Maze Discusion

[brodur]

how would that work?

[Mythbeast]

Im pretty sure it would be a lot more different in a team environment. I also think that in a multiplayer thing there will be different people with different resources. Perhaps archers, warriors and navigators. Everybody gets the same amount of food, and same kinds of armor. The only difference is the tools they use to navigate the maze. Obviously archers get bows and arrows, warriors get swords, and navigators get a stack of redstone. There may be more parts to be added to the team maze match in the near future, idk. I am also curious as to how the dyes would work, this could be useful in the maze with two teams going at it in the paths.

Big twist:
no matter how much you all help each other there will only be one winner in the end, final death match. Lets just say the storyline says enchantments and potions are bad mojo.

[Mythbeast]

Update to the maze and it’s mobs:

Apparently the new ai for zombies makes them so much smarter that they can find there way threw the maze and to you. Even with the multiple paths they can still find you. AAAAHHHHH!!!
I have only tested this on small scale maze, now to test it on the large scale. This update is gona kill us.

[Mythbeast]

Update to the path of the maze:

I have decided to connect a few parts of the paths together. Since i believe i may have forgotten to connect the sanctuary and end to the start path. So if it get’s moved to survival then i will need to edit the maze path a little bit.

[Kyle8910]

Is that why you could not make it to the sanctuary? Lol

[Mythbeast]

I think that is why i always ended up going in a big circle and get all the way back to the start. Also even after i made the new path i ended up having to cheat to find my way to the sanctuary. I still had 3 switches to flip when i got there.

[Mythbeast]

Random reason for bringing this back up to everybody’s attention.
AI relevance to maze difficulty:

It seems that the mobs have a pretty limited path finding AI area. So if you are in the maze there shouldn’t be a conga-line of mobs coming towards you to kill you. However they can fallow you pretty well threw the maze when you are spotted.

[Mythbeast]

Ok, i know this has tookin me a while, but i finally finished the script. I honestly coulda finished this in the day i said i was workin on it but i for some reason quit half way through and just decided to finish it now. Tell me what you think. I’m gona just past all this here since i am not sure if a mac word document will let most of yall read it. Here i go…

Unless the girls of our server wish to act then this will be kind of referring to all the characters as boys. It would be no problem to change some of the characters to females.

Scene:
An Npc village, and on the story will start off in a home of our heroes.

Hero names:
Steve, Jack, Albert, Joey, Sam, Alex

These heroes where all raised in the small town of Herp-Derp. They are all brothers. ( o.O ) Their father was the head of the town. He ended up having leave them when they where just children. Their father was never to come back however. So the town took care of the children. The one who cared most for them was a nurse in the church. The brothers consider this nurse to be their mom as to how their mother had died after joey was born. Now the brothers all run the town and the people love them.

Albert and Alex are Twins, and often speak together.
Jack is the oldest and takes charge most often.
Joey is the youngest and does not often know how to handle things.
Steve is the next oldest and often wishes he could over power Jack.
Sam usually looks for the reality of things in what is going on.

[size=24pt]STORY TIME!!!

It’s early in the morning, the sun hasn’t even risen yet. All of the sudden one of the windows of the home is broken. The cameraman swings to the broken window. A single piece of paper flies through the broken window. This awakens jack.

Jack: What was that?! Hm, a piece of paper?

Jack walks towards the paper and picks it up.

Jack: What the? This looks like a map, but that doesn’t make since, how did it end up here.

The other heroes begin to awake.

Joey: Why are you awake so early jack?

Jack: Take a look at what I found.

Joey picks up the map.

Sam: Why is there a marker on this map around Mt. Way Up There?

Albert & Alex: LOOK! In the top left of the map, it looks like father’s handwriting.

Steve: It couldn’t be.

Jack: Look it is the exact same handwriting as in all of his books.

Jack pulls out a book from the book case.

Sam: That is impossible, he never came back from his trip so he must be dead.

Jack: Now we never really new if he died or not.

Sam: Well i guess that could be his handwriting, but that doesn’t explain how it got here.

Joey: Does it really matter! If this is his, then that means he could still be alive! Or he could be in danger and needs our help!

Steve: Why should we go and help him! He left us and that was his choice! Now he expects us to just come and help.

