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[Project] Changeling RPG

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[Campaign] Changeling RPG

Introduction

Changeling RPG will be a 3rd person singleplayer campaign that takes place in a huge war of Terrans and Protoss.
You are a changeling with the ability to absorb DNA, which allows you to morph into almost everything.
You will be able to interact with Zerg, Terrans, and Protoss, while your current appearance decides, if you will be treated as enemy or as friend.

You determine the end of the war!
Will you lead Protoss or Terrans to victory, do you go for peace, or will you even bring the Zerg into the war?


Features

- a huge world with a storyline that depends on your decisions
- Missions for each race
- Highly customizable Hero with different abilities and attributes depending on it's current Form
- Absorbing DNA from nearly all creatures to Morph into their species
- race-specific and general equipment, inventory, skillbar and much more!


Screenshots


Talk to Allies and get missions or make decisions
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Level up and improve your stats
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Buy items in shops
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equip yourself and use items
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Adjust game-performance
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Morph into a marine to destroy the rocks.

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Fight against your enemies,...

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... and absorb their DNA ...

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... to interact with them and get missions for them.

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Get DNA of different units, ...

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... and learn new skills, ...

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... to Morph into almost everything!

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This. is. really. nice :D
I hope you're gonna finish this project sooner or later, i'm eager to try it out! :)
 
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Thanks for all positive feedback :D

After some break I started working on an ability/talent system.
This is the current (incomplete) talent tree for the changeling (there will also be one for each race).


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just an idea (though you probably thought of this): far in the zerg tree, there may be options to morph into different spieces of zerg - ultralisk, roach, etc.
 
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just an idea (though you probably thought of this): far in the zerg tree, there may be options to morph into different spieces of zerg - ultralisk, roach, etc.

This is basically what the skill tree shown above already does :D
It has 3 levels of DNA absorbing (2 for Protoss), and every DNA that is dropped by units will have a minimum level of this talents required, so with Absorb Zerg DNA level 1 you can absorb Zergling and Roach DNA and maybe with lvl 3 you can absorb Queen and Ultralisk DNA.
 
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This is awesome... I mean your character theoretcally can belong to three races at the same time... that's something new...
IUt would be cool if later you could absord some kind of special nanites that would allow you to turn into mechanical creatures... or at least getting inside a terran or protoss machine and taking control of it...
 
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i would like to help with this, but at the moment i don't think i could help much unless you needed a tester. if you wanted me to, i would be willing to test this map for you.
 
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We are looking for team members at the moment.
Most needed are Terrainers, Storywriters/Brainstormers & Cinematic artists.

If you are interested in joining just PM me or post here :D

@bonesters
As we just finished the planning phase and start creating everything, we currently don't need testers, maybe at some later point.
 
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It looks great. I have a couple questions though.

Did you put all of the grass and vegatation down by yourself or is it game generated?

Does your unit attack automatically when you face an enemy?

Are you planning to add to the quest ui because right now there is a lot of empty space, which isnt a big problem.

Off Topic: I really liked how you created the terrain, it seemed fitting for a 3rd person environment

I have a couple suggestions too.
Add options for camera or an option to reduce far clip because people with bad computers will lag.

Also, i think it would be easier to have hotkeys for some of the abilities like absorbing DNA.

Overall it looks really good.
 
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Did you put all of the grass and vegatation down by yourself or is it game generated?

It is default foilage created by the game

Does your unit attack automatically when you face an enemy?

Nope, if you want to attack a unit you have to double click it
(We are thinking about also adding a hotkey for this)

Are you planning to add to the quest ui because right now there is a lot of empty space, which isnt a big problem.

In the final version, the quest texts will be longer, so there will be less empty space :p

Also, i think it would be easier to have hotkeys for some of the abilities like absorbing DNA.

We just started working on hotkeys, and there definitely will be a hotkey for this.
 
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Some new updates:

We worked hard on everything, and finished most basic systems and also the tutorial planet. We are planning to release this planet as a Demo on bnet around the release of patch 1.2 (because of key-press and mouseclick lagg which will hopefully be fixed then).

Here some screenshots of the new UI :


Talk to Allies and get missions or make decisions
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Level up and improve your stats
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Buy items in shops
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equip yourself and use items
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Adjust game-performance
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And a video of some features (a bit older than the screenies):
 
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