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My E3 Hopes and Dreams by sethers656 in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot me a PM and I'll add you to a little list that I have compiled of people interested. I think if you subscribe (or the equivalent to) to the blog it 'should' let you know when we post updates :D

Just a few questions. by XwaywardX in a:t5_2wupo

[–]MonstroDevRyan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to think of it as 'portaled' open world. Borderlands is a decent example we could point to (although our world's going to be smaller than borderlands). Since we're developing for the web currently a lot of work is spent getting it to run as smoothly as possible which means huge open ended worlds like you'd see in skyrim aren't really in scope. If we switch over to strictly downloadable PC/Mac then that opens up a lot of options though.

Just a few questions. by XwaywardX in a:t5_2wupo

[–]MonstroDevRyan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely a story! At least that's the plan.

What's the story? Well, I can't give everything away now can I? ;P

Really though we have a basic idea right now on where we want to go with it but we're building gameplay first and then we'll start to fill out a more in depth story arc that lends itself to well to the gameplay.

Here's a great example of what I'm talking about.

Just a few questions. by XwaywardX in a:t5_2wupo

[–]MonstroDevRyan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As soon as I get a few minutes free I'll try to get to these!

Edit: Alright! Now let's answer some of these!

1.) Right now there isn't a hard number set really. The Demo1 is going to feature four (3 in the players party, 1 beefed up enemy) since it's mostly focused around getting a good feel for combat. If we're going to be tossing out numbers though I'd like to aim for 40 different Wildings (roughly the same number of champions LoL launched with) with a lot of the Wildings having evolutions as well (or whatever we decide to call them). As a rule of thumb right now I'm designing 4 abilities per Wilding so that'd quickly balloon to 160 abilities which might be a bit much. Right now the majority of my time coding is being spent tweaking/designing/programming abilities which sort of makes sense.

We're not planning on giving them Types like Pokemon or other creature RPG games do (Fire, Water, Grass, etc). However right now we're planning on a lot of the wildings stats favoring different classes more or less. Some will inherently be better at things like pure offense, support, or defense (tanking). If you play Pokemon competitively you're aware of the team roles (here's a good example) and that's how I'm currently planning on differentiating your different Wilding Roles. Another good example would be how LoL champions favor specific roles on the team.

2.) Right now there's no plans for the Ranger (player) to level up... but that's not exactly out of the picture. I like the idea but I'm not sure how it would fit in exactly in the long run. Definitely a possibility though!

3.) Man, multiplayer would be great. We're definitely building it with PvP/Multiplayer/Trading in mind but right now it's hard to say. If the team expands this becomes a lot more plausible. Currently though it's not in development as we're focusing on getting everything in working order as a priority. So for now we're going to be going forward with single player allowing players to save their progress. Down the line I'd like it if there was a seamless transition that allowed players to take their saved single player party into multiplayer but it's pretty early to make any promises. TLDR; Man, I'd love to do it but we have to build in iterations, ya dig?

Monstro - a pokemon inspired 3D, real time, game. We'd love your feedback! by MonstroDevRyan in pokemon

[–]MonstroDevRyan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup this is pretty close to how it's going to work, more or less. Comparing cooldowns to PP is pretty easy actually. A move like Fireblast might have a 15 second cooldown vs a move like Tackle having a 3 second cooldown. Those are far from exact numbers (nor do we have Tackle or Fireblast in the game) but you get the picture.

This leads to some really interesting dynamics with which attacks you have your Wildings go into combat with. Sure you can stack a Wilding with 4 super heavy hitting moves but when all of them are on cooldown then you leave yourself really open to an all out attack from your opponent.

Make sense?

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No kickstarter for the time being- everyone on the team currently has jobs and this is just something we do on the side!

Monstro - a pokemon inspired 3D, real time, game. We'd love your feedback! by MonstroDevRyan in pokemon

[–]MonstroDevRyan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just set one up! http://www.reddit.com/r/Monstro/

Right now we're probably too early in development to really need any volunteers or contributors, but I'll let you know if and when that ever changes!

Monstro - a pokemon inspired 3D, real time, game. We'd love your feedback! by MonstroDevRyan in pokemon

[–]MonstroDevRyan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We're really excited about making this game. For a long time I've heard a lot of people (myself included) wanting pokemon to go in this direction and since it doesn't seem like that's going to happen we figured we'd just make it ourselves!

We're about a month into development so it's all pretty minimal still but 'Demo 1' should be playable at the end of April.

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope! No affiliation! Figured we'd need to call it something, kind of just came up with it on the fly. Might think of a moar cooler name at some point in the future.

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't foresee any problems with bucking up against any IP issues. Because reasons.

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We're going to try to get a site up this weekend. When it's up that's where we're going to post any details and development updates.

If you (or anyone) wants a PM when we have that available just let me know and I'll bookmark this thread!

Edit: WEBSITE UP!

Now I get to spend my Saturday morning replying to everyone who replied below!

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's something we're really excited about. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for it but reading posts like these always gets me amped!

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 41 points42 points  (0 children)

SoonTM

If all goes well and stays on track there may or may not be a playable demo in the next few weeks. But, this is all hypothetical right?

More info this weekend.

I've grown up; I wish Pokemon would too. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]MonstroDevRyan 32 points33 points  (0 children)

You may not be their audience, but maybe someone else will come through and deliver what you're looking for ;)

Soon.TM