It seems really cool! It’s an interesting take on the arranged marriage trope
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Before OaoM, I’ve decided to make a smaller-scale project with the same premise.
Please do correct any mistakes in my writing, as I am new to producing works such as these.
Brain Death - An Oracle’s End is an interactive adventure powered by your will to continue existing, and limited by the time you are given. I’m leaning heavily on customization features; every choice will lead to personalized outcomes. It’s not my wish to make a linear experience.
Personally, I enjoy the feeling of being in control of my characters. I dislike being told what my character feels at any given moment, and I value the ability to choose these things for myself. That’s the entire goal of this project.
In this story, you’ll be placed into the shoes of an Oracle suffering from early symptoms of brain death. I’ve been expanding upon the different stages varying from inability to retain information, to lowered immunity to disease and injury. As this is still a WIP, things could change at any time.
This project will give me time to work up the foundations for the main story, as well as practice coding and figure out my own limits regarding storytelling and choices. I will say right now, the story is centered around a lot of mature themes, so it won’t be for everybody. But I do hope that some of you will enjoy it! I’m working on a demo right now. Here’s a screenshot showing some of my work so far.
As I said last time, if you have any questions or comments regarding my project, feel free to reply! Take care of yourselves.
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thank you!
i personally really love stories where the person falls in love with their arranged marriage partner. but at the same time, i wanted to give people the choice of who to fall in love with. people deserve the chance to be rebellious and ditch the idea of marriage after all. and for those who are more inbetween (either being rebellious or dutiful), I wanted to give the chance for the player character to fall in love more naturally. the quest is just an excuse to see who the betrothed really is.
i’m curious: which race and profession combo attracts you the most?
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I need to do research on whether I can use that word. Along with dhampir and tiefling and other words I want to use. Thanks for the reminder.
I’m curious which race and profession you are most drawn to? only if you want to answer of course.
thanks for your interest and comment!
For these types of games, I always play as an elf if I can (dragon age has had too much of an influence on my perception of highish fantasy). Though I don’t know what a night elf is. And I’ll probably play as a cleric, since I like playing as a healer character
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Dhampir should be safe enough, but the other two you should definitely look into. Because of the movies, Lothlorien is most likely also off limits, but I don’t know for certain (and there are apparently ongoing projects so probably better to err on the side of caution.)
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Depends, there’s a bunch of fantasy setting that use the name.
The problem would start if you also make it a reclusive capital of the elves that share the design philosophy of the movies or the books.
But even then, it’s mostly about what big corpo lawyers want to shut down so what you can get away with and what’s legal are often very different.
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For me when i hear night elf one of my first thoughts is world of warcraft or the drow from dnd and affiliate stuff.
Dhampir is definitely fine, it’s a traditional term. Tiefling is a Dungeons and Dragons-specific race, and while it may be covered by the OGL, that’s not as safe as it used to be, so you’re probably best-off going with “cambion”, the traditional term for human/demon hybrids.
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I created it. Dont expect updates until next month.
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As others have said, if it’s just a name, you’re probably fine, but if it’s the Lothlorien but transposed into your world, you’ll be treading dangerous waters. It’s unlikely but not impossible for a big corpo to take notice of your game and issue a cease-and-desist warning. You can also tweak the name a bit, like Láurien, or something. (Eragon & Arya == Aragorn & Arwen 
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It is the same for tiefling. True, the term is exclusive to D&D, but it has bled into the wider culture, so… 
A quick Google search rendered these (and many more) alternatives to tiefling:
- Cambion (the offspring of a human and a succubus/incubus specifically)
- Ramshorn
- Infernal
- Morlock (an underground race created by H.G. Wells in his classic “The Time Machine”)
- Caliban (a feral, sullen, misshapen creature in Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
- Nephilim (a biblical term that refers to half-human half-demon beings in some traditions)
I like the concept of tiefling minus the demon background lore. Why can’t they just be a race in their own right? It might sound silly but I believe in demons in real life, so it always bothers me when stories casually treat demons. I’ve played tiefling before but only when my DM created a different lore for them and they had nothing to do with demons and hell.
If that was not an option, I’d probably play as a human or a night elf (drow?). As for the class, my default is always rogue, but I’ve been trying to branch out a little lately, so maybe a cleric or Elementalist.
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I suck when it comes to romance. More of a slow burn kind of writer in that regard.
Races are fine but id take out dwarf or teifling & add a unique race that you created. Or screw it take out human.
Claases = good.
Idea = good
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I have a new idea. Im wondering if anyone wants this to be made.
This is a dual reality show where on one hand its your typical show where people live in a mansion doing challenges & socializing to not get eliminated. What the contestants dont realize is that there is a serial killer in the group. They must find them before they all die & they take the prize.
There is no help, no contact & no escape. Finding the killer is how you win the show. Before they kill you.
The best part?
You are the killer.
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This sounds like an amazing idea! You can never have too many reality tv/murder mystery games. Especially where you turn out to be the killer. Although I noticed you already have 3 other active wip’s. If you do make this game will it be a secondary wip or a primary one?
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It sounds really fun! It’s definitely giving Agatha Christy and Clue. I’m not sure how much I want to play as a killer though… I personally don’t have as much fun playing as a bad person. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who don’t have that gripe, though.
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Id finish speck before archdemon so secondary
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Yeah i figured that. Was just giving the big twist to the idea. The WIP will be much more…nuanced
Just want to do an interest check on the different races.
Which are the top 3 races you will play, if given a choice?
- Night Elf
- Dwarf
- Jotnar (Ice Giants, 7 feet tall)
- Voidborn (look like demons or tieflings)
- Dhampir (half vampire)
- Human
- Triton (can breathe underwater)
- Sylvari (plant people)
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update on the game: i’m been thinking over your responses, and i was wondering which races to keep or delete. not sure people want to play as a human or dwarf for example. hence, this poll.
planning also on making the voidborn race (which is similar to tieflings) be its seperate race unrelated to demons. just didnt want to bring religion into the mix, after some thought.
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Well, it depends on how close night elves are to traditional elves, like from Lord of the Rings or Dragon Age. I’ve seen some dark elves that I’m not really interested in playing, but others that seem pretty similar to regular elves. Other than that, humans are a classic choice. I think all games with a choice of race should include them as a neutral option. And while I don’t know how a half vampire works, I do love me a vampire