Greetings to everyone

[stiatent]

Yea true a lot goes into game design, films can hide things outside the camera perspective,
but 3d videogames need to keep immersion when the player rotates the camera/character or ventures outside the game's objective.
True Elder Scrolls and open RPG games like that are a monumental undertaking especially because of the level of player freedom. Elder scrolls always looked like fun to play, you ever played Skyrim too?

Sick Boy would have been a 3rd person action-horror somewhere between Dead Space, MGS, Resident Evil and Devil May Cry. But instead of simply fighting off monsters, the player had to avoid physical contact with other NPCs , he had a virus that turns them into monsters. The goal was to rescue survivors from the already infected, without infecting them too. The game environment however puts you in situations with a high chance you can accidentally infect them.

Narrative was something that developed more as it became a comic, but had a head start on the world rules and character limits bec of the game concept. Also as a comic there's more flexibility as you're not limited to gameplay coding eg. there's one character from an FPS game idea that now plays an antagonistic role, you only see his hands like a FPS and he adds something more to the plot than just infected enemies.

[KeithRW]

As you say, there's just so much to it. I haven't played Skyrim much to be honest. The one I remember playing a lot (and probably showing my age here!) is Morrowind. It was such a good game, I lost about 12 months of my life to it - but it was totally worth it. I loved the scope of it (it was quite unique back in the day), and the fact you could just spend hours exploring. But even back then it wasn't lost on me how much had gone in to developing it. Mind blowing for the time.

I like the idea that the central character has to avoid contact with others. Seems kind of unique and original.

[TroyVSTheWorld]

Also as a comic there's more flexibility as you're not limited to gameplay coding eg. there's one character from an FPS game idea that now plays an antagonistic role, you only see his hands like a FPS and he adds something more to the plot than just infected enemies.

Oh cool, my original comic plan from like 10 years ago was having a bunch of video game characters playing through their lives in their own specific genres. I don't think I've seen this idea in action yet, though, but I seem not be the only one with the idea.

[stiatent]

@KeithRW lol no worries you're as young as you think you are Morrowwind, i think I heard that title B4. As you mentioned losng 12 months, I had to put down skyrim bec I had stopped sleeping and would go to my workplace a mass, you're right the open exploration in those games and also access to multiple quests for all the rewards make it hard to put down XD Reading your novel gave me memories of those type of games like skyrim, the village element, nice yours have a space twist too

Was inspired by dark fantasy and RPG light swordsman/thief class for Evan. Which also led to a homage to Skyrim and LOTR :
Mammals become infected by the virus too and various species can combine when infected, later in the 1st season there's an Old Fort that the MCs pass through and have to fight infected bats that combine into a dragon-like creature-
Many thanks, makes me happy you like and find the Sick Boy unique came from having the common cold one day, not wanting to infect the family and turning symptoms into superpowers lol

@TroyVSTheWorld don't give up on that 10 year old idea, if its an Idea you still love Yea true, vid games inspire so many of us, so everyone has some level of it in their own work. Having them play in their own specific genres does sound fun and interesting
For Sick Boy comic, been loosely using the concept. All the superhuman characters reflect a diff genre of action media (mainly games) and states of matter/things that affect states of matter.
eg. the initial trio are Gas (superhero x found footage horror), Solid (RPG light swordsman/thief), Liquid (fighting games/ beat em up games). A minor chara reflects Farm Sim games too.

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