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- 2D
- (likely) pixel art
- Top down
- Story driven
Story
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some sort of magic/alchemy in the world
- maybe similar to a darker shade of magic series
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humans have learned how to harness this magic, but it comes at a steep cost
- humans harness with some sort of machine or nonmagical device
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magic is not meant to be used like this
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something is starting to go wrong in the world
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at some point humans discover very powerful artifacts that give them strange powers
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there are few of these artifacts and those who get them use them to conquer and dominate the world around them
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5 of these artifacts exist and each modern-day nation is build around one of them
- Artifacts are now idolized by each nation and everyone looks up to the power that they give
- It turns out they require great sacrifice to function and this has been hidden
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after long period of war and unrest things have finally settled down for a while and artifacts are largely acting as nuclear deterrents of war
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things start happening (not sure yet) that end up being the existence of another artifact that is more powerful than the others
- A sixth artifact was created (more backstory for this later) and things start going wrong because there can only be five
- The group that created the sixth artifact is now trying to start war and destroy one of the nations and their artifact to gain power
- The group on its own is not very powerful so they are trying to incite war in order to eliminate one of the other nations
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Should character be more generic and standard hero or more witha. backstory
- probably with a backstory since it makes the overall story more interesting
- Should have a pretty clear character design and background then
Elements I want in world
- Some sort of magic
- Doesn't have to be super widespread, can just be some sort of powerful artifacts
- could be something more like alchemy or something else magic-adjacent
- Generally fantasy setting
- Maybe some sort of alternate power system?
- Steampunk, solarpunk etc.
- Game can be partially based around you not playing the "hero"
- Play as a pretty normal person with no magical ability, have to end up fighting a lot of people that have magic and defeat them with sword/weapon
Slightly new idea
- world was pretty normal (medieval-ish, fantasy vibes) until one day something was found (maybe artifact, decide later when more lore is finalized)
- After this day (give name, "the awakening" etc.) most people started being born with magical abilities
- most people had pretty weak magical skills and could only do one thing (maybe elements, ideally some other system)
- those who had more powerful skills or had the ability for more than one quickly rose to the top and formed an elite class of (dual wielders? duelists? )
- Some are not born with magic, and the player is one of those people
- this class is relegated to the bottom of society and essentially forced to do manual labor