Jack: Steve, you know we have to go and find out if this is him. He is our father after all. We can’t just leave him when he finally gives us a chance to help him.

Sam: Well we can’t go on this journey with our supplies that we have now. Our chest is nearly empty and only has iron helmets and boots.

Albert & Alex: Look the sun is rising. We might as well go get the resources now, while we are awake.

The brothers start to head out of the door. Joey stays for a bit stares at the map in his hand and makes a small wish.

Joey: I hope it is you dad. I don’t want to get my hopes up again.

Joey leaves the home. Camera stops here and starts when we fallow the brothers through the town.
We start the camera with the brothers at the front of their home.

Jack: Ok lets split up so we can get the items we need faster.

Everyone: Right.

We fallow albert and alex to the local merchant.

Albert & Alex: Excuse me kind sir. You wouldn’t happen to have any extra goodies we might be able to have? Would you?

Merchant: Well of course i do. For my two favorite twins. I have a few extra melons, if you would like.

Albert & Alex: That would be great. You wouldn’t happen to have anything else would you?

Merchant: I’m affraid not. Sorry, but for some reason i haven’t been able to get any supplies from the usual shipments that come every month. This one seems to be a few days late. I’m running quite low on resources.

Albert & Alex: That’s fine sir, thank you for the melons.

Now we go to jack with the camera in the next scene. Jack has headed to the local smithery.

Jack: Hello? Anybody here?

BlackSmith: Yes i am here. What can i do for you Jack?

Jack: i am in need of armor and weapons for a journey me and my brothers are going on.

BlackSmith: Ah, is that it. Well i am afraid i can only give you a leather chest plate and leather pants for the armor. Seeing as to how we have been having trouble getting the shipments to come in. I can give you some stone swords though. Will that do?

Jack: that would be wonderful. Thank you.

BlackSmith: Ah there is your brother steve now. Perhaps he can help you carry these. They are quite heavy.

Steve: Hello Jack, need help carrying that? I bet i can carry more than you can.

Jack: Oh yeah, i’d like to see you try.

Both jack and steve grab a few pieces of armor and some stone swords.

Steve: I’ll race you back to the house.

Jack: Your on.

The two rush off to the home. Now we bring the camera to the scene where joey has come to look for supplies. Joey has come to the church. He finds the nurse who took care of him and his brothers as children

Joey: Hi nurse elsa. Me and my brothers where about to go off on a journey to find our father. Do you have anything you could possibly give us.

Elsa: Off to find your father? How do you boys know where he is?

Joey: We found a map, when it blew into our window.

Elsa: Oh darling, what on the map makes you think that it has your father’s location?

Joey: it had a spot circled on the map and it also had our father’s handwriting on it.

Elsa: Hmm. Well maybe i do have something that can help you and your brothers.

Elsa goes into here room and searches the chest for something.

Elsa: Here you go darling, a stack of redstone, this is best used to find your way through windy paths. Those journeys can be pretty confusing and can get many people lost.

Joey: I understand Elsa, i wont get lost. I promise. And thank you very much for this.

Elsa: no problem Joey, now make sure to get that to your brothers now.

Camera stops here and goes to the scene where sam is at an archer’s store.

Sam: Excuse me? Do you have any bows and perhaps some arrows that we may have archer?

Archer: What for sam?

Sam: Well it may come in handy on my journey that my brothers and i are going on.

Archer: Well then i suppose i can spare some bows and arrows for you. Here you go.

Archer hands sam some bows and arrows.

Sam: thank you archer, i promise these will not go to waste.

Now the brothers all meet back at their home. They all take a look at what they have and go inside the home to separate it evenly. The sun has already begon to set.

Steve: Well i guess it is to late to go on that journey now. We will just have to wait till tomorrow then.

Jack: alright then, lets all get some sleep.

The brothers all go into the chest and place everything into it, then head off to their beds.
Early next morning… The brothers have woken up and are already getting prepared for the journey.

Albert & Alex: Well looks like the map is telling us to go off this way. Better now than never.

Jack: Alright lets get moving then.

The brothers run off into the sun rise and the camera fades away as the sun overtakes the brothers.
Next scene: The brothers show up to the destination on the map.
They are all beaten up from the long journey. The sun is setting already and they are all very tired.

