Homestuck AoS: Starcraft 2 Custom Map

[BlastYoBoots]

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Join us in Pesterchum memo #HomestuckAoS

Have you ever played DotA, HoN, or LoL? This will be like that, with Homestuck heroes!

Biophysicist is currently drafting a free, multiplayer custom map for Starcraft 2 that lets you pit various kids and trolls against each other. And you - yes, you - can help.

Gameplay Summary:

An "AoS" game such as this has up to 10 players choose between two sides, each taking control of a hero of their choice. Each side has a base (Prospit and Derse), which periodically sends AI-controlled troops down three tower-lined "lanes" toward the opposing side. The heroes' roles are to turn the tide of battle, gaining levels and learning powerful abilities to push towards the opposing base and defeat their King.

If you want a demonstration of this gametype, try the free game LoL (ThePowerPlumber's referral link).

Planned Features:

• All 16 of the kids and trolls, plus more (Midnight Crew, etc)
• 3 basic abilities, 1 advanced, 1 ultimate per hero
• Fight across LoWaS, LoFaF, the Battlefield, Prospit and Derse (we'd have all four lands, but can only fit 8 terrain textures in one map)
• God-Tier: Late-game, one player per side
• Custom models
• MSPA music
• Voice acting
• Black King / White King bosses for either side
• Item-stat-based alchemy system

How you can help:

• Ideas! Anyone is allowed to pitch in, whether it's adjusting / proposing hero skillsets, devising gameplay elements, or suggesting content. We often have long hash-out sessions over in #HomestuckAoS.
• Art assets
• Sounds and sound editing
• Voice acting
• Models and animations
• Terraining
• Terrain textures
• Doodad models
• Playtesting!!

Progress:

• Main kid/troll skillsets hashed-out: 14/16
• Item system concept: Needs design work
• Items hashed-out: 0/??
• Models: None yet
• Demo vid: ETA when Bio gets off his ass
• Playable draft / playtesting: TBA

Thanks to ThePowerPlumber for the initial concept. Head over to our SC2Mapster subforum to propose/discuss ideas, or join our hash-out sessions ~nightly in the #HomestuckAoS memo!

[BlastYoBoots]

There will probably be a memo party tonight: ~9:00 PM CST, Friday April 15. My guess is that we'll finish hashing out Gamzee.

If you're interested in throwing ideas around (or just want to watch), hang out in Pesterchum memo #HomestuckAoS around that time!

[Varkarrus]

wait... Does that mean god-tier midnight crew?

[BlastYoBoots]

Only Sburb/Sgrub players with titles would have god-tier. The guardians wouldn't, for example, unless we learn they played and had that potential (and structured their character designs accordingly). You wouldn't be able to vote for their ascension, when Quest Bed time comes around.

If we have characters that can't go god-tier, they'll be balanced in other ways. Only one player on each side can successfully go god-tier each game, after all.

[Tazaran]

Only one player on each side can successfully go god-tier each game, after all.

Well Vriska AND Aradia went god-tier.

[Ten_Tacles]

Only Sburb/Sgrub players with titles would have god-tier. The guardians wouldn't, for example, unless we learn they played and had that potential (and structured their character designs accordingly). You wouldn't be able to vote for their ascension, when Quest Bed time comes around.

If we have characters that can't go god-tier, they'll be balanced in other ways. Only one player on each side can successfully go god-tier each game, after all.

Sburb/Sgrub players have godtier, Guardians have Guardian tier (why not), and the midnight crew starts as the Sburbclassses (Jack Noir and the like) and then reaches Midnight tier?

[immortius]

Only one player on each side can successfully go god-tier each game, after all.

Well Vriska AND Aradia went god-tier.

This is an artificial restriction for balance reasons, not canon reasons.

[BlastYoBoots]

Party's over; turns out we worked mostly on Feferi. She needs some tweaks for finalization, and we need input from the masses to figure out what gels the best.

