#everstrand

[kazoracht]

Haven't posted fuckall about this for months to the point where Tumblr's shitass search function can't find the posts and it's still just on paper anyways but I was considering having everstrand set in a permanent state of partial darkness.

Going to go for a level where it's still enough to see by but you can like, see the stars and stuff.

[kazoracht]

Alright. The basic thought behind the disease and injury system is to do more where a lot of other survival games glossed over, in my opinion. A trend I found is that devs would slap a hunger bar down and call it a survival game, despite it being glaringly obvious that, even in a mundane setting, there's a lot more dangers out in the woods than not having food. Though games that were designed to be survival focused aren't guilty of this. My plan thus far is for a disease and injury system is to have the body be divided up into regions and have varying injuries there, as well as disease have different influence on gameplay as debuffs.

[kazoracht]

For the art style of the game, I'm thinking about trying to make it look like it's all painted. anyways. Let me know what you think of the stone texture I made

[kazoracht]

Been talking with my friends about some things with what is now our project, and we've hit a bit of a wall with decisions on two proposed systems, skills, and mutations.

With the skills system, you would slowly get xp as you preform a task, and then get some kind of boon or get points to allocate for additional bonuses and whatnot while preforming the task, like being able to craft faster, hit harder, and so on.

With mutations, your actions and environment would slowly alter your character's stats, and probably the model as well, to suit the environment, like webbed hands/feet if you spend a lot of time in the water, or toughened skin if you're fighting a bunch, and so on.

Skills would be far easier to implement, but could prove to be an irritating wall the player encounters when trying new things, while mutations would be harder to implement, and potentially cause issues with equipment and character customization, but far more unique.

Posting this here because I saw some people show interest in the project and I'm looking for input.

[kazoracht]

Hey, I went kinda silent about this project but I am still working on it between college and work, anyways, in the discord we made we were discussing a skills system vs a mutation system. Skills are pretty standard so I'm just going to gloss over them with the usual do things, get xp, level up, get bonuses/new things. While Mutations would be the player character being slowly altered by their environment and actions. We had considered mutations as it would be a bit more unique, and could have a visual influence on the player character, while skills would be easier to implement. I'm posting this on here in hopes of some feedback on which you would think is better.

[kazoracht]

Something I'm thinking about for the game is having most equipment be more or less run of the mill straightforward models, but you can paint them yourself.

[kazoracht]

Haven't talked about Everstrand in a hot minute here.

Whelp I just ate for the first time in about 11 hours so I think I'm going to spitball some ideas here.

I think an in depth yet simple customization system would be a bit difficult to find the balance between overall customizability and a comprehensible level of complexity, but would absolutely be worth the effort.

Something I want to do in what I plan to be a sandbox game is to have most if not all player crafted items be customizable, for reasons I can't really articulate beyond every game that let me customize a lot of things I at least liked that part.

I'm thinking the best way to do this would be having about 3 or 4 parts to a given thing.

[kazoracht]

What's the supernatural entity/god version of the name Keith? A name you hear and instantly know that guy's a slacker you can't rely on for shit.