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[DrPoo]

Hi guys, i have seen quite few amazing things in this sub. I can do quite amazing things myself.
Lets get together brothers and sisters! Lets make a game! My idea is that we have many different people here.
Some are good at programming, some are at concept art, modelling or level design, some are at stories.
I find it very motivating to make some work, put it out where other people can grab it, wake up the next day to see it improved by another person.

If we work together, we communicate and we just dont leave things alone, if we are curious and motivated, then we can make something.

My idea would be that we have some sort of place to share the projects, like a shared dropbox or an FTP server somewhere, we work on things whenever we feel like, just make sure things progress day to day, we all idle in an IRC channel somewhere, so we can coordinate better.

Everyone can join this, as long as they got a talent beyond just being ideasguy, i mean, you should be able to make some sort of thing. We can't have pure ideas guys, i tried that in another project long ago, had like 3-4 ideas guys sit on my ass and tell me what to do, i hate that. You should be able to do more than fill up the todo list with ideas, you should be able to do some improvements so we can shrink it too, if you get what i mean, i dont want to sound rude.

A few things i think should be held in mind, in my opinion, im not the leader(there is none) or anything, but you know, my opinions:

We avoid cliche game elements, we avoid too many compromises.
We avoid overbalancing gameplay, we dont want a rocket launcher to be just as shit as a hand gun, people should use their minds while playing the game to "balance".
We avoid any domination, no body should have a word more than another. We are all friends and we shouldnt bicker, it harms the project and teamwork.
Open and awesome gameplay is essential, good storyline is low priorty, want a good story? Read a book or watch a movie.

NEEEEEEEEWS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nt2xJX72Y-2lSOiGYyI0at5Bg6O-UD9tiTJsnK-zzVs/edit

[malloc]

Problem with these community projects, is their notorious tendency to not be made. Unless there is a strong figure behind them, it wont get out of the idea phase, or even into implementation.

Having seems many rise and fall. I have only really seen one get completed. Here the author had a clear image and plan of what needed to be done, and how the finished product was supposed to look. Even more importantly, he was solely responsible for large chunks of the project. The end product was indeed an interesting example of crowd sourcing.
So yeah, while most of your directions for the project are fine, the uniform weighting of ideas won't work. One have to actually control the flow of ideas and implementation.

That said, *handrise*, I'm in, and I can do programming (It's actually what I do most of my wake time), and I can do some decent visuals.

[dreadmullet]

*raises hand tentatively* Count me in!

I am a programmer as well; I am quite confident with C#, and dabbling in C++. I've made most of a 2D engine using OpenGL.

I have a lot of experience with Blender. I'm fairly competent with modelling and texturing, as well as character rigging and stuff. Animation is really difficult for me.

[DrPoo]

Awesome guys! I can program a bit in C++, not much but i can fix a few bugs here and there and when theres a general framework of things i can begin to work on actual content.
I can also draw, i can sprite a bit too, but my graphics always looks silly in some sort of way or another. I can animate, atleast in 2d. The day i can afford proper recording equipment, i can do music too. I play guitar, mostly death metal but i also like to do theese atmospheric ambient pieces.

So i thought we could share some ideas, just three ideas in order of magnitude.

Team based space combat/industry game, think A New Zero, but with space stations instead of islands, space(of course) instead of the ocean and astroids/other things with gravity instead of those cliffs. Newtonian physics and a bit of gibs here and there, also space walking. It sound quite ambitious so it probably wont be something along this we are going to do. Instead of just doing cargo runs, you could tow in astroids into rock processing factories and stuff.

A multiplayer coop sidescrolling metroidvania with procedurally generated levels, also quite ambitious.

Astroids, but with overthinked everything.

I am going to keep myself with only three different ideas, i hate it myself when someone comes with a big list of all the games they would wish existed.

[dreadmullet]

I think it would be a good idea to make something really, really simple first. Like, literally just Asteroids. That way, we can make sure the whole process is working right. Kind of like how making a "Hello, world!" program allows you to make sure everything is working right.

Once we get a test game finished, we can start on the real game. Here are some of my ideas:

- Minecarts! Minecarts are awesome. Imagine an isometric view where you can place minecart tracks, with turns and ramps and stuff. There are doors and junctions that can be linked to pressure plates and levers. Oh yeah, and minecart derailings and collisions. Just make some sort of minecart sandbox, and if it's fun to play around with, make a game out of it.

