"Demon Doors" in Kynseed

Yow.

After Matt made clear at discord that you are flirting with the idea of adding sorta demon doors to the game (Twitter), it was literally brewing in my head. :)
I think I finally have a nice idea to offer.

Since you are going to make a game filled with "a mix of British folklore, ancient legend, and rustic traditions" and also accentuate it with celtic-ish UI-elements, you could also make use of the Celts in this case.

The Celts were very fond of the nature, as you may know.
Long story short: They had special spots where special trees where "living", (some of them are still to find here and there, the oldest ones are in GB, yew-tree's up to 4000 years old) and it was not permitted to cut them off, therefor they had "comercial"forests. Anyway.

Just think of hidden spots spreaded around Quill were really old trees are living. They may talk to you or throw their fruits to make you recognize,heh. I think you get the idea...

Cheers

We already have plans for 2 different tree related things ;)

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Originally Posted by Charlie

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Did you just kill the whole thing without any mercy?! Holy! :D

Nah, kidding ofc,heh. No more tree related things then.

Let's see...

Been interesting seeing some of the replies over on Twitter as well.

Neat idea about the trees though. But yeah, as Charlie says, trees are already playing so many roles in the game as it is. Definitely interested to hear more ideas from people though!

Well,yeh.Was worth a try. The first attempt,... :D

What does this guy mean with outhouses? Like ... toiletts?

Rabbit holes - confirmed XD!

What are with fairie/witch cycles?

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Or are they used for something else? Another idea would be wishing wells. Or is another idea already settled?

There will be Faerie rings in the game, and they will have a use.
We don't have wishing wells but wishing ponds on the other hand...

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Originally Posted by Charlie

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I just wonder: What is it that makes the demon doors in Fable special for you, Charlie?

I got to make a lot of them, and I enjoyed using existing assets in creative ways to make weird and wonderful little places.
Faves have got to be Last Orders, Cartographilia, Terry Cotters Army and Planet One (took 1 hour to make).

How about talking Stones with carved faces?

Thanks Charlie for the reply,heh.
So I guess most people like the doors for the same reason then. From a different point of view ofc! :spazz:
What I find so freakin' awesome about the doors is that eventhough they are all the same visually, they behave different, talk different and thus seem different. An odinary thing we usually don't recognize that much, because we are quite used to it in real life.

I could imagine that the Kynseed counterpart of fable's demon doors also could be just an "unimpressive" and common thing. ( Don't get me wrong so, the demon doors are cool, but just doors. :P )

We already have plans for an important stone (there's a basic version in the prototype).
As I say, we don't want to copy Demon Doors as a concept, but do want something where you can go to weird places for the chance to get rare weird materials.

Hm, archways maybe?

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Just wait for winter and you can walk through.

Edit: Just an example though.
Edit2: An easy one.

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Originally Posted by Charlie

We already have plans for an important stone (there's a basic version in the prototype).
As I say, we don't want to copy Demon Doors as a concept, but do want something where you can go to weird places for the chance to get rare weird materials.

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Just tried to edit this cos rereading it it sounds right harsh, which I didn't mean to! But, rabbit holes yeah? Good idea...

I love the idea of rabbit holes that you jump down. Very Alice in Wonderland :)