Joey: Can we rest here now. I don’t think i can take another step.

Jack: Alright then, lets set up camp for the night.

The brothers set their beds and a camp fire. The brothers fall asleep very quickly. The camera looks away from them and on to the mountain near them. We hear a shaking in the mountain. All of the sudden a massive pile of dirt is removed from the mountain and a secret entrance is reviled. Now the camera fades to the next morning. Joey has awaken long before any of the others have.

Joey: Guys!! Look at the mountain.

Everybody begins to wake up and jump out of bed.

Sam: How did that get there?! It wasn’t there when we went to bed!

Steve: I don’t know but it seems like it is directly where the map was circled. Lets go check it out.

Everybody runs to the entrance. The brothers stop at a staircase. Joey pears down the stair case.

Joey: That is a really long way down. I guess we should maybe start going down there.

Albert & Alex: Well, lets go down there i guess, it is on the map anyways.

Jack: What!? It wasn’t there before!

Steve: well it is now, so i guess we can just get going then.

The brothers begin to go down the staircase and disappear out of the camera’s view. Cameraman steps back fromt the entrance and stares at the middle of the building. The walls begin to open and out steps a dark figure. This figure gives off a wicked laugh.

Dark Figure: Muahaha. It seems as though my children have arrived at last. It took them long enough.

Suddenly the dark figure spazes out and turns into someone who resembles a human.

Father: Wha, where am i?

the father looks around and notices that his sons are going through the stair case.
New figure. Wait, no! Now i remember, i found this strange building and headed down to the area below, but for some reason all i can remember is… is… Oh no, i have to stop them before they run into the Beast.

The dark figure comes back and the father is gone.

Dark figure: that was close, it seems as though maybe these children may be giving this man hope enough to fight my control. I can’t let that feble old man beat me. I am after all the essence of Many beasts, these beast did not fall to a simple old man. They fell to me! The Beast of Myths! I will not have this old man over power me!

The Beast of Myths goes into the stair case. Suddenly the building vanishes under a pile of dirt again.

[size=24pt]End of story… Or is it? O.o

Tell me what yall think of this story and you can definitely improve on it if you all feel like it. I did kinda just throw this together, so say what ever you feel like saying about this script.

[Sacreddeathflame]

Claps

Nicely done! There’s nothing wrong with the script!

[Kyle8910]

…aside from the usual ninja fixes I tend to do.

One thing sounded odd to me. They just arrived, are exhausted, and they all agree to enter right away? I figured they would make a camp for the night first. Oh! What if they get lost, it gets late so they take shelter. When they wake up, they find the entrance has found them (appeared overnight).

Why rally the town at the beginning? Are these brothers famous or something? It just seems like it would have been better for them to split up to get supplies from the townsfolk. Visit their shops, etc. Would give more footage opportunity, and can have the “clerk” be the same person with a diff skin.

Hmm, about their motivation for going… It feels like it’s lacking something. It’s cliche, but how about having the map be a clue about their missing father? He went on a journey and never returned. The map could have his writing on it or something.

Good ideas?

[brodur]

^ Agreed with above.

some issues:

• some desired camera effects such as
  -

  Move camera off of the brothers and zoom in on the building behind them and see a strange figure. Then fade out to the brothers leaving the town.

  • This cannot be done on most screen recording devices and would look absolutely terrible with minecraft graphics
    - Optifine mod can but I am unsure of how you initiate the zooming in

• Also, will all of the cameramen be using a certain shader and texture pack?

  • If so I would like to know as soon as possible so I can play about with it.

• Where would this be filmed?

  • PCB or a private server set up just for it?

[Mythbeast]

Ok in response to kyle’s input, I love how those ideas sound, ill go ahead and edit it into the script, i was really kinda not all into this when i started it i guess, then i took like a few weeks brake for no reason so i have no idea what i was thinking then.

In response to brodur’s input, i was thinking maybe the camera man has fly or creative, and some speed alterations, like maybe slower and faster in some parts. And i guess i ment for the cameraman to look away from the brothers and kinda just fly towards the mysterious figure to act like a zoom effect.

With the texture pack, i do think we would need to all have the same one installed, and as of right now i don’t have any that pop out at me yet, so any suggestions would be great.

