Ominous Project Odin Speculation Thread

Discussion in 'Discussions' started by Nicholas, Jan 10, 2012.

  1. Lorrelian

    Lorrelian Member

    Puzzle Dwarf Fortress! I will stand by this guess until I'm proven wrong in about fifteen minutes or so...
     
  2. kino5

    kino5 Member

    Do you mean Sim City? Where are the Dwarves? :rolleyes:
     
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  3. Man, Pharaoh! That brings back memories. Wells everywhere or something like that. And really annoying firemen who would patrol irregularly and sometimes skip a part of town (which inevitably burned down). Think I got my mom into it at some point.
     
  4. Nachtfischer

    Nachtfischer Member

    That's Gaslamp's plan for sure: We shall all get our moms to play their new game! Which inevitably leads to world domination.
    I'm really excited to see what Project Odin will become. Naturaly I'd love to see some kind of a more accessible Dwarf Fortress (though I don't know if it really should be accessible to every mom...). :D
     
  5. Tycho

    Tycho Member

    (your name goes here): "Mom, what are you doing?"
    (your mother): "Suffocating mer-babies. Their bones are very valuable, you know."
    (you): :eek:

    (yeah I know they already nerfed the value of mer-bone :p)
     
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  6. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    Things you know:

    - there are gears.
    - there are boilers.
    - there are trestles.
    - there is an overseer character who has a little box that he can lug around.
    - there are shanties, and a modest collection of building materials (wood, brick)
    - there are some interesting pictures of terrain and an elevation map.
    - we've hired a character artist, an environment artist, and an animator.
    - there are Leyden jars.
    - there is networking code.
     
  7. Lorrelian

    Lorrelian Member

    !!!

    I always wondered where those little weighted boxes in the Portal games came from. The idea must be to build a factory that makes them, right?
     
  8. Loren

    Loren Member

    So is it "Mine Keeper", the slightly less S&M version of dungeon keeper? Obviously, the diggles would be guests whom the overseer would have to keep happy.
     
  9. Loerwyn

    Loerwyn Member

    If said character is the PC, will there be a female version? :D
     
  10. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    No, only diggle one :D
     
  11. dbaumgart

    dbaumgart Art Director Staff Member

    I'll say this much outright: Just about every character will have a female version. (Except The Queen; already female.)
     
  12. Loerwyn

    Loerwyn Member

    Please have my Diggle-babies, Gaslamp.

    <3
     
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  13. Nicholas

    Nicholas Technology Director Staff Member

    ... apparently, you can now also gild all of your lumber, if I am understanding David's design documents correctly.
     
  14. Quarky

    Quarky Member

    I feel like these are the important things. Can we just confirm that there will be some sort of fairly micro-managed building?
     
  15. blob

    blob Member

    I cant believe you didnt bold the trestles.
     
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  16. Quarky

    Quarky Member

    I don't know, I get a weird feeling from the trestles. I mean, can we be sure the pics of them are real? What if they're actually trestles in hair? Can we trust our own eyes?:eek:
    *tinfoil hat*

    But yeah, I figured building materials covered it, and gears and boilers work with Leyden jars and hint towards some machine-building aspects.
     
  17. Godwin

    Godwin Member

    gilding wooden logs suggest other players you can fool, by making them think it's solid gold bullion
     
  18. Tycho

    Tycho Member

    except would there be an item weight thing that would give them away as fakes? And provoke a dwarven war maybe?
     
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  19. Null

    Null Will Mod for Digglebucks

    Or maybe it's to make those damn elves not notice it's wood.
     
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  20. Tycho

    Tycho Member

    BEAUTIFUL TREE RABBLERABBLERABBLE NOW JUST A BAUBLE *swishes off in an elven rage*

    They'll sell you wood, they don't care what you do with it, as long as you aren't selling any to them. Maybe they jelly of superior dwarven carpentry.
     
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