Halloween 2020 Brainstorming
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:14 am
It's time to get started thinking about Halloween already! Should have been last week probably, but the TSW Anniversary keeps throwing me off. Anyway, AO just got an ascended version of The Temple of Three Winds, so I wouldn't count on a big new Halloween dungeon too, but a few social items are likely. Neither AO nor TSW seem to have gotten much new social type loot for the anniversaries. Little bit at Christmas. AO Halloween could use a new mini-dungeon or quest. Something simple, like the crashed destroyer for Christmas, that's easy for any level to get to (unlike the Great Pumpkin and the Abandoned Facility). Anyone have a cool idea for something like that?
As for Secret World Legends, we still don't have the Spooky Stories of Solomon Island back, so maybe that will come to SWL. Or maybe there's something about those that they still can't work into SWL for some reason, so if you have any other ideas for something less tedious than the hourly pumpkin patch, go ahead and suggest it. Also, there will probably be new social stuff dropping for daily logins, so suggest what you want to see there. Judging by the last few, that will probably be mostly currency of various sorts, upgrade material, plus a sprint and a t-shirt and maybe a hat or something? New pet? General interest stuff. Could even be a new cache if there was a whole theme of weapon skins and clothes and stuff to fill it with.
As usual, I'll be gathering the suggestions in this thread, and after a couple weeks of collecting ideas, GSP Crew and Dancers will vote to pick our top 20 favorites and I'll write those up in more detail, with reference images where necessary, then send them all in for FC's idea pool. I'll also post them to the official AO and SWL forums, but I'm officially collecting the suggestions here in the GSP forums because it'll just be easier to compile the list if i don't have to worry about editing limits and post size and such. I'll try to keep up with collecting any posts from there, as well as FB and Twitter, to add to this list as we go.
Schedule:
Jul 17 - Jul 31: Two weeks of collecting suggestions at parties and here in this thread.
Aug 1 - Aug 8: One week for GSP DJs, Dancers, and Staff vote on their favorite ideas.
Aug 9 - Aug 16: One week for me to sort out and write up the favorite ideas with detailed descriptions and reference images.
Aug 17 - October: Hopefully, FC will be designing all the new goodies some time in August and building, implementing, and testing in September, in whatever spare time falls out while they're waiting for the new project to compile or whatever.
Oct 13ish: Events start. AO used to start late, just before Halloween, and run through most of November, but SWL starts early and runs through October, and for some reason they like to overlap them more than that. They can start AO's events without a patch, so they could patch any time in October and set a timer to start the event, but they go for the overlap anyway. They'll both start some time in October, probably the 2nd and 3rd weeks, but we won't know for sure until it happens.
Oct 31: Halloween
Now this is a brainstorming thread, so we want lots of ideas to choose from. GSP will be picking favorites for me to write up in detail, but I'll be sending in the whole list, even if some of them are just vague single phrases, because something that didn't strike a chord with us might turn out to give FC a good idea anyway.
Some guidelines for suggestions:
1) Be specific enough that everyone will have roughly the same idea what you mean.
2) Don't infringe on anyone else's Intellectual Property. Ideas inspired by some other game, movie, tv show, or whatever, are fine, as long as they're just oblique references. Using quotes, images, or names that belong to someone else isn't going to happen. The dance emotes in TSW are a good example. They're all recognizable, but not exactly identical to the famous choreography, and they're named something similar, not the actual song title. Except Gangnam Style. Maybe FC legal isn't worried about using that spelling when the game doesn't even know how to spell in Korean?
3) Keep it within the games' ratings, whatever they are in your region. You've all seen the bikinis, thongs, alien toys, and Dragon tantric footrubs, so you know there's still a lot of room to be sexy without getting too explicit.
4) Original new ideas are preferred, but if we still haven't gotten your favorite idea from some previous year, go ahead and suggest it again. Here are links to the previous lists if you want to look something up or just get some inspiration to get the creative juices flowing.
