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Character Ideas Thread
« on: February 22, 2008, 01:51:51 pm »
*please sticky this*

Since we get a few new character idea posts, I thought it might be wise to just make one thread to post new Character ideas in.

This doesn't mean the Developers are looking for new Characters or they will ever pick one of these, It's all for the fun of it.

Heres one to get started:


Paintman
Special Ability: Generates a random block that starts held and can be placed in the cells. Violet and Blue blocks are generated more often than Yellow and Red. At a rare time, you may end up with a Paint Power-up.
Left click: Place the generated block.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 05:58:30 pm »
Tornado
takes a selected color (left click) and takes in all of selected color for 30 seconds, (triggers with space bar)
for a big bonus!'

btw, i cant beleive that im the first person to reply to this. 

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 06:33:00 pm »
For "Paintman" ideally you'd have to right click in order to summon a random block. Would be kind of lame to not get clean finish if it summons one for you.
Pointman Elite <3

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 03:38:47 pm »
Vanisher
Special Ability: As collected blocks are added to the cells, the block turns invisible. Move to the shoulder to reveal the blocks. Ironmode does not have shoulders.
Left click: At the cost of points, remove all the blocks in the column under the ship.

Something for the memory.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 12:10:25 pm »
Extendor: Click, the highway extends to 7 lanes for limited time.  There will be two extra lanes for cars, plus the original 5 (exept if there are no shoulders, then it would extend to 5). Right click to immediatly reduce the lane number to normal, instead of waiting for the limited tome to expire.

Vanisher: When you hold click, your craft becomes transparent, and can not hit blocks.  Releasing click would bring it back to normal.  There would have to be some regulations as to how MUCH you can vanish for.  You would be able to vanish multiple times in a row, without "charging" but only each vanish for a short time.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 03:48:51 pm »
Pirate Mono

Pirate Mono plays like Ninja Mono only there are no gray blocks and there are five lanes to grab all the colors you can. Matching is almost instant.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 08:59:50 pm »
Paintman sounds like a great addition to Vegas.

She used to be able to throw out a random block, but it was unbalanced. If she could generate a random block every 20 seconds (possibly a powerup or white) and throw it into a lane that would be pretty cool.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 09:12:08 pm »
Shifter
Left click - widen
Right click - destroy greys
Space bar - change colors

So, just like mono but with red and blue cars. Your ship changes between red and blue by using the space bar. When you hit a car the same color as your ship it turns into a multicolor block. When you hit a block a different color than your ship it turns into a grey block. It's basically an addition to the mono side of gameplay. I could describe a way this could also be another double vision but I'm tired from typing all this.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2008, 11:27:03 pm »
Cloner
The opposite of Eraser; Hold the mouse button while a block is headed toward you and you will create an identical block in front of it. Alternatively, you could make a "pusher" style mechanic where left-click sends the duplicate block to the left and right-click sends it to the right. Does not work with powerups or white blocks.

Splicer
Left-click will cause the row to the left of you to switch with your current row. Right-click does the opposite.

Freezer
Hold Left-click to slow down the time it takes for a cluster to disappear; use this to make bigger clusters. Right-click would speed up the time it takes for a cluster to disappear to clear the board faster. No capability to move blocks.

Colorblind
Temporarily make all incoming blocks the same color. Color is random, recharge required.

Reverser
Hold Left-click to change all your blocks to their reverse color (red becomes purple, blue becomes yellow, etc); when you release they change back. Holding right-click causes all blocks to fall to the bottom instead of top.

Widescreen
Four lanes instead of three, no shoulder in ironmode. Clusters require four blocks, but powerups are more abundant.

Breaker
Left-click destroys the block at the top of your current row, Right-click destroys the block at the bottom.

I know I had thought up a few more, but these are the main ones I came up with.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2008, 01:14:26 am »
DJ or Turntable (For a musicy feel.) - slows the song down for a few seconds or speeds it up.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2008, 10:28:04 am »
I like the idea of grouping every ideas in the same thread so here is my best character suggestion (from an older post)

"Stacker"
-No grey blocks, white or black blocks.
-All other color blocks and bonuses.
-No special ability.
-When a column is filled and a new block is added to it, instead of overfilling, the bottom row is destroyed (no points awarded or loss) and every other rows drop down one space.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2008, 11:19:20 am »
remix
special character with it's own scoreboard.
let's you build your own character using abilities and features of other characters.
when you select this char you enter a "wizard" screen(such as with setups) in the following order:
1:load/new shows a list of earlier created remix chars. goes to 7 if you select a char, goes to 2 if you select new.
2:field  allows you to choose between multicolor and single color tracks
3:character jet(let's you choose a look for your char from a list of all chars)
4:character aura(let's you choose a special effect from the following: double vision, none, hint arrow)
5:click effects(let's you choose effects for right and left clicks, and combine them for best results)
6:save(allows you to save a char, you get the save button at the highscore list too)
7:song selector(select your song, like with other chars)

track intensity and traffic are based on the remix character grade you chose(remix(casual), remix pro(pro), remix master(elite)) and the song intensity, and ironmode setting.

this way you could do things like ninja stereo(double vision version of ninja mono)
or erase pointer(grabs block on left-hold, releases it on left-release, erases it on right click)

would be interesting to see people try to find the ultimate ability combination for each song.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2008, 01:27:56 pm »
EasyRide

Like freeride, but with combo scoring systems (making AS one of those "OMG HIT ALL THE NOTES FOR SCORE" games), with separate online charts and an Ironmode option that is the OPPOSITE of the freeride ironmode. (Freeride is can't hit a note, EasyRide is can't miss a note)

Burner
Speeds up the song to 1.5x for a limited amount of time, proportional to song length. Special ability can only be used a maximum of three times in a song.

ThrillRide

A more "roller-coaster" feel, ThrillRide has corkscrews and loops. Same rules as EasyRide\FreeRide.

VideoSurf

Video playing in background.

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2008, 01:36:28 pm »
Mono Blaster - Left click - Shoots a laser that blows up the next block on the track, right click - Shoots missles that randomly blow up blocks coming in the track

(both abilities have the same cooldown)

Time Warp (stealing some ideas from Eranmaen) Left click - speeds up song
Right click - slows down song (1.5x and both can be used a total of 4 times during the song [with same cooldown])

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Re: Character Ideas Thread
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2008, 01:39:00 pm »
I support thrillride.  But as an option similar to Ironmode.

Or at least the ability to play Mono on thrill ride...the changing colors really help the immersion. 
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