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 Jul 20 2007, 5:06 am
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I'm making a game called Hogwarts Student. You get to roam Hogwarts as a student, not as Harry Potter. In fact, it's as if Harry Potter doesn't exist. Basically, it's like you're actually a wizard! You really learn magic, go through the 7 years of school. At the beginning, you take a personality quiz to decide your house. In the fifth year, you take the OWLs-Ordinary Wizarding Levels (for real, it's an actuall test), and in the sixth year you take the NEWTs and learn about Apparating. If you fail the end of the year test, you have to stay back a grade. Credits show when you clear the midpoint (7th year), and after you graduate, you can choose your career, whether it be as an auror, Minister of Magic, or something else. Daily Prophet articles will be randomized based on a format containing 7 base articles, 50 names, 75 verbs and 33 adjectives.
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I think it's a great idea. Just don't expect to get 50+ players. A lot of people prefer games with training/fighting rather than simulations. Personally I like it.
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I like it. Sounds like a game I'd play.
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Yeah, that's about it. I'm simulating being a witch or wizard. No limitations, no missions. It's like you're actually, for real, not a muggle.
EDIT: I also need it to start in the muggle world so that the player can recieve their invitation to hogwarts and recieve the supply list. Also, an important part of the beginning is trying wands at Ollivanders, and going into the Gringotts vault to get your money. | |
you lost me at school.
I tried picking back up but was lost again at learning. Doesn't sound fun. Haha :) | |
Sounds like a fun game. I love how you exclude harry and the gang I hate when fangames let you be the main characters and whatnot. Anyways for the Daily Prophet it shouldn't be all randomizedlike the main article or something should relate to what's actually happening ingame. That'd be nice.
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So there will be no "fun" things at all? Harry gets to do all these adventures and whatnot aside from just going to class and taking tests. I don't know much about the places outside of hogwarts but you should be abe to go there..like the forest place where Hagrids half-brother is, where the centaurs are, where harry fought all those dementors, the place where harry first went shopping for his 1st year, those green fire teleportation things.
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Or both! If there isn't any content written by a player he could subsitute it with random articles generated in-game.
One question for you power bracelet, is this going to be an RPing game or just an rpg? | |
I was going to do that, but when the articles are premade, eventually you would run out. Then you would need to reuse them, and people would get bored. If you format it right, random articles can work great.
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I would call it a simutation RP. It's not a straight-up rpg, but it still has rpg qualities. It also simulates a separate life, a sort of alter ego inside the game, so simutation RP is the best way to describe it.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, you can boil your head.
This topic is for recommendations from people who enjoy simulations, not for people who want to shoot the breeze about how stupid they are. | |
There will be random mishap around the school just to mix things up a bit, and I might just leave the Weasley family in for the sake of Fred and George's misbehaving, all the while being careful not to mention Harry.
There will be Quidditch and House competitions too, just to add a point to the game. The main idea is to make a person feel like a real wizard, just to capture a realistic aura that the standard Harry Potter games never had. | |
Powerbraclet wrote:
all the while being careful not to mention Harry. Why're you so adverse to the existence of Harry Potter? If you really want to get rid of harry without breaking the immersion, simply set it before Harry joins Hogwarts, or after he leaves it (providing Hogwarts isn't blown up in the last book- I've not read it yet*. =P). *also providing the final book doesn't contain the plot twist that it's all been a big set up, everyone is in on the joke except harry and there's no such thing as magic. Hogwarts didn't exist for thousands of years before he joined and Voldemort is a trained actor whose real name is "Garth". | |
Elation wrote:
Powerbraclet wrote: That would be THE best storyline EVER. | |
No, it's based on Harry Potter -- It sucks.
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Hiddeknight wrote:
Too rote. I don't come from school to play a game in which I'm at school. Dress it up a little. Don't force people to do tests, and why start at the beginning of year 1? Start before that, in a muggle village somewhere. How about actually having evil and good people that try to dominate the world? I dunno about that. I had great fun playing Bully, which does force you to go to class, at least until you've finished the five lessons from that class. But then, I also have great fun playing True Crime: New York City, which many people think is awful (for reasons I still can't fathom... it's not San Andreas, and it's buggy, but it's still an incredible game). | |
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However if you were looking for a more docile game, where people do simulate being a wizard or witch, then that's fine. However, that's not really to my tastes. =p