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[Harry Baldman]

They look like nice icons that somebody crudely doodled something over. Also, difficult to read. Probably unreadable on your hex grid. Can only see the color with any degree of clarity.

[Draignean]

I see what you did there, and I'll probably use a radiation configuration to avoid confusion with my triangles.

I made a testing set of overly complex icons, but.... Don't know how well they work out. Here's an example of two.

... Wait...
A flickering light has entered my battered mind...

If I told you that red was for fighters, green was for ranged units, and Blue/Purple/Gold were reserved for the three classes of magic, would the below symbols make sense?

 It violates my policy on color mixing, but policies are meant to be violated.

((The alignment is off on some symbols, but that's easily fixed.))

[Draignean]

Double positing for great justice.

I took the lack of screaming to mean that no one felt the second generation prototypes were completely worthless. I went on and developed the first generations of pretty much complete tokens.

So, Allied non-monster NPCs would get these tokens to indicate their skill set and relative rank.

Hostile non-monster NPCs would get these...


Monsters are pretty much the same, except I can go a little crazy with color combinations.

[Andres]

Ninja'd. The icons make absolutely no sense. I have no idea what they are, though they do seem to increase in size and complexity as they "advance".

[Draignean]

Ninja'd. The icons make absolutely no sense. I have no idea what they are, though they do seem to increase in size and complexity as they "advance".

EDITED: Must have missed that somehow or you edited.

That's really the only thing you're supposed to make sense of. The symbols are abstract, only vaguely relating to their representation. I say what the colors mean, we all agree on what the color means, and then bigger=more likely to kill you.

So, yes, if you saw a linear pattern then the icons made good sense.

[Andres]

Cool cool.

[FallacyofUrist]

... so that looks decent. By the way, when was the last Evil Mastermind style game done? Because I think I might do a competitive Evil Mastermind rtd... seems like it would be fun...

[heydude6]

Anyway so I had an RTD Idea.

So essentially the player plays as a slime and their goal is to be decided (maybe eat as much as possible)

They would have a few classes of slime to choose from (currently 3). Each class obtains and digests food in different ways and once it's fully digested they become bigger and also develop certain abilities (also stats, they have stats as well)

Spoiler: classes (click to show/hide)

Water based slime:
Made of mostly water
Digests food by first engulfing victim and drowning them, then drains bodily fluids, then waits for rest of corpse to rot inside
Will be able to transform parts of it into ice which makes it the fastest slime in the game (can be used to make things like bladepseudopods for example)
Can disguise as well... water
basic shape-shifting abilities (pseudopods)
Also a few exotic abilities (one example would be ground pounding the ground to launch a slab of earth into the air and then jumping up to headbutt it towards a target)

Alchohol based slime:
Made of mysterious green alchohlic goo
Digests food by first poisoning it and then fermenting inside (quicker then water based slime digestion)
Has a membrane making it vulnerable to attacks and bleeding
Will have to roll onto the punctured side to prevent bleeding out (eventually the wound will close at a time determined by the size of the wound)
Very Vulnerable to fire
Has more exotic abilities as it grows (see the flash game Amorphus+)
Has a bonus to the command stat
basic shape-shifting abilities (pseudopods)

Lava based slime:
Made of Lava
Slowly cools into stone if not fed enough (ie. dying)
Instantaneous digestion
Can only gain heat from combustible objects
Can gain mass from almost anything
Cannot change density
slowest slime
Radiates an aura of heat that damages those within it (size and damage increases as mass increases)
Very good at resisting reverse-Mitosis attacks
Immunity to heat (duh)
basic shape-shifting abilities (pseudopods)
Vulnerable to water
cannot climb (but may melt the tree the enemy is hiding on)

PS: I may have missed some things

So the stats, there are quite a few

Spoiler: stats (click to show/hide)

Mass:Think of this like your health and EXP level

Density: How much Mass per cubic unit(decimals allowed). A higher density boosts damage of pseudopods(compare someone throwing mud at you, to someone
throwing a rock at you) makes you able to shapeshift into tighter forms (with a high enough density you can shapeshift into a humanoid for example) as well as gives you resistance to damage. The downside is that if you do get damaged by certain objects (for example a shovel or a vacuum), you lose more Mass than if you had a lower density. Also a higher density makes you slower and it is harder to fit through small cracks. If density becomes too low then you die

Size: How big your slime is essentially. Is it knee high, waist high, size of a person, size of a room, size of a house? The larger your size the faster and more agile you are. Also boosts jump height which is very important in later stages of the game. Another thing about size is that it makes you more vulnerable to damage but you lose less mass most of the time (for example, throwing a grenade into a low density slime usually one-shots it, while a sword slash will be more likely to cut off a small chunk  but since that chunk isn't particularly dense you don't lose much mass). If size falls below a certain threshold you die.

