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[Parsely]

My brother came up with an idea for a minecraft mod, which I wrote the details of in a text document. I'll post those later, but I can't actually code it.

So are there any coders willing to help us with this? Especially any familiar with the Technic Launcher?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Try and:
Make each biome a 60% chance of being "city" and 40% of being "Park"; Park is a normal biome, city is a villiage on top of the regular biome.
Villages have had all their buildings replaced with large multistory buildings with lots and lots of windows, probably multiple doors.
Spaces between buildings in villages have pavement or slabs (roads or sidewalks).
The things villagers will trade for are widely more varried, but they're more stingy (requiring more trade goods to give an emerald and giving less for and emerald)
As well as regular villagers, there will be a second variety of villager mob called an Anti-Hobo Villager, which is technically a Hostile mob; passive and behaves like a villager, until you right click them to try to trade, but then they attack you when you do. Because they don't tollerate begging. Anyways, it means tradable villagers will be few and far between, because they count as villagers and there are more of them.
There are some "hobo" monsters that resemble players, but instead of noses like villagers they have fuzzy coat trims, which are always hostile. There are "Urchins" which are even smaller but have the same size head (A hobo has a 15% chance of spawning as an Urchin). Urchins will grow into hobos if they don't despawn in 3 day/night cycles.
Feeding rotten meat or other foods to hobos or urchins might tame them, with a 4% chance. Tamed hobos and urchins will follow you and attack other non-passive mobs, pick up items, and you can right click them to access their 8 block inventory. Untamed hobos will attack other hobos or villagers, as well as other mobs.
Some hobos will be "Elite" and cannot be tamed. Elite hobos will tame other hobos; hobos will remember who tamed them and remain hostile to others (such as you). Urchins can be Elite too. This can result in all out wars between hobos when two elite hobos with hobo armies meet.
Tamed Hobos also have a hunger stat, which will slowly degrade, and they can consume food from their inventory (even rotting meat). When they run out of hunger they'll turn back to untamed.
Iron Golems still exist, but are not spawned by villages (which there will be 1 world spanning village (due to overlap) or up to 6 slightly smaller ones); while Iron Golems can be produced by other means, villages spawn "Fuzz" now, which are mobs that resemble villagers with blue uniforms, fancy hats, and swords. Fuzz will attack hobos, urchins, zombies, or anyone/anything who attacks a Fuzz, Villager, or Anti-Hobo Villager.
It can interface with the most popular Mob Damage Indicator mod's APIs to display the health AND hunger of Hobo and Urchin mobs.
Just like with their Villager version, there can be a Hobo version for a zombie (Zombie with a ragged coat trim). And because there are miniature Hobos (Urchins), then there are miniature hobo zombies.
Hobos (And Urchins, and the tamed versions) when killed have a 10% chance of dropping rotten meat, 2 5% chances of dropping an apple (0.25% of two apples), a 1% chance each of dropping raw mutton, raw pork, raw beef, or raw chicken, a 20% chance of dropping a loaf of bread, a 5% chance of dropping a wooden sword, a 10% chance of dropping a wooden axe, and a 0.5% chance of dropping an emerald.
Fuzz when killed have a 40% chance of dropping a damaged iron tool (sword, axe, pickaxe, or shovel) with 10-50% durability, have 4 10% chances of dropping iron ingots, 3 5% chances of dropping stacks of 2 sticks, and 2 1% chances of dropping an emerald.
Anti-Hobo Villagers when killed have the same drops as villagers.
Zombie Hobos (And urchins) have the same drops as zombies.

Buildings in the mod will have glass blocks between the buildings (with a algorithm to connect them in a logical manner) with redstone dust on them, and redstone repeaters in the buildings; the purpose of these paths is to create a network of energy that lights up the glowstone lanterns in the buildings. Some buildings have sources for the redstone signals.
There are special carpets (non-craftable) inside all the buildings; when you stand on them, then any Anti-Hobo villagers will attack without being right clicked, as will nearby Fuzz.
Villagers have had their combat skills buffed to fend off zombies a little better; they can still be converted easily, though, so if a zombie outbreak begins it will be very difficult to stop.

I'd give it a shot if I owned Minecraft.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

My brother came up with an idea for a minecraft mod, which I wrote the details of in a text document. I'll post those later, but I can't actually code it.

