For the wings bit, just follow the plot of Sapphire Statue and have her dealing with a broken wing.

For the sequels, implement a style of limited flight.

I like the point and click idea. Otherwise you'd have to invoke Gameplay and Story Segregation.

Well yes, keyword 'terrible'. Fate Of Atlantis on the other hand was a great game.

But yeah, each room has to be drawn full screen size and those game tend to get a lot of rooms. Rather troublesome, I'd say. I wonder if there could be a way to make a board game style strategy game..

I thought of cheating with the wings by making wings only glide or double jump but eh, that wouldn't go with the pegasus part of things.

edited 26th Feb '12 6:33:17 AM by gingerale

Woohoo, page 4321. And limited flight isn't going to cut it, since she's a RD expy. Though I guess it is possible to limit the flight by just having all the levels take place indoors.

But if you place all the levels indoors you have to skip most of the story and just make them happen through either a completely different gameplay or cutscenes. Latter of which is just lazy and won't let the player in at all.

But it could work combined with the board game style idea I had earlier.

edited 26th Feb '12 6:37:08 AM by gingerale

@Bad Lucky because they get it on a Friday, and I can only play video games on the weekends or during holidays.

But anyways, this just now started bugging me...

On Blueblood's coat, is he just wearing the collar and stuff, instead of a full dress jacket or whatever? O_o

Clever level and trap design can limit flight quite a bit, and it can be implemented well into a Metroidvania clone. Use a stamina gauge to limit flight, which will be rendered infinite before the adventure ends.

@ The Librarian: I have no idea. This bowtie must be held on somehow though.

The thing about flight is that it changes the entire gameplay for a platformer. You can no longer do moving platform jumping or disappearing blocks type of things. Heck, even falling down the screen doesn't happen anymore. You have to make them work more like caves where the directions of up and down don't really matter except for any parts where you have to stand around. And you really can't do anything with outdoor areas.

This is why I'd prefer a point and click adventure. You can easily add action bits to those too if you want. A chase scene for one would be no problem at all.

Good morning guys!

So, just by taking a couple of posts on this page, I assume we're discussing a Daring Do game?

Morning Friends! And Storyyeller!

What's up for discussion today?

How to make an interesting Daring Do game while accounting for her ability to fly

Treat it like Kirby's ability to fly except in cutscenes?

ninja'd

Personally, I kind of want something like Banjo-Kazooie, but that might be a combination of my love of platformers, and nostalgia. But, that game was one of few to have a flying ability not be a Game Breaker (for the most part) and still have it as a part of the main core gameplay. Just my two cents

edited 26th Feb '12 6:53:24 AM by LightPhaser

Super Metroid and some of the later Castlevanias have implemented effective pseudo-flight mechanics without breaking the game. Level design and puzzle mechanics are easily useable alongside low ceilings to limit Daring's option of cheesing traps with flight.

Put traps on the ceilings and background as well?

We could always have her flying in-game limited to slowing her fall ala Mario's tanooki form or Dixie's ponytail.

The Ancients would not have designed traps without accounting for pegasi.

Flight would mostly be used to get around the outside of the ruins, but the insides are deliberately designed to foil flying thieves in a world populated with at least two species of flying folk.

Also we could have a kind of Score Attack mode which penalizes you for excessive flight.

edited 26th Feb '12 7:00:48 AM by AceOfScarabs

external levels with full 3D exploration, and internal levels with tight corridors that make flying impractical?

Fluffy Filly Twilight.

D'aaaaawwwwww

Anyways, is there a possibility that anyone would make a fangame with these ideas?

We need a new internet rule for ponies, Like Rule 34, except replace ponies for porn. If it exists it has been ponified, This fandom is like the MTE for defictionalization anything even mentioned in the show gets made real.

Touhou has Rule maru-kyuu. Ponies have Rule p-34?

Hmmm... currently writing a comparison essay of the two Wicker man movies for my Production Contexts class. I'm trying desperately to come up with something positive to say about the remake

I still REALLY want a Wicker Man parody on this show

edited 26th Feb '12 7:14:46 AM by gingerninja666

ummm, ummm, it's very very memetic? Will they except Narm Charm as a good point? or So Bad, It's Good?