IF YOU ARE COMING IN MID-MEETING COME TO THE BOTTOM TO SAY HELLO. IF NOBODY IS HERE, JUST READ THROUGH.
E-Claire: Hello! Please say hello when you arrive, so I know you’re here. If you can’t edit please notify me on Gaia or NewGrounds asap! Things in bold and underlined are IMPORTANT!
Colby: Hello
E-Claire: Hi! Sorry I was afk for a minute, since nobody was here!
Colby: yeah no biggy i was late anyway so its okie dokie
E-Claire: Well, we’re both here now, so all is well! Admittedly I was a bit late too, so whatever. Onto the meeting! (*goes to check list of meeting things*)
Since you’re the only one here so far, is there anything in particular you want to bring up?
Colby: Not really just here to see what everyone else is thinking about. i mean im with music and stuff. i kinda just have to understand an environment and that kinda stuff
E-Claire: I should tell you what kind of music is needed then. Let me see… well, to start off with I think some rather mysterious music would be needed, since there’s an element of mystery to the game. I’ll take a minute to think about what else is necessary.Or shall I expand on mysterious music first?
Colby: i should be okay with just mysterious i can work something out. do we have any idea what we are making though?
E-Claire: Yes, I do (not so much the other members). I’ll explain it now. I’ll do a bit more of the plot summary and game play summary. Is that helpful?
Colby:yeah that would be awesome might do a copy and past to the forum later yeah
E-Claire: Sounds good. Oh, hi dinosaur.
Twigg/Catie: Hi.
E-Claire: So far we’ve discussed what we’re discussing today and mysterious music. I’m about to do a more in depth game summary and game play summary.
Catie: Sounds good to me.
E-Claire: I’ll do the plot summary in order of actual events, not what the game player would/may actually know.
Catie: Question. At some point (I don’t know if this is planned already) can I get a summary of the characters that need illustrated?
E-Claire: Yes. I was planning on doing characters after this. Do you want to take a break while I do the plot or something?
Catie: No I was just double checking. Carry on. smile
This sounds interesting so far.
E-Claire: YAY! I accomplished something! biggrin
Colby: are all the characters going to be these volunteers or are NPC’s a thing
E-Claire: The teachers are NPCs. All the school’s students are NPC players (except your student, of course).
Colby: not what i mean though. i mean like, okay so since its a game about a game its kinda hard to talk about. is the school filled with players or is the school filled with players and npc’s . Okie Dokie
Catie: I was wondering the same thing, actually. So thanks for clearing that up. Also, unrelated, since I”m tired of typing my name can I just change my font color?
Colby: s**t thats a thing we can do? rad as heckie. i say go for it
good plan
I’m purple now! biggrin Also, does anyone have a Tumblr?
E-Claire: Sorry, disconnected! I’l continue now IN SUPER PURPLE! And no, I don’t have tumblr. Oh, and I was thinking, maybe we could throw in a few NPC students to spice things up?
not a bad plan just throw it all in the same kinda area so we can find it, yeah or that. that works
E-Claire: Sure XD. *cheating with bold*
Okay so I have to leave for like an hour or so. WIll you guys still be chattin it up?
yeah might be, i feel like we will keep this text regardless though. so you will be able to find everything we talked about anyway
E-Claire: Yes, we’ll still be chatting in an hour, since nobody else is here yet.
and yes, I will keep the text.
Awesome. I’ll be back in a bit, then. Class time. :/
E-Claire: *pats back* Good luck! See you soon then!
Plot Summary
Intro: The year is… 2113. (technology should be pretty advanced by then smile ). There are two significant changes in society. The first one is that the government is corrupt- it will murder innocent little bunny rabbits dancing in the meadow in the name of research. Secondly technology is really advanced- a lot of games played are in 7D or whatever you want to call it. Aka. Computer stuff feels REAL!
