Questions, notes, and other thingamabobs for my new game that I'm planning

Arcade Game Design
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Honestly, this post would fit into so many different topics, but I’m gonna go with Arcade and Game Design for now.

Hi everyone, I just created this post to get suggestions on and idea for a game that I’ve had and have been building up for quite a while now. Let me just get straight to the point.

The main character of the game is unfocused, (Yes, that’s his actual name) His quest is to collect the magic shards (name TBD, maybe ability shards? idk) Each one gives him a new (maybe even sometimes wacky) ability!

Onto some concept art :]

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There’s a lot going on in this image (it’s pretty bad because I made it in Google slides) first off, we have the main character unfocused! Then to the right of unfocused we have desucofnu, unfocused’s Warp World counterpart. (I’ll get to what the Warp World is in the future) We also have evil unfocused, (ooo spooky) unfocused’s rival, obviously.

I also forgot to mention, there’s a character that’s basically unfocused’s best friend/sidekick. His name is Blue, he’s a colorfocused, and has a blue outline and dark brown hair. He’ll sometimes wear a cap. (unfocused will also sometimes wear a cap!)

Here are some ideas for locations in the unfocused Universe that I had!

  1. The Drawing Board - unfocused’s home kingdom.
  2. Pleasant Palace - A castle but also a self-governing city in The Drawing Board
  3. Color Town - Home to the colorfocuseds. (I sound so dumb) More on them later.
  4. Lava Lake - Located inside of a volcano close to Pleasant Palace. Lava Blobbers live here!
  5. Water Way - The exact opposite of Lava Lake. It is instead located in Color Town near the Colorfall
  6. Peaceful Plaza - Lots of stores, malls, and other things are in this plaza! If you’re looking to stock up on some supplies, you’ve found your place!
  7. Variety Village - The calm before the storm. The civilians here are greatly affected by evil unfocused’s merciless acts. It’s a pretty poor village but it still a nice place to be.
  8. Perilous Palace - Seemed like evil unfocused took control of Peaceful Palace and turned it into Perilous Palace! Can you find a way to save it?

More locations to come, and if you’ve got any suggestions, make sure to tell me about them.

Thanks for listening to me yap about this :smiley: I need your opinions on what additions I should make to my project. Comment down below!

Oh and also, before I go, you can request ANYTHING, even yourself, to be made into an enemy or character, and I’ll do it no prob c:

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can the characters requested be somewhat playable?

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This looks really fun! I love also sharing ideas so if you ever need some for enemies or abilities i’d be happy to help!

You should name the evil unfocused “Focused”. (This is mostly a joke)

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you should add someone who you meet in peaceful plaza who is named something like super unfocused or hyper unfocused, who is a superhero whose only power is to have the attention span of a gen alpha goldfish with adhd

(I’m not making fun of people with ADHD, ok? I have it too, so I know how hard it is)

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Yeah!

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This actually sounds amazing, I’ll make sure I remember to do this! (Sometimes I can feel like I have ADHD, but I’ve never been diagnosed and won’t try to self-diagnose myself.)

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“Here we go again!”

~ Mario, NSMBW (2009)’

Alright, looking back at my previous post, I noticed there was a lot of things I just didn’t choose to explain. In this post, I’ll explain some of the things that I left unexplained in my last post. Without further ado, let’s get into it!

  1. What genre is this game?
    It’s a platformer with puzzle elements sprinkled in and RPG elements in the world map.

  2. What’s the Warp World?
    The Warp World is a separate dimension. Basically an opposite of the normal dimension, everyone has a Warp World counterpart, but desucofnu (unfocused’s Warp World counterpart) was the only Warp World counterpart to make it back to the real world for some reason.

  3. What are the Colorfocuseds?
    The colorfocuseds are a species of unfocused that are way more colorful than the rest! (This just means their outlines have color, they have hair, and they have more unique hairstyles, some unfocuseds also have color)

  4. What’s the Colorfall?
    The Colorfall is a waterfall of colors near Color Town. Every year, on a certain day, the colors in the Colorfall shine the brightest than they ever have. The colorfocuseds hold a festival annually to celebrate this change. The festival usually lasts for 4 days. The event is called Colorpalooza! The event is celebrated from August 22nd to August 26th.

  5. What’s a Blobber?
    Blobbers are enemies, but also normal characters, citizens sort of like Toads. The hostile Blobbers are called Bobbers, (The ones that wield hammers are called Boppers) and each one adapts to their surrondings. (Colorful Blobbers in Color Town, Lava Blobbers in Lava Lake) They look like slimes with 2 oval eyes.

And that’s pretty much it!

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This is gold lol. Probably gonna be his alias

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are you still working on this? I can help if theres something you need help with (please don’t say art)

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A few things

  1. Blobbers and Boppers are gonna be kept as enemies.
  2. A replacement for them will be soon c:
  3. I can neither confirm or deny that there will be a princess to save…

Uhhhh some new characters I guess

  1. Blue (Has been unfocused’s friend since before the events of this game)
  2. Yellow (Has been unfocused’s friend since before the events of this game)
  3. Green (Has been unfocused’s friend since before the events of this game)
  4. Battery Bob (an enemy that follows unfocused throughout his adventures)
  5. Flo (an xbox one that unfocused redesigned into an actual human, has an HDMI cord as a tail and can use it to fly like Tails)
  6. Blorb (an otherworldly being from planet Quan)

Some new locations as well

  1. Acid Acres
  2. Bouncy Kingdom

Yeah I got a a bit lazy :c
I’ll make more later!

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Don’t worry I think I got art handled, if you want you can help with some code…

…or the hardest part of this project: music.

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shudders…
Yeah I can’t do music, but if you need help with coding, just tell me! I know how to do a lot of stuff, and if I don’t know how to do something, I know who to ask! On another note I honestly don’t think a princess is nesesary, but you can if you want. I thought evil unfoccused, or foccused would be terrorizing the unfoccused universe, and making them focus and unfoccused would have to save them.

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I wasn’t really thinking when I wrote that last update, so the princess thing isn’t happening.

But these other ideas seem amazing!

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what kind of music do you need?

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Idk, just some cool and catchy sounds, maybe a bit similar to the things they got cooking up at companies like Sega and Nintendo

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GOOD NEWS! 1-1 IS COMING SOON!
It’ll be a normal ground level with some placeholder music that I won’t really use

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