hero defense map that still needs a name

[D a w n]

Foreword:

this is basicly my first map I have ever worked on. The concept is to combine a generic hero defense with rpg elements.


Story:

The whole world is divided into different areas: the north is the frost continent, the east is the forest continent, the south is the demon continent and the west is the undead continent. So one continent is facing it´s opponent.
But there is a small orc outpost in the center which is the last defense of the village. But scouts saw that villain troops are recruiting because they are seeking to conquer this friendly place.
That´s why the villagers asked a group of mercenaries for help.
Your task will be to defend their village and gain glory.


Gameplay:

- 30 waves. Every 5th wave will be a boss level.
- Every wave is at a single area. The reason is that it is supposted to boost teamplay.
- Some waves will be divided into up to 3 stages. Stage 2 will spawn another kind of creep(example: stage 1 were ghouls, stage 2 will be ghouls+ ncromancers). Stage 3 will contain some elite creeps which might even drop items
- But sometimes the next wave will start before the previous wave has ended. The team has to split then.
- At the beginning of each wave you will be supported by some soldiers.
- Different difficulties
- The fountain will change it color based on % of life left. This will not only look fancy, but will also affect the gameplay. 100%= purple= 100% of X regen, 75%= blue= 75% of X regen, 50%= green= 50% of X regen, 50%= red= 25% of X regen.
- There will be a selecion of critters that represent the different fractions you have to fight against. But you will be able to catch 1 and use it as an item carrier. And each of those critters will have 1 or 2 unique abilities which might help your team even in battles.
- A quest system for the village which will allow to get unique items(which won't be saveable) for your hero or which will improve the power of the aiding troops

maybe:
- Save codes for items. -->bosses will drop stronger items based on the difficulty.

Heroes:

status: making concepts
Right now I´m planning to add 9 heroes.
You will find information about their skillls in this album once I have finished the design.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/128728-albums2155.html

Finished hero concepts(some icons are just replacements for now):

Guardian	Skills
Attribute: ranged int Role: heal & support with some dmg skills	summons 1 of 3 powerful summons on an area: - Treant: casts entangle on random enemies - Dryad: casts a spell on random enemies which reduces their damge, attack speed and armor for some seconds - Keeper: cast a spell on random allied heroes which heals them and adds a stacking armor bonus insteant heal + heal over time based on current mana and int adds an orb effect on the targeted which gives a chance to drain some hp based on the unit´s attack damage when activaded it will improve the other spells for some time: - treant will entangle all enemies around him when he is summored and will have a normal attack, dryad´s spell will also adds a chance to miss on the enemies, keeper will get an armor aura and heals 2 units at the same time - heals based on max mana and int - orb effect will have a 100% chance to heal

Salamander Warrior	Skills
Attribute: melee str Role: debuffing tank	puts a fire shield on a target. On an enemy: adds a debuff on the target & around every enemy unit around the target that reduces their armor, deals dmg to them as long as they are under the effect of the debuff when when they are hit by a spell of the SalamanderWarrior they will be hurted for 0.X *str addition dmg every second for 4 seconds. On an ally: will add additional armor on the target and will have a 15% chance to deal 1.x * str of the Salamander around them throws a big missile on the ground which will split into 2 smaller ones to a random area around the bigger one which will deal dmg based on the str. Enemies that are hit by the big missile will be pushed back adds some extra str to your hero for some seconds a channeling spell which will fire out many small missiles to random areas around your hero. While active enemies that attack you will have a chance to put themself on fire, reducing their dmg for some secondsl

Puppet Master	Skills
Attribute: melee int Role: debuffing tank	adds extra dmg based on your agi creates dark energy on the ground which will deal more dmg the more enemies are around creates a nova around the hero. Every enemy that gets hit by it will get the "toxic" debuff which´s starting lvl will be based on the distance to the hero. Whenever the enemy attacks now, it will loose some hp. Will become stronger and stronger for every attack. Can stack up to X times and lasts for Y seconds creates a void at a target area which will suck some enemies into it an which will disappear for Y seconds * int/100. Will deal X dmg* sconds of disappearing

Ogre Warlord	Skills
Attribute: ranged agi Role: dmg dealer	eats a target enemy just to use it as a target aoe missile. Will have a debuff based on the terrain it was from. Ice: slows attack and movement speed, nature will deal some dmg over time based on agi, demon will reduce armor and dmg, undead will have a chance to miss and will get more dmg from magic iwill run to a target or point and will deal dmg and create some minor knockback, but your attack speed and movement speed will be reduced for some seconds after that summons 3 uncontrolable pigs that will stay for Y attacks and will deal dmg based on your agi. Still In Progress

