What kind of video game would you like to see created?

[Seoulstriker]

What would you consider to be an interesting video game?

My brother is taking a 3d game making class next trimester and his group needs some solid ideas.


other teams in the past came up with an ultimate frisbee game, a space turn-based game, a shoot the aliens game and others.


if you had to design a game, what would it be like? it should be simple, include AI, have good environments, interesting gameplay.

and it should be an original game, not quake or doom redux.


one idea that i came up with was a 'sharks and minnows' game. i played it when i was on the swim team.

this is how the game goes: everyone lines up on the side of the pool (like 10-15 people), which are the 'minnows', and there is one shark in the middle. everyone dives into the pool to get past the shark to the other side. the shark needs to 'tag' the minnows. once a minnow is tagged, the minnow accompanies the other other shark in snagging other minnows. the game goes until one person is left (usually born with the same swimming ability as a dolphin ;) ).

swimming to the other side is all strategy, because you have limited air-supply, you can dolphin-kick for only so long, and breaststroke is slow and requires a lot of room.

would that be a good idea for a 3d game?



what would YOU like to see in a video-game. (please, military games are very hard to develop. keep it simple, keep it original).

[Herrmannek]

Paragliding simulator, i didn't found any small, freeware, decent in net so...

What is neded:
- one high mountain
- hot air streams, shafts or whatever you call it in english,
- "simple" AI allowing CPU driven gliders and birds to avoid colissions with themselfs and player and to find and jump/glide from one hot stream to another(showing in this way good lifts for player)...
- possibility to play your own mp3...
- well made physics

[Saint]

How about Sim Concentration Camp.....im just kiddin..this joke isn't going to fly is it?

[Seoulstriker]

Paragliding simulator, i didn't found any small, freeware, decent in net so...

What is neded:
- one high mountain
- hot air streams, shafts or whatever you call it in english,
- "simple" AI allowing CPU driven gliders and birds to avoid colissions with themselfs and player and to find and jump/glide from one hot stream to another(showing in this way good lifts for player)...
- possibility to play your own mp3...
- well made physics


very interesting game idea. would it just be a paragliding simulation? it would need some kind of other gameplay feature to make it interesting, such as racing, or bombing, etc.

ideas on other fora include a turn-based CTF paintball game, and a free-flowing RPG (sort of an open-ended simulation where your skills increase by doing what you want to do. pretty difficult and sophisticated programming and especially modelling would be required.)

the paragliding sim is interesting. :)

[Seoulstriker]

How about Sim Concentration Camp.....im just kiddin..this joke isn't going to fly is it?

nah. :)

[Herrmannek]

very interesting game idea. would it just be a paragliding simulation? it would need some kind of other gameplay feature to make it interesting, such as racing, or bombing, etc.

ideas on other fora include a turn-based CTF paintball game, and a free-flowing RPG (sort of an open-ended simulation where your skills increase by doing what you want to do. pretty difficult and sophisticated programming and especially modelling would be required.)

the paragliding sim is interesting. :)

Hey your bro has only 3months to do that game, paragliding with god physics is enough :)

[Seoulstriker]

very interesting game idea. would it just be a paragliding simulation? it would need some kind of other gameplay feature to make it interesting, such as racing, or bombing, etc.

ideas on other fora include a turn-based CTF paintball game, and a free-flowing RPG (sort of an open-ended simulation where your skills increase by doing what you want to do. pretty difficult and sophisticated programming and especially modelling would be required.)

the paragliding sim is interesting. :)

Hey your bro has only 3months to do that game, paragliding with god physics is enough :)

but it needs to have interesting gameplay!!! :D

[California Joe]

Base it on Last of the Mohicans

[Herrmannek]

but it needs to have interesting gameplay!!! :D

O.K Add naked female paragliders

[Seoulstriker]

ok, the games needs to be simplified. like last year's winner which was Ultimate Frisbee. you can download it here:

http://www.stanford.edu/~mcslee/ultimate/upafrisbee2004.zip

that's what is best: fantastic gameplay, simple idea, decent graphics potential.

