Lets Make A Game!

Looks like work.

Coverzin wrote:

Looks like work.

This.

I am, as always, willing to give feedback if you/others actually plan on doing something with it.

I volunteer to write for it. Also, try to avoid the cliche heroes?

Sounds cool. I would be happy to help with ideas and testing, but I'm afraid I am not good for much else. Hopefully our team will work well though if we get alot of people onboard.

Aqua can help write our story and/or characters.

DBC can help make the art.

SinisteRing and Pythagoras can code stuff.

I dunno what happened to Rhys, but if he's around we could use him for something or other.

If Zync is willing I dunno how many coders we will need.

Jay and I can test things and come up with random ideas?


Whoever else is still around can help in their own ways, most people on this forum have a variety of useful skills and I'm sure more generic people making models and objects would be helpful in this type of thing. Kinda like the old shadow squad but less exclusive maybe?

I'm going to be very busy for the next 10 weeks, then I'll have other stuff to worry about, but I love the graphics engine and the tools look very intuitive and effective. It should be interesting.

As far as character growth on the RPG side of things, I have never been a fan of the "level-up" that so many people like. I much prefer a simple smooth progression of abilities that feels natural for what your doing. (Like in real life, if you do alot of something you get better at it.) That's just an idea that has been knocking around in my head for years and I've yet to be able to successfully apply it to a game idea.

Secondly, I would really like to avoid doing a generic FPS. That market is saturated.

First idea for a game: A spider man style web game. Not like the lame console games where you button mash to beat people up, but more like a puzzle game. You can shoot and attach web to various things, exert stresses by pulling or using objects in-game to help you apply force, attach things together, move around by climbing the lines, and other similar things. I don't think a web based physics-puzzle game has really been made before.


Also, I see no reason why an RTS would be impossible. If you need an overhead view from a first person perspective, just give the player a button that teleports him up over the action and holds him there looking down with his movement controls locked out. You basically have a generic RTS overhead view then and remote options could control unit production and such.

I'd personally like to see us as the villain, but we don't realize we are at the start. Those are always the best.

Physics based puzzle games can be VERY fun. It wouldn't be flat-out just like Bejeweled or something, it would be much more action oriented and in a 3-d plane. It could even be a fighting game, where you have to use the environment to kill the enemies by pulling objects onto them or smacking them into things or etc. There are all kinds of uses for that type of physics engine with webs.



Again, I'm not talking about some block sliding puzzle game. I'm thinking more along the lines of Red Faction: Guerilla with a fully destructible and physics based world that you interact with using your powers. The puzzles aren't pre-planned, but are simply generated by the events in the world. (Most basic example, enemy is walking and there is a boulder on a ledge above him. Shoot web and pull boulder to kill him so you can get by.) Also, preferably open world so you would never be "stuck" anywhere and you could always get around a specific blockage by finding other alternate paths.

SinisteRing wrote:

After all, how many puzzle games do you enjoy? I've only enjoyed one, and it was a flash game.

Was it the game with the stacked blocks?

Tetris?

Also what about ummm, Fantastic Contraption?