IcecrownElemental	Skills
Attribute: semi-ranged str Role: slowing damage dealer	ripples the earth in a line and freezes all units in the path. They cannot attack, but will have increased armor has a chance to freeze the ground on attack, slowing attack and movement speed and deals minor aoe damage. The frozen ground lasts for X seconds channels a meteor that will deal dmg based on the channeling time. Will have a minor knockback effect at max channeling time that deals some extra damage based on your str still needs a concept

CyborgDwarf	Skills
Attribute: melee str Role: tank with some damage skills	channels his flame thrower to damage enemies and giving a chance to miss an attack to them in a short line.The longer the enemy is in this line the stronger the damage and the effect will be summons a cannon that shoots missiles into the sky.On its highest point it will explode and many small shatters fall to the ground on random areas around the cannon. deals aoe dmg and slightly knocks enemies back. enemies that are too near at a shatter will be dizzy, disabling their attack for some seconds. Lasts for X waves reduces damage dealt to the CyborgDwarf, but also reduces the healing power of spells while active. Drains mana deals aoe damage on dead. If the enemy is under the effect of 1 of the CyborgDwarf´s debuffs, it will get additional damage over time.

CryptQueen	Skills
Attribute: semi-ranged agi Role: summorer Foreword: this will be a very unique hero, as it will work complety different from the others. First of all: the base dmg will be 1(!!) and it will have a very slow attack speed. The reason for it is the first spell which is the only learnable spell on lvl 1. furthermore: most items won´t have any effect on your hero ,but they will have 0.5x its effect on your summons(spell 1). But the positive thing is that your hero will have a huge str/int gain and also a high base armor and if a buff effect is casted on you, it will also have a chance to be casted on 1 of your summons.	you are able to summon 1 of 3 summons: 1 melee str, 1 melee agi, 1 ranged int. Those will be the key elements on your other spells and on your gameplay. Every level of this spell will give them an additional skill. Max number of sumons: 2 heals you or an ally on cost of 1 of your summons. Will heal you more than your allies. heals 1 of your summons based on your str, but costs hp to cast. Also adds a random buff on it stomps the ground and creates a crate. Enemies will be pushed into it, but allied heroes will be pulled out of it by some of your insects

BatOrc	Skills
Attribute: melee/ranged agi Role: damage dealer	Runs to a point and attacks enemies X times hurting them based on your damage. After that they will bleed, dealing damage over time and have reduced armor based on the number of attacks on them. Summons a giant bat whcih will throw a random totem to a targeted area. These totems will have positive effects for your allies Rotates X times around hmself, damaging every enemy around you based on your damage switches into a flying form which gives him a ranged attack and some changes to his other spells: spell 1:flys in very high speed to a location and after that back to the casting point, dealing X-Y damage to every unit in its path.(up to 2x damage) Spell 2: totems will have negative effects for your enemy Spell 3: Summons 2 elemental tornados with different effects on the targeted area

Basilisk	Skills
Attribute: ranged int Role: damage and support	shoots multiple small waves into an area. Will deal more damage if they are under the debuff effect of skill 3 buff which reduces the damage taken and also deals some minor damage to random demon units around the target of the buff. has a XX% chance to flood the ground on a specific area. Enemies movement speed is drastically reduced and they have a chance to be silenced. Max. of Y flooted areas which last for 20 seconds Gives a group of units a buff which disables the effect of many debuffs, increases the hp regeneration and adds a small evasions chance.

Storm SLasher	Skills
Attribute: melee agi Role: damage & support	increases the attack speed of a unit to the maximum for X attacks. summons a heavy storm, which will damage and burn the mana of enemy units. Lasts for X seconds each attack has the chance to add a debuff to an enemy which will hurt itself for X% of its attack damage on every attack. Additionally if a unit under this debuff is killed by the Storm slasher, Y damage will be dealed to surounding enemies which will be mini-stunned and after that slowed. when activaded the Storm Slasher increases his damage on every attack, he will ignore the armor type and will have a chance to deal splash damage.

