Kreechers

Concept said:

The idea is to have a monster battling game, similar to Pokemon, and aimed at a similar target market, although with a leaning towards older players between 15 and 25. It would be a mass-marketed game available on the Android platform (and, in theory, at a later date, for iOS) for smartphones, and players would be free to play early demos and the initial part of the game, but new areas and challenges would be paid-for. This is a fairly common model, I believe.

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I should explain that battling is not the focus of Kreechers. Pokémon games have always tried to introduce "battle alternatives" like Contests, the Pokéthon and a few others, but you still have to continually battle to complete the game. This is something that I want to avoid, and I would like to treat it more like an adventure RPG. The player can complete quests and challenges in a variety of different guises, but there will still be an overarching plotline. In an ideal world, we'd be able to write one where you can complete the important parts in only one "job" to unlock the final bit of the plot, but that will need some work.

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Kreechers said:

Kreechers are small generic-looking animals when young, and gradually grow bigger and stronger as you play. There is no "evolution" - for one, this is far too close to Nintendo's model to be safe, and this is meant to be quasi-realistic, so strange morphs into new creatures are to be avoided in principle. Equally, having inanimate objects, like, say, electrical objects, clouds of gas and plants are out, although I think that perhaps in a particularly odd biome, such as at a nuclear reactor, we can fudge something to get a bit more variety.

This brings me to the question of what Kreechers actually are. Pokémon are said to be descended from Mew, but that doesn’t really explain what Mew is (Pokémon are Mew and Mew is a Pokémon) or what Pokémon are, other than strange pseudo-magical animals. I suggest that Kreechers should be more normal. Perhaps like John Wyndham's triffids, or the ninja turtles, they came as a result of nuclear experimentation in the 50s, altering their DNA and making them more adaptable to their surroundings than normal animals. This gave them an immediate advantage over other wildlife, and they soon spread across the world.

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