Hello,
I'm planning on making a new map for starcraft, and you get to choose how it will be like..well more or less..my idea was to have..but I'll see what you have to say. This is entirely a motivational thread for anyone who wants a push start, so to speak.



Vote away, my darkies.

Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2009, 12:05 am by Hacksaw76.

Genre of map?

I'm trying to let the people decide what genre it will be. Even though my idea was to have it an Evolves / RPG

Note: If one particular interest doesn't fit any of the answers you may use 2 or 3 answers to rate that interest.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2009, 12:17 am by Hacksaw76.

I'll refer to a few topics of mine from a while back. They have some pretty good ideas, though most of them are large walls of text.

• UMS Ideas Megathread
  
• Mission/Quest Ideas
  
• Visual Effects List
  
• Team-Powered Mapmaking <-- New topic written by the author of that, but not as complete.
  
• Environmental Interaction
  

You're probably going to be more interested in the threads Environmental Interaction and UMS Ideas Megathread.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 4 2009, 3:54 am by lil-Inferno. Reason: Grammar errors, yo!

Make a map where it's a beat em up styled rpg. Like it's all modern, but people people have DEMONIC POWERS and BATTLE AXES and stuff.

yeah with naruto style spells and side scrolling like in sonic the hedgehog or something.

I'm suprised such good ideas, and very fitting for my map.
Well it's going to be like a massing game with an RPG twist. So instead of automatically leveling up and having your units for you. You can choose from 3 different skills. And choose your own creeps (spawns) get heroes, cast 'naruto style spells' and much more! And inferno, i'll be using your idea for Floods and stuff, great stuff, thanks. Zergling, there will be powers, and heroes with axes

Any more ideas?

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2009, 12:06 am by Hacksaw76.

Totally killed my hard-on when you said massing .

Another mass attack is the LAST thing we need
but not to insult your map..who knows. It could be something totally different. Also don't make the spells "Naruto-y". Try doing something unique, and stay away from the fan-boy anime spells.

Well, that was helpful everyone. Any more ideas or suggestions, folks?

@Samsizzle and Zergling. What is a 'beat em up' and sidescrolling? I have not much understanding of either of those.

I'll try to make it less massing-ish. Yes, Inferno even though this is an Evolves Map, your ideas fit in nicely. I like to see it as a diverse massing game. Instead of allowing people to just spawn out hundreds of units to their heart's content, I've decided to make it more...tactical...so you have less units, more heroes and stronger units, and all that. Also only one of the skills improves your massing, the other two just make you stronger.
I'm debating with myself weither or not to include quests? I wanted to add a player 9 computer and later found out that they won't attack..So just no quests? I'll have caves and forrests where you can find additional bonuses, for the more adventerous of players.

You will have a commander whoes location can be set to your Observer or your Hero, and that is where you can mass your armies. Plus the normal base massing; middle massing, etc. The spells will be quite a lot like the spells on Omicron RPG; DKS 3 (and theres more), maps I'm quite familiar with playing (thank you whoever made them).
Here is a list of spells:

Earth Spells:
x Summon Werewolves (hero lings)
x Summon Bone Spiders (Broodlings)
x Summon Ents
x Summon Dwarves
x Summon Elves
x Earthquake (summons Lurkers)
x Magic (turns gas into minerals) ((Someone please give me the real word for converting coal into gold, it's a form of magic (notably found in the terry brooks books)))
x Nature Heal
x Poison
x Stone Skin
Water Spells:
x Summon Water Sprites
x Summon Leviathon
x Flood
x Duplicate Army
x Conversion
x Divine Protection
x Tsunami
Fire Spells:
x Summon Fire Giants
x Summon Pheonix
x Fire Blast
x Fear
x Volcano (creates volcano that damages enemies)
x Sacrifice Enemies (kills them for money)
x Fire Portal
Air Spells:
x Summon Giant Eagle
x Summon Gryphons
x Lightning Storm (summons high templars)
x Black Hole (tornado)
causes unit to be sucked (ordered) into the epicenter where they are killed there are 5 locations. largest
sucking area, 3 damaging areas and then 1 killing units area in the epicenter. Buildings take 3 seconds to
be killed in the epicenter.
x Wind Shields
x Freeze
x Bolt (kills 1 unit in area)
Unit/building Spells (passive):
x Morph
x Shape Shifter
x Vampireism
x Light
x Force Field
x Transform Mode
x Spirit Mode
x Healing Aura
x Sheilding Aura
x Graviton Cannon
x Restore Health
x Restore Shields
x Teleportation
x Bank
x Generate Resources; EXP
x Duplicate self
x Total Death
x And all element spells
x Lay mines (spider mines)
x Throw Bomb (zombies)
x Summon vampires
x Creates Nova
x Creates Rift

So, who likes it? Anyone want to help me design this project, it's a big one! If you do I'll be devoting a thread to that goal, in say about 2 weeks - a month.
Thank you.

P.S. Please do not copy this, I place full trust in you that you will not. And no one can make my own map like I can, anyway

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jul 10 2009, 7:39 am by Hacksaw76.

1) It's usually lead into gold, not coal.
2) You're thinking of alchemy.

Or he is thinking of diamonds ><!

Meh.

Still need more ideas or constructive criticism.

Auto targetting system, manual targetting system. The manual targetting system increases skill, the auto targetting system does not. As the unit gets better at the manual system, it can help the auto targetting system know weak spots in enemies. Really only works in a futuristic genre.

Trigger definition:
Turn on/off alliances. If alliance is on, you get money for upgrades when you kill stuff. If alliance is off, you don't get money. Possibly have defense as a separate resource, and have that on a different kills to cash system.

A good example of a side scroller is super mario 2D, in the Map showcase forum. Beat em up just means it is a fighting game.

As for p9 attacking, i'm working on that, but I doubt it will be good for what you want.

If you have lurker heroes make sure there is a way to see it for the other team. If it is just a temporary spell then don't worry.

I was thinking of using scarabs for my flood spell and maybe make a sonic wave spell which will also be scarabs. This works because reavers are Water Sprites.

As for volcanoes I'll make them spew out lava which is spider mines.

Lurkers are only used for a spell they aren't heroes. Anything that can be summoned or spawned is not a Hero.

I'd prefer not to make it a side scrolling game, I'm starting to get the idea of how that would not work.

I'm not 100 on how your system works Zany, is there a referance to it, somewhere on here?

Other than that, I'm going to start work on the terraining, I'm going to leave it as open as possible in the middle where people will be fighting and put trees forrests and caves stuff like that outside for more tactical fighting. What are your ideas for terrain?

Does Jungle fit this map or something different?

Try this. p12 attacking second page is more useful.
But I doubt I will find anything useful.

add in "Arena" games.

Done


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