And i guess maybe we could film this on the server (either survival or creative, doesn’t matter to me) but if we don’t want to film this on this server then we would need to get someone to host a temp server with my single player map, cuz as of right now, the person paying for the server isn’t able to do it anymore so i am kinda un able to host it on there for now.

[Mythbeast]

I have now finished editing the script. I love how much better it seems to me now. I went back and read through it and did not like it at all. There may still be some things wrong with it but i basically just rewrote the entire script. So please rate it how you feel.

[Petroliam]

Ok! So, I went grammar nazi, and corrected some grammar, made things make a bit more sense, added some shot ideas and other minor changes. Let me know if you like what I did :3

It’s early in the morning, before sunrise. Suddenly one of the windows is broken. The camera quickly pans to the broken window and Jack wakes as a single piece of paper drifts through it.
(red text is for shot ideas/general ideas) Camera will be near Jack’s bed as he wakes up, you see the paper come through the window in the background.

Jack: Tired and ‘groggy’ What was that?! Hm, a piece of paper?

Jack walks towards the paper and picks it up.

Jack: To himself quietlyThis looks like a… map? confused Why… what?

The other heroes begin to wake up.

Joey: Tired and slightly annoyed at being woken up Why are you awake so early Jack?

Jack: Take a look at what I found.

Joey picks up the map.

Sam: What is it? A map?

Jack: I think so. There is a marker on the mountain north of here.

Albert & Alex: both notice the same thing, start speaking at the same time, Alex talks over Albert, who trails off annoyed
LOOK! In the top left of the map, it looks like father’s handwriting.

Steve: Pfft. It can’t be.

Idea: someone needs to read out the note here.

Jack: It could be! It’s the exact same handwriting as in all of his books.

Jack pulls out a book from the book case as he says this.

Sam: No, that’s impossible! He never came back from that trip. He died.

Jack: Now we never really new if he died or not! There could be a chance he is still alive, no matter how slim.

Sam: Well… I guess that could be his handwriting… But that still doesn’t explain how it got here.

Joey: Does it really matter? If this is his, then that means he could still be alive! Or he could be in danger and needs our help!

Steve: AngrilyWhy should we go and help him? He left us and that was his choice! Now he expects us to just come and help?

Jack: Steve, you know we have to go and find out if this is him. He is our father after all. We can’t just leave him when he finally gives us a chance to help him.

Sam: Well we can’t go on this journey with our supplies that we have now. Our chest is nearly empty. We only have battered iron helmets and boots.

Brief pause while they seem to be thinking

Albert & Alex: Alex talks over Albert as beforeThe sun is rising. We may as well go get the resources now, as we’re all awake already.

The brothers start to head out of the door. Joey stays for a bit stares at the map in his hand and makes a small wish.

Joey: Sadly(…?)I hope this is you dad. I really hope it is. I don’t want to get my hopes up, for them to be shattered once again.

Joey exits the home. Camera stays focused on him leaving, and the door closing, before cutting to the brothers as they start to walk through town.

Jack: Ok lets split up so we can get the items we need faster.

Everyone: Right.

We follow Albert and Alex to the local merchant.

Albert & Alex: Alex over AlbertExcuse me kind sir. You wouldn’t happen to have any extra goodies we might be able to have? Would you?

Merchant: Well of course I do. For my two favorite twins. I have a few extra melons, if you would like.

Albert & Alex:Albert doesn’t speak this time, just looks annoyed. That would be great!

Merchant: I’m pleased to help lads. I am only sorry I cannot give you more, but for some reason I haven’t been able to get any supplies recently. The usual shipments come every month, however this one seems to be a few days late. I’m running quite low on resources.

Albert & Alex:With this happening so often, not sure about the Alex over Albert thing, but it just seems a bit silly speaking at exactly the same time, perhaps they could each say things that lead on from each other? e.g.:
Albert:That’s fine sir.
Alex: Thank you for the melons.

Now we cut to Jack heading to the local blacksmith.

Jack: calls outHello? Anybody here?

BlackSmith:From workshop out back Yes! One moment Jack my boy! Comes around from the smithing… stuff… What can I do for you?

Jack: I am in need of armor and weapons for a journey me and my brothers are going on.

