User blog comment:Krayfish/Omniverse Nexus Site Specifics/@comment-5870856-20150326184159/@comment-5870856-20150326233113

Hmm... I like the card game idea, sort of like Pokemon but with our characters. I could see something Super Smash Bros.-esque coming out of that.

One idea we were floating on IH at one point (purely hypothetically, at the time) was a 4x game set in Atra Mors Europe shortly after the Terrible Death, where you would take control of a warlord who had fled his or her homeland with a small band of followers and has to set up a colony. It's a bit like the open-world structure building of Minecraft meets the empire-building and NPC interaction of Civilization.

Essentially, while you control a single character, said character can give his followers orders, but you're not some deific entity that just makes people from scratch and tells them where to go, then sets them to do a task till they drop. I guess it's a bit like Dwarf Fortress in that regard, except unlike DF, there's a small chance you might actually survive and prosper. The idea might be a bit ambitious for now, but at some point down the road, I think it'd be very fun to do.

As for now, I guess we could try for some sort of open world RPG thing, a bit like Pokemon with elements of Diablo, but with the graphics of Mario. Basically, you, the player, get to explore the worlds of the Nexus and, I dunno, maybe there's a quest or something to complete? Perhaps some crazy Titan in Myth Galaxy has hatched a nefarious plot to use stolen interversal travel tech to subjugate the Nexus, and you have to travel the worlds to collect fragments of some weapon designed to kill Titans? I also recall at some point, someone (was it [User:IceBite|Ice]?) came up with a character named Galiana Matveev, who has alternate versions in Erudite Tales and Hellcat Squadran. The Hellcat version of her, at least, implies these alternate versions share some sort of common experience or soul, so perhaps we could use her as the main character in this game and give the player an option where they can go into the menu and switch to playing a different version of Galiana in a different universe? Perhaps there are puzzle solving elements of the game which multiple Galianas have to work together to solve? I'm not sure how feasible that would be to pull off or whether it would fit with her character, but I think it'd be a really unique and interesting mechanic, not to mention the story possibilities it allows. Perhaps they're trying to find out how to unite all the different Galianas to create an uber-Galiana, who's a psychic powerful enough to defeat some villain?