Halloween 2019 Brainstorming
Halloween 2018 Brainstorming
Halloween 2017 Brainstorming
Halloween 2016 Brainstorming
Halloween 2015 Brainstorming
Halloween 2014 Brainstorming
Halloween 2013 Brainstorming (thread MIA?)
Halloween 2012 Brainstorming (thread MIA?)
Halloween 2011 Brainstorming
Halloween 2010 Brainstorming
As for Secret World Legends, we still don't have the Spooky Stories of Solomon Island back, so maybe that will come to SWL. Or maybe there's something about those that they still can't work into SWL for some reason, so if you have any other ideas for something less tedious than the hourly pumpkin patch, go ahead and suggest it. Also, there will probably be new social stuff dropping for daily logins, so suggest what you want to see there. Judging by the last few, that will probably be mostly currency of various sorts, upgrade material, plus a sprint and a t-shirt and maybe a hat or something? New pet? General interest stuff. Could even be a new cache if there was a whole theme of weapon skins and clothes and stuff to fill it with.
As usual, I'll be gathering the suggestions in this thread, and after a couple weeks of collecting ideas, GSP Crew and Dancers will vote to pick our top 20 favorites and I'll write those up in more detail, with reference images where necessary, then send them all in for FC's idea pool. I'll also post them to the official AO and SWL forums, but I'm officially collecting the suggestions here in the GSP forums because it'll just be easier to compile the list if i don't have to worry about editing limits and post size and such. I'll try to keep up with collecting any posts from there, as well as FB and Twitter, to add to this list as we go.
Schedule:
Jul 17 - Jul 31: Two weeks of collecting suggestions at parties and here in this thread.
Aug 1 - Aug 8: One week for GSP DJs, Dancers, and Staff vote on their favorite ideas.
Aug 9 - Aug 16: One week for me to sort out and write up the favorite ideas with detailed descriptions and reference images.
Aug 17 - October: Hopefully, FC will be designing all the new goodies some time in August and building, implementing, and testing in September, in whatever spare time falls out while they're waiting for the new project to compile or whatever.
Oct 13ish: Events start. AO used to start late, just before Halloween, and run through most of November, but SWL starts early and runs through October, and for some reason they like to overlap them more than that. They can start AO's events without a patch, so they could patch any time in October and set a timer to start the event, but they go for the overlap anyway. They'll both start some time in October, probably the 2nd and 3rd weeks, but we won't know for sure until it happens.
Oct 31: Halloween
Now this is a brainstorming thread, so we want lots of ideas to choose from. GSP will be picking favorites for me to write up in detail, but I'll be sending in the whole list, even if some of them are just vague single phrases, because something that didn't strike a chord with us might turn out to give FC a good idea anyway.
Some guidelines for suggestions:
1) Be specific enough that everyone will have roughly the same idea what you mean.
2) Don't infringe on anyone else's Intellectual Property. Ideas inspired by some other game, movie, tv show, or whatever, are fine, as long as they're just oblique references. Using quotes, images, or names that belong to someone else isn't going to happen. The dance emotes in TSW are a good example. They're all recognizable, but not exactly identical to the famous choreography, and they're named something similar, not the actual song title. Except Gangnam Style. Maybe FC legal isn't worried about using that spelling when the game doesn't even know how to spell in Korean?
3) Keep it within the games' ratings, whatever they are in your region. You've all seen the bikinis, thongs, alien toys, and Dragon tantric footrubs, so you know there's still a lot of room to be sexy without getting too explicit.
4) Original new ideas are preferred, but if we still haven't gotten your favorite idea from some previous year, go ahead and suggest it again. Here are links to the previous lists if you want to look something up or just get some inspiration to get the creative juices flowing.
Halloween 2019 Brainstorming
Halloween 2018 Brainstorming
Halloween 2017 Brainstorming
Halloween 2016 Brainstorming
Halloween 2015 Brainstorming
Halloween 2014 Brainstorming
Halloween 2013 Brainstorming (thread MIA?)
Halloween 2012 Brainstorming (thread MIA?)
Halloween 2011 Brainstorming
Halloween 2010 Brainstorming