Devlog - Legend of the Abyss

[kavaris]

27 minutes ago, LordFall said:

Pokemon Go.

Oooooh okay. I told (you) lord (though obv., everyone can chime in and help lord / us)that i have a discord, but that we should all riff first, cause we arent yet sortve like... Iuno how youd phrase it... We arent yet in that realm of like "okay this is what i want, or that is the target zone" And that might come alot later, so take it all with an open mind — for now—for now

This is a test.

Its to see how ... ... ...or no, im srry, im phrasing it wrong... one moment...

I meant to say, its like a test or \*experiment — to sortve *pull out the words* from your imagination (to engage your imagination and interests a little), to see what your heart is

27 minutes ago, LordFall said:

Pokemon Cards in and of themselves have a market cap of $2.5 billion so that's pretty cool. 

I designed some playing and collectibe cards for Legend of the Abyss...

striving for... okay i gotchya, one moment.

This gets me thinkin of what i call "Collectibles", which is connected to games, but it also widens your imagination field to things suchas...

Stuffed animal, physical, teddy bearish realm of stuff, moving into –> Toys/Games –> Action figures –> Comics / Art & Anime/Manga, etc.–> Trading cards (Yugioh, Pokemon, etc.) –> Video game, music (ost), book and/or animation / movie/tv show stuff (could be anything)

.... i mean....
Im sortve rifling through alot, but collectibles is a wide category, And im tryina get you remembering like, all the things like this, that connect to like that 5-10 age kid in 80s, 90s and beyond, like that notion for all of these stories and char., caricature or the myth(ology) of what connected all of these things that had heroic or fantasy / creature - esque things going on, which itself is obviously part of that ancient myth and story, like whats the title of that later antiquity legend about the Ethiopian queen / princess? Is it Aethiopica, Like i wanna say it proceeds Ovids Metamorphosis (if its not that, then its something that largely borrows from it) point being, that romantic or otherwise heroic fantasy genre is part of the earliest Greek Metamorphoses, or the traditions that once had stemmed in Pythagorean, or Archaic theology, like the "mytho-religious beliefs come to life..." sortve things, from our perspective.

So im just riffing, gettin ya thinking. You can tell me what you are thinking..

Edited 6 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

Explain to me the game again, but from this sortve perspective,

Like whats the story w/ it, and who are the characters in it, And "Why", like are these characters serving the game / environment, or does the environment serve the char., or sumthin else, Like get a little abstract w it

[kavaris]

(cont.) No rush. Take your time, cause i have to run to a store rel quik

[kavaris]

(cont ii.) @LordFall Im just mentioning-*, in case you didnt see that i had been responding to you, i just forgot to @ you before this /

[LordFall]

1 hour ago, kavaris said:

Explain to me the game again, but from this sortve perspective,

Like whats the story w/ it, and who are the characters in it, And "Why", like are these characters serving the game / environment, or does the environment serve the char., or sumthin else, Like get a little abstract w it

The story is about a mage named Nerathar who travels accross different Kindgoms in the 17th century and eventually conquers the world. It's a dark fantasy world with magic and the point is to explore how magic and the scientific revolution/age of enlightenment of the 17th/18th century would pair up.

The first version of the game will be a fast paced 2D roguelite hack and slash type of game. Like Oblivion Override or Dragon is Dead 

 

From where if it's successful I wanna develop a wider scale game like a 3D action adventure game and the vision 10 year down the line would be to turn it into a VR web 3 MMORPG.

The world-building, anime and TCG are aspects of it I'm developing alongside the game. 

Edited 4 hours ago by LordFall

[kavaris]

@LordFall (Part 1) Oh okay. One sec., i had this prepared, As i had been turned on to the fact that you're indian or part indian ~ And so im rifling thru some things that may or may not be interesting, along the lines of things that you might already kno about, or that u might find interesting, sortve in the realm 9f ancient caricature that stems from the most Ancient of Indian art and style, like this, As India created that very Anime looking style, in conjunction w/ wat was a later entry, from their old / ancient traditions that extend into asian ~ Japanese and chinese... i only know this cause i looked at various painting / art from Japan artists in the 1700-1800, which of course predates Anime... but watchamakalit, you see similar Indian creatures and style of art here. Then theres a vid., illustrating indian creatures / art ~ After which ill then comment on your comment.

