As long as I can wear a steampunk tophat, I'm cool.
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As long as I can wear a steampunk tophat, I'm cool.
Maybe like 5 hairstyles per gender to choose and the natural colors for hair. I would like different face shapes maybe like heart, round, rectangular. Maybe three eye shapes and five skin colors. I would really love if we could add freckles! I know that would be hard though based on how small it is.
I have an idea that's a little bit different, if customizing the Player Character in detail (skin, hair color, hairstyle, clothing, body type) isn't feasible.
Rather than customizing the starter character, how about you choose an orphan with a pre-designed appearance and outfit? Depending on the orphan you pick, you will be given a matching twin.
I'm thinking along the lines of the character select in Sierra's Mixed Up Fairytales (shown below). The children all had different hairstyles, skin and hair colors, and faces. While it would have been beyond the scope of the game to have these features freely selected in a character creation screen, this allowed for variation and personality.
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If clothing and hairstyles etc. do end up customizable, I imagine it to work best in layers like in an avatar dress-up game, perhaps. Your character starts out as a bald, nude pixel figure of whatever skin color you select. Hair, eyes, clothing are layered on top in subsequent steps. Considering that movement in three directions will need to be animated for each variation, however, this strikes me as a lot of work.
Customizing tophat skin, hair color, hairstyle, clothing is fun.
It seems a little odd to me that so many people specifically don't think eye color is important. I'm going to be the voice of dissent and declare that I personally find eye color very cool and significant and would love to have that option. It's an easy one to include anyway, so why not? I would love a great range of hair colors and styles, eye color, maybe a handful of simple accessories like a hat or flower in the hair (or could be objects you can buy later and add with some kind of simple "dress up" feature), and world-appropriate outfits in different styles and colors. It would also be cool if you could choose a basic personality type and have options relevant to that type. Idk for instance a type like "Moody" could include darker colors and almost more "Goth"-looking (but again, suitable to the world and its look!) styles, "Cheerful" could have bright colors and patterns and more frills, "Pensive" could include simple elegant style and pastel colors, "Wild" could be really earthy-colored and nature-inspired looks etc.