I have been for a long time wanting to use this character and make a video game around him.
I already have quite a bit of dialogue and some assets. there's more too.
it's meant to be a 3d game based gameboy advance style graphics. the world is small and contained but opened and story driven, you'll be able to have thorough conversations with all the worlds NPCs and build relationships with them. the premise is that once Alacampft makes a friend they're kidnapped and it's now you the players job to put Alacampft on the right path to rescue his friend.
I thought it'd be a good idea to share some of it:
Dialogue:
Alacampft:
"We all know the story, a tale as old as time."
"First there's the evil heinous beast who takes over the land causing chaos or whatever"
"The good guy gets his mentor, defeats the bad guy and the story ends"
"Oh you thought I was the little purple guy didn't you? Oh nonono! I'm the big idiot laying on the ground in defeat"
"what if the bad guy got a second chance? what if he had a magical orb that let him undo everything"
"Well that's EXACTLY what happened to me. this is my story, not the story of a hero. the story of the bad guy. this is the story of my rehab."
scene cuts from cinematic to gameplay.
you start out as Alacampft a large purplish black and green dragon walking down a rainbow pathway
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looking at the cave at the start
"I'm back... I'm REALLY back... I can't screw it up this time; I only get ONE shot at this"
"I mean it's not like I'll find another orb... "
when he sees flowers
"Sunflowers, rainbows, sunshine and all the beautiful and bright colours!"
"I HATE COLOURS AND BEAUTEY!"
a giant painted boulder blocking his path
"It's a really big rock that contains a mural!"
"I wonder how I can smash it to bits."
"...it is blocking my path afterall."
if you try to jump while hes walking down the first level
randomized
"no"
"NO!"
"I don't feel like it right now"
"I'm to depressed to fly"
"I may be smiling but it's just a coverup for my abject depression"
"I don't want to"
"I refuse"
as youre about to leave the map of the first level.
"Yknow maybe this isn't all so bad afterall..."
"I'm getting a second chance right? that's worth something"
"But now ... do I try to conquer the dragon kingdom again? or do I..."
"..."
The first time he uses his breath powers
"Bubbles?! ALL I HAVE LEFT IS BUBBLE BREATH?! WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS CRAP?!"
"Fire!"
"zippity zappity zam shblammy! I'm glad to have THIS one back. now I can pick on kids again without the threat of accidentally killing them."
"It's breezy, it's sneezy, it's wind. great for pushing other dragons around; LITERALLY!"
"Cold, just like my heart."
"Magic of the night! I have to be extra careful with this one."
"Fear and Frenzy! my two favorite words!"
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the first time
When he meets his first fairy:
"oh OH! I wish for a huge supply of gold!"
*she grants it*
*a title card appears showing 3 days has passed and a huge golden statue of him appears*
Fairy: "Why didn't you just wish for a gold statue of yourself?"
"I'm an ex-villain; all of our major plans are executed poorly"
Fairy: "Why?!"
"Tax reasons"
when he first enters the volcano area:
"I always KNEW the world was on fire! I'm just pissed that I didn't get to start the flames."
when he first returns to his hut:
"Oh good... the mansion from my old life is gone and i'm back to living in squaller..."
"it's not like I charred this place for a reason or anything..."
"Maybe Ogleins anti-deppressants are still inside..."
"Trust me I need them more"
If you let him take the anti depressants but dont have the sugar:
"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!"
"Seriously this stuff tastes REALLY bad."
If you let him take the anti depressants:
"Vrrrooom and here comes the airplane!"
"that's much better... now everything feels more vibrant"
"and I don't hate it as much."
when you get the sugar:
"so this is what kid-cocaine looks like"
the first time you take damage:
"Oh that smarts..." and then if you dont have a healing potion:
"really wish I had a healing potion on me right now" otherwise:
"Jokes on the world I have a remedy for all types of pain. its called ibuprofin"
when he falls into poison ivy:
"this is fine... this is fine... this is fine..."
"IM GOING TO DESTROY THIS MISERABLE WORLD AND ALL ITS PLANT LIFE!"