Command: if you decide to split yourself into 2 slimes instead of one (you can split almost infinitely, but be wary, you lose mass if you do so). They must be within a certain distance of each-other before one just becomes an inert pile of goo. The higher your command stat the farther apart they can be. Please note, when splitting, one must designate a mother slime who distance will be based off of. Any slime that is farther from the mother slime than the distance that the command stat allows will immediately turn into inert goo, this prevents one from simply making a chain of slimes. The mother slime can be re designated if one is within a third of the distance the command stat gives a bonus to. ( what this means is that if the command stat allows my slimes to be 3m apart, then if a slime closes into a distance of 1m then I can designate it as the new mother slime)

Reverse-mitosis: One is going to encounter other slimes at some point, since you can't really slap a slime to death with a pseudopod you are usually expected to kill it by fusing with it to create one bigger slime. The more mass a slime has the bigger a bonus to reverse-mitosis it gets. When slimes decided to fuse with each-other they make a mitosis contest, whoever wins the mitosis contest then becomes the consciousness of the new slime. If the losing slime was a mother slime, then the nearest friendly slime next to it becomes the new mother slime. Reverse Mitosis is also important in reclaiming chunks that were chopped off of you as well as re-fusing with your fellow slimes. The higher this stat the faster you re-fuse

Suction: If a person decides to pet a slime, the slime will most likely try to suck them in. the higher this stat the better your are at sucking something (or someone) in. It also improves your capacity to throw things (please note, a slime must suck an object all the way to it's center before it can throw it). At especially high levels one can be able to climb walls of warying degrees of friction. (please note, a high density and weight makes this harder)

Weight: the amount of useless mass you have inside of you. This may be undigested food or some sort of incompatible object like a rock. All this does is slow you down. You want this to be as low as possible, unless you are ambushing someone from above and trying to crush them.

Final notes: combat will be mostly a chunky salsa system with a few numbers here and there. Also another thing I should talk about is impact. If you are hit by a bludgeoning damage (such as a car crash or fall damage) then your density will temporary decrease based on the extent of the damage and you will be a splatter on a something. You will regain density at a rate determined by your command stat. Since as already mentioned above a low enough density will kill you, this will be how you die to bludgeoning damage, slashing damage will most likely kill you by removing too much mass and size. Also there is a mechanic for falling into a pool of your own element but I will let players discover that fro themselves

So what do you guys think, any confusing wording or questions about mechanics?

Currently my main problems I'm dealing with are stat-scaling, and context (why are you a slime killing random creatures?). Without context a player is deprived of goals. Also more slimes to come (one will be the meat hulk and the other will be the psychic slime)

[ATHATH]

Double positing for great justice.

I took the lack of screaming to mean that no one felt the second generation prototypes were completely worthless. I went on and developed the first generations of pretty much complete tokens.

So, Allied non-monster NPCs would get these tokens to indicate their skill set and relative rank.

Hostile non-monster NPCs would get these...


Monsters are pretty much the same, except I can go a little crazy with color combinations.

Those make sense to me. Color=Class, and Size of Symbol is Power. What happens when the players or enemies get so strong that they fill up the token?

[Draignean]

Double positing for great justice.

I took the lack of screaming to mean that no one felt the second generation prototypes were completely worthless. I went on and developed the first generations of pretty much complete tokens.

So, Allied non-monster NPCs would get these tokens to indicate their skill set and relative rank.

Hostile non-monster NPCs would get these...


Monsters are pretty much the same, except I can go a little crazy with color combinations.

Those make sense to me. Color=Class, and Size of Symbol is Power. What happens when the players or enemies get so strong that they fill up the token?

Well, players will get their own selection of unique symbols and run with one symbol throughout their career. For enemies... The gap between symbols is a pretty big one, and it widens the further you go down. There's probably 4 between the first and second, 6 between second and third, 8 between third and fourth, and 10 between fourth and fifth. So it'll take a while to overflow. Better, I can mix color/symbols to indicate high level mixed class characters.

The players start with just below the minimum threshold to get the third rank in anything, so the enemies they face will be on a similar playing field.

[AoshimaMichio]

Double positing for great justice.

I took the lack of screaming to mean that no one felt the second generation prototypes were completely worthless. I went on and developed the first generations of pretty much complete tokens.

So, Allied non-monster NPCs would get these tokens to indicate their skill set and relative rank.

Hostile non-monster NPCs would get these...


Monsters are pretty much the same, except I can go a little crazy with color combinations.

Last five icons in third row are basically identical, I can't tell any meaningfull difference.
Row 3, columns 3 and 4 light blue icons: these need a bit more difference. If seen separately, it's hard to tell which one it is. Mostly because of background color. But I think [3,3] needs scale down complexity anyway.

[Draignean]

Last five icons in third row are basically identical, I can't tell any meaningfull difference.
Row 3, columns 3 and 4 light blue icons: these need a bit more difference. If seen separately, it's hard to tell which one it is. Mostly because of background color. But I think [3,3] needs scale down complexity anyway.

Well, there isn't any meaningful difference in the last five. The last five are blanks put in so the set maintains symmetry- and to show off how cool the bases are, of course. I'll probably end up deepening the blue on (3,1:4) so it stands out against the ally highlighting. I'll look into changing their symbol set if that doesn't make things more clear.

[Harry Baldman]

Quite a nice job on those icons. They're not hideous at all!

[FallacyofUrist]

They look nice... it would work. Anyway, I think I might get started on the Evil Mastermind thing...

[Andres]

They look nice... it would work. Anyway, I think I might get started on the Evil Mastermind thing...

Please read Evil Overlord so you know what not to do. Enforce the idea that we are definitely, absolutely evil, rather than commit genocide and then somehow try to come off as being the oppressed guy.