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Make everyone a human.

>>14063122

And add the ability of classifying them as replicants.

Randomization would make the most sense, but it would require more work for the writing to be equally strong across all possible "routes". It would add the most 'replayability' though.

Also what >>14063122 said, in a sense. Rather than just having a few people be human and a few not, let it go wild. Have it possible for every possible skinjob to be human at once, or non-human at once. That way even experienced players who learn the "tells" of when a certain character is a human can still be caught off guard.

Make it ambiguous, then you craft a good story and leave people guessing every time they play.

>>14063215

You foul creature

predetermined tbh

better experience > all

>>14064132

>what is The Ship

>>14063109

Randomization, by far. What >>14063184 said.

Although in the Blade Runner game once you get good at it, you can tell from early clues who got randomized as a replicant.

>>14063208

No, that's just fucking ugly. A novel might do that because it's a static piece of text, but games have more capacity to adjust the experience based on the playthrough.

>>14063215

That sounds like it'll be a bit mafia-esque (I mean the party game Mafia). Not sure you can work it well when the detective is supposed to weed out the replicants from the civilians.

Personally, I'd just take a page from ye olde point and click games and create 6-10 different storylines, and randomized which one occurs. The characters stay the same, but the events and who's a replicant changes, as does character motivations.

If done well, you get some deep insight on different characters, two or three exceptional storylines, and plenty of replay value.

>>14063109

Doft Fort mod

>there will never be a LA Noir type of game set in the Blade Runner universe

Never played LA Noir but I think Blade Runner would be a great setting for a similar game.

Have tons of different starting points and use aggressive controlling methods to force a network connection, don't tell anyone it's actually multiplayer.

>>14063109

Never played that game and now I'm wondering why you said "if I were". Are you the author?

Talk about the game here, please.

Also, if your problem is replayability but you want hand-crafted content, then you simply have to make everyone have 2 versions of themselves, a human and a replicant.

The story should progress and people should talk taking either side into account depending on what happens.

At the beginning of the game, it should pick a random number of people to be replicants between a reasonable interval then switch the lucky ones around and let the game unfold from there.

If the issue is narrative cohesion between people, you might want to make a net out of it where every person is only aware of maybe 3-5 other people personnaly, everything else is just "Hey did you heard? X was killed for being a replicant when he wasn't!"

An interesting example of this is the Rosethorn Mansion quest in Oblivion (maybe I got the name wrong).

You're an assassin sent to kill everyone attending a party and everyone's locked in there till it's over. You have several targets to dispatch and depending on the order you take them, the story unfolds in different ways, like keeping the big orc till near the end where he's paranoid enough to kill someone on his own, or convince people to split up, etc. Every possible route is taken into account and plays out differently.

>>14065356

That is honestly brilliant. Would play 10/10.

>>14065411

Oh right, another thing.

Keep a "replicant panic var" that the player can't see. Whenever you kill people, it goes up, if you kill a replicant it goes up even further and it also rises over time.

When it reaches an high enough value, one of the replicants will try something, which might just be sabotage (but you're gonna be blamed for it for allowing them to roam free long enough for that) or they might try to kill you.

The more replicants you catch, the more said var increases with everything mentioned so the last sections of the game see replicants reacting very fast to your moves and being careless, stalking or killing the wrong target means exposing yourself to a real threat but doing nothing and waiting is also bound to eventually not work out for you either.

It's a constant invisible threat that the player can't see, but if he is informed about it (especially through subtle means with storytelling) it's quite opressive on him and also acts as a sort of soft time limit too.

>Play BR

>Get to a moment where I can choose how to deal with a Replicant

>Let her go but shoot her in the back as she leaves

>Somehow end up with her out of nowhere at the end

>Somehow against the police despite going against the Replicants, though I am one

Hasn't made me want to replay.

>>14064785

And make a decent Clue vidya while you're at it.

>>14063109

make it a porn game

>>14066103

The first half, the second half throws it all the way and becomes some stupid action game without the tension.

>>14063109

>predetermined

Then there wouldn't be any tension whatsoever after the first playthrough, you dumb nigger.

>>14066010

That must be a bug because when I played it I was able to get thirteen different endings (eventually) without anything like that happening.

>>14066118

>predetermined

>get tension on the first playthrough

>random

>get tension on no playthrough because procedurally generated story telling is SHIT

>>14066103

Is the game any good? I dug the movie, one of my favorites.

>>14064785

Interesting, I'll hypothetically note this.

>>14065353

This is basically the premise of the Blade Runner game, he was just a few generations earlier. I would dig an k.dickian open world investigation though.

>>14065356

Fascinating, but I hypothetically don't have them hacka skills. I really hope someone

>>14065411

>Never played that game and now I'm wondering why you said "if I were". Are you the author?

Nope.

>Also, if your problem is replayability but you want hand-crafted content, then you simply have to make everyone have 2 versions of themselves, a human and a replicant.

>At the beginning of the game, it should pick a random number of people to be replicants between a reasonable interval then switch the lucky ones around and let the game unfold from there.

That was kind of the idea from the start, although I didn't went into detail, the absence of randomization wouldn't only be less work, but more focus in developing each character. >>14066553 kinda of summed it up. Randomization still seems the best

>If the issue is narrative cohesion between people, you might want to make a net out of it where every person is only aware of maybe 3-5 other people personnaly

I didn't even consider this, I thought of the replicants being isolated and each having their own unique storyline and setting, but a network of 'em would make more sense, and even more with the novel. I'll ruminate on this.

>the oblivion quest

I really wanted to play this, but I have a natural repulsion towards newer elder scrolls.

>>14065471

Ok, this is good stuff, noted.

>>14066103

I'll play it.

>>14066109

What? Have you even seen the movie? There's probably more tension in the second half.

>>14069503

your alpha layer has some specks on it