"TO HELL WITH GREEN DAY! STOP WITH THE RECYCLING! LONG LIVE THE LANDFILLS!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!"
if he catches a butterfly:
"
a perfect snack for my dragonfly compadre ... oh right... wrong game.
"
when walking by a bridge:
"On the bridge of Avignon, we all dance, we all prance"
"oh on the bridge of Avignon, we all have a muscle to pull"
"On the bridge of Avignon, we all dance and we are prancing"
"with a muscle to pull"
"We are waltzing all week long!"
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after Alacampft finally makes a friend likely one of the prisoners
several dragons he doesnt like will be kidnapped by evil pixies while at the same time a stave he intends to use
for world domination has been stolen from him by a pixie.
the dragon who he befriends will ask him to do something and to save them.
hell come up to a crossroads the fair will go one way (up) the kidnapper will go the other way (down)
and the player will have to make him choose
"Oh great... save the people I hate... or world domination... the people I hate... world domination..."
"Heh it's a no brainer Ill just go get my stave back! ...right?"
this should also only happen after hes spoken to all the other dragons
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If the player visits the cemetary and looks at the largest headstone:
"Hi Mom..."
"I wish you were still here..."
"Not because I want you around, but so I could tell you... you failed me."
"You were terrible, you yelled, you bossed me around, sure you never struck me-"
"but the scars you did leave me with were so, so much worse. I don't know why I miss you"
"honestly despite attending your funeral I was relieved when you were gone and I was finally on my own..."
"and now I have a chance to choose my own path in life... and you? you'll be forgotten sitting in your grave."
"I don't forgive you... I'll never forgive you..."
"but if it's any consellation ... I still miss you"
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when he goes to the mountain caves and he turns around:
"Aheh I think i'd better not... after what I did... I'm such a disapointment..."
when he first meets his uncle Kraosmos:
"You're that one dragon who remembers everything..."
UK: "Yes Alacampft I am. I need to tell you something... and I don't care what you have done..."
UK: "you're not really alone... I just couldn't tell you... I couldn't lose it again... young dragon... I'm your great great grand uncle Kraosmos"
Alacampft: "You're my uncle? wh-what happened here? why do you look so glumm? why'd you hide from me for so long; tell me what's wrong?!"
UK shutting the window shutters: "for the first time in 200 years... not a thing in the world... I'm not much the type for a warm embrace but I think you could use this."
*UK hugs Alacampft*
*a double friendship heart surrounds them and Alacampft gets 2 hearts with UK while UK gets 1*
Alacampft can ask many things of UK but usually about his relationships with other dragons and strategies he can use.
however he has other things he can talk about:
Option:
"Uncle Kraosmos, why do we let girls rule? aren't men just better at literally everything."
Response:
"It is not about what form of governance we have in charge but rather whom is that governor... males and females
both on average have strengthes and weaknesses, but in truth matriarchy and patriarchy both fall under their own weight. This is because
competence is ignored."
Option:
"hey I'm kinda hungry what do you have to eat around here?"
Response:
"Oh are you in for a treat! How about the ice kingdom's world famous remember shake.
coolwhip with choco shavings, a chocolate bar sticking out the side, a rock candy straw, sitting on top of lime jello, with a mixture of vanilla ice cream and soda in the centre and apple crisps at the bottom all topped off with a mandarin cherry."
Option:
"You were in a war?"
Response:
"...I sat with Hircine and we counted what we had the day prior and then suddenly in the night... Chemicals shrouded the grounds; flames licked the walls tenderly turning to ash all that we knew and even burned through the snow while I aftly laid on the ground with broken legs from fending them off. this was the first siege.
they left me for dead but after all the years I'd spent protecting the realm I was not about to give in so easily. From the shards of glass and ash I fashioned myself splints with the last of my strength I crawled from the rubble to Hircine where she remained hidden. I catered to her needs keeping her safe and now to date she is a grandmother of 3.
yet I feel only guilt and shame... I was not strong enough to stop the blaze before it began. I was not strong enough to peel her eyes from the scars of war... and I'm not strong enough to confront my own history."
