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[Willfor]

Or you could just make one really weird rts mode with a dating theme.

Love Is A Battlefield.

[Darvi]

"[...]and when you defeat her in combat, you get the good ending."
"What kind of genre is this supposed to be anyway?"
"...love story?"
"But so far I've only seen bloodshed!"

[Glowcat]

An rts dating sim...

Is that even possible? 

Send your wingmen/minions to help create the best date possible.

Or with a kingdom RTS, woo the target prince/princess into a marriage.

[Neonivek]

Or even each date is a great leader, scientist, or sorcerer and dating them is required to advance along and get the higher tiers of units/buildings/research or just other races to use.

[Siquo]

Or all your units are "daters" and "harvest" new minions through "dating". The Club is your Spicefield.

[Korbac]

Okay, there's a bunch of ideas there. 

Neonivek's idea would be good for a game which is essentially two games in one - you'd have the dating bit, and the rts bit. Siquo's idea is more integrated, but feels like it would be a very, very wierd C&C clone type place... 

"You have constructed the bar. You can now produce charming alcoholics."

[Reelyanoob]

Hold on the "two modes" idea was from me, bottom of page 2. Lemme check if I missed a post in there somehow though. EDIT: Nope, still me.

[Neonivek]

We havn't really added the RTS bit as a suggestion.

The person just said that Dating Sims make everything better, even RTS. And then people starting thinking about how RTS + Dating Sim would work.

Right now we have an RPG + Dating Sim + Smash bros-esk Platformer.

I will suggest that Like another game... Wandering the world will be on a world map / city map (or whatever 8-bit RPGs use) and combat or specific dungeons will be on the 2d platformer parts.

[Korbac]

Oh thank god!!! XD Well I must commend Biag for doing this deed.

[Neonivek]

I sort of already know another mechanic I'd love... but given that I've already made... what? Half the suggestions... and probably messed up the game.

I think I'll just wait until someone crazy tries to do a similar project.

[Reelyanoob]

How about have the platformer dungeons (and combat in buildings), and above-ground battles play out like rts / overhead, using a modification of the normal map mode?

[Neonivek]

How about have the platformer dungeons (and combat in buildings), and above-ground battles play out like rts / overhead, using a modification of the normal map mode?

As a turn based battle system I could fully see if it would switch views when you attack.

As a top down RTS AND a platformer? the ideas are incompatable.

So... actually no. (not that I am saying no... The laws of definition say no)

[Reelyanoob]

When you program you realize anything can be glued together. Whether it'll be fun is another matter. i.e. there's games that look like zelda for exploring, but turn into Mortal Kombat for fighting.

If you have a top down exploration mode, that can become rts battles very simply (by zooming into a region / fighting a battle, then zooming back out)

You can have "entry squares" which flick to platform mode for inside locations like dungeons.

The real challenge is to not screw around with the players immersion.

[Neonivek]

When you program you realize anything can be glued together. Whether it'll be fun is another matter. i.e. there's games that look like zelda for exploring, but turn into Mortal Kombat for fighting.

They already have that. It is called Zelda II.

What your asking for... isn't exactly that.

[Reelyanoob]

well nothing stops you having 15 zillion modes and mini-games, but 2-3 is really what you want.

When I'm talking about rts mode here, it'd be your avatar plus some merc units. They wouldn't be able to go into platform/dungeon mode with you (or they could, but the artwork coordination would be a nightmare. might be limited to a couple of chosen followers). If there's a top-down world map mode, making it an rts would be quite simple.