- Unicycles! Unicycles are awesome. A side-on view of a person on a unicycle, you use two buttons to lean forward and back, and two buttons to pedal forward and back, spacebar to jump. Perhaps a level editor with ramps and loops and whatnot.

[DrPoo]

I think it would be a good idea to make something really, really simple first. Like, literally just Asteroids. That way, we can make sure the whole process is working right. Kind of like how making a "Hello, world!" program allows you to make sure everything is working right.

Once we get a test game finished, we can start on the real game. Here are some of my ideas:

- Minecarts! Minecarts are awesome. Imagine an isometric view where you can place minecart tracks, with turns and ramps and stuff. There are doors and junctions that can be linked to pressure plates and levers. Oh yeah, and minecart derailings and collisions. Just make some sort of minecart sandbox, and if it's fun to play around with, make a game out of it.

- Unicycles! Unicycles are awesome. A side-on view of a person on a unicycle, you use two buttons to lean forward and back, and two buttons to pedal forward and back, spacebar to jump. Perhaps a level editor with ramps and loops and whatnot.

Your right. I was just thought it would be good to get those off my head so the simple ideas could come instead.

Astroids,

Some platformer,

Something a bit beyond simple, like a tower defense thing, i hate them personally but i guess it would be good practice.

[kingfisher1112]

In! I can't program, but I have some shit-crazy ideas and can do basic maps. In paint.

[Scelly9]

I can do a tiny but of art, and possibly some programming.

[DrPoo]

Awesome!

[Kofthefens]

I'm pretty good at Python, and halfway-decent at Java. I can get around in Blender okay, but I'm no pro at it. I'd be happy to contribute however.

For the game, how about it's the game Ender plays (while actually controlling the human fleets). There could be some good strategy in there.

[DrPoo]

I'm pretty good at Python, and halfway-decent at Java. I can get around in Blender okay, but I'm no pro at it. I'd be happy to contribute however.

For the game, how about it's the game Ender plays (while actually controlling the human fleets). There could be some good strategy in there.

Ender plays?

[Virex]

I'm proficient with Java, Matlab and Common Lisp, but the language we pick shouldn't matter too much for me, I should be able to pick it up fairly quickly.

- Minecarts! Minecarts are awesome. Imagine an isometric view where you can place minecart tracks, with turns and ramps and stuff. There are doors and junctions that can be linked to pressure plates and levers. Oh yeah, and minecart derailings and collisions. Just make some sort of minecart sandbox, and if it's fun to play around with, make a game out of it.

Actually, some sort of mine simulator could be interesting. Feed and provide housing for your workers, buy equipment, build elevators and tracks for the mine carts. As you go deeper, you have to take flooding and ventilation into account. There could be horrible things lurking in the deep, but you're willing to face them all FOR GLORIOUS PROFITS!

Spoiler: More detailed description of the game (click to show/hide)

Qua aesthetics, I was thinking of a steampunkish setup. Lots of steam and brass.
The game is played on a 2-D map representing a slice through the earth. The player starts with a small mine shaft consisting of a central shaft with an elevator and a side shaft with a simple double-track mine cart track. The walls of the shaft contain a certain amount of ore and this will be excavated by the miners and deposited in a mine cart they have with them. Once full, the miner with her mine cart rolls down the track, deposits the ore and either goes back up the other side of the track for more, or up the elevator to eat and sleep.
Because ore in the central shaft is limited, the player will have to prospect for more minerals. Prospectors are special personnel that can be hired and will automatically go through mine shafts, scanning the surrounding rock. If they find more ore, this is indicated on the mine view as an area of a specific color, depending on the ore concentration.
To reach the additional ore, the player can order the shafts to be expanded in a certain direction. The player can decide the type of track and struts to use for the mine shaft. Using high-quality struts decreases the risk of a collapse, while using low-quality struts is cheaper and good enough for shallow mines or steady rocks. Prospectors can be ordered to asses the risk of collapse.
In addition to the used struts, the player has to take into account that for unpowered tracks, the miners have to push the cart themselves. This is slow and exhausts them, meaning they can mine less ore. To counter this, pullies can be installed to pull the mine carts foreward. Full carts are too heavy to push and will only go down a track unless a pully is provided. If a mine cart rolls down a slope too fast, it will crash, so stops have to be installed. Stops also have to be used to prevent a mine cart rolling down a track from colliding with miners that are still working.
In vertical shafts, elevators can be installed. When a mine cart arrives at an elevator, it's emptied and the ore is brought up to the top of the elevator, where it waits for another cart to pick it up and bring it to the next elevator, or, if it's on the surface, to the storage shed.
There are multiple kinds of pullies and elevators. They can be operated by miners, or by drive belts from steam generators. The steam generators produce steam that has to be discharged through ventilation shafts, but it provides for more power and doesn't require a miner to operate.
Deep mines have the risk of building up mine gas, which suffocates miners and has a chance to explode. Ventilation systems can be installed to clean the air. In addition to that, bulkheads can be installed that can protect other sections of the mine in case of an explosion or flooding. Flooding can occur when digging beneath water reservoirs. Prospectors will asses where reservoirs can be found.
Back on the surface, the player can buy better equipment for his miners and prospectors, which will help them work faster. He can also hire more of them, in which case he'll have to build housing for them.

