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SkipTheDreadnought wrote: Hey boys and girls!

It's Skippy The Dreadnought, everyone's favourite bone-grinding mechanized killing machine. Since joining this community five days ago I've had my head fried with memories of long-lost Knightmare characters, obstacles and deaths. And yes, I have dreamt about it. I've even joined the Knightmare Roleplay board, marking the first time I've indulged in any kind of freeform RPG in a decade. Cool stuff.

I'm a graphic and web designer in my spare time, and I'm currently teaching myself Macromedia Flash MX. It was during one of my coding sessions that I had a mad idea. And it's this:

What would you say to a playable, completely Web-based, singleplayer Knightmare adventure?

You wouldn't need to download the game, you could just play it in the Web browser (hopefully). It would take the traditional TV show route, where you have to guide a lone dungeoneer (classic Helm Of Justice only, of course) through a perilous series of hazards and levels to complete the quest.

Gimme you views on the following:
- Is it a good idea?
- Would you play it?
- How should the dungeoneer be controlled?
- What kind of hazards would you like to see included?
- Locations, characters, objects, puzzles, etc.

I'm prepared to invest a fair bit of time on this (between my other design projects, which unfortunately must take precedence in this case). Post up here with ANY ideas or opinions you might have.

Anyone interested?

Skip

SkipTheDreadnought wrote: Now hang on just a moment!

We'll have no talk of year-long episodes, KM-RPG or anything like that. This will, when its finished, stand as a real-time, single-player adventure game delivered via Flash Player. The reason I want to do it is because there has already been a couple of Knightmare games - one on the good old Commodore64, and one on the Amiga - and neither of them came anywhere near to capturing the spirit and style of the TV show. This is what I want to address.

There will be no multiplayer mode, no organic storylines, no free-roaming gameplay, and definitely no swordplay. This is a self-contained adventure game, simple as that.

Having said that, one idea I have had is of developing a Level Editor and Level Player that could be distributed for free. That way, all you guys could create your own dungeons, complete with traps, objects and characters, and distribute them for others to try and defeat! We could have a separate forum going where all the level files get distributed, and people could post up their opinion about a level, how they defeated certain traps, ideas for improvement, and completion times.

Of course, this is mere speculation at the moment. I've tentatively pencilled in an end-of-July completion time for the initial adventure. Once that's been taken care of, we can worry about the rest.

Keep those ideas coming, there's a lot of support so far, but not a lot in the way of practical ideas. Get going!

Skip