Game Concept

I thought of a game on my way to work today, and ill describe it to you!

It' s a fantasy universe set in around the year 1000. The kingdom the is the center of the game has fallen, and you take the role of a young girl, the princess and heir to the empire! The goal is to escape the kingdom and the armies of the enemy.

To help and aid in your escape you have your body guard, a huge brute with a giant sword, who the AI controls, he will help you escape, and battle the enemies y ou meet along the way, its your job to keep him alive, by offering potions, luring enemies into ambushes, opening doors and working out puzzles while he holds back the enemy. At rare times helping him when in dire need with a few spells that you have available.

You should have the option of manipulating the enviroment, sometimes having to call over the Brute so he can help you move heavier objects and ofcourse calling for his aid if enemies are upon you!

Kinda Ico inspired game, with a twist!

I' ve made that into a fully-fledged game and it' s ready to ship Q4 next year...

Thanks for the idea.....

Just joking... Is the aim of this thread to put our game ideas in it?

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

If you wish! it was just for comments! I made a thread about ideas some time back, but it never really took off!

ffs this is CRY ON sakaguchis new third rpg coming,but instead the girl can sit on the giant brutes shoulder while he handles the enemies.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I think I remember that thread. Why do the creative threads never take- off??
I' ll be adding my second contribution to the Create your own COmics thread
today.. Can we suggest things to add to people' s ideas and how they would work,
and why they wouldn' t work?

(Damn that b@st@rd Mass X and his copy of Dead Rising!)

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

ffs this is CRY ON sakaguchis new third rpg coming,but instead the girl can sit on the giant brutes shoulder while he handles the enemies.

just read up on Cry On, its not entirely the same, but ill be looking forward to seeing more of it! Would be cool to have the money to make a great game!

All you need is perserverance (spellcheck) and a beer!

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I think i need a million beers to convince people to make my game :P

You need lineage proof that you and HC Andersen are related.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

He is my dad! really! really really!

Awesome idea man! I really like it!

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

Cool, I might have to... ' borrow' your idea.

Nah, not really, I already have a litter of ideas of my own that I am hoping to make into a reality someday, I should probably concentrate more on them before I start... ' borrowing' ideas.

Why don' t you guys start by " categorising" the ideas you have..

It would really be interested to find out what kind of games you guys are looking
to make..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Maybe some other time. I don' t really feel like typing down every last detail at the moment. Other members might attempt to... ' borrow' some of my ideas, as well...

When I said " categorise" I meant by genre... Not ideas.. If you guys are
anything like me, I' ll know that you want to keep your ideas between you
and yourself... So start puting the genres..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Oh, well I have done that already. Sorted out each genre and so on.

and you posted it.... where?

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

In my head!

Quite a few of them are RPG and/or horror, and some miscellanious(WTF!?!? sp???). Why don' t you give a few examples of your own first.

So... this thread is some kind of a concept 4 a game which doesn´t exist, huh?

Ok, here r my ideas: You are a dealer. You deal with drugs. And you are allways trying to make money. The cops are in many places, and you must hide from them. The idea is a mix out of MGS/SC sneaking action and a GTA-like game that brings you without that f*cking ´ratet m 4 mature´ to the dirty, disturbed and fearfull life of a little dealer in a gigantic city, making his way to be a big drug boss(gang fights included).

Any one is free to use my idea! just throw my name in the credits! its not like im going to be making a game! we only have one half decent company here in denmark, and somehow i dont picture it as an IO game!

ORIGINAL: Vx Chemical

Any one is free to use my idea! just throw my name in the credits! its not like im going to be making a game! we only have one half decent company here in denmark, and somehow i dont picture it as an IO game!

I' ll get onto character designing right away....

I' m being serious, I' ll see how best I can design a character for you VX, based
on what you wrote on the first page..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I have a good image of the characters in my mind! the brute should be in somewhat half destroyed plate armor, very big, i imagine him standing with the girl holding her wrist (more like her whole underarm) while she is kinda sagging a bit in her knees, (viewing them from the back) In his other hand he has a big scythe like sword, and infront of them an army filled wasteland!

I wish i could draw, but i cant :P

ORIGINAL: Vx Chemical

I have a good image of the characters in my mind! the brute should be in somewhat half destroyed plate armor, very big, i imagine him standing with the girl holding her wrist (more like her whole underarm) while she is kinda sagging a bit in her knees, (viewing them from the back) In his other hand he has a big scythe like sword, and infront of them an army filled wasteland!

I wish i could draw, but i cant :P

I don' t have the energy to draw an army filled wasteland, so I' ll lay it out for
you, so you can see what could be.

What did you mean by:

while she is kinda sagging a bit in her knees

???

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Means at that current moment, he is keeping her standing!

I thought that in the game maybe there could be a unique kinda of coorperative where one player controls the girl, the other controls the brute!

ORIGINAL: Vx Chemical

Means at that current moment, he is keeping her standing!

I thought that in the game maybe there could be a unique kinda of coorperative where one player controls the girl, the other controls the brute!

OOOOOHHHHH! That' s what you meant.. So she is basically weak from
battle' s and doesn' t want to do it anymore, and he is the rock that keeps her
morale up?!

I like it.. As soon as I have finished work, I' ll do some designs and post them
up...

Also if I can think of gameplay and mechanics for it, I may try to add it to my
list of projects...

ORIGINAL: Marink

Why don' t you give a few examples of your own first.

I have in total 10 projects:

One 4-part Action RPG, possibly a 5th part if the fourth doesn' t answer enough
questions.

