Forum Collab RPG Maker MV Game!

[Cloud Knight]

Double plot twist. the evil twin was actually with us the whole time, and he made everyone believe the evil Xyphien (Me) was captured as a plot to kill us, when it was the evil clone that was with us the whole time that was plotting the whole thing to kill us!

[doublepost=1445157514,1445157050][/doublepost]TRIPLE PLOT TWIST !!!!!!

not only was the evil twin with us the whole time, while making everyone believe the good Xyphien was evil and captured using that as a plot to kill us. HE also had ANOTHER EVIL TWIN which he cloned in the laboratory encase his evil plan's went south, he could have his even eviler clone hit the switch to rewind time. thus ripping a hole in the space paradox! making the world as we know it doomed. which reveals the biggest plot twist of them all. @Amysaurus announces her long awaited hatred for dinosaurs and moves on to cat's instead. $
@Bizarre Monkey announces that he started to loath monkeys and switches it up to penguins !
even making @Orange Ball so angry where he turns blue and shrinks making himself a blueberry!
making the forum's and community preforming a ripple affect and everyone who posts here becomes the opposite making even myself

the dark knight.

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[Zebestian]

Having a whole bunch of people working on the plot is kinda spoilery, isn't it? Who's gonna play the game if half of us already know the story? :P ... and please don't say "the other half"... XD
Anyway, I'd love to provide the soundtrack for such a game, should it ever come to existence. And the main theme's gonna be the anthem of our forum! :D

 

[LTN Games]

Actually we could make it so at some point, Xyphien while being captured still has his own scenes. Times when he is still fighting back to try and get back to his community, he breaks out a few times, kicks some enemy ass but eventually gets re captured. orrr maybe I somehow got in contact with him because well you know staff members have like a special telepathy connection( or cell phone lol) and my ideas run dry there lol.

Having a whole bunch of people working on the plot is kinda spoilery, isn't it? Who's gonna play the game if half of us already know the story? :P ... and please don't say "the other half"... XD

Maybe not everyone will join up and then we can move this to a more private location in our PMS, or then again we could always just have fun making it with everyone here and then share it at other communities and @Wize1 streaming.

Anyway, I'd love to provide the soundtrack for such a game, should it ever come to existence. And the main theme's gonna be the anthem of our forum! :D

Now that sounds really epic, I would love to see what you come up with for a theme.

 

[Amysaurus]

I can make some art for this project if my workload for uni isn't too bad. Just let me know~

@Amysaurus[/USER] announces her long awaited hatred for dinosaurs and moves on to cat's instead.

Considering, of all things, I'm allergic to cats, that's probably not going to happen ;D.

 

[Wize1]

@Kaimen You raise a good point. I think we should all design 1 character and 3 maps ,but we must design these maps in accordance to the main plot. That way we all revolve around the same story line, except we dont know what chapter each of us has created. It will be a light project that doesn't require too much work. Except it will be a decent size game because we all contribute.

So, everyone come up with a plot. original poster of this thread, make a poll and start adding the story lines. We will all vote on the best story line and then make our characters and maps around it

 

[Bizarre Monkey]

Okay, so me (@Trumully), @LTN Games and @Cloud Knight are thinking of making an RPG Maker MV game, collaborated with the MV forum community! We would like some people to help collaborate in making this game. We need you!

@Xyphien, are you able to pin this if you can, please?​

Not to dissuade you, but this has been attempted many times, and failures are nearly always the inevitability. Good reasons for this are:
A. You don't know people well enough to portray them correctly.
B. People aren't as invested in the idea as you might be.
C. Bias can easily sway your portrayal of people.
D. A smaller playerbase, as community games tend to rely on in-jokes a lot of other forums or groups of people wouldn't get.

My idea for Anarchy's Kitchen was to be broad and simple enough not to seem like you're missing out on a joke. If an in-joke has it's context established, fine.

The generally best way to make an ingame is to include the people you want in regardless of their consent, and just hope they like it. TBBGE was developed in this way. Don't try to all collab on it because points B and C will easily tear it down.

 

[LTN Games]

Not to dissuade you, but this has been attempted many times, and failures are nearly always the inevitability. Good reasons for this are:
A. You don't know people well enough to portray them correctly.
B. People aren't as invested in the idea as you might be.
C. Bias can easily sway your portrayal of people.
D. A smaller playerbase, as community games tend to rely on in-jokes a lot of other forums or groups of people wouldn't get.

My idea for Anarchy's Kitchen was to be broad and simple enough not to seem like you're missing out on a joke. If an in-joke has it's context established, fine.

The generally best way to make an ingame is to include the people you want in regardless of their consent, and just hope they like it. TBBGE was developed in this way. Don't try to all collab on it because points B and C will easily tear it down.

Very good points you bring up. When we first discussed the game I mentioned to them we will do this with or without the help of the forum, why? well because I had the same points you brought up run through my mind, I know not everyone will want to help, and not everyone will be as into it as some, and bias will sway things around like a monkey in a tree . The playerbase dont matter to me, when I make games I really dont care if anyone sees it, even though I create it as if I want everyone to see it. This game will be for fun, and to have all those hyped about MV possibly participate in it, or not, it don't matter really. I am happy with CloudKnights awsome plot idea, we must save Xyphien and bring him back to the community, this is a quick and easy game, the size, the amount of character, the amount of maps completely depends on everyone else, that is if they want to particpate in it or not. So we shall see how things roll, but either way I will have fun, and hopefully everyone else that tags along :)

 

[PixelMister]

A brilliant idea, but may I advise you do things through polls for this?
If everyone just gives a bunch of ideas, your going to have to sift through every single one of them, and it's a bit extreme.

