Fleshed Out????

[StarLite]

Hi All:

I was wondering if someone could explain to me what the term in creating games

"Fleshed Out"

means.  If I had to explain it I would guess that it means you need to add more stuff, is this right?

[Erwin_Br]

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Fleshing out a story means that you take the basic idea, and build on it until you have completed it.

--Erwin

[Kejero]

It especially means to add more details. Something can be 'complete' already, but you can always 'flesh it out' by making it 'even more complete', by adding details to make it more alive, convincing, entertaining, interesting...

[Paranoia]

It especially means to add more details. Something can be 'complete' already, but you can always 'flesh it out' by making it 'even more complete', by adding details to make it more alive, convincing, entertaining, interesting...

thats what i tend to do, i start with the original idea then find ways to expand on it, as a rule it works ok, but sometimes it can work against you specially if you end up with a coding error

[StarLite]

Great. Thank you everyone for your input. Now I have an idea of what's going on. The fellow who criticed my story said that's what I needed to do. And the more I read the story I seen how right he was. The ending was at a stand still, actually there didn't seem to be an ending. So I hope the change is better than it was. I hope when it's done someone will enjoy it. There's quite a bit going on in the game, but there is also quite a bit of history and mystery I guess. I finished my time machine last night so I have a few more sceneries to go. Doing it the way I was before seemed to take forever. Making one thing at a time like working on scenes, then items, then characters works better for me. Once it's all done into the engine with it. I'd like to thank everyone for their help and advice. I will be sure to give this site and members some praise in the credits. Take care