The Grand Battle Video Game (and Soundtrack) Discussion

<PickYerPoison> I do however thing that our best plan if we actually do this is not to make each battle separately but to make an editor that can be used to make battles
<MrGuy> That's probably wise
<MrGuy> Set up an engine, and then people design the levels/characters individually
<PickYerPoison> So you can set up like peoples' names, the grandmaster, the zones, scripted events possibly

I had an idea which sounds simple but is probably painfully difficult to actually do: create a procedural generation program based on adjectives.

Depending on how deep the player wanted to go, they could (potentially) customize every little thing about the round or a character to get it just so - you could say a round is "rocky," for instance, but then go into the rocks that make up "rocky" and make them "blue," then go into blue and pick a certain shade, creating an "((indigo) blue) rocky" environment. Or something. Each adjective would have associated nouns that you could then modify further. Additionally, one could put nouns in other nouns with a "contains" modifier.

I think an example might work best.

Contestant (Name (Gormand)) CONTAINS
- Body (spherical (pockmarked), brown (dark), meaty (moist, tough)) CONTAINS
- - Limbs (many (20 (4 legs)), tentacles (cylindrical, wavy), even dispersal, white (ivory), fleshy (moist, soft))
- - Eyes (one, large (very), human (iris red (ruby), bloodshot (slight))
- Mind (and here I'd describe his psychology and motivations, but fuck that, it's late)

Limbs, because his arms and legs are interchangeable; these classifications are as always tentative and exploratory.

The thing about using adjectives is it also allows one to set up a system to create procedural music. Pulling from certain adjectives (I'm not sure the player could modify this, as it'd depend on the mentality and appearance of both the encounterer and encounteree), an engine could tack together certain instuments with certain rhythms and tempos and stuff, I don't know, okay

I'm torn between this system being too complicated and just complicated enough. Does this make sense to anyone else?



Now for the things you actually care about.

'It's for someone who's kinda sleezy and a male'

Mr. Saturday? No, no, I think he's supposed to be competent, and this song doesn't instill me with confidence in its owner's competence. Maybe Parset or Jeremy? Hm.
Here's the list of everyone canon, for reference.

Champion!! Saint Scofflaw ("Epilogue!!" is a little too straight-forward in my incredibly-subjective-and-not-based-on-anything opinion, but this is probably not helping Malky separate this from Pokemon at all. May also work for Encounter!! or Requiem!!)

Battle!! Jennifer Tull

Encounter!! The Charlatan