[Haiw]

I've got plenty of ideas for great games, but none that are simple...

[Seoulstriker]

my brother really likes the paragliding idea, but he thinks there should be a goal to it, some kind of gameplay. bombing? dogfighting?

[Seoulstriker]

I've got plenty of ideas for great games, but none that are simple...


unfortunately, there is not enough time for complicated games. :(

he needs to get a great idea, and get the gameplay perfect. reasonably simple. :)

[Herrmannek]

my brother really likes the paragliding idea, but he thinks there should be a goal to it, some kind of gameplay. bombing? dogfighting?
Aims...
Keep in air as long as you can..
Fly as high as you can....
Land smothyly without breaking your legs....
Behave yourself in air so you will not collide with other gliders in crowded air streams...

Additionall competitions

-precission landing
-cross country "fly from point A to point Z thru point B-Y",
-I don't realy know paraglide physics(thats why I need simulator :) ), but making some aerobatics is probaly also possible.

Multiplayer would be nice :).

About bombings, I don't know in good sims it's rarely needaed :)

[UkrainianAmerican]

OO OO I got an idea!
SWEDISH MALE S(t)IMULATOR!
Featuring Bob the dog, and murphy the Cat!

[Seoulstriker]

OO OO I got an idea!
SWEDISH MALE S(t)IMULATOR!
Featuring Bob the dog, and murphy the Cat!


:lol: :lol: :lol: nice.

[Seoulstriker]

my brother really likes the paragliding idea, but he thinks there should be a goal to it, some kind of gameplay. bombing? dogfighting?
Aims...
Keep in air as long as you can..
Fly as high as you can....
Land smothyly without breaking your legs....
Behave yourself in air so you will not collide with other gliders in crowded air streams...

Additionall competitions

-precission landing
-cross country "fly from point A to point Z thru point B-Y",
-I don't realy know paraglide physics(thats why I need simulator :) ), but making some aerobatics is probaly also possible.

Multiplayer would be nice :).

About bombings, I don't know in good sims it's rarely needaed :)


i think if you stayed in the air most of the time doing races, or tricks, or stuff like that, that would interesting. maybe there could be some 'road rash' action where you can shoot the other paragliders. :)

[Haiw]

Or a torture game. Seoulstriker could handle the physical side of things.. ;)

[Herrmannek]

i think if you stayed in the air most of the time doing races, or tricks, or stuff like that, that would interesting. maybe there could be some 'road rash' action where you can shoot the other paragliders. :)

It's school project, so probably no real blood allowed(liberals etc... ) :), if you realy want shooting add paintball markers to play "tag" in multiplayer. As bonus mission(if he manage to do previous) he can add night insertion with NV equipment in hostile territory :)

Just curiosity...Can you tell me what tools he will use in that project, OpenGL, DirectX, or maybe some other things....

[Seoulstriker]

OpenGL, a large number of 3d modelling programs, Mac OS X. :)

[Herrmannek]

OpenGL, a large number of 3d modelling programs, Mac OS X. :)

Why Mac OS X, this is system for pussies :)

[Seoulstriker]

OpenGL, a large number of 3d modelling programs, Mac OS X. :)

Why Mac OS X, this is system for pussies :)

rofl

well, Mac OS X rocks Windows. the only thing comparable to Mac OS X is its uncle: Linux, who is the son of Unix. even though i use windows, i think it sucks. i'm moving to linux partially once i get a new harddrive. :)

[MVSpartan117]

Well this isn't original but a multiplayer morrowind, but only for a small party, like 5 people. And have it where it could be saved so you and your friends could keep playing.....

[Haiw]

A gang-bang game. Oh yeah...

[MVSpartan117]

Ah gang-bang game. Oh yeah...

:cantbeli:

[StarvingStudent47]

How about a ghost simulator? You're a ghost, and you inhabit a castle (hotel/apartment building/whatever), and the goal of the game is to spook as many people as possible, and to draw as much media circus to the place as possible, without ever letting someone get a clean photograph of you.

