I decided that I should take a couple of weeks off, well it is a holiday after all, before I start 100% on my Final Major Project. In this time I've been putting together ideas for my game and hoping to get the UT3 books (no luck).
One idea I came up with, well it's already in other games, but I've been trying to work it into my own, is the idea of karma, good and bad or gangs. I want the possibility for the player to choose his own path, or at least the illusion. I've worked out a way for this to be implemented in the game, by using Kismet to add/subtract points from variables for doing things like killing certain people or doing certain tasks. If the numbers in the plus, then your good, for example, negative means that your bad etc. Expanding further with this is the option to make NPC's friendly/hostile with you because of your actions, open up new shops/missions or basically become the most feared/loved butch killer around.
The NPC's could be spawned on a certain team, depending on what number was in the variable. I could also have an indication for the player letting them know how good/bad they are doing, or even if killing or doing a task will give the player good/bad karma etc. It's something I definitely want to look in to and implement if I can get it to work...which I should if these book's ever get bluddy released by Epic!
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About Artus
Artus in my final major project of a 3 year course studying games design at Hull School of Art and Design.
The game is based on a post apocalyptic world, which ran in parallel to ours until around the invention of electricity. The story tells of how they found another source for their energy, called Seed, which they adapted to work in humans as a sort of mini powerplant. When the energy started disappearing, people started dropping like flies and the world lost over 90% of it's population.
You play a character called Alessandro, a merc working for the company who discovered the energy source.
As I'm planning on becoming a level designer, the primary focus of this level is to show how I can build and adapt levels to include pacing, story, emotion, fun and general gameplay elements as well as the ability to build good look levels which use lighting correctly and take on the correct colours schemes to portray the right mood.
The game is based on a post apocalyptic world, which ran in parallel to ours until around the invention of electricity. The story tells of how they found another source for their energy, called Seed, which they adapted to work in humans as a sort of mini powerplant. When the energy started disappearing, people started dropping like flies and the world lost over 90% of it's population.
You play a character called Alessandro, a merc working for the company who discovered the energy source.
As I'm planning on becoming a level designer, the primary focus of this level is to show how I can build and adapt levels to include pacing, story, emotion, fun and general gameplay elements as well as the ability to build good look levels which use lighting correctly and take on the correct colours schemes to portray the right mood.
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