What is your ultimate character creation system, for a 2D game?

[Keyser Soze]

Doing some market research for something I'm going to be developing using Mechasource. Basically, I want to know what you would want out of an online oriented game (thats all I'm going to say right now, and its not an MMORPG or an MMOG) with user character customization?

Because the systems I could think of were as follows.

-Allow the player to change the "character" sprites directly from the file and put whatever the hell they want there, problems include people making the image inappropriate, people just sucking at spriting, and possible sharing issues.

-Make several different outlines for every body part and allow the player to color them in as they see fit.

-Make some sort of in-game creation system that allows the player to draw a character pixel by pixel with limitations to prevent compatibility issues.

That is all I can think of right now, agree with the existing ideas, tell me which is best, which is worst, and post your own ideas.

And remember, this is a 2D game, so nothing 3D...

Thanks

This post has been edited by Keyser Soze on Sep 30 2008, 09:33 PM

[FoxGuy(R)]

I don't think anybody has done this.I think your last two ideas were the best (if i understood correctly).Maybe you can utilize all of your ideas.I have none.

[Mecha the Slag]

It sounds kinda neat. However, I'd doubt that only a really small procentage of users would actually make something worth looking at.

[Neopolis]

Personally I think the "MMO" system would work best. However it means you'd have to do a lot of work

[Mr. Bird]

Most of those are possible. I ahve played a game that opens an editor that allows you to edit cahracters in game. Its real neat. I think you can even make his shape. I jsut cant remember what it was... I also played a game where you can ake your own thing like spore.

[MegaTailzChao]

I'd rather have a series of pre-made features and articles of clothing, which could also be user-submitted and after being added could be downloaded in-game.

[Elyk]

I liked how MFGG Royale did custom content.

[Mecha the Slag]

Yeah what MTC said. Or else you'll just end up with alot of *****.