I feel we should just have a thread where we all post random ideas and see what we agree on as a whole before fleshing them out on a Google Doc.

For example, from what I've heard this story/RPG thingy can take some dark turns. And our OC/Character thingy will be going through a hell of a lot of stuff. I have come up with a title I posted in the other thread, but I'll post it here too: Sing to Armageddon. Sing means journey in this context, and said pony thingy will be going on a hellish journey if this takes a dark route. Also, why not have Twilight do the time traveling thing she did with herself in that one episode to give warning every now and then as she tries to retrieve said pony thing from the past? Or am I understanding the plot wrong?

Eh, get brainstorming.

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I can only laugh an evil laugh and say: yes.

Thread pinned,

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We taking more inspiration from JRPGS or Western RPGS? Or mixing the two together.

4915840 idk I'm just here to do shit and have fun

4915800 I'd say.... twilight goes back in time where (for example) king sombra rules, and she needs to find the map to get back to the part where starlight glimmer interferes. Then she gets sent back, over and over. It's not the best idea....
Maybe if twilight gets sent back to star swirl the bearded. Like I saw in the other post. That seemed nice

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Well:

The story is supposed to revolve around the player character. What was posted in the comment in the other thread is the framing/beginning of the story so far. Of course this is all subject to change depending on team input.

Okay, so I do have a question, but it involves brainstorming.

It's about our main character. Are they going to be customizable, and if so, how much? Or do we start with a base protagonist as defined by the story?

(That is, do we allow our players to create a character to their liking, which means that puzzles would have to be able to be solved in three different ways, or do we use a base character whose design we create?)

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It all depends on how many programmers and modellers we get by the end of today, since any changes or additions to the player model would be the most work for those two areas.

I think we should have the player be walking through the woods for a yet to be decided reason, and have them overhear a talk between the Mane 6 as they try to decide on how to go about investigating the potential of a time travel stone Twilight created from the Map of Harmony. The player would stumble into the experiment and cause Twilight to mess up her spell, overcharging the stone, shattering it and dispersing the fragments along with everypony nearby across different times and AUs. The player would have to go through each setting to find the next chunk of the stone, finding the other stranded characters along the way.
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4915840 I say but one thing...
Issa pony game.
Is gotta be light-hearted and fun (not saying there can't be dark shit, but if light-heartedness ain't the focus, then we won't be really paying omage to the source material, now will we? Also, light-hearted and funny moments are best used for the player to get attached to and get to know the characters before the dark shit hits the fan, so... Yeah)
So the battles gotta be fun, right?
BOOM
KINGDOM HEARTS-LIKE BATTLE SYSTEM YA SUCKFACES
LOOK AT THIS SEXYNESS

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(First: WOOOOOO. More KH fans! WOOOOOO.)

Second: This is an admittedly great idea, and as such, I give it all my yes.

4916184 I still think something similar to Earthbound would be best.

4916210 (Aw HELL naw! You know how fast ya just met mah standards?... Dear frick do i hope ya get that reffernce)

WHOO
A SUPPORTER
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WHOO

Seriously though, i actually talked to Gears, he down fo' summa dat Knigdome Hearts pu-*slaps self* I mean gameplay.
So yea.
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WHOO

4916232 To be fair, Undertale just came out. Best NOT to seem like we're ripping off the potential game of the year, no? Cuz... It's kinda inspired by Earthbound.
Not that i'm against the idea, just sayin'...

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Spaghetti! No upsetti, whenever there is spaghetti. ... Burnt, frozen, spaghetti.. Never forgetti.

Now I'm imagining it in the FFXV engine. AND IT ALSO AWESOME.

4916290 REPRESEN'IN DEM SPAGHETTI-O'S
CEREAL4LIFE
GROVE STREET STY-
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I seem to have wandered into a GTA game.
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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *kills all the things* Who says killin' everybody's a bad time?

STOP MY IMAGINATION GON IMPLODE WIT ALL DAT AWESOME

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Imploding is simply your imagination making room for more of it!

... Great, now I'm imagining Cloud and Sephiroth ponies duking it out. Weird. This is what comes of imagining ponies with giant swords.

4916361 BUT IT HUUUUUUURTS

Pfft. That's beginner shiz. Ya no wanna know my thought processes

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TAKE IT LIKE A MAN. Or a mouse. Or a whatever.

... You know, that's probably right!

4916374 I'M A NEKO YA RACIST SCHLUP

No.It's left.

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OH. NEKOS ARE THE BEST. I JUST DIDN'T THE CAT EARS.

Left, write? Right! Right? No, left! Who's on first.

4916425 Didn't the ears what? OH MY SHIT THE CLIFFHANGER

JHBDVBIKRHNFVUJNISFUVGN *pukes rainbows*

4916269 UnderTale is completely different though.

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4916425 I hate to be a buzzkill, but could you move that to PMs?

4916466 We have, don't worry. So... Any thoughts about the idea?

4916473 I'll make a post in a second.

If I may throw an idea into the mix, this could be a story that's actually about an underground war going on. The changelings have been planting spies in the public for years, hoping that by subterfuge and a bit of luck, their spies could get elected as important members of the pony community. Because the accusation of Changelings is a serious one, ponies can't just come out an say it. If they're right, the authorities would try to keep it hushed, to prevent panic. If they're wrong, they'd be thrown in jail on the charge of conspiring to disturb the peace and cause panic.