Items:

I still haven´t worked on any of them, but when I start you will find information about it here:

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/128728-albums2158.html


Screenshots:

here is a selection of screenshots. Therest can be found here: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/128728-albums1949.html

Current Team:

DonDustin - Ideas, Models, terrain
Xarwin - Coding
baassee - Coding


Recruiment:

As I won´t be able to do everything on my own, I´m searching for these positions:

coding for spells
coding for systems
terraining--> You would still have to create the village and maybe some fixes of the current terrain.

 

[Nurga]

Sounds interesting.
I would take a name like: Nature´s War or Elemental Defence....ew...i think that are bad names^^

 

[D a w n]

Sounds a bit generic but thank you for your suggestion^^

oh and I added 1 more thing that I forgot(about the fountain)

 

[Zack1996]

Something like:
Clash at the Borders
Worlds Collide
When the Continents Meet

Looks really nice! Especially since it includes so many terrain varieties
I wish you luck! The heroes look nice too, btw. Would all of them be using Custom Models?

 

[baassee]

I can't think of any name atm thought you dont want it to common I guess

I'm just curious how you code, GUI, Jass or vJass?

Cause if you have some spell ideas right now (just a few) I probably have some time to make a few of them but all depending how you code to!

Also

Good luck on this project!

 

[D a w n]

I can't think of any name atm thought you dont want it to common I guess

I'm just curious how you code, GUI, Jass or vJass?

Cause if you have some spell ideas right now (just a few) I probably have some time to make a few of them but all depending how you code to!

Also

Good luck on this project!

uhm...I don´t have any coding skills :/
That´s the main reason why I even recruit

Something like:
Clash at the Borders
Worlds Collide
When the Continents Meet

Looks really nice! Especially since it includes so many terrain varieties
I wish you luck! The heroes look nice too, btw. Would all of them be using Custom Models?

Thank you for your name suggestions
oh and the heroes will use custom models + maybe the bosses aswell.

 

[baassee]

oh haha I see

you make awsome models for a game you dont script

haha well give me a VM if you need any help with the spell part and I would be glad to check what you need help with

 

[D a w n]

Finished the first hero concept

Edit: Improved the first sit of my thread :>

 

[Xarwin]

What do you expect from the spell coding?

 

[D a w n]

What do you expect from the spell coding?

uhm...I basicly expect that they should be leak free :>
and as you can see some of my spell concepts could be even based on ingame spells.( like the healing spell)

oh and I added another hero

 

[Nurga]

Nice one!
I like the salamander.

Great work

Good luck anyway!

 

[baassee]

Lolss salamander looks good!

The spells dont have to be MUI then I guess? :/

 

[D a w n]

Lolss salamander looks good!

The spells dont have to be MUI then I guess? :/

I personally wanted that every hero is only available once, so...yes it would not be needed

 

[baassee]

Oh then I get it but still MUI got much better performance anyway

 

[D a w n]

oh thank you

oh and I still need some good 3rd and 4th spell for my ogre. 3 is just an idea I had , but I´m not really satisfied with it :/

btw: and ignore the icons

oh and I won´t be there next week, so if you got some spell idea for 1 of my heroes, please post them under the hero in my gallery :Y

 

[Xarwin]

uhm...I basicly expect that they should be leak free :>
and as you can see some of my spell concepts could be even based on ingame spells.( like the healing spell)

oh and I added another hero

I can be your man for spells.

I use JASS / vJASS and if needed GUI.

 

[D a w n]

I can be your man for spells.

I use JASS / vJASS and if needed GUI.

Great.
I added you and baassee to the new "Team" area

 

[baassee]

the new heroes looks awsome

 

[.Ragnaros]

Suggestions for the name:

- The Ancient Wars
- Strife at the divine nature
- Strife of the elements
- Aeon of Nature
- Undying Nature
- Magical Conflict
- Natural Conflict
- Conflict of the Earth's essence
- Great War of the Ancients


Well I've much more names I could list here but I think you've enough to choose. >_<

Oh, I could be the guy that makes stories for heroes, and story lines, etc I've a fertile imagination ^^
I could also support the ideas for heroes, spells, etc.

Anyway, seems like a nice map.

EDIT: Also, I've found some misspelled words in your concept thread, you should review it and fix them, it just turns more attractive to reviewers.