Game start: A fairly large group of teenagers (aged between 12 and 17) have either volunteered or been forced into one of the governments new experiments. Their memories are temporarily wiped, they are put onto life systems, and they are put into a computer simulator of a school. So then the ‘students’ (aka. volunteers/forced) awake in a school they think they know nothing about. They spend the first day being confused, and questioning (NPC) teachers about what’s happening with no prevail. But suddenly a strange voice (project organizer/runner guy) resounds (?) throughout the school. The voice says that all of the students will be living within the school for 112 days (can be changed). Within that time they must do two things. The first is to complete a special individual goal, sent to them now (now in game time)(sent like to their brains in a game chat sort of thing). If they fail to complete it they may never leave this world (I haven’t decided if the voice if lying or not yet. I’m still kinda working on the experiment specifics- but something about working out how far people can be pushed, morals, etc.). If they do, they get one ‘wish’ (a limited wish of course). The other thing happening over the 112 days (from here on referred to as the term), is a ‘karma project’. Karma in this world is like a currency. Each student starts with 100 karma. They earn karma by completing missions set by teachers or the voice, by receiving it as a gift from others, or by winning it in a challenge with other students. They lose it by breaking rules (set by the voice at this time as well), giving it to others as a gift, or losing student v student challenges. If you run out of karma you are terminated- but none of the students know what is meant by termination. Rewards/special areas are unlocked for those with higher karma. The voice announcement ends, and the player receives a ‘special’ goal- to make sure at least 100 of the 500 students fail their goal (NUMBERS ARE EDITABLE!). Though they don’t yet know this, those with higher karma (say at least 750 karma) can ‘read’ another person goal by paying a certain amount (say 50 karma). Only the player is exempt from readings (they can’t be read). And so it begins!
The bulky plot development area: This is the part I’m most foggy on, since a lot of it will consist of ‘missions’ (things for the IRL player to do), and different ‘paths’, both of which still need to be discussed with the team. But here are the basic ideas. The player starts meeting other students, getting an idea of their schedule, learning the map, that sort of thing. For the game, tutorials will be happening now. Stats (if we use them, which we probably will) start being built at this stage. After this the player will begin to fully realize the voice is evil, when people are forced (due to karma purposes) to do immoral things, when the voice says some fishy things, and when people disappear into (the impossible to enter) headmaster’s office when they hit 0 karma (termination time basically). The player is invited into/forms (undecided) a group about the voice. How this group develops depends on the player’s path, but it’s goal is to discover the voice’s identity, it’s goal, and how to escape (since they don’t really trust the 112 days thing. shame). So the player completes tasks related to both the team and the voice’s commands. Along the way I think I’ll throw in some love interests, because that makes life exciting, and gives more endings. I can even include a love interest who turns out to be her brother who turns out to be the voice, and it’s all like WOAH! Back to the point though, we need come romance. Now the plot here branches off into different parts, depending on choices made/the ‘path being followed. But let’s put them into two main categories- fail ‘paths’, and win ‘paths’. For fail paths the player will either be terminated, trapped in the school, or will just be traumatized by events. For win paths the player will either defeat the voice, escape the school with their love on the 112th day, or just be satisfied with whatever else could happen. People on ‘fail’ paths will all get one event at this (whatever this is) point, while people on ‘win’ paths will get another. The event could be something like a massive student rebellion, or a murderous voice command, just something along those lines. How the player reacts to this event (I really need to develop this part with everybody else) will determine exactly how they end the game. And I suppose the it’s The End. You get a scene to summarize your path, and a page to summarize your path. Be proud. And hopefully each path should teach you some kind of moral, so the player can feel like the game actually had some kind of meaning.