(see images, 1st one is Indian Rahu creature)

Im sure theres more, the Indian stuff goes back to a very Ancient tradition ..

Edited 4 hours ago by kavaris

[LordFall]

That's really cool, I like that. I'm not Indian but I wanna incorporate some elements from multiple cultures and religions of that time. Hinduism is one of them so mystical creatures from the Hindu lore is cool. I wanna take some elements from Shaktism as well specifically some of the goddesses they have and their ideas on feminine and masculine polarities. 

The lore is also about exploring immortality and life after death as part of the story is that the main character deifies himself through the word conquest and also ends up given the power to resurrect the dead and thus he creates an immortal empire across earth and the Abyss. 

Sort of how Hades 2 is about invading the underworld

 

Edited 4 hours ago by LordFall

[kavaris]

28 minutes ago, LordFall said:

The story is about a mage named Nerathar who travels accross different Kindgoms in the 17th century and eventually conquers the world. It's a dark fantasy world with magic and the point is to explore how magic and the scientific revolution/age of enlightenment of the 17th/18th century would pair up.

The first version of the game will be a fast paced 2D roguelite hack and slash type of game

(Part 2) Oh so just a 2D, you can prolly do that with not much help on anything from me. I mean, you might want to also consider, is this idea something others will find interesting, or is it more of your own passion, And making it *popular is more secondary to this primary objective.

You dont have to answer that, As thats more something for you to consider as you go...

16 minutes ago, LordFall said:

I'm not Indian

Not indian. Got it.

28 minutes ago, LordFall said:

Nerathar

Now is this character a hero, or does he function more like someone in the middle—Neither good or bad (from our modern perspective) like Odysseus, like that sortve trickster, murderer turned hero, that is, sortve like most Kings or their predecessors, they may not necessary even want to be a ruler or leader, at first, but they are kindve forced into it thru an unfortunate set of circumstances, And then that is then the "leader who becomes king, out of happenstance" -Like that trope of maybe someone like Agamemnon, Granted not many ppl think of him that way i dont think, But if you just consider all the flavors of the diff protagonists, rulers or otherwise leaders types, then you sortve enter into this complex moral and emotional dilemma / situation involving... Maybe the protagonist / Odysseus-style character, like it could also be more Arabic-style, like the guy was a thief (Aladdin) before they became a ruler... i mean theres many ways to approach that aspect, ...

Like maybe you want this divine lineage thing, like, whether that be a reference towards Tolkiens elves, who are partly immortal, partly human because they can still be killed through severe physical stress, but they normally dont age... and thus end up living for thousands of years ... Thats more of the god-like, sortve Platonic road ~ that is the "man-made" versus "god-made" dilemma... It then touches on many elements story wise, or whatever direction you would have it explore... Like, in the realm of folk or fairytales, which is more of like a shared / orally passed down thing, you could go w/ the romanticized king arthur story, the idealistic-good-guy trope... i mean, im just giving you ideas, theres quite alot of details you might add in conjunction to this of course.

Edited 4 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

@LordFall Ill leave ya w/ this, my routine, or my vers., of playing video games is now putting on or playing music from video games, and playing w/ the cat/cats... And ive been playing, whatever youd call that, for like a solid 5-7 years or so, i mean i was researching ancient stuff + languages, but im on a hiatus, And everything else, including the discord stuff, its all highly classified now, and hard to really explain

 (i have like entry lvl programming on there, to help ppl learn, and many, many things that it ties into, but thats just the beginning, everything is like its own secret project... i also have a sourcehut you can learn from, if u get into programming ... pm me if u into it)

Edited 3 hours ago by kavaris