghjubar]

A quick rendition of the 'simplest' form of gameplay; chuckin a 'poon by hand.

[breadbocks]

The tutorial could be your father going whaling on his amazing maxed out boat, and decides to take out his 7 year old son, to teach him how to carry on the ropes.

[Akura]

The tutorial could be your father going whaling on his amazing maxed out boat, and decides to take out his 7 year old son, to teach him how to carry on the ropes.

And then, I assume, he gets brutally killed by a whale?

[ductape]

not quite, but with a little imagination...

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=15287.0

[breadbocks]

The tutorial could be your father going whaling on his amazing maxed out boat, and decides to take out his 7 year old son, to teach him how to carry on the ropes.

And then, I assume, he gets brutally killed by a whale?

Nah, that'd have to happen off screen. He can lose his left pinky and ring finger, though.