A Few Quick Pieces of inspiration for Post-Ascension Gameplay

There is nothing further away or less central to Thrive in my mind, than the Post-Ascension stages. But it is something I'm fond of keeping in the back of my head.

And the more I think about it, the more I hope it gets to be as thoroughly belgiumed up as this.

We have the opportunity to make something truly alien and weird. I see no reason not to.

Just some stuff to ponder.

Tenebrarum wrote:

And the more I think about it, the more I hope it gets to be as thoroughly belgiumed up as this.
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"ADMIN is serious about your dirty mouth. ADMIN treats every cuss as if it were Belgium."


LoL

Wha..?

Post-ascension was going to be simply observer mode with god tools. I'm not sure how this relates to anything... Are you saying we change it, or this is what it should look like, or what? And isn't post ascension one stage? Explanation please. I'm a bit confused completely and hopelessly oblivious to the meaning of this.

And indeed, swearing filter fail.

The Uteen wrote:

Wha..?

Post-ascension was going to be simply observer mode with god tools. I'm not sure how this relates to anything... Are you saying we change it, or this is what it should look like, or what? And isn't post ascension one stage? Explanation please. I'm a bit confused completely and hopelessly oblivious to the meaning of this.

And indeed, swearing filter fail.

I think he want to do some kind of FULL sandbox where you can control.
All The things in the game

ido66667 wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

Wha..?

Post-ascension was going to be simply observer mode with god tools. I'm not sure how this relates to anything... Are you saying we change it, or this is what it should look like, or what? And isn't post ascension one stage? Explanation please. I'm a bit confused completely and hopelessly oblivious to the meaning of this.

And indeed, swearing filter fail.

I think he want to do some kind of FULL sandbox where you can control.
All The things in the game

I believe that's what he means, and the cause for the surrealist stuff.

~sciocont wrote:

ido66667 wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

Wha..?

Post-ascension was going to be simply observer mode with god tools. I'm not sure how this relates to anything... Are you saying we change it, or this is what it should look like, or what? And isn't post ascension one stage? Explanation please. I'm a bit confused completely and hopelessly oblivious to the meaning of this.

And indeed, swearing filter fail.

I think he want to do some kind of FULL sandbox where you can control.
All The things in the game

I believe that's what he means, and the cause for the surrealist stuff.

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So... Concept art?

~sciocont wrote:

I believe that's what he means, and the cause for the surrealist stuff.

There we go.

That's the point of Post-Ascension, isn't it? Complete control of the entire game, allowing the player to do whatever they want, throwing science out the window.

If not, feel free to ignore this.

Tenebrarum wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

I believe that's what he means, and the cause for the surrealist stuff.

There we go.

That's the point of Post-Ascension, isn't it? Complete control of the entire game, allowing the player to do whatever they want, throwing science out the window.

If not, feel free to ignore this.

Yeah... That is the point of post-ascension...

I'm just not sure what the pictures have to do with it. Maybe I need to be into art to get it, rather than just appreciating a decent stickman.

Spoiler:

The Uteen wrote:

Yeah... That is the point of post-ascension...

I'm just not sure what the pictures have to do with it. Maybe I need to be into art to get it, rather than just appreciating a decent stickman.

Spoiler:

The pictures themselves I chose because most of them showcase figures and settings that in and of themselves would be impossible to have when following the basic rules of physics and evolution.

Barlowe's Inferno contains writing suspended above a creature's head, buildings that occasionally fly off of their own accord, and bricks that stare and blink at you.

Belsinski gives us upside-down cities and twisted, abstract faces. The sun and moon are joined by a pale mask in one, and others contain hands and walls that are one and the same.

Bosch shows off still-moving creatures that have been hollowed out and turned into structures.

My point is that post-ascension could end up being just the main game plus cheats, but it could also be something wildly different and strange. If the goal is to be a God, then let our Gods build something truly haunting and alien.

Tenebrarum wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

Yeah... That is the point of post-ascension...

I'm just not sure what the pictures have to do with it. Maybe I need to be into art to get it, rather than just appreciating a decent stickman.

Spoiler:

The pictures themselves I chose because most of them showcase figures and settings that in and of themselves would be impossible to have when following the basic rules of physics and evolution.

Barlowe's Inferno contains writing suspended above a creature's head, buildings that occasionally fly off of their own accord, and bricks that stare and blink at you.

Belsinski gives us upside-down cities and twisted, abstract faces. The sun and moon are joined by a pale mask in one, and others contain hands and walls that are one and the same.

Bosch shows off still-moving creatures that have been hollowed out and turned into structures.

My point is that post-ascension could end up being just the main game plus cheats, but it could also be something wildly different and strange. If the goal is to be a God, then let our Gods build something truly haunting and alien.

My mind is struggling with the artisticness of these examples... Hold on a minute...

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Yeah, it should be weird. Hopefully not too artistic, my mind would go blank, but weird. Most of the haunting alien stuff will just be in the god wars, pre-ascension but with godly powers at their disposal. Complete annihilation opponent, followed by the opponent coming from the future and destroying you in the past before you destroy them in the present, allowing them to exist in the future to do what they just did, followed by a counter by turning the entire opponent's species into a form of green raisin that looks suspiciously like a nasal ornament, but quickly rebounds due to the fact that from now on you never had a single god machine in the first place.

That's the point of the game I imagine all the craziness. Post-ascension means the species is now unaffected by the god powers, so I'd see that more as calm, or at least a very one-sided god war which will end very quickly.

Yes, but you can't travel through time. It is simply impossible to do without the chance certainty of a paradox.
-Waap.

Waap wrote:

Yes, but you can't travel through time. It is simply impossible to do without the chance certainty of a paradox.
-Waap.

It was just an example, I do know we aren't planning to have a time machine god machine. The point it, the godly powers will make epicly confusing and devastating wars pre-ascension, when both sides can actually be wiped out, and would probably be more like the surrealist stuff then than post-ascension, when you are untouchable.

Although, Achron managed to deal with paradoxes. Put simply, the paradox just switches between one possible situation and the other. Quite hard to copy how it does it without just copying their game though. Not that that's a bad idea. (Unless, of course, they could sue us for using similar gameplay elements, unlikely they would bother though)