What is the Tyrian Newspaper?
Its a system to deliver information from inside the game.
Its not something difficult to implement a simple button in the hud opening a window with articles written in the form of a newspaper. With a red exclamation mark on the button when you have a new article you haven’t read.
What kind of information will it have ?
All information will be in the form of a newspaper articles
1. Well firstly all those awesome lore stories Arenanet puts on the website at the moment. I really feel those belong in game in some form so that they will be more easy to access and be seen from more people.
2. E-sport coverage incoming tournaments and results form passed ones, interviews with with players and teams
3. Beastiary – information for ingame monsters and bosses including lore but also hints about what they do and useful hints on how to beat them like
4. Living story hype for incoming stuff and information about stuff like the first people that killed a new boss (or the fastest)with their names written so that everyone will now how awesome those guys are.
5. WvWvW information. Interviews with top guilds.
and many more community and lore related information.
But where will this newspaper come from?
It will be introduced with a new character a clumsy lore geek that wants to learn everything about Tyria. He is always where the action is and always gets in trouble but prevails on pure luck. So he will most likely pop up here and there in living story in some ridiculous situations. And i think Job-o-Tron would be a nice fit as a partner to our character, he needs a new job after all
and just imagine scenes like Job-o-tron and our new character popping up in unexpected places in the living world stuff in absurd situations similar to the scene of Job-o-tron and the Musician.
Other stuff that could go well with this are newspaper stands with little kids or robots selling newspapers and shouting major titles of the week in the major cities.