Colby: school terms are 16 weeks, we can fiddle with it later but for now just to be accurate
E-Claire: ok, sounds legit
Colby: so its not like a currency its more like a ranking system? so basically end goal is we are working against the voice right? the voice is the bad guy? right so since the voice is the bad guy and we still need high karma the story works in the way of helping out the voice. which works but on the other side of that would we lose karma if we did somethivoice didnt want. and if he is the bad guy we will be doing stuff he doesnt want pretty often. so the way im seeing events unfold so far goes like this
START: player confused trys figuring it out, out of confusing and willingness to leave becomes a problem child in the school trying to get kicked out. Someone beats him to it and gets terminated which would put fear in him to earn karma, all the while starting to notice the corruption making him start his plan for “voices” downfall so he works up his karma to get access to all the places and rewards that near the end he would start to use to take down the voice?
E-Claire: It’s kind of both, because you can use karma to buy things from other people, even help from them. It’s to trade for items, and to rank with. Are you there? Yes, the voice is a bad guy, but it isn’t realized at first. When it is, a group of students (including the player) starts to work against the voice to bring him down, and to escape. The player can decide if the student is a problem child or not by the choices they make. The building up karma idea can be hinted at, but since there are multiple endings, it’s possible for a player to fail at it.
I think your idea is a great one for one of the main ‘paths’, but for there to be multiply endings there should be ways for players to derive from it.
HELLO ORANGE SUNKIE!
Mars: Hey everyone. I’m just popping in to say I’ve gotten on. I’m in class right now, but in the next hour… probably around 2ish I can get on here and stay for awhile.
Colby: you can take your time we will be making a forum of the important info from this later
E-Claire: Okie-dokie, see you then! Have a good class! I’ll continue the summary! sorry a bat just dive bombed into my window, all good now. I’ll continue the summary.
Colby: poor thing
E-Claire: Any comments, or can I continue? No? Alright then, on with the show! Any now?
sorry im kinda up there waiting i didnt notice anything was being typed up here
E-Claire: No worries, I should have made it more obvious. Well I gotta go...to the toilet… so please make any comments below while I do!
Colby: so far so good
E-Claire: Back, sorry about that! Great, just say if you want to add something at any point. Oops. Accidentally closed tab! ‘:/
Colby: no big deal
E-Claire: Cool. Ok, so how’s the plot looking?
Colby: looking at it right now but looks good
E-Claire: ‘Kay, I’ll wait for you to read it. I’ll do a brief (ha, like I can do brief! But really, I will try) order of how the game is played after this. Like an order of tutorials and stuff.
Colby: i wish we had some other people here :/ but anyway its looking good, it would just help to get other points of view
E-Claire: Me too. But we’ll just have to wait to get more feedback. For now, just tell me what you think, and everybody else can get a say later.
Colby: One of the things i think is we need artists that have a similar style. right now i think we only have 2 and without giving opinion on either they don't seem to mesh. and from the looks of it they are both more into characters
E-Claire: I think Holly (Catie) will be in charge of characters, which are fairly important. But I haven’t found anybody else, whose main focus is art, to do the other parts yet. Which is a problem. I could try to do a little, but since I have to learn coding (fun times) I can’t do much. I think we have 2 others, whose main focus isn’t art, helping with the art, but I have no clue what they can do. Am I missing the point again?
Colby: I’ve taken several art classes in high school. i just want to stay away from character design
E-Claire: Sure, what do you want to do then? Backgrounds? Buttons? Nothing? (Please tell me if i ever miss the point by the way.)
Colby: thats what i was saying and stuff. backgrounds buttons i could do i guess. anything you want really i should me pretty okay but characters doesnt sound good.
E-Claire: Ok, characters will be left to Catie then. Do you want to be in charge of a particular art category? You don’t have to draw only things in the art category you’re in charge of, just organize who’s drawing what for that art category (Examples. Backgrounds, Buttons, Other).
Colby: I dont know im kinda lost all im saying is i can do a few stuff XD lol
E-Claire: Sorry XD. What sort of thing do you want to focus on? Like Catie is focusing on characters. Do you have an art speciality you want to focus on? You can still do other stuff, but maybe focus on one thing. Or do you just want to generally help? (And have nothing to do with characters)
Colby: i want to just generally help and have nothing to do with characters. im good at using space and good at colors and stuff but those are more ideas kinda idk.
