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[itisnotlogical]

As suggested there, this is a thread where people can work together on creating games from the "Games you wish existed" thread.

Spoiler: FREE GAME ENGINES (click to show/hide)

Game Maker
Both free and paid versions are available, though it's only really good for 2D games. Its main strength is its simple drag-and-drop approach to programming, though that in turn makes it a bit unintuitive to do very advanced things. It also has a scripting language, which people who use Javascript tell me is rather similar to Javascript.

Unity 3D
Free and paid versions available, although most of the paid features have been migrated over to the free version with Unity 5. Supports C# and Javascript for scripting, and there's also the Asset Store for a bunch of ready-made assets, scripts and other useful things, some of which are free.

Unreal Engine
I honestly don't know much about this one. I've never used it, but people who have swear by it. There's an Asset Store-like feature called the Marketplace, judging by the website.

Panda3D
100% free. The downside: as far as I've seen, there are absolutely no graphical editors. Yes, you'll be programming everything 100% by yourself while using Panda3D. Has support for both C++ and Python.

Blender
I don't know why on Earth there's a game engine in Blender, but indeed there is, and it's 100% free to use for any purpose. Documentation for some features has still not been updated since 2.49b. Very confusing and unintuitive since it's also a 3D modelling application, but there you go.

RULES:

For now, I haven't thought of any really tight rules. If anybody would like to work on an idea, make a post along the lines of "Hey, I'm working on this idea" in this thread, and in Games You Wish Existed if the idea is fairly recent. It is entirely up to whoever is working on the idea to decide who they want to work with, if anybody.

IF YOU WORK ON AN IDEA AND ARE UNABLE TO FINISH IT, PLEASE KEEP A BACKUP OF ALL FILES. Eventually, I plan to create a shared Google Drive account where unfinished projects can be placed, just in case somebody in the future wants to pick it up and toy with it again.

[Retropunch]

This is a huge undertaking as the ideas in 'Games you wish Existed' would all be really difficult to implement. However, I like the idea that these could be stored to work on later.

I'd suggest that a hard rule should be that all code should be thoroughly commented to allow for others to take over easily. Similarly, all resources should be well named and logical.

Even if only small steps were taken it could be a valuable resource repository.

[Shadowlord]

Sometimes I like to re-read the early pages in that thread and marvel at the wishes.

[Generally me]

Maybe 10 years from now if this forum is still up. We'll read the first few posts on the games you wish existed and think "lol made that game yesterday on my holopad". Then we'll teleport to work on the planets Mars.

[Moghjubar]

Honestly, Id think this would be better off in creative projects... or at the very least organize here and pick out the easiest ones and start there and then go to town.

Of course, everyone is already working on a bunch of stuff on their own most likely so...

[Shadowlord]

GMe:

Spoiler: A brief history of cell phones (click to show/hide)

The first cell phone was demonstrated in 1973.
First commercially released cell phone: 1983
First PDA: 1984
First SMS message was sent: 1993.
First device that could qualify as a smartphone: 1994. It was a combination PDA and phone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
By the end of 2001, NTT DoCoMo had 40 million subscribers for their smartphone released in 1999 in Japan.
9/11: 2001
Introduction of the iPhone: 2007
Android phones: First in 2008, and they began to take off in 2010.

I took most of this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone but I lived through most of these years (from the early 80s on), so I lived through the transition from corded phones to cell phones and to smartphones (with PDAs in there for the folks who had the money to blow on them, or acquired ones that were thrown out but still worked). I didn't experience the "first X!" events, of course.

Of course that's just cell phones. Holography has been in development a long time too, very, very slowly... Things aren't just suddenly invented out of the blue, even though they may appear that way.

(And as for teleportation, that's more or less impossible unless there's some kind of miracle)

[Retropunch]

-snip-

Very true - but the jump in the last 15 years eclipses the jump from 1983 to 2000. In 2000 most of us were using just smaller versions of the first commercial cellphones. My phone then could only call and send text messages - literally just that! The nokia 3310 came out then, but it would be another 2-3 years before they became properly mainstream. Now my phone is on par with my laptop - hd movies, full 3d games, music and apps.

Once the ball gets rolling, things move very, very fast. I'd expect that holography will eventually turn a corner and we'll go from basic holograms to full 3d in a couple of years. Part of it is stuff needing to be commercially useful though - holograms just aren't that useful. You can't do anything with a hologram you can't do with a screen.

[FallacyofUrist]

Wish you guys luck. Some of the theoretical games I read about in the "games you wish existed" thread seemed like something many people would love to play.