[dreadmullet]

I'm pretty good at Python, and halfway-decent at Java. I can get around in Blender okay, but I'm no pro at it. I'd be happy to contribute however.

For the game, how about it's the game Ender plays (while actually controlling the human fleets). There could be some good strategy in there.

Ender plays?

It's from the book Ender's Game. Imagine you're looking at a hologram of a huge 3D space battle. There are tons and tons of ships of different sizes flying in formations. The only thing you can do is tell the ships what to do, like where to move and stuff.

I think it's a good idea, but developing the AI for the ships would be a huuuuuuge task.


@Virex: Sounds like a solid, doable game, but... it just doesn't sound fun to play. All the player would be doing is gathering ore. Even with cave-ins, flooding, and a little bit of minecart physics, I don't think it would be fun.

[DrPoo]

I'm proficient with Java, Matlab and Common Lisp, but the language we pick shouldn't matter too much for me, I should be able to pick it up fairly quickly.

- Minecarts! Minecarts are awesome. Imagine an isometric view where you can place minecart tracks, with turns and ramps and stuff. There are doors and junctions that can be linked to pressure plates and levers. Oh yeah, and minecart derailings and collisions. Just make some sort of minecart sandbox, and if it's fun to play around with, make a game out of it.

Actually, some sort of mine simulator could be interesting. Feed and provide housing for your workers, buy equipment, build elevators and tracks for the mine carts. As you go deeper, you have to take flooding and ventilation into account. There could be horrible things lurking in the deep, but you're willing to face them all FOR GLORIOUS PROFITS!

Spoiler: More detailed description of the game (click to show/hide)

Qua aesthetics, I was thinking of a steampunkish setup. Lots of steam and brass.
The game is played on a 2-D map representing a slice through the earth. The player starts with a small mine shaft consisting of a central shaft with an elevator and a side shaft with a simple double-track mine cart track. The walls of the shaft contain a certain amount of ore and this will be excavated by the miners and deposited in a mine cart they have with them. Once full, the miner with her mine cart rolls down the track, deposits the ore and either goes back up the other side of the track for more, or up the elevator to eat and sleep.
Because ore in the central shaft is limited, the player will have to prospect for more minerals. Prospectors are special personnel that can be hired and will automatically go through mine shafts, scanning the surrounding rock. If they find more ore, this is indicated on the mine view as an area of a specific color, depending on the ore concentration.
To reach the additional ore, the player can order the shafts to be expanded in a certain direction. The player can decide the type of track and struts to use for the mine shaft. Using high-quality struts decreases the risk of a collapse, while using low-quality struts is cheaper and good enough for shallow mines or steady rocks. Prospectors can be ordered to asses the risk of collapse.
In addition to the used struts, the player has to take into account that for unpowered tracks, the miners have to push the cart themselves. This is slow and exhausts them, meaning they can mine less ore. To counter this, pullies can be installed to pull the mine carts foreward. Full carts are too heavy to push and will only go down a track unless a pully is provided. If a mine cart rolls down a slope too fast, it will crash, so stops have to be installed. Stops also have to be used to prevent a mine cart rolling down a track from colliding with miners that are still working.
In vertical shafts, elevators can be installed. When a mine cart arrives at an elevator, it's emptied and the ore is brought up to the top of the elevator, where it waits for another cart to pick it up and bring it to the next elevator, or, if it's on the surface, to the storage shed.
There are multiple kinds of pullies and elevators. They can be operated by miners, or by drive belts from steam generators. The steam generators produce steam that has to be discharged through ventilation shafts, but it provides for more power and doesn't require a miner to operate.
Deep mines have the risk of building up mine gas, which suffocates miners and has a chance to explode. Ventilation systems can be installed to clean the air. In addition to that, bulkheads can be installed that can protect other sections of the mine in case of an explosion or flooding. Flooding can occur when digging beneath water reservoirs. Prospectors will asses where reservoirs can be found.
Back on the surface, the player can buy better equipment for his miners and prospectors, which will help them work faster. He can also hire more of them, in which case he'll have to build housing for them.