E-Claire: You can just do general stuff then, and discuss with the artists what you can do. I don’t know much on art, so I’ll leave it up to you and the other artists to decide among yourselves what needs to be done by who. (I’ll still keep checking on you all though). Are you happy to move on for now, or do you want to discuss more art things? We can come back later if need be, when more people are on.
Colby: im good with moving on
E-Claire: Alright, onto the gameplay summary. Feel free to make notes below at any time.
Gameplay summary:
The game obviously won’t start with everything being revealed. That kind of ruins the plot, since a big part of it is working stuff out. Thus, the game will start for the IRL player with them entering their info (name, gender, starter stats). Next, they will wake up in the school. There will be a hopefully not too long introduction scene, which is basically the first day. Then on the second and third in-game days will be tutorials, such as how to raise stats, the importance of your decisions, basic gameplay, etc. After that, the player will be completing set tasks’, building stats (which affect choices and events), and making decisions which change their ‘paths’. Finally, along comes the big end event. All previous game progress will change how this event plays out, and there will be one or two things the player must do in the event to finalize which ending they get. Once the event if over, they get an un-interactive scene which shows their ending, and a page summarizing their stats. Game over. Oh, I could also throw in some trophies/achievements/accomplishments! If I can work out how, I will make a trophy system, to make players play again to get all the trophies. Trophies will be things like ‘X path achieved’, ‘first kiss’, ‘full X stat’, etc, but with cooler names. (I totally want to do one called ‘BROTHER?!’)
E-Claire: Here is below. (Wow, I sound like an idiot saying that).
Colby: yup totally i was just using spellcheck XD
E-Claire: And I use such technical terms, like stuff. And things. Alright, gameplay summary is complete! Comment-y time!
Colby: read time i was distracted one sec it all sounds good no complaints or comments
E-Claire: Sure thing, I’m just gonna start on the character list. I haven’t finished the character list, because I want every member of the team to have a chance to make a character. Ok, now that you’re done we can talk characters. I know you don’t like drawing them, but I mean personality wise. Um, anything to say? Just, because, I don’t want to ramble. HI GIRAFE! Giraffes are cool like statistics.
Colby: lets let (wow i really hate the english language right now. how is that a thing i should be able to say “lets let” ******** you english) anyway lets let giraffe catch up for now see what they have to say about anything
E-Claire: Yeah, english is an arse, with things like i before e except after e, which is constantly wrong and stuff.
Mars: Hey, I’m back. Well, sort of. I go to my next class in about ten minutes. Then I’ll be able to be on for… about 3 hours. Anyway what are we working on?
E-Claire: We’ve just finished the plot summary and gameplay summary. Colby has decided he’s just generally helping with art, but not doing any character art work. And that about concludes it. We were about to do characters.
Mars: Sounds good. I’ll have to go up and read it to catch up.
E-Claire: Sure thing. By the way MARZIPAN GIRAFFE! I’m so immature razz
Mars: I am too. We’ll get along well.
E-Claire: biggrin Yay! Immature FTW! Oh a duck...no...a platypus. Hello platypus. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Mars: I really like this group so far.
E-Claire: *dies with joy* I feel so proud! Colby, you alive?
Colby: perfect thanks we have a platypus here
Mars: Almost time to swap classes. I will be back soon.
E-Claire: When you’re back we should have covered characters, so you can get a feel for the appearances. Now the platypus is a grizzly. Rawr. Now Troy. Now a ferret. SHAPE SHIFTER. I left a notice to come down if we’re on to come on down, so he/she/it’s-a-he-Troy should be here soon. Hi ferret. Please speak. I can only ramble for so long (Lies, I’m an amazing rambler).
Troy: Sorry I’m here. The page is just acting up.
