I am working on a new metroidvania, and I am giving all you on the forum to add your ideas!
Please keep ideas to categories: New region, ability, or lore.
For a reference, the region I currently have is called lost paths, and the game is called Shell.
I await your ideas.
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And you can suggest boss ideas too, although I probably won’t use them.
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could you give more details on lost paths and the game overall?
like whats the premise, what does lost paths look like, what should the mood of the game be?
and is it based off hollow knight/silksong?
if you need something like concept art i can do that too
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Sure! Lost paths is a very dark, quite barren region. it is underground.
As for the mood of the game, while it is not based off of hollow knight, the mood is similar.
Concept art would be great, but it might be wasted on me. if you feel like it you can.
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do you need a screenshot?
Is that allowed on the forum?
ya screenshots are allowed and one would be useful
i sorta have an idea
what about a region which has a lot of overgrown greenery and just overall big plants
like this
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you could try just taking some interesting regions from hollow knight as a basis and changing it up (a lot)
Good idea, but that might not work, as hallownest isn’t that similar to the world I’m making.
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could you explain what exactly the world youre making is like?
it looks like a underground exploration thing to me just based off the screenshots
Well, that starts getting into lore, but rather than being abandoned, this world is being settled. And yes, I just made that up.
Lore outline:
Your character, the shell, wakes up in an outcrop of a town, after being told to complete a mission, at all costs. you were not told what the mission is.
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what if the shell is sort of some kind of prisoner and is forced to go into the underground to solve some kind of problem
and only prisoners can go down because its dangerous and the people decided that criminals are the easiest people to get rid of
not really criminals more like a hunger games thing maybe
dystopian kind of plot
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the prisoners thing is good, but dystopian would kinda get it off track.
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then the criminals are actually criminals then
uhhh so maybe shell was knocked out in a jail fight after being told to do the mission and ended up getting hit in the head so hard they got memory loss
then the problem going on in the world is that theres too much life in the world in the form of plants and at some point the planet will be all gigantic plants that cant support life due to being inedible and too large and too strong to reach the plants food that could be edible or something like that
i think its a bad idea but i didnt make good stories in creative writing so blame my non writer brain
shell is nonbinary right?
No. shell is whatever the player is.
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