random musingshad the notion for a pokemon game on the wii, where the wii game itself is just an interface client, up to ten DSes with a pokemon game inserted simultaneously connect to downloadplay the client (possibly from within the 'World' menu of the pokemon games to speed loading), which then connects them up for a multiplayer Realtime Strategy brawlfest with their currently saved team, control system simiilar to Revenant Wings as the most recent version of the system i'm thinking of that i've played.
What the TV (or ideally, 2 TVs) connected to the Wii would be doing would be between two modes (switching if one screen, one for each with two).
1: birdseye tactical overmap. 2: LucasCam filter swinging a point of view over "dramatic events".. which it would be easy enough to program a filter for 'drama' triggers of various tiers of priority to determine where to swing the camera to. Hell, Empire At War did it easily enough, which is why i called it LucasCam
i don't see there as being much single player content to it if any, if only because writing an AI to realtime any of the various combinations of pokesets would be prohibitive, which would mean rigidly scripted enemy encounters with tailored AIs for their individual configurations. sod that for a joke. Be much better as a party game.
one other notion tidbit was a 'tournament mode' for conventions and such where an appropriately powerful wifi broadcaster could cover the convention grounds, and you could preregister (by friendcode, my goodness, every DS -does- have a unique ID, doesn't it?
) however many people wanted to participate, have the thing random-allocate a tournament table and actually have it poke people's sleep-moding DSes to ask if they want to take their turn wherever they are on the grounds, with option of "no", "i'm coming, dammit" (give them a few minutes to get closer, i'd say starts a timer after which if more than half are "ready now" they can override remaining "i'm comings" and boot them back to the pool) and "ready now" to start.it's not QUITE as enticing as if they made an eevee-scratch fever game with demented social-sim aspects for the option of building your team without pokeballs, but hot damn i'd play it
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I really like the idea of using those portable systems as smaller pieces of a larger console/network. From a business/development standpoint it is tougher to justify, since it requires more from the consumer in terms of cash outlay, as not everyone has a Wii and a DS.
This makes it tough to develop games like you suggest here, despite the fact that they have so much potential to be amazing experiences.
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basically my hope is, given that nobody i talked to about it for years had heard of the notion of forked-heel ballet boots for easier balance, and loved the idea, then suddenly FF12 happens and every Viera is wearing them (best bunnygirls ever, by the way), i'm hoping for a similar random chance event to occur
I just would like corporate bean-counters to see it that way.
I once had that happen with the design of a door handle for a car. I designed this really cool, never-before-seen door handle to increase aerodynamics on a car, and about two years later is actually appeared on a Subaru.
As a 5th grade inventor I was both elated, and crushed!
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hell, speaking of cubism, no reason that this game shouldn't be capable of interfacing with a Pokemon Box save in the gamecube memory card slot to allow people without a pokemon game either owned or on-hand to have some premade teams to draw from, or be accepting GBA/GBA-SP linkup through the gamecube ports, yes, someone without a DS to play on will have a more cumbersome control scheme (i figure l/r toggle active pokemon, d-pad move, A for basic attack, b-then-d-pad to pick one of the four special moves), but they'll be able to PLAY.
as to invention stuff. yeah, i know the feeling, still, i certainly didn't go through any avenues to try to MAKE it exist, so whoever took the idea and brought it to life, awesome, i'm just glad it exists now so i can have a screenshot to take down tot he bondage shop and say "i wanna have crotch-high boots with heels like THAT!"
I'm not trying to be negative here, just sharing some of what I've learned from my unfortunate time in the corporate world, and my couple of contacts in the video game industry.
Mmmmmm bondage shop.... None of that going on here in Denver, much to my chagrin.
So... did you get the boots? Do they go with the mask? Inquiring minds want to know!
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How does one go about finding an 'alternative lifestyle friendly' podiatrist? Like, go to a fetish party and announce that you are looking for a good foot doctor (no, really people, I mean it. I need an ACTUAL foot doctor... please stop worshipping my feet..... wait... maybe we should wait on the stopping.....)
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That's awesome. I'm sure you're right. I've just never looked that hard. You know, internet and phone books. The fetish scene here in Denver is almost non-existant. It took my wife, two hairdressers and myself, nearly 40 minutes to convinces a model to wear a latex top and skirt, and they were pretty normal, except for being latex.
I managed to flush out a couple 'off the map' adult stores while working as an internet install/repair tech a few years back, but they were strictly 'adult' not 'alternative'.
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