Possible Horror RPG With Renovated Grimoire Engine

[Leitz]

Should have permadeath. The biggest horror in RPGs is going back to the surface in Wiz1 et cetera.

 

[Dorateen]

I'd say the scariest episode I've had in a computer role-playing game, the one that evoked the most sense of horror, was aboard the derelict spacecraft in Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. The one with the brain parasites that take over party members.

 

[Roscoe Scaggs]

?Negro Eggs?

Can't wait!

 

[Pookie]

*Enter final boss room*
?SUSHI NEGRO? Casts: Save Deletion

 

[Achilles]

YES

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Posting in epic announcement thread.

 

[jungl]

Is it going be like tales of the crypt. I can see it now investigate a new york apartment. Giant infestation of cockroaches constantly hitting your guys causing nasua and disease. The one chad college kid berserker you asked to tag along ends up killing all the roaches while everyone else is DEAD.

 

[Iznaliu]

Should have permadeath. The biggest horror in RPGs is going back to the surface in Wiz1 et cetera.

That will just feel cheap unless he balances it well.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

First port Grimoire Egine to Unity, then make a lovecraft game!

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

As long as it has aeorbs I'm in

In tasteful 1920's overcoats, of course.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I agree that the amount of characters needs to be much less, maybe four with up to 2 recruitables.

Also, this reminds me - Samhain needs to be much more scary. This has been mentioned before: after the epic story of the dwarf, when you enter it, it's a bit of a let-down. Making Samhain more scary might be a good practice run for a horror RPG with the same engine.

The crack smoking zombie didn't do it for you?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

An isometric Lovecraft would definitely be best in Unity but the blobber might be done best in the existing 2D blobber engine beefed up a little.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Nice, the heroes of Grimoire ride again

Spoiler

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Ready to roll Marlowe, level 1 aeorb private eye in a tasteful overcoat.

Only 20 more years.

 

[Crane]

Maybe consider finishing your first game before moving on to another project...?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Maybe consider finishing your first game before moving on to another project...?

Just thought it would be an interesting idea to throw out there.

Grimoire will be underway for quite a while including new content, so don't panic. It's not getting abandoned - but much of the work spent on perfecting it may be recycled in another game of maximum win and excellence. Which is a motivation to make sure the current version is 100% awesome all issues polished and buffed out. That engine will then become the foundation of this Horror RPG.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Should have permadeath. The biggest horror in RPGs is going back to the surface in Wiz1 et cetera.

I really think this is a very interesting idea for a Horror RPG and frankly, I agree it adds a real shock to the game when you can't save scum and death or failure literally ends that game at that point.

 

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Should have permadeath. The biggest horror in RPGs is going back to the surface in Wiz1 et cetera.

I really think this is a very interesting idea for a Horror RPG and frankly, I agree it adds a real shock to the game when you can't save scum and death or failure literally ends that game at that point.

There's already a game like this: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...n-h-p-lovecraft-horror-based-roguelike.62701/

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Should have permadeath. The biggest horror in RPGs is going back to the surface in Wiz1 et cetera.

I really think this is a very interesting idea for a Horror RPG and frankly, I agree it adds a real shock to the game when you can't save scum and death or failure literally ends that game at that point.

There's already a game like this: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...n-h-p-lovecraft-horror-based-roguelike.62701/

But it's not made in Unity or Grimoire engine.

 

[Iznaliu]

As long as it has aeorbs I'm in

In tasteful 1920's overcoats, of course.

This would have to be the most intense incline yet experienced.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

 

[Iznaliu]

March 2020: Cleve releases his new game, Eriomirg: Exemplar of the Herald Wings, at a press event in the Australian outback. He accidentally drops it onto the ground. As soon as that happens, a mushroom cloud erupts from the desert, instantly combusting everyone at the event except for Cleve, who is severely wounded but manages to escape alive. The release is delayed

April 2020: Australian government officials arrive at Cleve's bunker to confiscate all physical copies of the game. They are never seen again. Meanwhile, the game is released on Steam. Within 24 hours it is taken down due to the health risk it causes.

July 2020: After fixing delays and microissues, Cleve flies to the Valve HQ. Security guards try to lock the doors, but he tears them off their hinges and makes his way to president Gabe Newell's office. Newell is reduced to a bloody pulp in seconds, prompting all employees to arrive at the scene. Cleve then heads to the Steam servers, but is caught up fixing microissues. Meanwhile, a US military response is prepared that makes Ruby Ridge look like a traffic stop.

August 2020: The US military arrives, but is reduced to a bloody pulp by Cleve. The President orders an investigation, but all intelligence services are too scared and refuse to shut up.

October 2020: Cleve takes a break from fixing more microissues and enters the White House. (The security guards flee at his sight). By the end of the month, Cleve is de facto ruler of the US. After the UN refuses to recognise his regime, he seeks revenge.

November 2020: Cleve starts nuclear war by launching an atomic bomb at the UN's New York headquarters. The world is left a radioactive mess by the end of the year, and Cleve is left the only survivor. Overcome by misery, he tries to kill himself, but cannot do so; nothing will pierce his titanium skin.

 

[Kage]

You are a great story teller Cleve, and you have shown quite able to populate a game with amazing experience - before the mid-game, Grimoire is flawlessly spectacular. I did have to save-scum in order to work things out due to lack of manual, though.

If you feel it fits your style, or would like to explore horror-style writing and setting, I'd love to play a (shorter than Grimoire) game based off of a Miskatonic hub the way you describe it in the OP. It would also be very interesting to see where you can take the combat system in a Lovecraft setting.

As likely do many other Grimoire players, I would very much like you to finalize any remaining work on Grimoire first, nice as it is to hear you thinking future. I like your outline of V2 features and hope you can find a V2 outline you can finish and everyone be happy with before a next friday .

 

[treborSux]

Scary is something very hard to do, especially with games whose entire framework is build around empowering players. I love horror movies for example, but I have a hard time if anybody would ask me which was the last time something scared me in a movie. Just throwing in some nice gore won't do it, and honestly I don't know what would.

Things that try to be scary are usually too contrived with dumb gimmicks that it's impossible to elicit an emotional response. The only game that legitimately scared me was Top Gun on the nes when I was a kid.

 

[Iznaliu]

I would very much like you to finalize any remaining work on Grimoire first, nice as it is to hear you thinking future

As a creative, new projects always sound more enticing than polishing what exists.