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8 years ago Also, how do we want to determine failure - by game over, or have an instant redo option?
I like to the idea of doing a "what happened to the world" type summary at the end that maybe explores assorted failure states for their grand plan that are determined by how far through the player has progressed?
Part of me kinda likes the idea that the things that keep the villain occupied are things that give him/her a more defined plan. This could perhaps give an opportunity for some interesting duality, and an ending that allows the villain to be defeated because the player knows their plans so intimately (could be told as a post-escape summary).
JenniBee
Since this is going to be a point and click adventure game, the most important thing is the story. We have the basic outline of the story, thanks to Feddlefew: "you have keep a villain monologuing long enough to escape a deathtrap",
Now we have to decide how we are going to handle it - will it be a serious game or a comedy? That will help to determine the art style too.
We also have to determine the name and gender of the hero, and the name of the villain, as well as why the villain captured the hero.
We'll of course need dialog from both the hero and the villain once we sort out the tone of the game. And the dialog puzzles will of course determine your success in keeping the villain monologuing. So we'll need answers from the hero that don't work on the villain, as well as varying levels of responses of the villain depending on how we want to go about you not keeping on track (do we want to have a one wrong move, and goodbye hero, or do we want to have a gradual decline in the villain's interest.
Also, how do we want to determine failure - by game over, or have an instant redo option?
We'll also need to set up an introduction and an ending (we can do these in dialog or have a sequence. I'll create an issue of the latter, but it's not necessary).