4 action game ideas, one is a spin off of the 5-part one and the other two are post
apocalyptic projects concerning discrepancies with the God' s and includes
some ideas that may gravely upset the vatican. The last idea is a ninja-stealth
game that combines elements of Ninja Gaiden and Splinter Cell, and a japanese
ninja' s problems with the american government.

Another one is an MMORPG, heavily based on features in the 5-part Action/RPG.
Already, I have pitched the idea to my (7-man) team who agree that the aspect
of it sounds very addictive; the main theme to it is a deeper more thoughtful
version of territorial control.

That' s 5 ideas and 10 projects.. It' s gonna be a loooong 10 years..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

OOOOOHHHHH! That' s what you meant.. So she is basically weak from
battle' s and doesn' t want to do it anymore, and he is the rock that keeps her
morale up?!

Yep, like that, i also imagine it the other way around, say he is the one, lying with numerous wounds on the ground, with her sitting by his side tending him!

Hmmm... that makes for better drama.. I' ll draw 2 concepts and see.. Anyone
else have any ideas they wanna throw about?

(Can you imagine if one of the lesser game developers are viewing this
thread and hoovering our ideas up?!)

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I wouldnt mind! they can just contact me and pick my brain, all id want was my name in the credits and a job as a story editor

The second idea, sorta pits her more in the center of the game, than the first one does! Maybe i should just learn to program and il lmake the game :P

Yeah, the second idea puts her more in the story, and the first puts her in the
story but coated in mystery, either way it works.

So she' s a princess of a Kingdom right?

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Yeah that would be the center of it! it could be other things, the daughter of a powerful sorcerer, but i im more keen on princess

I agree, in most of my ideas the ratio for girls to guys is 4:2. My main
character is a female.

I think the daughter to a king is more fitting, as a duaghter to a sorcerer doesn' t
really leave much to the imagination as anything could go wrong.

If she' s the daughter of a respectable Kingdom, then when something goes wrong
people are left shocked if she takes a turn for the worse.

Hmm, I' m gonna have fun working with this concept, any other ideas VX that
you have, or is this the only one.. I think I should work on this one first, and then
put it up, and then work from there.



(All you lowly game developers watching... go away and think of your own IP!)

Then watch them take the idea just to be spiteful..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I had just written all this as my pc rebooted, so ill do it again!

I have another idea, the main player is a merchant, travelling to town with his merchandise, his family with him, as he is attacked by bandits, everyone is slain! despite that the merchant wakes up the following day, a voice talking to him, though inside his head, calling him worthless a fool! commanding him to get up to seek vengeance! The voice guiding him through the game, seeking out the people who caused his misfortune and even having an agenda of its own, while the main character struggles to discover the nature of the voice, is it a demon or is he just growing insane!

The game style should be 3rd person, stealth/combat, its a low magic univers! A semi horror game.

Its not as good as the first idea, but id still like to play, it could obt for a lot of twists!

I have another idea, the main player is a merchant, travelling to town with his merchandise, his family with him, as he is attacked by bandits, everyone is slain! despite that the merchant wakes up the following day, a voice talking to him, though inside his head, calling him worthless a fool! commanding him to get up to seek vengeance! The voice guiding him through the game, seeking out the people who caused his misfortune and even having an agenda of its own, while the main character struggles to discover the nature of the voice, is it a demon or is he just growing insane!

Perhaps the voice could be the darkness within him, trying to escape from it' s flesh prison. However, in order to do this, it must try to persuade the merchant to follow its orders. This could mean that the player must have to make their own decisions throughout the game, which will affect the merchant and his very life later in the game. For instance, if one chooses to take the dark path, then later on in the game the merchant will become extremely powerful, yet the player(and thus, the merchant) will have very little control of the merchant' s body, who will lash out at innocent people, etc at random times- meaning he will be more than likely to be ambushed by people of higher status, if you know what I mean.

That' s just one example, though. If you don' t understand it, be sure to ask.

For instance, if one chooses to take the dark path, then later on in the game the merchant will become extremely powerful, yet the player(and thus, the merchant) will have very little control of the merchant' s body, who will lash out at innocent people, etc at random times- meaning he will be more than likely to be ambushed by people

I had a similar thought! i understand what you mean


i mean it to be a very dark and gritty game, constant rain, overclouded, mood effects, foot steps in mud, mud in clothes, footsteps with mud when inside, really creating a daddy setting, bloody when you slay people!

Hehe, I guess great minds think alike, eh?

Anyway, another example of an effect of choosing to carry out the voice' s orders could be that the player will be forced to roam around in the darkness for a while to survive or something.

Anywhooo, if you are ever interested, I' d be more than happy to be in charge of the script writing for either game(unless you want to, of course).

I edited my post above ^^^^

well its not like im planning on making the game, since im in need of 20+ developers, artists, programmers.

Are games expensive because of the need to pay people? If so... I am SOOO
set.. There' s obviously the need of development tools etc...

Paths in games are very, VERY risky. If it' s on;y done half-arsedly, a lot of negative
feedback will be received from gamers, but if you' re going to give someone
choice, you should make it for dialogue just to be safe, but if you can
guarantee depth in the choices, then a choice of paths is definitely a good idea.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Yeah it is risky! so as a beginning game one path should be set! maybe with some side quests to help progress that part of the game!

Tiz said he is interested in doing the character design. I' m talking about maybe sometime way in the future.

I know you can' t just wish yourself a huge gaming business and games.

Im more interested in the first game i posted about in the very first post!