MASSAGI!

[Steven Melenchuk]

This sounds interesting... but how are you going to coordinate all of the areas into a single game? You'll need to find some sort of common theme holding everything together, and a way to end the game and explain how all of the different areas fit in...

Give it some thought, people, this could turn out to be great

[Sami Tervo]

I'm in!

[Nailhead]

Here's just an idea that I had to tie in all of the different sections.

Suppose the story is about time travel, the different sections could be done in different time periods (stone age, Renaissance period, 1970's, etc).

[Allen]

err....
Isn't that kinda like Time Quest by Chad Goulding

[Nailhead]

By all means I wouldn't purposefully use the same plot as Time Quest or anything. I just think using the Time Travel element would be an entertaining way of connecting the different sections.

[Kon-Tiki]

What you could use too to connect all the plots together, is making the main plot about a guy who's in a library. Every plot's a different book.

-Kon-Tiki-

[Jelle]

I was thinking of something similar to Kon-tiki's idea: an old man telling stories to his grandchildren.

But I think Nailhead's idea is better...

[Nick Sonneveld]

How about a Quantum Leap sort of thing.  When you finish your quest in that area, you just teleport out.  or open a door that wasn't there before.  or open a door that leads somewhere different.

- Nick

[Adam]

I was thinking using a Chronoskimmer type machine.. to use an idea sort of like Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego.  You have to collect a certain item / element / clue to the ultimate puzzle in each of the individual sections.  With that, you could have quests within a whole epic story.

We're coming up with a lot of good ideas here.. let's keep 'em coming!

[Parabola]

Wow, some really good ideas.

I really like the 'quantum leap' idea since that way you can have a lot of very different sections without a central theme to connect it all.

something i was thinking about yesterday was the fact that ppl may want to use different looking characters in their parts, so it could be like quantum leap except we see the character as they should look and not Scott Bakula

[Nick Sonneveld]

How about we just have somebody watching tv?  Each time he changes the channel, he goes to a different game chapter.  You could be extra tricky and make it so you can swap channels back to old games.

- Nick

[Te Rangi]

That would kick major ass. Would AGI be up to it?

[Randy]

Or what about a game like the TV show "Stargate" or "Sliders" where the main character moves between worlds.

[Sami Tervo]

Well..not a bad idea but if Stargate-system (haven't seen Sliders ) would be used, then everybody should draw gate and dialer thingie to their pics (or atleast gate if they are using that portable dialer).

[Te Rangi]

A DOOM style system where you just teleport around from one segment to another?

Or maybe even a Wolfenstein 3-D type one where every stage has an elevator to go the next one?