So are there any coders willing to help us with this? Especially any familiar with the Technic Launcher?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Try and:
Make each biome a 60% chance of being "city" and 40% of being "Park"; Park is a normal biome, city is a villiage on top of the regular biome.
Villages have had all their buildings replaced with large multistory buildings with lots and lots of windows, probably multiple doors.
Spaces between buildings in villages have pavement or slabs (roads or sidewalks).
The things villagers will trade for are widely more varried, but they're more stingy (requiring more trade goods to give an emerald and giving less for and emerald)
As well as regular villagers, there will be a second variety of villager mob called an Anti-Hobo Villager, which is technically a Hostile mob; passive and behaves like a villager, until you right click them to try to trade, but then they attack you when you do. Because they don't tollerate begging. Anyways, it means tradable villagers will be few and far between, because they count as villagers and there are more of them.
There are some "hobo" monsters that resemble players, but instead of noses like villagers they have fuzzy coat trims, which are always hostile. There are "Urchins" which are even smaller but have the same size head (A hobo has a 15% chance of spawning as an Urchin). Urchins will grow into hobos if they don't despawn in 3 day/night cycles.
Feeding rotten meat or other foods to hobos or urchins might tame them, with a 4% chance. Tamed hobos and urchins will follow you and attack other non-passive mobs, pick up items, and you can right click them to access their 8 block inventory. Untamed hobos will attack other hobos or villagers, as well as other mobs.
Some hobos will be "Elite" and cannot be tamed. Elite hobos will tame other hobos; hobos will remember who tamed them and remain hostile to others (such as you). Urchins can be Elite too. This can result in all out wars between hobos when two elite hobos with hobo armies meet.
Tamed Hobos also have a hunger stat, which will slowly degrade, and they can consume food from their inventory (even rotting meat). When they run out of hunger they'll turn back to untamed.
Iron Golems still exist, but are not spawned by villages (which there will be 1 world spanning village (due to overlap) or up to 6 slightly smaller ones); while Iron Golems can be produced by other means, villages spawn "Fuzz" now, which are mobs that resemble villagers with blue uniforms, fancy hats, and swords. Fuzz will attack hobos, urchins, zombies, or anyone/anything who attacks a Fuzz, Villager, or Anti-Hobo Villager.
It can interface with the most popular Mob Damage Indicator mod's APIs to display the health AND hunger of Hobo and Urchin mobs.
Just like with their Villager version, there can be a Hobo version for a zombie (Zombie with a ragged coat trim). And because there are miniature Hobos (Urchins), then there are miniature hobo zombies.
Hobos (And Urchins, and the tamed versions) when killed have a 10% chance of dropping rotten meat, 2 5% chances of dropping an apple (0.25% of two apples), a 1% chance each of dropping raw mutton, raw pork, raw beef, or raw chicken, a 20% chance of dropping a loaf of bread, a 5% chance of dropping a wooden sword, a 10% chance of dropping a wooden axe, and a 0.5% chance of dropping an emerald.
Fuzz when killed have a 40% chance of dropping a damaged iron tool (sword, axe, pickaxe, or shovel) with 10-50% durability, have 4 10% chances of dropping iron ingots, 3 5% chances of dropping stacks of 2 sticks, and 2 1% chances of dropping an emerald.
Anti-Hobo Villagers when killed have the same drops as villagers.
Zombie Hobos (And urchins) have the same drops as zombies.

Buildings in the mod will have glass blocks between the buildings (with a algorithm to connect them in a logical manner) with redstone dust on them, and redstone repeaters in the buildings; the purpose of these paths is to create a network of energy that lights up the glowstone lanterns in the buildings. Some buildings have sources for the redstone signals.
There are special carpets (non-craftable) inside all the buildings; when you stand on them, then any Anti-Hobo villagers will attack without being right clicked, as will nearby Fuzz.
Villagers have had their combat skills buffed to fend off zombies a little better; they can still be converted easily, though, so if a zombie outbreak begins it will be very difficult to stop.

Could use the Walled Cities mod and crank up the generation chance really high instead of using villages, or use the endless city mod, but improve the buildings drastically.

Edit: If it were possible to get this to spawn randomly in ordinary generation, that would work.

[Gatleos]

I had an idea a while back for some kind of "information warfare" game, where you're trying to shift public opinion or cover up a government secret using sinister propaganda/misdirection tactics (astroturfing, running propaganda ads, silencing whistle-blowers, etc.) The problem is, I have no idea how such a game would play. It's difficult to imagine a framework that would allow meaningful innovation and creativity from the player when the goal is so abstract. It might get repetitive.

