Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:13 PM
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:13 PM
Okay I kind of started talking about this a while back so let's go into a bit more detail about a video game pitch
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:13 PM
In this game, you are a rookie sci-fi park ranger
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:13 PM
On a distant alien world
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:14 PM
That contains a variety of magnificent and dangerous animals that are also full of a special substance only found on this planet
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:14 PM
That makes them super valuable to poachers
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:14 PM
The first arc of the game has you learning how to track them with a more veteran ranger
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:15 PM
You learn how to pay attention to how different kinds of animals behave
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:15 PM
How to read procedurally generated in game tracks
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:15 PM
From like broken twigs to droppings to actual footprints and such
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:16 PM
I think the tutorial has like a computer AR system that sort of gives you tips that your senpai advises you to not grow too reliant on
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:16 PM
You gotta learn how to do all this properly
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:17 PM
The second arc of the game is the big one in which a gang of poachers land on the planet
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:17 PM
And kill ranger senpai
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:18 PM
So now you're alone and you gotta protect all these animals and also your AR hint system is knocked out or at least severely weakened because the poachers blew up the comm satellite that lets you contact the rest of the universe
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:18 PM
So you also have to figure out how to get the word out that you need help
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:18 PM
Gameplay focuses on like
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:18 PM
learning about this ecosystem
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:19 PM
getting the animals to help you
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:19 PM
protecting them
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:19 PM
fighting off poachers
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:19 PM
Which, you notably don't have any lethal weapons on you
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 4:39 PM
I think it could be a cool game!
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:15 PM
i think it sounds neat! my first thought is the tracking system in Monster Hunter World but expanded into something way more in-depth
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:16 PM
where you actually have to pay attention with your eyes instead of having glowing bugs highlight everything important for you
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:17 PM
Plenty of games have had tracking mini games
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:17 PM
In this it’s a tracking game first
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:19 PM
(A tracking game with a combat mini game tacked on)
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:20 PM
yeah in MHW it's an integral aspect of the game but it's still just a stepping stone to get to the actual gameplay. a game where the tracking is the core mechanic has a lot of promise as a concept, i think!
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:20 PM
imagine having to learn how to track the poachers during the second arc of the game
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:22 PM
Yeah!
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:22 PM
without any of your AI or senpai assistance, you have to figure out how to tell the difference between when a large animal has crashed through the underbrush and when a person did
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:24 PM
Spend a lot of the game tagging the beasts
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:25 PM
Tags don’t tell you where they are without your satellite backup but they can warn you when one of them is in trouble
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:25 PM
So you can go to their habitat and try to figure out what happened to them
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:26 PM
And like rescue them from a poacher cage or get them medicine because they’re sick or
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:26 PM
You know
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:26 PM
Generally intervene
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:28 PM
ooh that's good, i like that
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:28 PM
basically tagged animals acting as your quest pings
"Specimen-893 is in distress, go figure out what's wrong!"
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:29 PM
maybe let the player tie a nickname to each tag if they want to, so they get extra invested in each animal they have tagged
Lightning Bolt
@graygriffin
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:40 PM
yessss animal nicknames
Lightning Bolt
@graygriffin
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 5:40 PM
I probably wouldn't play this but I'd definitely watch an LP
Gabiluzbad
@Overbringer
Thu, Sep 10, 2020 7:21 PM
Definitely give them customizable nicknames, yeah
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