Game ideas (hey, those are always fun to talk about :)

Paladin · 2000-05-17T08:59:28

Well... I have got some weird/fun/good game ideas, but I''m not going to do any of these atleast right now, because I have found out that I need much more time when I start working with something... right now I''m only in one project, that is the VQUEST (graphical mud... was long discussion before). Hopefully Novalis will continue coding it! Well, the ideas: 1. 2D-elite. I don''t understand why no-one has programmed it, since it would be extremely easy (in my opinion?) to create! Simply create always randomized world, and basically the gameflow is similar to Starcontrol 2, but the player wouldn''t have linear experience, but infinited possibilities to "become elite" Two dimensions would make programmin pretty darn easy when comparing to 3D, and so the time could be used for creating some fun features like multiple enemies attacking against player and stuff... pretty basic, but long fun! 2. THIS IS MY *** FAVORITE *** (and most commercial) idea: I don''t know why no-one has mixed Warhammer 40k table-rules for computer, when it would expand turnbased combat games for computer to another dimension! Player would play with small army (between 10-60 units), and game would be turnbased. Game would include main campaing that would be still randomized each time (like Imperium Galactica 2-single player). The big difference to other turnbased games would be the free movement. Each pixel would reprecent real distances, meaning that unit could move freely on battleground, like in tableboard-game. There would be no cells or hexas to move on, and everything would use circular movement/shooting system... Try playing WH40k and you understand how great it would be! 3. This is more just for fun, and I might actually create this during some late&dark sunday night with Qbasic Player would be a thief who is trying to become a masterthief. He has to start robbing houses and so on, and later on he starts robbing shops, and more later on some bigger places... Fort Knox? Player could use the money to hire some help, and he could pribe polices and so on. He could also buy lots of items that he could use during the robbing, like diamond-cutter to open windows (you know... cut window, put hand trought and open the lock), and guns and so on... This might be kind of fun game, little like Drugwars, but with more "idea" 4. Arcadehall simulator. I have told about this idea so many times before, and I created 3000 lines of code, and found out that Allegro is hard to use when you need to find fonts!!! So I never finished this little game, but it could be fun even without graphics (I know, because this isn''t my original idea, but I played crappy version of this idea, and I played it like 8hours before I found out that it was crappy and simple So, basically, you open your arcadehall, buy coin''ops, and do stuff like. You can build some more exiting machines also, like Laser-tag (UltraZone,LaserZone...whatever people call it, at Finland it''s MegaZone), go-karts, and so on. There would be lots of statistics to read and stuff... Basically try Rollercoaster tycoon, and you will find out how stupid this idea is, but how much fun it offers for player 5. Band simulator! Again, this isn''t my original idea, but someone at finland created textbased band simulator game (Bandi.exe), and it is simply great :D I played it with my friend for maaany hours, and ofcourse we discovered how stupid the game was, but it was just so much fun! Basically the idea was to buy instruments and simply practise by pressing (P)ractise, and when you were good enough, you go for to play for Pub, and then you get more money and you buy better instruments... and finally you are playing at Euroviisu(I don''t know what is the international name... European music happening? European music competition? something like that)... This is lots of fun! Well, just ideas to consider. If somebody would like to code one of these games even just for fun (without serious attitude), please let me know and I will help you :DD -Paladin

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Started by Paladin May 08, 2000 07:14 PM

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Iceblade Ninja

122

May 15, 2000 04:34 PM

I have loads of ideas the majority of which stem from reading lots of manga and watching anime. Highly recommended
since theres loads more going on than in more mainstream superhero bull comics and animation. Would love to make a game based on The Guyver. Have some cool ideas for on or two non-violent games that could work well, but have to hold them back from your eyes.
At the moment working on designs for a 2d shooter
anime style. If you''ve played SNES U.N Squadron you''ll know what I mean and what I dig.

Iceblade

MENTAL

384

May 15, 2000 04:41 PM

warhammer 40k?

Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate
Warhammer 40K: Elder something-or-other

You should look harder

MENTAL

RandomJon

122

May 16, 2000 09:15 AM

WH40K Chaos Gate is almost exactly what you are describing, but it''s a bit limited cos you can only play as Ultra Marines or Chaos Marines(multiplayer)

It would be cool to do a FULL WH40K game with all the orcs stuff, and eldar and imperial guard nonsense.
Rites of War (or whatever) was pants but chaos gate is good...
extensions to this would be cool...

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Paladin

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May 16, 2000 09:27 AM

So in ChaosGate, do you move your characters over "tiles" or "hexas", or is the movement "free" (read, inside circular area, so that you can step for any pixel)?
I did read about chaosgate, and only reason why I didn''t buy it was that I play WH40k, and I was thinking that ChaosGate is "too simple"

I would love to see WH40k TABLEVERSION on computer, as whole thing. It would be so cool

It wouldn''t need even computer to play against, juts internet / lan playing.

RandomJon

122

May 16, 2000 08:15 PM

Yeah the whole 40K universe stuff would be cool...
Even stuff like combining in Epic with all the big vehicles and the 40k ground units and all the extra stuff that''s around...
free movement like in say C&C?
that would be do-able...

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Paladin

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May 17, 2000 06:38 AM

Actually C&C uses small grid system... You cannot set your unit on exact pixel (this is because of canyons and so on, but the grid is pretty small, maybe 5x5?). Anyway, I''m talking about simulating WH40k rules on computer screen, and simulating inches on computer screen

RandomJon

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May 17, 2000 08:21 AM

sorry, but what is a computer screen made up of?
Pixels
and what are pixels?
tiny squares...
so the only way to do it is by using a grod, albeit a very small grid

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MadKeithV

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May 17, 2000 08:33 AM

You can go to a deeper detail level than per-pixel, but you still need a minimum step size, so some sort of grid-like structure.

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Paladin

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May 17, 2000 08:59 AM

I was saying "SIMULATING". Meaning that units are ported by scalefactor to screen... you know what I mean?

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