 

[D a w n]

Suggestions for the name:

- The Ancient Wars
- Strife at the divine nature
- Strife of the elements
- Aeon of Nature
- Undying Nature
- Magical Conflict
- Natural Conflict
- Conflict of the Earth's essence
- Great War of the Ancients


Well I've much more names I could list here but I think you've enough to choose. >_<

Oh, I could be the guy that makes stories for heroes, and story lines, etc I've a fertile imagination ^^
I could also support the ideas for heroes, spells, etc.

Anyway, seems like a nice map.

EDIT: Also, I've found some misspelled words in your concept thread, you should review it and fix them, it just turns more attractive to reviewers.

I´m always open for ideas, as some of my concepts could still need some improvements.

oh and I added another concept :>

 

[.Ragnaros]

Exactly, , If you need help with story lines, heroes stories, concepts, spell ideas, heroes ideas, etc, PM me with your question and I'll proudly help you.

EDIT *Hero Suggestion*

Hero Class: Battle Priest

Hero Role: Healer (And exclusively healer)

Hero Attribute: Melee | Intelligence

Hero Story: This Half-Elf creature has been hired by the human army to fight against the scourge, his task was giving healing support to the human tankers, he has been useful for a while, but after the humans started to research medical related technologies a lot more priest have surged, he became just one of the other mighty priests, so, he started to get excluded from conflicts, consequently he left the human towns and leaded ahead to help the magical creatures of the wood fighting against any evil that approaches, he studied natural curative magics and became mighty then ever. Now he fights aside the forces of the nature. New spells he learnt, curative magics he mastered,...

Spells

Healing Touch: Instantly heals the target hero by 2x his intelligence. Level increases the intelligence multiplier.

Holy Blessing: Turns the target hero invulnerable for x seconds and heals it over y seconds.

Seal of Protection: Increases the target hero armor for xx and its health regeneration for yy per second (Must be a sightly high value)

Holy Blast (Ultimate Spell): Heals all units around the hero within xxxAoE for 2x Intelligence plus yyy value, xxx, yyy and intelligence multiplier values increases with ability's level.

Hero Model: BloodElfWarPriest by T.J.

______________________________________________________________________

Hero Class: War Druid

Hero Role: Damage Dealer / Tanker (Depends on Cat of Bear form)

Hero Attribute: Melee | Agility

Hero Story: The passive druids, that used to protect the nature from any enemies controlling the nature itself to hardly injure the enemy, have changed! Those creatures started to get aggressive and strong at body-to-body fights, they started to train as barbarians but still kept their main shapeshifting spells: Bear Form and Cat Form. Depending the situation encountered they change between the Bear and Cat Forms.

Spells

Bear Form: While in Bear Form the hero gains extra strength, health points, health points regeneration and armor turning him in a perfect tanker.

Cat Form: While in Cat Form the hero gains extra agility, attack speed, attack damage and armor turning him in a perfect damage dealer.

Charge: Charges an hero dealing damage based in War Druid's strength and stunning the hero for x seconds.

Quick Strike: Quickly teleports to behind of a target unit and deals damage based on War Druid's agility, also stuns the target unit for x seconds.

Hero Model: Druidoftheclaw by Tiki

Cat Form Model: Night Elf Druid Cat Form by Dan van Ohllus


When I've time I'll post more hero concepts, I'm full of ideas in my mind

I hope you like them Feedback and comments ^^

EDIT: Change the Guardian Hero name to Dryad Paladin or something like that | "Guardian" doesn't fit with the hero itself.

By the way, I could also make the loading screen and map descriptions that would be placed in the "Quests" menu.

 

[baassee]

Today I will try to finish the guardian spells, all at once if I can so basiclly I can name them anything I want? (a)

 

[.Ragnaros]

Really? Then change his name because as I said above "Guardian" doesn't fit with the hero type.

Guardian should be a greatly armored warrior with magical powers, Guardian = Tanker.

 

[D a w n]

Today I will try to finish the guardian spells, all at once if I can so basiclly I can name them anything I want? (a)

sure. Oh and I was planning to change the hero name to Guardian of Nature or something like that. :>

and I should give you some additional information about the first spell:
it was intended to be based on the spell book ability. The summons should have the locust ability and should be slightly transparent.

I guess that´s all that I forgot to mention

 

[.Ragnaros]

ok, check my hero suggestions and comment.

 

[D a w n]

I took a look at your concepts but they do not really seem to fit with the things I had in mind :/
thanks anyways
oh and I finished another concept

 

[Xarwin]

Oh right, if you want me to do something tell me what.
I'm not sure what you want to see finished.
Btw, I guess you're not using the Newgen?

