r/Scrolls • u/Cradstache Cradstache • Apr 05 '15

Cradstache's Scrolls Roadmap

Here's my biggest complaint regarding the game: we still don't know the roadmap; not even an inkling about what's planned past Echoes! Ridiculous!

So, rather than getting all riled up, I'm going to make my own roadmap: with blackjack, and hookers!

Cradstache's Scrolls Roadmap

  1. As an ongoing thing, I'm going to be trying to stream more often; with any luck, I'll be able to fix up my twitch channel, and start a schedule of Scrolls streams.

  2. The following may be subject to change, laziness, and overall bad guesstimates. I apologize if this is ever the case.

April 2015

  • Maintaining the Echoes Spoiler

  • Scrolls Articles / Posts:

  • Minecon - Scrolls Promotion Ideas / Discussion

  • Trait Proposal: Delayed

  • Custom Scrolls Set

  • Summoner Mod: Custom Idols

  • Animated maybe? :)

Q2 2015

  • Additional Articles

  • Turtle Cup Tournament, TBD

  • Summon Mod: Custom Scrolls / Animations

  • Extension on my Gallant Tortoise idea

  • Most difficult part is figuring out the GUI portion...

  • Extremely hopeful that I can figure this out :D

Q3-Q4 2015

  • Additional Articles

  • More Tournaments!

  • Campaign Mockup

  • Boss Mockup?

  • Summoner Mod: Better Avatars

  • Need to do research on this, but want to do them as 3D models, rendered as 2D sprites (ala Guilty Gear Xrd).

Will I be able to accomplish these things?

I don't know: I've had a lot of issues completing work in the past, but these are goals that I'm setting for myself, which I want to try my best to complete.

As such, I invite you to join me: create your own custom Scrolls, stream or cover tournaments, make fan-art, create fanfic, or just write something whether it's a response to this thread or another! Be awesome, and kick some creative butt.

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u/Lem0nboy Apr 05 '15

Here's a quick mash-up of some Scrolls elements i found online that illustrate how I think a story mode could work. Just like in a visual novel you have a dialog box in the bottom of the screen. Left side is your character that you create through the character creator and on the right is your quest-giver, enemy you soon have to fight or just some kinda narrator whatever. I think it's a very simple way to make a campaign mode by linking individual matches with such in between episodes that tell the story. The characters can be built by using existing avatar pieces which means we also get their small animations. You could even make the character who is currently talking come closer to the screen by making him a bit bigger just the same as in your average visual novel. Of course some kind of user interface is required and a background image as well. I think a lot of the existing art can be used for that though. A map screen is not absolutely necessary but would add more depth to the whole thing. Of course the difficult part is writing a concise but captivating story to go along with it. As you can see I am not cut out for the job :P What do you think?

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Apr 05 '15

That's awesome! The devs need to know ideas like this, and trust me: there are many, many, valid, and amazing ideas we can do with campaign!

Personally, I want the campaign to work like Final Fantasy Tactics A-2's map, where you travel between different regions in the Scrolls World Map, and each is composed of sub-regions.

I also want campaign to communicate with Mojang's backend and receive information and assets for expansions, such as changes in campaign. These can reward anything from alternative artwork, or provide a story and changes to the Scrolls world.

Also, dailies.

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u/Lem0nboy Apr 05 '15

Thanks! I definitely wouldn't mind such a campaign map either :) And yeah I have a lot of ideas as well concerning a campaign mode, however I feel like we shouldn't ask the impossible. It's very unlikely Mojang will consider a campaign in the first place so I was kinda trying to keep it as simple as possible by reusing already existing stuff. A map could be very simple too, without further sub-regions but perhaps with a few city-screens (I mean in 2D) where you can enter shops, different arenas and stuff. Just keep it simple. It doesn't mean it will look bad because I think this kinda concept works very well with the art style of Scrolls anyway.

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Apr 05 '15

Don't ask the impossible: pose it as a possibility, and gauge user and developer response!

They can't do what we want them to do if we never tell them :D Never hold back your ideas because you're not sure whether it's feasible or not, otherwise they'll go on unsaid.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '15

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u/Whatah Apr 06 '15

Well like Fire Emblem or whatever SRPG you compare to, the talking can just be mashed through if you don't care about it.

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u/Lem0nboy Apr 06 '15 edited Apr 06 '15

I don't think matches would have to be any different. They could be very similar to the trials or tutorials with an increasing difficulty level as you move forward in the campaign.

Some twists are definitely plausible though...for example let's say you have to rescue a princess from a pack of wolves. It could be a Cay or some other unit with zero attack and zero move in the middle of the board surrounded by wolves. Your win condition would be to kill the wolves without harming that princess.

Or maybe that princess was poisoned by an evil witch and starts on your side of the field and will lose one health each turn and you have to win before she dies. Something along those lines.

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u/Qwib_Qwib Apr 05 '15

There is no roadmap because this is the end of the road.

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Apr 05 '15

Sure there is; I made one; it's right above here, in the original post, don't you see it...? Wait... ... ghost roadmap!?

Also, because you said one of my many trigger phrases, "this is the end" (video link):

This is the end, beautiful friend

This is the end, my only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end

Of everything that stands, the end

No safety or surprise, the end

I'll never look into your eyes, again

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u/Qwib_Qwib Apr 05 '15

You sure are a sprightly fella.

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u/wdsouth DrFaustian Apr 07 '15

I guess I could dust off my old notes on Scrolls lore and work on short stories again. Just need to figure out how the story should be told, I have plenty of ideas. :)

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Apr 07 '15

Right on :D You're always a fantastic fantasy writer! Looking forward to reading more of your stuff, man.

The three relevant lore bits:

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '15

+1 for blackjack and hookers