How the scoring could work (just a rough idea):

*Making noises that people hear: 10 points
*Creating paranormal activity that lone people observe: 50 points
*Being seen by a solo person with no camera: 200 points
*Drawing a news station van to the premisis: 50 points

And so forth

Furthermore, you could have "legend points" (think life meter--you start with 100, and you slowly regain them if you lose some. Game over when you hit 0). Ghosts destroy their legendary status by being too open about it!:
*Being seen by a bunch of people who can all ask "did you see that?" to each other afterward: -10 legend points
*Letting someone photograph you: -50 legend points
*Letting a news cameraman photograph you: -100 legend points

As the game progresses, the place will slowly fill up with curiousity-seekers with cameras as well as news teams. You'll have more opportunity to spook people, but the risk of being caught on film will increase. Eventually the place will be swarming, and sooner or later, you'll goof and you'll be caught. Game over! Did you get a high score?

The game could use some sort of simple overhead view. Your brother could showcase his programming talents in the human AI as they run around the building, call news agencies to bring a van, etc. Also, you could have a malleable environment that you could use to set up paranormal phenomena (levitating chairs, moving paintings, etc).

[Resevoir Hogs]

A video game that causes seisures in all people and forces them to get off their asses and stop wasting time on here.

[Seoulstriker]

How about a ghost simulator? You're a ghost, and you inhabit a castle (hotel/apartment building/whatever), and the goal of the game is to spook as many people as possible, and to draw as much media circus to the place as possible, without ever letting someone get a clean photograph of you.

How the scoring could work (just a rough idea):

*Making noises that people hear: 10 points
*Creating paranormal activity that lone people observe: 50 points
*Being seen by a solo person with no camera: 200 points
*Drawing a news station van to the premisis: 50 points

And so forth

Furthermore, you could have "legend points" (think life meter--you start with 100, and you slowly regain them if you lose some. Game over when you hit 0). Ghosts destroy their legendary status by being too open about it!:
*Being seen by a bunch of people who can all ask "did you see that?" to each other afterward: -10 legend points
*Letting someone photograph you: -50 legend points
*Letting a news cameraman photograph you: -100 legend points

As the game progresses, the place will slowly fill up with curiousity-seekers with cameras as well as news teams. You'll have more opportunity to spook people, but the risk of being caught on film will increase. Eventually the place will be swarming, and sooner or later, you'll goof and you'll be caught. Game over! Did you get a high score?

The game could use some sort of simple overhead view. Your brother could showcase his programming talents in the human AI as they run around the building, call news agencies to bring a van, etc. Also, you could have a malleable environment that you could use to set up paranormal phenomena (levitating chairs, moving paintings, etc).


i really like that idea. excellent opportunity for AI. hmmmm... i'll run this by him.

the only thing that is possibly bad about this is the amount of 3d modelling that would need to be done. unfortuantely, the programmers are taking the class to develop a game but have very little experience with actual 3d modelling.

the whole idea of the game is awesome, though. i just emailed him.

[Seoulstriker]

SS, my brother REALLY likes your idea. he's working it out with the team. NICE!!! woot woot woot woot woot
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[flickme]

there is a ghost simulator. its called Ghost Master. i dont know that much about it though. I agree with spartan. A multiplayer morrowind only for a small party(about 5 people) would be awesome.

[Seoulstriker]

yes, it would indeed be awesome. but there is only so much you can do. and it would require a ****load of texturing on advanced models to get any kind of depth to the game. that kind of modelling is very difficult.

the ghost thing would work extremely well because model complexity doesn't matter for the people in the house, but the ghost can have all sorts of complex openGL effects to make it seem like a real ghost.

[StarvingStudent47]

SS, my brother REALLY likes your idea. he's working it out with the team. NICE!!! woot woot woot woot woot
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

Werd. The idea was inspired by the recent ghost photograph at that castle. I tried to think of something that wasn't either bloody or a sports sim, and that's what I came up with. Glad he liked it :)

[Herrmannek]

SS, my brother REALLY likes your idea. he's working it out with the team. NICE!!! woot woot woot woot woot
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

I don't like it :)
:fork: : :hug:

[StarvingStudent47]

Well I guess you just don't have enough haunted houses in Poland then :) :hug:


SeoulStriker--when he's done, is there any way I could obtain a copy of the game?

