Comic book

[Eskay]

Tommy wrote,

Oct 31, 2011 12:54:10 GMT -5 Tommy Chong said:

The idea was a comic-like interface with player avatar and/or planes (or crews!) appearing in it so the whole game feels like you're reading a comic book about your avatar.

This reminds me of an article. I think it would be pretty sweet to come back after a nice long queue and read through a page or two of comic book describing what your pilot's been doing.

[Eskay]

The biggest problem I foresee is the art requirement seems to go by O(mn): we want art of each pilot in a variety of poses. Maybe we can work around by doing what hybrid-RPGs seem to do: use one art whatever the character's doing. But that's not very active and engaging.

[kalin]

Nov 4, 2011 8:30:45 GMT -5 Eskay said:

The biggest problem I foresee is the art requirement seems to go by O(mn): we want art of each pilot in a variety of poses.

For each action, either show the plane or show the pilot gesturing wildly at an NPC. Each NPC has the same pose (bored/annoyed), but with a uniform slapped on top to show their job.

[talon]

I think this is a Good Idea and will go on the 'sparkle' list.

[eeptog]

I know im a bit late to the party but i like what you are trying to do.

You could think of doing a sort of Paper-doll kind of thing. Angles would require whole new "dolls" but simple poses would be easy to do.

As for implementation it would be a bit major but it would be amazing to have Faction Stories. The flight guild could be a bit of a tutorial string that eventually drops off with a "join a faction" quest kind of thing, then each faction has their own (possibly branching) story.

Obviously that would take a lot of work, i don't think it should be there at launch/early beta but its worth thinking about, wouldn't you agree?

[talon]

paper dolls a la the Sequence game (if you haven't played it, it's on Steam and totally worth $5)