We'll finish her in another memo party tomorrow: ~9:00 PM CDT, Saturday, April 16. Join Pesterchum memo #HomestuckAoS then to participate!

[Ten_Tacles]

Party's over; turns out we worked mostly on Feferi. She needs some tweaks for finalization, and we need input from the masses to figure out what gels the best.

We'll finish her in another memo party tomorrow: ~9:00 PM CST, Saturday, April 16. Join Pesterchum memo #HomestuckAoS then to participate!

Cst?
What is that in GMT+1?

[BlastYoBoots]

You could have googled it. It's the first hit.

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/a...es/na/cst.html

I suppose it's technically CDT, though. I'll change that.

[Ten_Tacles]

GMT-6?
I am GMT+1.
Means this would be 2 am or something when I got everything right.
God damn, way too late.
I can't stay up that long

[Rufus]

Oh look it's only 11 Where I am, I can totally be there

[parHelion]

i have climbed the highest echeladders, gotten the phattest fraymotifs, and have played competitively in both dota and lol for extensive amounts of time.

i'd like to offer my services in balancing and concept design. like a grand vizier of knowing fucking everything or something.

[Tazaran]

This must happen (can WV have flaming Barbasol vomit?)

[Bluecho]

For those characters that can't reach God tier, perhaps do it by way of the Queen rings. We've seen how powerful Jack was prior to the Bec prototyping, so perhaps had he gotten a different fourth prototype rather than the completely broken one, he'd be roughly on the level of a god tier character. And of course only those from the two kingdoms can use them, and there's only the two rings from the two kingdoms, so it would still work in the "one god tier per side" rule.

Heck, if you need to get to the quest bed for a kid to go god tier, then make the ring an item they have to reach as well.

[BlastYoBoots]

Anything's possible! Once we finish the main kids and they actually work, we can figure out what to do with the others: whether to balance them for non-god-tier, or give them a god-tier-like system anyway.

Meeting in the #HomestuckAoS memo in about 20 minutes, on Pesterchum.

[BlastYoBoots]

Feferi is up!

CuttlefishCuller on pesterchum helped us with some of the skill naming.

[Tazaran]

I have an Idea for Jade
advanced:Get Down:Jade starts making random movements and essentially flips out and At the same time she is shooting her gun making it so that every enemy in a radius takes mid/heavy dammage

[Biophysicist]

Eek, forgot to subscribe to this thread... I'm the modder for this project.

I'll be going full speed ahead on that demo, starting today... (I've had several unexpected (and important) things come up that ate a huge amount of my time, and mental health stuff that left me unable to work on just about anything, including this.)

@above (and people like him): What we really need is themes for spellsets. Like, Feferi's uncaptchaloging water thing, Sollux's Bifurcated Mood, or Vriska's Flourite Octet. Any help is, of course, appreciated, but it's rather hard to use a single-spell suggestion like that (unless it's a really original spell).

[Ten_Tacles]

Maybe you could add Day and Night to the map, and some characters have benefits in the Day (All kids, Kanaya) and some have benefits have in the night (All trolls except Kanaya)?

But sounds good so far.

[Tazaran]

Kanaya should have benefits at night(rainbow drinker..Remember?)

[Ten_Tacles]

Kanaya should have benefits at night(rainbow drinker..Remember?)

Trolls live at night, rainbow drinkers in the day DERP.

[Biophysicist]

I don't think there will be a day/night system. None of our hero concepts would benefit from it.

Also, I changed my chumhandle to sanctifiedSuffering.

[Cute_Riolu]

May I suggest a shop system more like logical, such as League of Legends'? It has a menu through which items are sorted by stats. You would click attack and it would give you the additional options of attack speed, attack damage, critical hit, and life steal, etc.

That's the main reason I never got into DotA or HoN.

[Cute_Riolu]

Apologies for the double post, but is this still being worked on?