Corruption
"All my life i'v wanted to be a hunter......
A chance to leave this city and explore new worlds, experience new life styles, see unforseen sights!!!......now that I am one i'm not sure I want it anymore.......
Its funny how your dreams are nothing like how you imagined it to be.
You tell yourself you understand not every part of the world is beautiful and that you will see horror sooner or later.......I was naive.........all I see is darkness......
My name is Alex....I'm the last survivor of my squad.....#sigh#....I should never have left the city gates.
My only hope now is to find the shard..........before it finds me...."
Characters so farAlex: (working name)
Age: 24
Occupation: Driver who later joins the cities military because he feels its the only way to see the world.
Class: Hero
Alex is a laid back guy who would love to see the world and gain new experiences and so, he became a driver making pick ups and deliveries. Though after the incident with the jewel he decides its not safe anymore and so changes his job to work as a city guard instead. Later he learns of a group called the "Hunters" who dedicate their life into finding the missing shards and piecing it back together in a vain attempt at restoring the worlds natural ballance. Seeing this as his chance to see the world again he tries to prove himself as a Hunter and help find the shards, not realising the dangers that lay ahead.
Name:
? (not sure yet)
Age: 35
Occupation: Hunter
class: Villain
After claiming your first shard you two become partners. He hates the fact he has been paired up with someone much younger and inexperienced as him and feels you will only be a burden and so during hunts he finds ways of ditching you or using you as bait so he may claim the prize for himself so the rest of the hunters would praise him instead of you. After a few more shards are claimed he gets fraustrated with you and tries his best in the next fight in getting you killed. When that fails he see's no choice but to sneak into the hunters cargo bay and attempt to claim whatever power he can from the main jewel so he can kill you personally. He gets his wish only it turns him into an abomination. Only the power of the shards can destroy him but be quick!! because it seems the jewels are having a nasty effect on you as well.
The basic ideaThe story takes place in the middle of a digging site. Two men are exchanging details while a 3rd is insuring them the Jewel will be delivered safely on time. A group of workers begin pulling out a large dark blue jewel from out the ground and manage to lift it onto a wagon. The three men sign the contract and seal the deal as the wagon begins to ride off. At the same time a group of thugs are watching up on the mountain path. The thugs ride down the mountain and begin chasing the wagon. The driver (hero), not able to loose them or stop them, is eventually boxed in. He tries to push one off the edge of the path but looses control and the wagon topples over knocking the jewel off the wagon and down the side of the mountain into a forrest. The thugs are extremely angry and threaten to kill the driver for losing the jewel. Miniutes later a large beam of energy shoots up the side of the mountain into the sky turning it black and blotting out the sun creating a dim blue light across the world. They watch in awe as the beam vanishes, and as they slowly approach the edge a loud pulse is heard from the forrest like a plasma beam, cutting surrounding trees down and slicing through the mountain causing a land slide. You (the driver) awake amoungst a load of rubble. You look around and see the thugs slaughtered, gutted, mutilated around you. No way could the fall have done this. As you rise up to your feet you see a trail of blood leading deeper into the woods. Being wise you decide to head in the opposite direction only to soon find yourself staring at the beast gnawing and tearing at one of the thugs, you look closer and see it is a bear.
A sharp cold breeze rushes down your spine as the beast looks up at you, it drops its prey, face thick with blood, deep weezing noise everytime it breaths, anger in its eyes, this bear doesnt seem to care about its meals at all!! how can it still be hungry?? You go to run until you notice a large blue shard impaled in the beasts stomach.
You have no time to think as the bear lunges towards you, claws yerning to rip you apart. You run out of sheer panic!! You run the fastest you have ever ran, so much so for a split second you are actually impressed with how fast you are going until you fall off a chalk pit.
Shortly after a roar is heard as a huge shadow flys over your head. It lands and pounces at you with no rest and as you dart out of the way its teeth bite through the mound of chalk like butter.
You run. You run and you run not daring to look behind you until a deer jumps straight infront of you and it was at that moment of distraction that you trip over stumberling through the trees off a small cliff, and as you fall you see the shadow rush past followed by the cries of what you gather to be the deer.
This is the introduction
there is more but I wanna say a little about gameplay ideas now lol
First I will explain the shards. Each one has given what ever it comes into contact with Life and contains within it a pure essence of evil derived of one of the 7 deadly sins.
- The 1st shard within the bear is the shard of gluttony. Causing the beast to always feel starving no matter how much it eats. Slowly mutating it slightly so its capable of eating anything without destroying its teeth and gut. This creature leaves next to nothing left causing any surviving animals to starve. If you enter a dieing forrest with thin boney animals around you then be on your guard because you may just be the next meal.
- the 2nd lands in a nearby stream mutating and merging all the mites and bacteria in there together creating some sort of blob which has the power to take the form of what ever its prey desires (The shard of lust) I know lust is more sexual but i wanted to take a new look at it and see if lust can be towards other desires not just towards women??