E-Claire: Oh, that’s why you’re all jumpy. It should be ok, so long as you can read and write, even slowly. Just write a Y below if you want me to summarize what we’ve done so far. And what we’re about to do. (PINK! Mwahaha) A pumpkin has appeared! :O I...wanna eat it… well good day, fine sir pumpkin.
Troy: I’ll just go back and read in a bit. haha. It’s all good :p
E-Claire: Ok, just skim read if it’s not bold though. And you can change from pink if you like razz Meanwhile, how is the coyote and pumpkin feeling? (Pink if the colour of radiators of life)
Mars: I love this! I just finished reading the storyline/plot. I can’t wait to get started. I have a question though. What kind of program are we using to make it? There’s something I’m using in my gaming class called Game Maker which you could get free online AND it’s easy to use. I could help you learn to use it and we could definitely make it work.
E-Claire: biggrin *cries rainbows* Approval...overloads...my system… as in a robot, not like sick or anything. Um. Program. Well. I was thinking flash, but apparently that’s real hard, so I’m not sure. You have a gaming class?! Game maker… sounds good, since we have no proper programmers. Tell me more, tell me more, was he I forgot the lyrics, aha aha, I cannot sing.
Mars: Tell me more tell me more like does he have a car? Tell me more tell me more, will she go very far? *can sing* Is this came going to have music? I’d love to help out in that department.
E-Claire: :O It’s...so beautiful… Yes, the game does have music. You will have discuss helping out with music with our music peoples
Colby: who all do we have working on our music? me too troy
E-Claire: I’ll go look at the list...brb
Troy: I’m working with music! biggrin What would help a lot is what actually needs music. Like certain events, locations, character themes, etc. That way we can get straight to work (:
Mars: Well, I can play several instruments and I can sing so I’d love to help out. I also have a music program for writing music so I could make a score of some music for the game easily.
E-Claire: I think we have one other musician so far. You guys go talk music (I’m sorry, I’m so un-technical), and I’ll go check. Please, discuss what music you want to do, what you think is appropriate, who’s doing what, etc. Really. Talk. It’s not an order… for now! Ok, we also have MK300 doing music, and Nova doing voice acting.
Mars; I can also do some voices. I do a lot of voice impressions. biggrin Examples: different accents, GIR from Invader Zim, Brittney Spears, I don’t even know anymore…
E-Claire: Awesome! I’ll let Nova know. As for music that needs to be done, let’s start with background music for different settings. Eg. Mystery background music, happy background music, romance background music, tense/realization background music.
Mars: What kind of music do we really need so far? Maybe we should make a whole outline of the story to put in little bullet points for the music that’s needed.
Colby: okay well i have to go are we going to copy and paste all of this to a thread on gaia or something? i want to read what's all been decided while im out, perfect you rock claire
E-Claire: Yeah, I’ll copy it all once it’s finished. I’ve made a story outline, you can check it out above (bold and underlined). I’ll let you decide what kinds of music are needed for the different story parts. More in depth plot will have to be done...well we could do it now?
Troy: I agree with Mars, Can some someone make a thread for Music? That way we can post what we’re working on and other stuff that we need help with?
Mars: I like that idea. Put in the story line into the thread and we can quote parts to put what kind of music is needed.
E-Claire: Shall do. But right now I gtg. I leave this up so you can talk, but I HAVE to go right now! I’ll be back in about 45 minutes. I’ll leave it to you bye! (I’m sorry!)
Mars: I’m going to go. I have to go do something.
Troy : Alright so who’s left?
Catie: Hey. I don’t know who’s still here, but I’m just popping in to say that I will read through everything a little later. So far things sound good from what I’ve skimmed over. Is there anything I should know or do in the meantime? Also is there a thread made anywhere that I can take a look at? (Although this might all be covered in the stuff I haven’t read through yet, so if that’s the case then just ignore me. )
Troy: Pretty much everything that’s here is what you need to know. Claire won’t be back for awhile so :/
Alright I just read through most of it. I kinda skimmed over the music parts because I am not musically talented, lolol. But so okay.. are we all putting in ideas for characters then? Did I interpret that right? And yeah, I gotta take off soon too. I have a job interview and then design studio so I can’t fully guarantee I’ll be back on until a little later. D: I’m Catie, by the way. I left before you joined.
