RE: Palace Caprae (Sburblike RP)
03-12-2013, 02:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2013, 05:12 PM by Benedict.)
Oh hey, overwhelming positive reaction! I didn't see you come in! I'm excite now. (Yes Schaz that is the game for thing.) Guess now it's time to drop deets about characters and what I need to start the game. So here's the skinny. Or, well, I don't want to perpetuate unhealthy body-image standards... here's the information-of-any-body-type,-all-of-which-are-equally-beautiful.
The game features an entry process not unlike Sburb's, except insofar as it's completely unlike Sburb's. Palace Caprae is billed as an augmented reality game (of the sort where you pull out your iPhone and it superimposes like a game thing over the camera feed), and while IC players are encouraged by the game's instructions to play their first game at home, OOC players are encouraged by me to play their (spoilers: only) game from whatever location is the most interesting.
See, here's the big hook: Upon entry, the location you've selected isn't just dropped into some magic planet. The location you've selected becomes the magic Land of X and Y analogue (except it's not a planetoid and also very little else is the same). The whole place is interpreted by the game engine (read: the GM) and converted to a game world. Showerheads become waterfalls, stovetops become sacrificial magma pits, housepets become giant roaming boss monsters, etc.
This means that in addition to information on one's character, players have to provide information on their player's environment. The entry phase of the game, which involves a lot of scrambling around said environment, is one way for me to gather info on the player's in-game surroundings, but I imagine not everyone's going to want to go through that whole sequence, so a map/blueprint or detailed description ahead of time would be helpful- but not necessary if the player isn't familiar with the location they're playing from, since then I can just make stuff up.
hahaha i'm already asking people to draw maps what
e: like the level of detail should be proportional to how much you want your character to know how things are laid out? except wait really i could just draw up a map and then your character would retroactively know about that layout?
yknow what forget maps unless you want to draw a map and see how it converts, i can prolly just come up with stuff /e
So onto actual characters. While players will end up with a mythological role in the game world, it's not like Sburb where your sprite just tells you "you are the Heir of Breath" and that's What You Have To Be. There's a bunch of convoluted components to it, but ultimately your character becomes whatever you make your character into. Abilities and powers and such will typically be presented as choices between "do this to get this power, or this other thing to get a different one", or more robust character-building choices- or granted as rewards for doing clever or interesting stuff the scenario didn't consider.
There's no particular restrictions on characters- they'll need to get their hands on a mobile communication device somehow, and be humans from Earth, but otherwise go nuts. I'm pretty sure y'all are good enough writers to come up with interesting and compelling PCs.
e: oh and since at first most characters are gonna communicate over irc prolly you should come up with screen names for em as well as regular names- not like pesterchum format because geddoudaheah but something that helps characterize by "this is what they would call themselves", but yeah do whatever you want to do w/that stuff, i gotta get to class /e
I guess if you want in, post a character bio in the thread here? I have some plans for fitting in as many players as necessary, although I dunno maybe I should still just limit it to 8 so I don't get overwhelmed? Nah, I'll like, power through or whatever. It'll be a learning experience.
The game features an entry process not unlike Sburb's, except insofar as it's completely unlike Sburb's. Palace Caprae is billed as an augmented reality game (of the sort where you pull out your iPhone and it superimposes like a game thing over the camera feed), and while IC players are encouraged by the game's instructions to play their first game at home, OOC players are encouraged by me to play their (spoilers: only) game from whatever location is the most interesting.
See, here's the big hook: Upon entry, the location you've selected isn't just dropped into some magic planet. The location you've selected becomes the magic Land of X and Y analogue (except it's not a planetoid and also very little else is the same). The whole place is interpreted by the game engine (read: the GM) and converted to a game world. Showerheads become waterfalls, stovetops become sacrificial magma pits, housepets become giant roaming boss monsters, etc.
This means that in addition to information on one's character, players have to provide information on their player's environment. The entry phase of the game, which involves a lot of scrambling around said environment, is one way for me to gather info on the player's in-game surroundings, but I imagine not everyone's going to want to go through that whole sequence, so a map/blueprint or detailed description ahead of time would be helpful- but not necessary if the player isn't familiar with the location they're playing from, since then I can just make stuff up.
hahaha i'm already asking people to draw maps what
e: like the level of detail should be proportional to how much you want your character to know how things are laid out? except wait really i could just draw up a map and then your character would retroactively know about that layout?
yknow what forget maps unless you want to draw a map and see how it converts, i can prolly just come up with stuff /e
So onto actual characters. While players will end up with a mythological role in the game world, it's not like Sburb where your sprite just tells you "you are the Heir of Breath" and that's What You Have To Be. There's a bunch of convoluted components to it, but ultimately your character becomes whatever you make your character into. Abilities and powers and such will typically be presented as choices between "do this to get this power, or this other thing to get a different one", or more robust character-building choices- or granted as rewards for doing clever or interesting stuff the scenario didn't consider.
There's no particular restrictions on characters- they'll need to get their hands on a mobile communication device somehow, and be humans from Earth, but otherwise go nuts. I'm pretty sure y'all are good enough writers to come up with interesting and compelling PCs.
e: oh and since at first most characters are gonna communicate over irc prolly you should come up with screen names for em as well as regular names- not like pesterchum format because geddoudaheah but something that helps characterize by "this is what they would call themselves", but yeah do whatever you want to do w/that stuff, i gotta get to class /e
I guess if you want in, post a character bio in the thread here? I have some plans for fitting in as many players as necessary, although I dunno maybe I should still just limit it to 8 so I don't get overwhelmed? Nah, I'll like, power through or whatever. It'll be a learning experience.