Originally posted by vovan
2. An RPG kind of thing. This is what I was more leaning towards. Here you have some kind of big plot that is recurring from game to game. Say, we were making a Sherlock Holmes RPG, then the grand goal would be to catch Moriarty. No matter how many games you start, that's your ultimate goal. However, along the way to that goal, you need to perform a number of "side quests", sort of like in Fallout 2 - you don't go and kill ol' Frank right away - you first roam about the wastelands and solve numerous other quests. Similarly here: you don't go after your ultimate goal right away - you must first solve a number of smaller cases - starting with maybe thefts, going on to burglaries, rapes, murders, and finally serial murders. Now, these cases would be randomly generated each game. I'm thinking this RPG system would be much easier to implement, simply because the game would not revolve around the one single case, but rather, each game would be comprised around solving a maybe 20-30 smaller cases. Then, the even the amount of information generated for every given case is going to be much much smaller. That way, it would be much easier to achieve diversity in the cases. Also, it would be easier to make them more coherent, simply because there are fewer pieces of data that need to be stringed together.
2. An RPG kind of thing. This is what I was more leaning towards. Here you have some kind of big plot that is recurring from game to game. Say, we were making a Sherlock Holmes RPG, then the grand goal would be to catch Moriarty. No matter how many games you start, that's your ultimate goal. However, along the way to that goal, you need to perform a number of "side quests", sort of like in Fallout 2 - you don't go and kill ol' Frank right away - you first roam about the wastelands and solve numerous other quests. Similarly here: you don't go after your ultimate goal right away - you must first solve a number of smaller cases - starting with maybe thefts, going on to burglaries, rapes, murders, and finally serial murders. Now, these cases would be randomly generated each game. I'm thinking this RPG system would be much easier to implement, simply because the game would not revolve around the one single case, but rather, each game would be comprised around solving a maybe 20-30 smaller cases. Then, the even the amount of information generated for every given case is going to be much much smaller. That way, it would be much easier to achieve diversity in the cases. Also, it would be easier to make them more coherent, simply because there are fewer pieces of data that need to be stringed together.
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