- The 3rd is greed. It Misses everything and lands on the floor only to then be picked up by a little magpie and taken away back to its nest where it is slowly mutated. growing in size and bravely attacking everything that is close to its nest. It will fiercely protect its collection and if it sees something it wants the magpie will stop at nothing until he gets it.
- 4th is Anger. The very moment of impact before hitting the rock fired a shard off through a field and into a bull mutating it greatly. giving it an impregnable carapace and horrific horns. The shard causes the bull to be in a never ending state of red mist or seeing red leaving a destructive path where ever it goes. This beast never rests and never stops, you must always be on guard.
- 5th is sloth. A shard shoots into a tree eventually changing its whole system. no longer seeking minerals from the earths soil it produces a constant pollen that lulls any living creature passing by to a deep sleep. Once the victem is alseep its roots very slowly begin to wrap around it secreating an acid to slowly digest its prey while it sleeps. Fortunatly the tree cannot move anywhere so it relies on anything wandering by so it may feast on their liquified flesh. If you are in the forrest and suddenly feel very tired, head back in the oppasite direction before its too late!!
- 6th is Pride. A couple is enjoying a picnic when the meteor hits sending a shard into the woman mutating and corrupting her mind rather than her appearance giving her a strange aura. She is extremely confidant, determined and competative. She holds pride in no one but herself. In her eyes no one is better than her or even worthy to look at her. She feels no guilt, no remorse and never helps those in danger. The only thing she feels she can relate to are Lions only these lions seem to be brought on by her own imagination reflecting her soul. Black and cold.
The shard seems to help her be the best at everything and if ever she loses she will punish you in ways you couldnt imagin. She is less of a threat compared to the other sins but if you see her, walk the other way because its her enviouse friend you would have to worry about. - Finally the 7th which is envy. A shard that fired into the male at the picnic. Again mutating his mind more than anything causing him to be enviouse of everyone. After the impact calmed down he was soon dumped by his girlfriend and he has never let it go and thus, he follows her where ever she goes. If anyone he believes to have looked at her with lust in their eyes he will personally kill you. If you know anything or have anything that grabs his attention he will be envious towards you and will stop at nothing to obtain it. Be extremely careful with this guy, he is very volatile and can be easerly upset
Each shard when obtained gives you a power. Some will transform you into an eating machine capable of eating through almost anything, or into a blob capable of changing into almost anything and moving through small cracks. Others give you abilities....which im still kinda thinking about lol
I played an old megadrive game called
'out of this world' and I liked how at the very start you had to act fast or you would die, and so I wanted to use an element of that throughout the game. Like the bit with the bear for instance when you enter the map after you hear the thoughts in your head the bear turns and rushes towards you taking the player off guard if they are not careful. they must act quickly and make quick choices whether to dodge or jump during the chase.
Don't worry it calms down soon after lol I dont want the players having a heart attack
Other elements of gameplay are buttons to run, jump, crawl, different fight sequence, using bows, spears, crossbows for puzzles and also having your luck tested every now and again.
When crawling the game will go into a dungeon view. Here is an example
http://games.holyfile.com/upload/screenshot2427-0.gifonly with better graphics lol
You would use crawl only to crawl through small holes and crevices.
The fight sequences are side view like the old final fantasy games or in rpgmaker 2003...not that different but better than the normal sequence you get with RMXP.
Using a targeting system with firing or throwing weapons you can target objects hard to reach, flick switches, cut rope etc and kill specific enemies within a puzzle.
Your luck will also be tested in areas to see if you trigger a trap or fail to escape a collapsing bridge etc which will either kill you or send you down a different path.
You discover that within the darkness is a plant or beast or something which is capable of deflecting it causing a bubble of light to appear around it.......kinda like in metroid prime 2.
After you fall off the cliff you awake in an inn and are told you are lucky one of the towns people saw you heaped amongst the bushes outside of town. Years later you are one of their knights only due to lack of focus and day dreaming all the time you are forced to do basic training again (Games tutorial)
You learn about the Hunters and how they fight to piece the crystals together to end the chaos and you decide you want to help them by becoming a hunter yourself only you learn its not as simple as that. You must either undergo heavy training or claim a shard to join them, and so, brave and stupid you head out into the darkness to find your first shard.
As the shards are brought together I thought maybe that could lead to a sequal?? kinda like in Diablo where the hero becomes the villain.....with all that evil energy he is carrying I doubt the hero would be able to withstand all 7 shards. If one shard can mutate and corrupt somethin it touches after a long period of time think what would happen if 7 shards were carried around with one guy would do lol
Thats pretty much it for this project so far. Please tell me what you think?? Thanks for reading.
I know its a lot and I was only going to put a small chunk down but then a remembered someone say to me once if you want peoples opinion you may as well put it all down.
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