An underground force (may or may not be backed by Princess Twilight or Luna) has been formed for this reason. You are a pony who realizes that things aren't right with your neighbor, but you don't know if you're just being paranoid or if he really is a Changeling. Even though it's a bad idea, you decide to spy on him one night, through his back window. You see him, as a changeling, meeting with two others changelings. They discover you (obviously) and that leads to you running for your life. In a panic, you run to the Everfree Forest, because you think trees will stop them from buzzing after you.

After getting cornered (and maybe having a tutorial of how to play along the way) you do your best to defend yourself, but they beat you down. Then comes in the CR's (Changelings Resistance) and saves you. Because you know the truth, they take you in and train you to operate in society, to spot Changelings, and how to take them out without alerting the populace, because who knows how many Changelings there really are out there?

The story would run the course that a high level general is actually a leader in the Changeling army, and a mission to take him out quietly fails, and you're captured, taken before Celestia and she sentences you to death (Because of the law) But Princess Luna (Or Twilight, depends on who backs the group) steps in and claims responsibility, saving your life. This creates a rift in the princesses and leads to a civil war (Luna Republic vs Solar Empire?) that ends with the Changeling invasion and war torn equestria banding together to fight them back.

That's one of my ideas anyway. What do you think? Any good from this?

4916825 I think it's a really good idea. It mixes some drama and thrilling moments.
But maybe you can play two ponies. Like.... one soldier to fight in the war, and another pony to go back in time. (Because I'm a huge fan of time travelling ) to prevent the war?

Oh and plot twist. Celestia is actually a changeling.

*gasp* maybe you need to find the princess?

4916065 maybe we can mix it up? Your story with living robot's ? Because your idea provides an 'easy' to make the game play.

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Because your idea provides an 'easy' to make the game play.

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4917936 don't mind me. Just rambling. I just think it'll be easier to make

4918017 It would be faster and require less people too.

4918022 yeah. Guess so. None the less, it'd still be a lot of work

4918063 Every game is.

A dark undertone mixed with scarce, heart-felt moments between characters would be nice. The dark theme will brink a more serious vibe to the story instead and make people expect good writing from it more than a comedic/light-hearted one. It'll also be more impressive to pull it off, seeing as writing good dark stories is a challenge that I feel we'd be able to conquer. Not to say this story will be totally morbid, no. Just have that be a theme of sorts throughout it.

Edit: It will also bring more emotion and such to the battles, making players get invested with the fact that something serious could happen if they loose the battle.

Quick question, what type of music would we want? 8bit? or something more electronic? I'll be helping with the music so that's why I'm asking

4918071 no kidding XD
But together we can do this

4918083 I quite agree. Good thing that I like writing dark stuff and From how others have reacted to my work, I'm pretty good at it too.

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As mentioned on Discord last week but which failed to surface due to a sudden influx of other things I had to do, I now propose some ideas for potential side quests, or as raw material that can be used for further fleshing out of the main storyline(s). (Hope I'm not too late to the party on this.)

-Some shenanigans of Discord or perhaps some minor protagonist cause the player to end up in a remote alternate dimension separate from Equestria, and must do this and that to get themselves back.
-a quest that starts off as ostensibly a stereotypical fetch run but quickly evolves into something more complex (could be part of a mini quest line of side quests)
-An artifact is causing a town to behave bizarrely (such as walking backwards everywhere they go) and the player must find the artifact and destroy/get it under control/get it to someone who can deal with it.
-A quest where the player meets a supernatural doppelganger of themselves in a dungeon and must outwit said double to be able to escape and perhaps get some legendary loot
-Getting captured by an eccentric wizard, and using newly discovered spells to defeat said wizard and escape
-Scouring the map and discovering locations for a cartographer or group of cartographers.
-Building some things? Like structures or bridges, like say an army needs you to help them cross a river, and you happen to be the only architect around for miles.
-(Not so much quests as general activities:) Jobs, such as location scouting, wood cutting, providing rain for farmers, etc.
-Finding and or/saving missing ponies (preferably without the babysitting component of escorting them back by making them competent in a fight once being saved/found)
-Taking on the role of a villain and hampering the efforts of random heroes as part of a guild of bad guys/evil doers
-Helping someone build an airship, by gathering building materials or bartering with merchants and shipwrights, etc.
-Helping somebody build other things not airshippy.
-Eating some bad mushrooms (can be triggered at any time by eating mushrooms in one's inventory) going on a massive hallucination trip, and dealing with the aftermath
-Side quests that could introduce a crafting system, (if one exists in-game)
-Something that mirrors friendship quests from the show.

With all that shared, apologies for the delay!

4934828 I have to say, you've got some good ideas. And there are a few elements that I'd love to see I'm the game

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cause the player to end up in a remote alternate dimension separate from Equestria

That's what happens throughout the game.

We're thinking of making a mirror of the player the final villain.

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We're thinking of making a mirror of the player the final villain.

Final villain? As in final final? Sounds like a bad idea.

4938936 Final could mean the final one introduced or the final one fought. Nothing has been decided.

But why would it be bad?

4938955 In my opinion, as a side concept, having the enemy be yourself can be thrilling and rewarding given the unique dynamic. But when "yourself" is the ultimate foe after fighting so many unique, legendary, and tough as hell boss enemies before them... it could be taken as ... cheap.

4939099 It's up to the player to determine how unique, legendary or tough the boss is. And it's not 'yourself' necessarily, it's a mirror. While that usually means they are the same, it can also mean your opposite. So who would have better motivation to kill you than you? Say you were fighting to fix the timelines, then the mirror would be evil and want the power for themselves, but if the player is evil, the mirror would be good and try to stop the player from taking over. And again, it could be the last villain introduced. So the final battle could have all of them. Nothing is decided.