Possible New Game

The more I think about it the more I come to the conclusion that there simply isn’t enough to do on each planet. For this game to achieve its potential I would need to vastly increase the amount of activities each world provides, like actually finishing the casino’s hotel, or allowing you to take a part-time job at the Sergorin mall, or imputing the college on Bornal and allowing you to take classes.

This is possible and I do have the ability to do it, however it would take a large undertaking to make it worthwhile and with my (slow) programming ability it most likely take a very long time. I’m willing to do this especially because I see it as necessary, however, over the past several days I’ve had a thought bouncing around in my head and it’s started to snowball into a fully-fledged idea.

I’ve been thinking about the next chapter for Spaced. I’m not bored or disenchanted with the game, but I do like to know where I’m going. For those of you not wanting a sneak peek into my though processes or a spoiler as to where I may be going stop reading now. I’ve been thinking that part 3 of the story is going to be an invasion by the aliens of one or more of the planets in the sector, not necessarily any of the ones that have already been presented.

I intend to start your character off as a recruit in what are effectively the Marines as they are transported to the surface of the planet being fought over. As opposed to the first two games I would allow you to choose the basic characteristics of your character, gender, hair color, etc… though because you would be a soldier you would have to start off within a certain set of parameters (thin, in shape, et al) but that could change over the course of the game.

Because of the history that I have written into the game it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to allow a doctor to alter your character in outward or inward ways. The limitations that I had imposed on myself for not imputing transformations into your character to which I didn’t have pictures would be eliminated as I would either not use images, or commission visual representations (see below). Your character would be able to encounter and combat enemies similar to what you can do in Flexible Survival or Corruption of Champions.

I would like to advance your character without having to use levels, but replace it with something similar. I would allow you to purchase any and all equipment upgrades at any time, however some would be prohibitively expensive at early stages of the game. As you advance in experience and your military record improves you will be available for promotions to higher ranks. The higher rank you achieve the higher your pay scale would be, but that wouldn’t be your sole source of income. I would want to have an independent contractor in the area that would periodically offer opportunities (quests) for motivated marines.

I’d want you to be able to choose capabilities/equipment to progress with, such as concentrating on offensive, defensive, or healing abilities that you would receive upgrades for as you advance in rank. To further the equability of each style I’d have you work in a group with three other marines that you would have at least a limited ability to choose (at the start) and after a fashion you would be able to select each member with no restrictions (such as after become a Sergeant).

In a similar vein to Flexible Survival I would want losing in combat to have transformative consequences, though not immediate or always apparent (such as an incubation period or developing an internal gland or telepathy). At a certain point if your character has been transformed multiple times by the aliens and hasn’t received medical attention to reverse or make the changes benign then you would start having to fight back against an impulse to seek out more transformations or even join the aliens. Joining the aliens would then entail being a mole if your transformations aren’t too obvious to your comrades or if you are too conspicuous you would try to escape to the alien enclave.

There’s a great deal more that I’m still mulling over as to what I would like to do and what is actually possible, but what I cannot escape is the fact that I wouldn’t be able to do this on my own. I would most definitely need a partner to program and code most if not all of the game. Additionally, because of how awful I am at making or altering pictures, I would need to find someone else to provide artistic services for characters, aliens, scenery, and anything else I might want.

I would like to include as many fetishes as possible, however, at the same time I don’t want to just rehash the same formula that others have done. I don’t want this to be a copy of Flexible Survival, or Cursed, Trap Quest, but I would like to include elements of all to create the most rounded game possible.

I would like to make this game incredibly complex, in depth and lengthy. Because of this, for my idea to come to fruition I would need to have some kind of investment in the project in the form of OffBeatr or something similar. I don’t want to assume anything, so for the time being all I’m doing is gauging interest in this project. Nothing is set in stone and I would welcome any and all constructive input to make the possible game more enjoyable to play.