Also, is everyone here on Newgrounds?
E-Claire: BACK! I’m on Newgrounds, don’t know about the others. Please link me to any threads you make smile While I wait for you guys to respond, I’ll start on the character list. And please do respond. Hi armadillo and capybara!
Snow: This is snowblazer, for some odd reason I had to refresh a few times in order to type….its all good now. It did this with another collab. I think its just a glitch lol. I thought the meeting was later though...and i forgot lmao. yup yup. Of course, it may take a while to get a name for them, but I can do it. yeah
E-Claire: Huh… I don’t think I can help sorry. Try reopening on a new tab? Oh, it’s good now, ok lol. I think I messed up GMT XD. Well you’re here now. Since you’re a writer, can you help me develop some characters? Alright. Do you want to read through the plot (Bolded and underlined) on one of the above pages? Then you can help me decide the characters needed- just add to the list below. SORRY, JUST RELOADED FOR COPY AND PASTE APP. http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wordl_thumbnail1.png
Character List So Far:
This is incomplete, so you may add to it (in your colour). I want everybody to have a chance to make a character. Characters are still being developed, so please suggest name or personality changes! Note to Catie- For each character, can you draw several expressions/poses. That way the character expressions/poses can be re-used each time they speak, the one being used depending on how they’re speaking. Eg. An angry pose, a happy pose, a confused pose, etc. You only need to a few though, I don’t want to overload you with work. Oh, and more pose for main charries, less for minor ones.
Main good charries:
-Player (character choses name), 16. Has no specific personality, since the personality is determined by the player. I’d like the artists to do at least one female version and one male verison of the player character, with fairly ‘common’ appearances’. But if you have the time, you could do several versions of each gender so the player has a selection of appearances to choose from. Caitie’s (main characters artist) choice.
-Cody Kert Clarke, 16. The players best friend. He is honest, even if a bit blunt, and always loyal. Cody is very kind, although he can be too worrisome, and a bit reserved. He should have large, warm eyes, and could be tall to give an idea of a responsible, reliable guy. Since he’s worrisome, he’d probably worry about his appearance, so Cody should look quite neat and tidy.
-Sarah Dwight, 16. Shy and quiet she tends to keep her head in books. She is rather smart, tedious, and organized. She has short bobbed hair with a slight curl on the darker side of blonde. Round glasses lay before her brown eyes.
- Chica Todd,14. She is a cute, young girl, who is very hyper active. She often joins into conversations/events without permission, and is really clingy. Chica is happy-go-lucky, but some people find her carefree attitude (and clingy-ness!) rather annoying. She has bright blue eyes, and blond hair in bunches. Chica has a petite figure.
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Main bad charries:
-Keiran Justin Parker, 17. Keiran is a ‘class rep’ type character- he likes to be in charge and organized. He will do what he wants to get what he wants. Keiran is OBSESSED by rules, and he will punish those who disobey ‘the voice’. He is also a bit OCD, and insecure of himself. Justin has an extremely tidy appearance, but is still kinda good looking. If you’ve read the Gone series, think about Caine.
Other charries:
-Maxwell Durand (17) Maxwell or Max, is a rockstar wanna be. He is neither good nor bad. Max always looks out for himself and would rather push the person in front of him then succomb to the proverbial bear. However, deep down he has a good heart and he just might help a cute girl or boy in distress. His black hair could use some trimming as they hide his deep, bright, enticing, green eyes
so question….is anyone against homosexual relationships? WHOOO!!!! I wanna make Maxwell bi.kk.
E-Claire: No, and I actually encourage having at least one gay/homosexual romance option. Ok, i gtg, meeting over for now!