BlackSmith: Ah, I see! Well I am afraid I can only give you a leather chest plate and leather pants each armour wise. I’ve been having trouble getting the supplies for the iron armour as of late. As for weapons, I can give you some stone swords though. Will that do?

Jack: That would be wonderful. Thank you.

Shot from behind the blacksmith, you see Steve wandering around strangely (a bit comically, in circles and such) through the door and windows.
BlackSmith: Ah there is Steve now! Perhaps he can help you carry these. They are quite heavy.

enter Steve
Steve: Hello Jack, need help carrying that? I bet i can carry more than you can.

Jack: Oh yeah? I’d like to see you try.

Both jack and steve grab a few pieces of armor and some stone swords.

Steve: Race you back to the house!

Jack: You’re on!

The two rush off to the home. Now we cut to the Joey who has come to the church. He finds the nurse who took care of him and his brothers as children

Joey: Hi nurse Elsa. Me and my brothers where about to go off on a journey to find our father. Do you have anything you could possibly give us.

Elsa: Off to find your father? How do you boys know where he is?

Joey: We found a map, when it blew into our window.

Elsa: slight laughOh darling, how can you tell your fathers location?

Joey: It had a spot circled on the map and it also had our father’s handwriting on it.

Elsa: Hmm. Well I may have something that can help you and your brothers.

Elsa goes into her room and searches the chest for something.
Shot from in front of Elsa (gap in wall where camerman stands as she looks in the chest) you see Jack walk past the door a few times, once stopping and looking around, on the next pass he is closer, and looks into the room, then walks on again.

Elsa: Here you go darling, a stack of redstone, this is best used to find your way through windy paths. Those journeys can be pretty confusing and can get many people lost.

Joey: I understand Elsa, I wont get lost. I promise. And thank you very much for this.

Elsa: No problem Joey, now make sure to get that to your brothers now.

Cut to Sam at an Archery store.(General store maybe? That happens to sell arrows and stuff?)

Sam: Excuse me, do you have any bows and perhaps some arrows that we may have archer?

Archer: What for Sam?

Sam: Well it may come in handy on the journey my brothers and I undertaking.

Archer: Well then I suppose I can spare some bows and arrows for you. goes into a chest on a shelf behind him Here you go.

Archer hands Sam some bows and arrows.

Sam: Thank you archer, these will not go to waste.

Shot of the sun setting, camera pans down to the brothers in a group at the front of their home (This means the home will have to be built in a specific place, so the sun is behind it)The brothers meet up back home, and share out the items they have, throwing them to each other.

Steve: Well I guess it is to late to go on that journey now. We will just have to wait till tomorrow.

Jack: Agreed, lets all get some sleep.

The brothers head inside and lamps turn off, timelapse of the house until day again.
Early next morning… The brothers exit the home, some putting armour on.

Albert & Alex: Well looks like the map is telling us to go off this way. Better now than never.

Jack: Alright, lets get moving!

The brothers walk off into the sun rise, one heads in the complete opposite direction to the rest, then turns around, and runs. Camera fades away as the sun overtakes the brothers.

Next scene: The brothers show up to the destination on the map.

They are all beaten up from the long journey. The sun is setting already and they are all very tired.

Joey: behind the rest, shouts Guys? Can we rest here? I don’t think I can take another step!

Jack: SighFine. lets set up camp for the night.

The brothers set their beds and a camp fire. The brothers fall asleep very quickly. The camera looks away from them and on to the mountain near them. We hear a shaking in the mountain. All of the sudden a massive pile of dirt is removed from the mountain and a secret entrance is revealed.I would like to make a random piston opening door for this if I may I would love to help out making the set too xD Now the camera pans back to the camp as morning approaches (might be tricky to do this in a smooth timelapse way). Joey has awaken long before any of the others have, and is standing up, looking repeatedly between the mountain and the rest of the brothers sleeping.

Joey: scared slightlyGuys!! Look at the mountain…

The others wake up, some saying things like ‘What the…’ ‘lolwut?’ as they notice.

Sam: How did that get there?! It wasn’t there when we went to bed!

Steve: excitedI have no idea, but it seems like this is where the marker on the map is. Lets go check it out!

Everybody runs to the entrance. The brothers stop at a staircase. Joey peers down the stair case, as it lights up in sequence from top to bottom.