That sounds AWESOME if you ask me, but then it would have to be about industry in general. Like a Dwarf Fortress, but with steam driven rusty robots instead of dwarves.

I had an idea, team based sidescrolling platformer(think soldat) deathmatch game revolving around !!INDUSTRY!!, some players mine, other players build, again another bunch of players haul the resources to the different factories and faccilities, flying finished goods into orbit to transfer to an orbital trading station to earn profit for the corporation, another bunch of players does Research and Development, wich is basically levelling up technology, testing it for errors, if it goes defect, scan it and figure out the error, etc. etc. etc. While other players do the combat stuff, sabotage and invasion.

Story driven low-poly first person adventure game, with alot of physics and !!ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY!!, !!SCIENCE!! and !!LASERS!! to deal with. Think Penumbra, but with low poly graphics, and rogue robots and machinery instead of eldritch horrors.

[Scelly9]

I'm proficient with Java, Matlab and Common Lisp, but the language we pick shouldn't matter too much for me, I should be able to pick it up fairly quickly.

- Minecarts! Minecarts are awesome. Imagine an isometric view where you can place minecart tracks, with turns and ramps and stuff. There are doors and junctions that can be linked to pressure plates and levers. Oh yeah, and minecart derailings and collisions. Just make some sort of minecart sandbox, and if it's fun to play around with, make a game out of it.

Actually, some sort of mine simulator could be interesting. Feed and provide housing for your workers, buy equipment, build elevators and tracks for the mine carts. As you go deeper, you have to take flooding and ventilation into account. There could be horrible things lurking in the deep, but you're willing to face them all FOR GLORIOUS PROFITS!

Spoiler: More detailed description of the game (click to show/hide)

Qua aesthetics, I was thinking of a steampunkish setup. Lots of steam and brass.
The game is played on a 2-D map representing a slice through the earth. The player starts with a small mine shaft consisting of a central shaft with an elevator and a side shaft with a simple double-track mine cart track. The walls of the shaft contain a certain amount of ore and this will be excavated by the miners and deposited in a mine cart they have with them. Once full, the miner with her mine cart rolls down the track, deposits the ore and either goes back up the other side of the track for more, or up the elevator to eat and sleep.
Because ore in the central shaft is limited, the player will have to prospect for more minerals. Prospectors are special personnel that can be hired and will automatically go through mine shafts, scanning the surrounding rock. If they find more ore, this is indicated on the mine view as an area of a specific color, depending on the ore concentration.
To reach the additional ore, the player can order the shafts to be expanded in a certain direction. The player can decide the type of track and struts to use for the mine shaft. Using high-quality struts decreases the risk of a collapse, while using low-quality struts is cheaper and good enough for shallow mines or steady rocks. Prospectors can be ordered to asses the risk of collapse.
In addition to the used struts, the player has to take into account that for unpowered tracks, the miners have to push the cart themselves. This is slow and exhausts them, meaning they can mine less ore. To counter this, pullies can be installed to pull the mine carts foreward. Full carts are too heavy to push and will only go down a track unless a pully is provided. If a mine cart rolls down a slope too fast, it will crash, so stops have to be installed. Stops also have to be used to prevent a mine cart rolling down a track from colliding with miners that are still working.
In vertical shafts, elevators can be installed. When a mine cart arrives at an elevator, it's emptied and the ore is brought up to the top of the elevator, where it waits for another cart to pick it up and bring it to the next elevator, or, if it's on the surface, to the storage shed.
There are multiple kinds of pullies and elevators. They can be operated by miners, or by drive belts from steam generators. The steam generators produce steam that has to be discharged through ventilation shafts, but it provides for more power and doesn't require a miner to operate.
Deep mines have the risk of building up mine gas, which suffocates miners and has a chance to explode. Ventilation systems can be installed to clean the air. In addition to that, bulkheads can be installed that can protect other sections of the mine in case of an explosion or flooding. Flooding can occur when digging beneath water reservoirs. Prospectors will asses where reservoirs can be found.
Back on the surface, the player can buy better equipment for his miners and prospectors, which will help them work faster. He can also hire more of them, in which case he'll have to build housing for them.

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