Talk:Elona (video game)

Can someone PLEASE refer things to the elona wiki on the page about them? I would but I don't know how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.24.143 (talk) 00:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Outline

I present a possible outline below 'cause I don't feel like expanding this with my usual painstaking citation and prose treatment myself. :)

Feel free to edit it and plan page expansion there. Or ignore it entirely. --an odd name 05:03, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Lead

• top image should probably show main menu screen or a shot of gameplay—the "title image" is not used in game and not even on the official site anymore
• the usual guidelines

Overview

• That's what the lead is for. See also Trivia.

Gameplay

• a graphical roguelike computer role-playing game
  • combat and other actions are turn-based
  • overworld that leads to random dungeons, less-random towns, player's home
  • player can have allies
  • ambushes in overworld by enemies or gangs of rogues
  • random "wandering vendors" that sell stuff on overworld roads. You can attack them if you want your ass handed to you by their merc buddies
  • other random events (gain money, encounter a corpse to loot or bury, ...) while walking around
• highly random equipment and items, with a few really good special exceptions that may also have a couple random bonus attribs
  • available by completing main quest, special sub quests, and random job quests; buying from shopkeepers; killing enemies; and just left on the ground in dungeons (and rarely towns) for the taking
  • progress autosaved on various events
• fame
  • amassed by job quest success, killing lords of random dungeons, winning arena battles
  • affects periodic salary and difficulty of stuff
• home
  • generally a safe haven to collect salary, drop off excess items, or preserve food in freezer
  • but not if monsters are summoned (by magic, failed spellbook reading, cursed equipment, etc)
• characters, including player, have health and mana points, abilities (str, con, dex, per, ler, wil, mag, chr, life, mana, speed, luck, stamina), skills (tactics, weight lifting, performer, ...), and spells (heal light, magic dart, ...)
  • no permanent death—if player dies, can either "Crawl up" from grave to be sent home with less money, items, ability points, fame; or can "Lie on your back" and continue play from last save without such loss. If allies die, player can pay bartender or use Resurrection spell/book to revive dead ones
  • feats, mutations, and corruption (see corruption in ADOM) affect them and a few other things (whether enemies near death run away in fear, etc)
  • dice notation, with multipliers, used to show possible effects of skills and spells on character sheet (and skill and spell menus)
  • don't list all of the skills and spells
• seven gods (eighth "Eyth of Infidel" confers no bonuses, seems to refer to ancient kingdom of Eyth Terre—see Yerles race description in game), rare wishes, blessings, curses
• some internet features ("Your favorite [player char] alias" vote; deaths, wishes, and chats logged; uploaded maps accessible through moon gates or runes; "EX Arena" teams that players can send allies to fight), but not a full online rpg
  • those events and others are shown in a text console below the main gameplay screen
• wizard mode like other roguelikes, part of a separate command-line debug console available in game
  • disables most autosaves

Synopsis

Setting and characters

• random player char, random ally names, a few special characters with constant names
• world named Irva
  • upload, link to, or just ref map of Irva
• Sierre Terre, present "11th era". Eyth Terre, early "eighth kingdom" ({game directory}\data\talk.txt)
• almost all gameplay in North Tyris, which is ruled from big Palmia city by King Xabi and Queen Stersha
  • has mine town Vernis, merch port Port Kapul, farm town Yowyn, snow-covered Noyel, guardless rogue den Derphy
  • game screenshot needed, probably best taken in a dungeon or town. A few at official site
• betas add new continent South Tyris (under construction, but would have Juere if the map is followed) and a mixed-environment "Test World", both accessed by a border spot in southern North Tyris (which leads to northern border spots in the other continents)

Plot

• main quest revolves around Lesimas and three lesser dungeons
  • described at Elona wiki
  • lesser dungeon lords Quruiza (def'd by Corgon), Wynan, and Issizzle; they drop King's, Sage's, Fool's magic stones...
  • ...which unseal door to Lesimas lord Zeome at 45th floor

Production

Development

• developed by "Noa" (prior aliases: Rfish, but later took little cat's name according to readme_ENG.txt) as freeware
  • made prior games Shade, Etherwind
  • based on ADOM, Angband
    • crazy-random Puppy Cave
    • Zeome mentions "Chaos", also an apparent ADOM thing. Three "Forts of Chaos" each with a mad-crazy-tough boss
    • items like the seven league boots
  • using HSP
  • not FOSS and no public source code afaik, but lots of dialogue, book texts, etc saved as plain text, and Oracle scroll/spell just flushes a text log of spawned special artifacts to the game log pane thingy
  • lots of cat-related stuff, like silver cat quest, cat hater, Ehekatl (her Mewmewmew! does 9999999 damage to all on current map—a Yerles Warrior may start out with just ~25 health points!)
• bunch of stuff about inspirations of English lines, etc., from credited translators themselves
  • on forums (e.g. Noel the bomber's lines)
  • on Elona wiki ([1], [2], others?)
• Gwen the innocent probably based on character from Guild Wars
• built-in map editor, accessed through {game directory}\elona.exe medit
• NPCs Arnord of Port Kapul and Conery of Palmia are almost certainly parodies/pastiches of Arnold and Connery. Hard proof would be nice though.

Promotion

• Elona Shooter
  • Flash game released on Kongregate on October 2009
  • also on Armor Games. Not entirely sure if Noa posted it there, but...
  • this whole thread has Noa's comments, plans, etc. and Noa mentions AG

Reception

• Insert Credit review
• is Viriatha (mentioned in English official page) an RS?
• Japanese official page mentions Impress and 4Gamer articles
• freeware, so no sales data and little or no auditing in general
  • other than hit counter at official site that says 2850817 at the moment :)

Trivia

• If someone adds this section, Ehekatl will come down and kill us all. Development section can take the pop culture refs and programming if needed.

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