If you collate all the best ideas and put them in a poll, then everyone can vote for their favourite, allowing you guys time to prepare more stuff.

 

[Zebestian]

Not to dissuade you, but this has been attempted many times, and failures are nearly always the inevitability. Good reasons for this are:
A. You don't know people well enough to portray them correctly.
B. People aren't as invested in the idea as you might be.
C. Bias can easily sway your portrayal of people.
D. A smaller playerbase, as community games tend to rely on in-jokes a lot of other forums or groups of people wouldn't get.

The way I see it, we don't have to necessarily make the game about the community. The main aspect here is the collaboration of the forum members and that can be on any game with any storyline. There's always the possibility of making a "generic" RPG that has nothing to do with the forum other than that it was made by forum members. Now, that might not be as "personal" as having a game about the community but it is a possibility and there's nothing that goes against having a few easter eggs here and there that allude to forum members. :)

 

[Bizarre Monkey]

No, of course not. I think I misunderstood, or interpreted it in a way the OP may not have meant. Being a team for a game can work wonders. I'd know, I have one.

For some reason I got the impression we were talking something like the VX.net community games that... Neo? Something Neo... Neo Hunter?? I forget-- used to make before he handed it off to Andi. Andi, who is one of my team members now, can't seem to finish a project alone, and I know three he's started and never finished, two of those were community games.

 

[FelixSynth]

I don't know how much I can contribute to this project in the coming weeks but I can script and voice act male voices a little if needed. I can also do a demon or goblin voice if you want something for the boss or a reoccurring enemy. Just give me a character description and the lines.

Edit: Also I should add that this game shouldn't be about the forum or forum members. I vote for having a story that is unrelated to the forum members as mentioned above. I also agree with using polls to determine/make the story.

 

[Cloud Knight]

Very good points you bring up. When we first discussed the game I mentioned to them we will do this with or without the help of the forum, why? well because I had the same points you brought up run through my mind, I know not everyone will want to help, and not everyone will be as into it as some, and bias will sway things around like a monkey in a tree . The playerbase dont matter to me, when I make games I really dont care if anyone sees it, even though I create it as if I want everyone to see it. This game will be for fun, and to have all those hyped about MV possibly participate in it, or not, it don't matter really. I am happy with CloudKnights awsome plot idea, we must save Xyphien and bring him back to the community, this is a quick and easy game, the size, the amount of character, the amount of maps completely depends on everyone else, that is if they want to particpate in it or not. So we shall see how things roll, but either way I will have fun, and hopefully everyone else that tags along :)

THE GAME MUST GO ON !!!!
xyphien is in trouble !

 

[LTN Games]

The way I see it, we don't have to necessarily make the game about the community. The main aspect here is the collaboration of the forum members and that can be on any game with any storyline.

Edit: Also I should add that this game shouldn't be about the forum or forum members. I vote for having a story that is unrelated to the forum members as mentioned above. I also agree with using polls to determine/make the story.

Yes but even though it's all about collaboration I believe it should still be based directly about the community here. Obviously a bit of imagination will need to be used but I promise it will be fairly easy. So Xyphien (Forum Owner) is missing, so to translate into a game, Xyphien the village/town/city mayor/leader has gone missing. Our goal is to help rescue him, the villagers(forum members) have banded together to help find him. So really it's about replacing some words with another word, meaning almost the same thing so technically we should keep member names for the game. I also agree with the poll votes .

 

[Zebestian]

So really it's about replacing some words with another word, meaning almost the same thing so technically we should keep member names for the game. I also agree with the poll votes .

I'd be completely fine with that. However, we would have to make sure not to drift off into a muddle of inside jokes and references. If we can manage to keep those at a minimum, I think we're in for a pretty neat game.
By the way, I have experienced a similar case with the "Chaos Theatre" forums. They basically swapped out names, too and had the users as enemies with mods as bosses. I don't remember the story but I'm sure it revolved around the forum itself, so... I'd not go that far. :)

 

[Cloud Knight]

once we get our hands on our mv copies. we then can really begin to work on this.
until now honestly it's up in smoke and speculation all we have is a plot and our keyboards as swords
untill.......

the release. which also brings us too, who is going to be a villian matter of fact we need some polls put up to help vote on this touchy subject @Trumully & @LTN Games when you get a chance and see this notification. lets plot on some polls. gotta start geting design's and ideas jolted down mv will be released before we know it.
also would we be communicating on here ? mostly or will we use skype to help develop... decisions decisions !

 

[FelixSynth]

Yes but even though it's all about collaboration I believe it should still be based directly about the community here. Obviously a bit of imagination will need to be used but I promise it will be fairly easy. So Xyphien (Forum Owner) is missing, so to translate into a game, Xyphien the village/town/city mayor/leader has gone missing. Our goal is to help rescue him, the villagers(forum members) have banded together to help find him. So really it's about replacing some words with another word, meaning almost the same thing so technically we should keep member names for the game. I also agree with the poll votes .

Oh I see, yea that would be fine then.

 

[Sonicboy95]

Don't forget to put me in. I want to be a random NPC in a random village who says "I AM ERROR."

Zelda FTW
[doublepost=1445367544,1445367337][/doublepost]I would like to be a helpful guide who well helps you on your quest but things take a turn when it is reveled that I was working for the enemy all along.

 

[Black Shadow]

Can I be a mysterious old man wearing a black robe who speaks who fanatically speaks of doom and gives everyone lollipops?

 

[LTN Games]

Can I be a mysterious old man wearing a black robe who speaks who fanatically speaks of doom and gives everyone lollipops?

You know, that could fit in somewhere rather nicely..er.. at least I think so :D

 

[Rise Evil]

The void of doom giving lollipops for everyone :D