Of course, the other game idea I had might go well with it. It was a war game where you do everything except fight the actual war; you basically just deal with the economic and political side, transforming your country's industry into a war machine. Dealing with anti-war protests or even drumming up support for the war in the first place could be interesting aspects.

[scrdest]

I had an idea a while back for some kind of "information warfare" game, where you're trying to shift public opinion or cover up a government secret using sinister propaganda/misdirection tactics (astroturfing, running propaganda ads, silencing whistle-blowers, etc.) The problem is, I have no idea how such a game would play. It's difficult to imagine a framework that would allow meaningful innovation and creativity from the player when the goal is so abstract. It might get repetitive.

Floor 13 again.

[The Scout]

A mix between Aurora and X3:TC. Aurora's spreadsheet display and designing, with X3TCs resource chains. So instead of mining for limited minerals, you get an infinite supply of base material which is made into other stuff/that stuff being made into more advanced stuff, the only limiting factor being how fast you can mine the base material or convert it into other stuff.

[itisnotlogical]

A Star Trek 4X that incorporates as many elements of the Trek universe as they can possibly fit in. I know there have been Star Trek-branded 4X games in the past, but they're so obscure that I have found literally zero places to buy them.

A new game in the style of Bridge Commander with voice commands would be awesome, too. Imagine pointing at the screen and saying "Engage" to do everything~

[WillowLuman]

So, on the way home I was thinking of how many quests in Elder Scrolls games seem to assume that you're an unknown nobody, even if you're known as the hero of the realm and wearing some really ostentatious endgame armor of doom. So I thought: what if there was an Elder Scrolls (or similar) game, where the gimmick mechanic was multiple identities?

Through illusion, shapeshifting, and just plain costumery, you could assume different identities. It could be even as simple as not being recognized by someone due to them never seeing you without your all-covering armor. So, every time you complete a quest, it gets credited to whoever people think you are at the time. That way you could still do low-key quests that fame and fortune would logically get in the way of. Through confessions or witnesses (that may or may not be believed), people might discover that 2 or more personas are actually the same person.

[Bohandas]

So, on the way home I was thinking of how many quests in Elder Scrolls games seem to assume that you're an unknown nobody, even if you're known as the hero of the realm and wearing some really ostentatious endgame armor of doom. So I thought: what if there was an Elder Scrolls (or similar) game, where the gimmick mechanic was multiple identities?

Through illusion, shapeshifting, and just plain costumery, you could assume different identities. It could be even as simple as not being recognized by someone due to them never seeing you without your all-covering armor. So, every time you complete a quest, it gets credited to whoever people think you are at the time. That way you could still do low-key quests that fame and fortune would logically get in the way of. Through confessions or witnesses (that may or may not be believed), people might discover that 2 or more personas are actually the same person.

Sort of like the faction uniforms in Fallout: New Vegas?

Speaking of which, I'd like to see Skyrim remade using the engine from Fallout New Vegas, given that FNV actually works more or less properly whereas Skyrim certainly doesn't

EDIT:
Clearly it must have a record of the mods used by that save somewhere, because it gives me an alert that some of the mods it was using aren't active anymore when I try to open it.

[WillowLuman]

Sort of, but far more in-depth. Such a disguise/persona system would lend well to shenanigans involving playing factions against each other. The game would have to have a system for ranking how ostentatious particular pieces of gear are, as well as how well they conceal your features.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Bohandas, no, please, no Skyrim with the New Vegas engine. I don't want to go back to Oblivion graphics. They were great at the time, but I just can't.

[Bohandas]

But FNV's interface actually works and the melee combat doesn't look even nearly as stilted and unnatural as Skyrim's

[WillowLuman]

But FNV's interface actually works and the melee combat doesn't look even nearly as stilted and unnatural as Skyrim's

FNV uses Oblivion combat animations and its melee combat is practically Oblivion's, just with a few unique moves thrown in.

[itisnotlogical]

Something like ARMA, but for science. Using tools and equipment of the time, you have to make important real-world historical scientific discoveries. I have no idea how much this would have to be simplified to be an actual workable idea.

[Sergius]

Something like ARMA, but for science. Using tools and equipment of the time, you have to make important real-world historical scientific discoveries. I have no idea how much this would have to be simplified to be an actual workable idea.

Discoveries have to be procedurally generated, somehow. And their impact on society should work like one of 'em Dwarf Fortress fractal descriptions, like forgotten beasts or carvings representing events.

EDIT: Oh, you said real-world. Then this would be the standalone expansion

[Cowboy Colt]

A game with no scoring system.

Your level of success is determined by how intact your body is.