Alchemist

[~Void~]

Alchemist

Finally, a project I plan on finishing... maybe... Alchemist is a twist on your average custom hero arena. Instead of learning spells, your hero makes potions, bombs and the like by combining items, and uses them to kill his enemies.

There are three main places on the map:

The Alchemy Labs:
Each player has an Alchemy Lab. The Alchemy Lab contains your cauldron, which you use to combine ingredients and brew potions, your bookshelf, which holds a few old alchemy tomes that list some combinations of ingredients, but not all of them, and your ingredients shelf, which starts off with a few basic ingredients, but in order to get more, you will have to find them yourself!

The Forest/Mountains Area:
This is where all the fighting and gathering takes place. A lush wilderness with thin, winding paths, perfect for setting traps and ambushes for your enemies (note: there are NOT creeps in this game). At any time, the alchemist may teleport to his lab from the forest or to the forest from his lab, but to avoid abuse, it takes 10 seconds to teleport back. When you teleport to the forest, the location you teleport to is somewhat random. There are herbs scattered across this area that you can pick up and use in potions.

The Caves Area [not in version 1.0]:
The caves area is, well, a cave... that is filled with ore deposits and rocks and other goodies that you can use for engineering (will be added in 2.0). Not much else to say about this, seeing as I haven't made it yet...

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Ingredient List [there will be more!]:
Deathweed -- Strong Poison
Coughroot -- Antidote
Chokeweed -- Minor Poison
Icecap -- Heat Resistance / Freezing
Fire Orchid -- Flammable
Goldpetal -- Healing
Greenthistle -- Speed/Dodging
Moonglow -- Invisibility
Sun Leaf -- Sight Range / True Sight
Tangleroot -- Stunning / Silencing
Blood Poppy -- Hallucinogen

Potion List:

Potion List

 

[Dreadnought[dA]]

Really Ridiculous Rhetorical Rhododendron of Retardedness... Some of those are just a little pathetic sounding lol but I've always liked the idea of a game where you make the spells (friend started making a TD where you made the towers out of ingredients monsters dropped) GL

 

[~Void~]

Well what do you want me to call it, Anno'ying'elv'ishso'undinnamewi'thalo'tofapo'stro'phes?

 

[Mechanical Man]

I think that αλχεμιστ is more appropriate name than αλκεμιστ, because when transliterating from greek to english, the digraph ch replaces the letter χ, not κ.

Sorry if you may find this annoying, is just a detail I noticed xD

 

[[K40$]-Spectre]

I think this can work out verry well. Just keep it on alchemy and add some AI.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Seems nice. And doesn't really need more than a recipe-combining system.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

I think you were just making a RPG? With of course epic idea... Bah those epic ideas.

 

[~Void~]

I think that αλχεμιστ is more appropriate name than αλκεμιστ, because when transliterating from greek to english, the digraph ch replaces the letter χ, not κ.

Sorry if you may find this annoying, is just a detail I noticed xD

Yeah, but then it would be pronounced with a soft ch, no? And it also wouldn't look like english

EDIT:
Potion list added.

EDIT2:

I think you were just making a RPG? With of course epic idea... Bah those epic ideas.

Yeah, I was, but I got bored

This is quicker and easier to make, and a better idea imo.

 

[Lord_of_sausage]

Sounds fun
Maybe there should be different proffesions for the alchemists? like one player might be able to make much better poisons than the other alchemist, but he can make much better flameable liquids than the other guy? so players wont be 100% like each other. Add some varity!

 

[~Void~]

Well they won't be 100% like each other anyways. Each player starts out with different ingredients in their ingredient shelf (random). At the start of the game, you start off with 8 free ingredients (to make 4 potions).

 

[TheBlooddancer]

You could add subclasses, so when you make a healing potion your 'Healing' raises, and thus, you will easier/fast/or such make potions. Or perhaps you get skills, or in that way.

Nyah~~

 

[~Void~]

Maybe in later versions

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Okai.
Would be nice to give it an 'add'. Could be done easy with Local Multiboards, and some green/red colors.

Nyah~~

 

[~Void~]

Okai.
Would be nice to give it an 'add'. Could be done easy with Local Multiboards, and some green/red colors.

Nyah~~

An 'add'?

Anyhow, the potion mixing system is done (well, not all the eye candy and all that bullcrap, but the mechanics are done). I'm going to work on potion abilities next.

Currently I have 11 different kinds of ingredient and 55 different potions.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

So not all can combine?
Cause if then it would be (11-1)(11-1)=100potions.

 

[~Void~]

Naw, all of them can combine. But there are only 55 because 11*(11-1) = 110, and divide by two because there are duplicates.

 

[Vegavak]

The thumbnail picture looks like a tree and I like trees.

How far along is the map?

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Oshi-

Forgot that X + X = 2x and so is X + X.

 

[~Void~]

The thumbnail picture looks like a tree and I like trees.

How far along is the map?

Terrain is 100% done, triggers probably 33%, and object data... well even though I've done a lot, I have to do 55 item abilities next >.<

 

[Vegavak]

I look forward to seeing what path you take with this map.

Any tasty screenshots?

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I hate recipe maps. It always sounds like I need a game guide to know exactly which item to make. The only map that did it right was Poker TD, and thats only because everyone knows how to make card combinations.

This is the sort of thing that makes Gem TD suck, for example.

 

[~Void~]

Well yeah but you don't need to know what to make. Anything can combine into something, and I'll make sure it's all balanced.

 

[~Void~]

I'm used to balancing stuff for PVP maps. 55 isn't too bad, seeing as most arena maps have like 20 heroes with 4 abilities per hero (80 total) and games like DotA have like 100 heroes and 400 abilities total.

 

[Viikuna]

Its easier to balance if all heroes can use all spells. No one can be overpowered, some spells just become more popular because they are stronger. (edit. Or easier to use ´)

All Heroes can use all spells, right? I havent read the whole thread, but I was under the impression that spells are like potions, and you need to make them or something..

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Correct.

 

[~Void~]

Yep. I might make it so you can get different base heroes though, that might start with different stats and get bonuses to using certain potions and maybe even a unique passive. But that will be later.

 

[Viikuna]

I made a neat bomb system for this map, and now when Christmas is nearly like over, Im going to work with this lil´ poison system.

Void is probably coming back to work with this in few days, I suppose.

EDIT:
Im actually having few crazy ideas for that system, but Im not sure if they are even possible to do.

Either way, it is gonna be an awesome system.

 

[~Void~]

Yep. Just waiting on your poison system, which I expect to be totally awesome just like the bomb system :3

EDIT:
Oh, and just making sure, I'd prefer if you didn't release these systems to the public until at least 2 or 3 versions after the release. Thanks :]]]

 

[Viikuna]

No problem. They shall stay hidden.

 

[~Void~]

Ok so the systems are almost done. Now we just have to make the item spells... woot... x]

 

[Juliano]

I think you are gonna need a very good and explanatory way of showing available recipes to the players...I suggest a command like -potions, then a filter covers the player screen showing him the combinations, otherwise it's quite hard to memory such a large number of stuff

 

[~Void~]

That's the point though, everything makes a potion, so you don't need to know what you're making. You're supposed to experiment.

 

[Oziris]

Any terrain screen shots? I hope they are epic! =D