Joey: That… is a really long way down… I guess we should get started…

Albert & Alex:looking at the map Well, lets go then, its on the map.

Jack: What!? Let me see! picks up the map as A&A drop isIt wasn’t there before!

Steve: That’s weird… getting impatient But either way, come on!

The brothers begin to go down the staircase and disappear out of shot. (not sure whats going on in this next bit… what building? Might need to edit this to be somewhere in the mountain, or perhaps have the entrance close up again after them: ) Camera steps back from the entrance and stares at the middle of the building. The walls begin to open and out steps a dark figure. This figure gives off a wicked laugh.

Dark Figure: Muahaha. It seems as though my children have arrived at last. It took them long enough.

Suddenly the dark figure spazes out and turns into someone who resembles a human.

Father: dazedWha, where am i?

the father looks around and notices that his sons are going through the stair case.
New figure. Wait, no! Now I remember, I found this strange building and headed down to the area below, but for some reason all I can remember is… is… Oh no, i have to stop them before they run into…he trails off
The dark figure comes back and the father is gone.

Dark figure: that was close, it seems as though maybe these children may be giving this man hope enough to fight my control. I can’t let that feble old man beat me. I am after all the essence of Many beasts, these beast did not fall to a simple old man. They fell to me! The Beast of Myths! I will not have this old man over power me!

The Beast of Myths goes into the stair case. Suddenly the building vanishes under a pile of dirt again.

[size=24pt]End of story… Or is it? O.o

[Mythbeast]

Looks great liam, and i suppose maybe we can either do this shooting on a separate private server, or maybe load the maze onto the creative or survival server then build the stuff we plan on having for sets. And I am kinda glad you went through that and fixed some of the gramar, i know i am not the best at that some times. All and all i love this so far. I hope we can get this started soon. ;D

[Petroliam]

I’m not sure about the Albert and Alex bit still though xD It seems quite cheesy if they talk over each other, plus whoever was playing them may find it difficult to do it at exactly the same time. However, with the amount of times it happens, my idea won’t work. Perhaps do the thing where sentences lead on from each other?
For example:

We follow Albert and Alex to the local merchant.

Albert: Excuse me kind sir.
Alex: You wouldn’t happen to have any extra goodies that we might be able to have?
Albert: Would you?

Merchant: Well of course I do. For my two favorite twins. I have a few extra melons, if you would like.

Albert: That would be great!
Alex: Yes! Great! Thank you!

Merchant: I’m pleased to help lads. I am only sorry I cannot give you more, but for some reason I haven’t been able to get any supplies recently. The usual shipments come every month, however this one seems to be a few days late. I’m running quite low on resources.

Albert:That’s fine sir.
Alex: Thank you for the melons.

[Mythbeast]

XD That’s actually kinda what i meant, i coulda made that a bit more clear i guess. Sorry. But yeah, how you are saying seems like a really good idea. Like i said before, i’m really glad you revised my script liam. XD The grammar was 10X better when you re-wrote it. So far all the ideas you have been coming up with are sounding pretty great. When i read the script again it was like you completely made another new story. XD

[brodur]

got optifine, can zoom now, and also everything looks very nice xD

[Mythbeast]

Ok i just realized how if we don’t do this within the next few weeks then i wont be able to help edit the videos until the end of summer. D: I will loose my school computer in maybe 3 weeks or less. I wouldn’t even dream of using my dad’s computer cuz it sucks really bad for almost anything, so if we do do this in the summer then i am gona need yall to edit everything please. Also i may not be able to go on very often because ima be going to my mom’s most of summer and she would prob not let me use her computer to do this, but i can work on it. Don’t think i wont try. I just hope to not see this idea die like many others we have had. Well the only one that comes to mind is the romeo and juliet one, i have no idea what happened there. Also, it seems as though we may have trouble finding people who want to voice act. I will act out all of these parts if i have to, i wont let this idea die without fighting for it. I can throw my voice 20 different ways if i have to, but i really hope i don’t, i can almost guaranty that it would sound better with a few more people will act like fools with me. I don’t wana be the only voice in this whole thing. Also, we are gona need regular body actors as well, to fill in for the parts that don’t require voice acting.

[brodur]

And then we need to organize skins… cameramen can be vanished though