 

[D a w n]

I do use JNGP :>

oh and take what you want to take. I don´t see any specific thing right now that srsly needs to be finished

 

[Xarwin]

Well, in that case I won't be using vJASS but only JASS.
And uhm.. I'll check out some things to work on soon

 

[baassee]

1. sure. Oh and I was planning to change the hero name to Guardian of Nature or something like that. :>

2. and I should give you some additional information about the first spell:
it was intended to be based on the spell book ability. The summons should have the locust ability and should be slightly transparent.

3. I guess that´s all that I forgot to mention

1. oh good to know

2. spell book? shouldnt it be random summons?

3. haha good to know, should remake a bit, didnt finish all of them yet

 

[D a w n]

First I was thinking about random ummons, but as all of them have a total different role, it would be quite silly to get the damaging treant, if you need to heal some1.

 

[baassee]

but shouldnt that be like a part of the spell, the randomness?

 

[D a w n]

uhm...I guess we could try it with the random summon first, but if this does not work that well gameplay-wise, we could change it

 

[baassee]

uhm...I guess we could try it with the random summon first, but if this does not work that well gameplay-wise, we could change it

agreed

 

[.Ragnaros]

DonDustin, sorry I didn't knew exactly how I should have made the hero concepts, I've no idea what you've in mind actually, I can't read minds, so you should place it on the main thread, what you want, what you're planing, etc.

I would like to be the terrainer also, you just have to tell me exactly what you want, give me information about the type of terrain, what kind of doodads you want,... and I can make you a ok terrain, then you should review it, give your opinion, I improve it once again to your wills, and tada! a perfect terrain...

The time of the day when my disponibility is higher is on the morning and at the very afternoon, 10:00h - 12:30h | 19:00h - 23:30h | GMT +0 Greenwich, lisbon, etc

^_^

 

[D a w n]

Do you have any terraining work that you could show me?? :>

oh and I just finished my peronal favourite hero concept

 

[baassee]

oh and I just finished my peronal favourite hero concept

laughed on this one, seems to be VERY hard to play althought

 

[Jargalhurts]

I have some name suggestions:
The Last Stand
Eternal Guardians
Last Chance for Survival
2 Sides 1 Village (lol)

 

[baassee]

working also with salamander spell #2

 

[D a w n]

great

oh and the next hero concept is pretty much finished

 

[Xarwin]

Goddamned I keep skipping this.
You really should provide me some work instead of me picking something random

 

[baassee]

HAHAHA Xarwin

I can tell you what spells I'm doing

Guardian #1 #2 #4 (I feel #3 needs to be in Jass)

Salamander #2 #3

EDIT:

Bat hero looks good

 

[mrpoli]

thisss isss awesome!!! Good job!!
i think you should add more unique hero/s

 

[MortAr]

No ranged STR hero? No melee INT hero?
Awh.. that sucks..
Mix it somehow, STR are not only supposed to be melee...

 

[D a w n]

No ranged STR hero? No melee INT hero?
Awh.. that sucks..
Mix it somehow, STR are not only supposed to be melee...

tell me 1 ladder str hero. Oh and I have 1 melee int hero

 

[Xarwin]

I'm having a problem ..
You might have noticed that there is a big delay between my posts.
This is because of my school 'n stuff.
Yet, I still would like to help with this map.

If you aren't able to create a spell, or you want me to create something then just please let it know.
I'll be checking this thread as much as I can.

 

[D a w n]

ok. The actual map making is bit delaying for me aswell, because I'm focusing on the art for icons,sfx models etc right now.

oh and you would be already a big help, if you would post some ideas for items, waves, bosses or spells

 

[D a w n]

omg double post D:
just wanted to tell tht I got back to work on it and finished another hero concept. There will be 1-3 more heroes, but first I'll haveo finish their models =P

And I also already have some ideas for creeps skills and special crep rounds.

Oh and I'm till looking for members

 

[D a w n]

bump with a new hero concept.

 

[baassee]

bump with a new hero concept.

looks good

maybe will have a few moments to make the lightning storm thingie

but the new hero got so many "hit" spells so I will say that GUI is not meanted for that, creating an event for each and every unit on the map for checking if they get attacked by this unit :/

EDIT

also tell me if there are any good lightning cloud models (A)