So perhaps this is a little premature as people are still busy writing their own arcs and enjoying the MA, but an idea came to me as I was working on getting my virtual badges. Since this arc was just for me I just selected a random assortment of objects. A contact: Cimeroran, map: burning forst, an enemy group: familiy, some hostages: 5th column, some destructible objects: bookcases, and some glowies: rikti computers.
While running the mission I thought to myself, "Well, this mission makes absolutly no sense." And then I started wondering if I just lacked the creativity to make the map make sense.....So....the game...or training excercise:
1) Create a seemingly random, nonsensical, boring, whatever, mission or arc. Leave all of the dialogue blank. Post the arc somewhere that people can download it.
2) The challenge, create the best arc you can by only adding text, names, bios, etc, but otherwise keep the arc exactly the same.
3)After collecting a certian number of entries have people play and rank.
Does this sound like an interesting challenge to anyone else, or are you just thinking....."What??? You're saying I'd have to play the same misison 15 times to appreciate this game....what a dumb idea!" I think of it sort of like inverse Mad-Libs....which is another Idea...mad-lib style arcs.
So perhaps this is a little premature as people are still busy writing their own arcs and enjoying the MA, but an idea came to me as I was working on getting my virtual badges. Since this arc was just for me I just selected a random assortment of objects. A contact: Cimeroran, map: burning forst, an enemy group: familiy, some hostages: 5th column, some destructible objects: bookcases, and some glowies: rikti computers.
While running the mission I thought to myself, "Well, this mission makes absolutly no sense." And then I started wondering if I just lacked the creativity to make the map make sense.....So....the game...or training excercise:
1) Create a seemingly random, nonsensical, boring, whatever, mission or arc. Leave all of the dialogue blank. Post the arc somewhere that people can download it.
2) The challenge, create the best arc you can by only adding text, names, bios, etc, but otherwise keep the arc exactly the same.
3)After collecting a certian number of entries have people play and rank.
Does this sound like an interesting challenge to anyone else, or are you just thinking....."What??? You're saying I'd have to play the same misison 15 times to appreciate this game....what a dumb idea!" I think of it sort of like inverse Mad-Libs....which is another Idea...mad-lib style arcs.
Draggynn on Virtue: lvl 50 Storm/Psi, 1389 badges
Draggynn's Guide to Storm Summoning(Gale-Tornado, updated 6/25/2011)
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