(Helping GGG in) Creating a unique item: a breakdown of the breakdown

There is a diamond newsletter saying otherwise, that most supporters wanting stuff life 200% ED 50 Quartuple res 100 life Iron Reflexes.
And we all know that one other Ruler designed Minecraf.... I mean infactem.
I don't know about the third.



I know of creators giving away their right because their items stuck in development hell forever or they received the obligatory "NO"

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Hilbert wrote:

And we all know that one other Ruler designed Minecraf.... I mean infactem.

Wrong. :)

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Charan wrote:

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Hilbert wrote:

And we all know that one other Ruler designed Minecraf.... I mean infactem.

Wrong. :)

I must be dumb because I didn't notice until now that Infractem was an anagram of Minecraft
even though I knew it was Notch who made it.

LOL ME EITHER. Wow. SO obvious now.

While you're here, Z, how about a few words about your design experiences? I don't think there's a custom designer I respect more than you -- even Nightmare borrowed one of my ideas to basically break the game. You gave us blind. You have a whopping FOUR items in game. Your perspective is unique (ha. ha).

Come on, dude. Join the dance.

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Charan wrote:

LOL ME EITHER. Wow. SO obvious now.

While you're here, Z, how about a few words about your design experiences? I don't think there's a custom designer I respect more than you -- even Nightmare borrowed one of my ideas to basically break the game. You gave us blind. You have a whopping FOUR items in game. Your perspective is unique (ha. ha).

Come on, dude. Join the dance.

Gosh, I don't know!
I just try to think up something that sounds interesting, mechanics wise. *coughandamylittleponyreferencecough*
The items themselves don't get a lot of use, to be sure, but they certainly have caused neat things to be added to the game:
Blind gem
Gifts From Above uses Consecrated Ground
Desecrate gem
Desecrated ground map mod.

Granted, Lifesprig did that less so than my other uniques, but the game needed a fun low level twink wand!

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Granted, Lifesprig did that less so than my other uniques, but the game needed a fun low level twink wand!

I absolutely love that unique so thanks for that!

Always so humble about it. Interesting, though, that you approached it from a mechanical standpoint. Interesting and intelligent. I never felt all that qualified to go at it that way, so instead took what seemed a simpler path: thematic. I think that worked just fine until the theme become...constrictive.

Which of the item designs were you most involved with?

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Zahndethus wrote:

Gosh, I don't know!
I just try to think up something that sounds interesting, mechanics wise. *coughandamylittleponyreferencecough*
The items themselves don't get a lot of use, to be sure, but they certainly have caused neat things to be added to the game:
Blind gem
Gifts From Above uses Consecrated Ground
Desecrate gem
Desecrated ground map mod.

Granted, Lifesprig did that less so than my other uniques, but the game needed a fun low level twink wand!

Hey, I have a question for you.

What could I do with your Cassock unique? (the one with consecrated ground)

I have a witch, and it could be useful, :)

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Charan wrote:

Always so humble about it. Interesting, though, that you approached it from a mechanical standpoint. Interesting and intelligent. I never felt all that qualified to go at it that way, so instead took what seemed a simpler path: thematic. I think that worked just fine until the theme become...constrictive.

Which of the item designs were you most involved with?

Well I definitely went for a thematic thing with my two armors, as well as going for new mechanics.
I was probably most involved with Lifesprig, I think. There was also a unique that I didn't end up making that I had a fair bit of involvement with, though. It would have been a staff that could change between two forms ala Anathema/Benediction from vanilla World of Warcraft, for those that remember that. But in the end I wasn't feeling sufficiently inspired to think up two good distinctive forms that could both work for one build.

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NeroNoah wrote:

Hey, I have a question for you.

What could I do with your Cassock unique? (the one with consecrated ground)

I have a witch, and it could be useful, :)

I dunno! A high block build of some sort perhaps?