Now that we've got a roster, it's time to get a community vote on which additional members should make appearances. This includes cameos, extra bosses, comic relief, characters who actually help the plot along, and maybe another chance to improve the playable character roster.
What I'm looking for is everyone's idea of members who have contributed to and left their mark on the community. This isn't a popularity contest, and includes people who have long since left the site. These are the people whose posts you like reading, whose company you enjoy, and for whom you feel empty when they're gone.If you need examples….FSX, FSX, FSX, FSX, FSX, Arcalyth, DesertFox, Flashback, Twisterghost (generally all staff), SJF, Rez, Obelisk, Kenon, Bryan, ChIkEn, Shadow Yoshi….The list goes on and will improve with your input, I hope. There's no special criteria because this isn't a submission, but if you'd like to post the means of appearance, you can do that too. For example, people seem to like to make JakeX/Requiem a final boss. If that's your wish, by all means, say so.Members who already have a character submitted may still be nominated. As a rule of thumb, you can't nominate yourself. This isn't a means of giving ego boosts, just improving the community feel of a community game.We have characters of community members, but for a community game, let's start putting in the members themselves.And in other news, provided that it helps further the community feel, I'd like to make it multiplayer. Could be done in a variety of ways, but I'm leaning towards Alert's AGMAPI to make it even more community friendly.
Multiplayer would rock. I could dominate everyone :V
Fortunately I've planned enough content that I think even shmuppers like you and Purianite would be at a disadvantage. At least at the start. And I'm looking at either a co-op mode (2-4 players, replaces the party system), or some way to work in a versus mode. Versus is iffy, because I'd need to find out how to manage a splitscreen or some other method of seeing the other player(s).
Then I refuse to fight the unskilled.
(Ironic.)If skills are a disadvantage I might as well fight Purianite or you in every game.I mean you'll pretty much be lowered to the level of everyone else, except of course, you'll have the advantage of knowing some of the concepts. But many of the concepts aren't characteristic of shmups, which is why I said this.
I think the Versus aspect would work better if both players are playing cooperatively but are trying to get a better score than the others.
Or maybe it's just like singleplayer where you just see where the other players are but you're all playing on your own screen.Just a thought.:\
needs moar ciribots
If only you knew, Rob. If only you knew.
Meanwhile, Spoon is sad and contemplating suicide over not being included here at all :(
i wanted to shoot a fuckin arrow in your knee Cyrus…. until I took an arrow in the knee.