STORY MODE!!!!!

[bioman64]

STORY MODE!!!!!

[Jonathan]

STORY!!!!!!!!

[Z-Man]

NEW IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ed]

How about this?
A guy, a computer programmer, a game programmer no less, is somehow sucked into a mainframe computer system and is forced to play the same games he played reguarly at his own arcade, pehaps even created, in order to try to escape the computer world in which he has found himself trapped. And that game? Armagetron Advanced!!!
Or something like that, it's been a while.
Hey! We could call the guy Flynn. My son's name (pure coincedence, honestly).

[Lucifer]

I'm sorry ed, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with that storyline.

Let's try this:

We're all living in a computer simulation, acting as biological batteries for an alien race that created the simulation. According to some weird prophecy (this is the weak part of the idea), someone will arise who will be able to master the simulation, control the fake reality, and escape into the real world to fight the aliens.

I haven't yet worked out where light cycles fit into the story, but give me time and I'll work it out.

[epsy]

/me was thinking about an insanely mechanical puzzle game

[sinewav]

Sorry bioman64, but STORY MODE!!!!! fails. Read the the following to see why...
http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=18648

[owned]

Well I wouldn't say it fails. I would just say that there's no good way to do it until we have a good story-line and some artists.

[Infa(mous)]

Actually... With Zones v2, would it be easier to make more complicated "logic puzzles"... That would definitely sidestep the AI problem...
Actually, I was sort of wondering, is there any way that the AIs could be made actually competent?