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Post by dillybar64 on Feb 22, 2014 16:24:53 GMT
I wanna explore the idea of a Gotcha Force miniatures game with you guys.
What kind of features do you think it would have?
How do you think that alternate versions of a single borg might work?
Would a Gotcha Force Minis game observe the level system in any way? Even if that was just opening a booster and finding you got the uncommon Claw Robot lv6 as opposed to the lv2 version.
What would a tabletop GF minis game do about elevation and structures in maps? Would it be like Warhammer where there are set pieces you can place on a map? Or would it be like Star Wars minis and just have a flat map?
Considering that Gotcha Force is a miniatures game taken to the next level, do you think that it could become something beautiful if it transferred back? Or do you think that the video game did such a great job bringing a table top game to life that trying to convert it back would just get complicated and messy?
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Post by Indigo on Feb 24, 2014 8:47:07 GMT
Gotcha Force is a game that can fit any mold. It's be amazing if it was some strategy pieces game, though. Kind of like a combination if a card and tabletop game. It could be a tactics board game, and you bought boosters that contained game pieces. Would be so cool to buy a little gotcha box, and get some Normal Ninjas, some knights or samurais or planes, maybe a G-Red... HOLY CRAP THIS BOX HAS A GOLD TELEPORT NINJA.
Multi-crystal borgs could come in segments... Kinda stupid but I dunno. It'd be cool to open a box and get half of a Switching Ninja. But it'd be cool to have the other half and click them together. And it'd have a real sense of borg rarity and collection. Maybe make the toy piece stands into pieces instead? Or if it's cards, it could be simpler than that. But for a card game it's probably not a great idea.
Anyway, Gotcha Force's gameplay elements translate well into anything. Card game, board game, borgs can have their own stats and attacks or quirks. Speed could translate to movement tiles, or what borg can act first in a card fight. The rest of the stars are self explanatory. Actions could be determined by GF Energy that you get every turn and can conserve. i.e. 100 energy per turn, each movement could cost 10, different attacks cost different amounts, charge attacks generally costing more. Borgs could use quirks with GF Energy, i.e. knights nullify an attack with 50 energy, Ninpo Switch (Uh, in a card game, switch positions with one of your opponent's cards for a turn?), teleporting (dodge in a card game?), Wire Girl setting a wire for 20 and reeling in to that block later (or back to your hand in a card game...). Save 1000 energy and then spend 500 to double all your borg's stats for your turn!
Well, that's kind of the basics I think... I think any game worth its Gotcha Salt would end up something like that. Not even getting into other mechanics like the environment, transformations, and air borgs in a board game or non-borg cards, or battling for both. Honestly, it'd be one heck of a game any way you put it. And it has insane potential if they went with a toy pieces strategy-RPG game. It could probably be the next big thing.
While we're at it, make a toy-pieces video game like Skylanders or that Disney game where you buy borgs and place them on a thing for your game to read j/k please don't so that. But anyway I really wish we could see it as a miniature table top game. The variety of borgs and its 'monsters' nature of the game works so well. Opening a booster and getting borgs, and on rare occasion, an alternate color, gold, even the see-through crystal ones, just for aesthetic reasons. Since we won't, though... I can say it's possible for us to make a card game out of it using an online card game program.
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Post by dillybar64 on Feb 24, 2014 18:12:42 GMT
It's be amazing if it was some strategy pieces game, though. Kind of like a combination if a card and tabletop game. Are you thinking that the pieces would each have a character card detailing their abilities then? Multi-crystal borgs could come in segments... Kinda stupid but I dunno. It'd be cool to open a box and get half of a Switching Ninja. But it'd be cool to have the other half and click them together. I think that they would probably be factory line minifigures so they might be a bit difficult to click together. Although, Warhammer does have you assemble your own pieces, so they could do something along those lines for the multi-crystal borgs. That, or simply have them be super rare, but that isn't as fun and I'd like to see the rarities from the video game carry over into the minis game. So borgs that are rarity level B will be treated as such in the minis game. Opening a booster and getting borgs, and on rare occasion, an alternate color, gold, even the see-through crystal ones, just for aesthetic reasons. And along those lines, if someone doesn't like the color scheme of a borg (alternate or otherwise) they're free to paint their minifigures themselves. Since we won't, though... I can say it's possible for us to make a card game out of it using an online card game program. Ooh, now there's an idea. Who would be interested in getting in on that? |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2014 2:43:54 GMT
I love this idea. I think they would also make an excellent chess set. If I had more skill with wax, I would attempt this (by casting aluminum). I also think that gotcha force would be awesome in a similar fashion to megaman P.E.Ts. Imagine If you could have a personal control device with a specific borg, and you could customize and upgrade them in a addition to battling each other. If only...
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