[Seoulstriker]

nice. most of the work is during the summer before his fall class. i'll definitely help him with modelling the environment and texturing it. it'll be released probably around december of this year. :)

[Seoulstriker]

SeoulStriker--when he's done, is there any way I could obtain a copy of the game?


definitely!!! the list of entries last year is here:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-videogame-competition/cs248-03/

and the winner is here:

http://www.stanford.edu/~mcslee/ultimate/upafrisbee2004.zip

the frisbee game is definitely the best, and i can't get most of the others working/they are for other platforms.


SS, my brother and one his teammates are using mac os X for most of the designing, so he will actually have to port the game to windows once he is finished. it wouldn't take that long though because it's opengl based. :D

[Trigger]

How about one where a Yeti with a club smacks suicidal penguins with the goal of making them fly as far as possible?


...nah. :D

[NcDeuce]

One of those games at Chucky Cheese where you hit gophers or some crap. Replace the gopher with ducimus. Gives new meaning to :bash:

[2Sheds_Jackson]

anybody played pencilwhipped? It's being independently developed by a company called chislebrain www.chiselbrain.com There's been a demo out for years & now they're rewriting the engine. It's funny as $hit - full of obscenities & strangeness. It shows that games don't have to have a $20 million dollar budget to be fun.

[Midtown]

ugh macs...I hate using them (I have them at school) Its a dumbed down version of a PC.

[Salty Dog]

go with a cool runnings theme and make a game about a midget arab hockey team that wins the next winter olympics.....if not a game, how about a movie.

[farmgirl]

How about a game where Farmgirl/WonderWoman saves the world from a bunch of really good looking bad guys???? p-)

[California Joe]

or evil raccoons with giant balls

[farmgirl]

or evil raccoons with giant balls

or really good looking bad guys with giant :oops: nevermind... bad idea p-)

[California Joe]

Talking about me again.

[memphiz]

i came up with a movie but i could be a game to its called LT. CAGE

L=lesbians
T=tities :D
.
C=cars
A=asses
G=guns
E=explosions

in the game ur a naked lesbian and u go around in a sweet ass car blowing up crap with machine guns, and going at it with other chicks :lol: :lol: , im going to make this movie when im older its gonna be sweet

[Seoulstriker]

i came up with a movie but i could be a game to its called LT. CAGE

L=lesbians
T=tities :D
.
C=cars
A=asses
G=guns
E=explosions

in the game ur a naked lesbian and u go around in a sweet ass car blowing up crap with machine guns, and going at it with other chicks :lol: :lol: , im going to make this movie when im older its gonna be sweet


rofl rofl rofl

grand theft auto with attitude. :D

[memphiz]

i came up with a movie but i could be a game to its called LT. CAGE

L=lesbians
T=tities :D
.
C=cars
A=asses
G=guns
E=explosions

in the game ur a naked lesbian and u go around in a sweet ass car blowing up crap with machine guns, and going at it with other chicks :lol: :lol: , im going to make this movie when im older its gonna be sweet


rofl rofl rofl

grand theft auto with attitude. :D

yeh kinda but like a thousand times better, and there will be a movie

[StarvingStudent47]

How about a game where Farmgirl/WonderWoman saves the world from a bunch of really good looking bad guys???? p-)

Bad news. I hear that George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Orlando Bloom, Will Smith, and Matt Damon have just bought a couple of black-market nukes and are threatening to vaporize the East Coast unless their demands are met. They haven't actually named any demands per se, but they've started the count-down to launch anyway, so I think it's time to send in our elite secret agent. Whadda ya say, Farmgirl?

[Jack Mehoff]

farmgirl and Nawlins mud wrestling pay-per-view

[farmgirl]

How about a game where Farmgirl/WonderWoman saves the world from a bunch of really good looking bad guys???? p-)

Bad news. I hear that George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Orlando Bloom, Will Smith, and Matt Damon have just bought a couple of black-market nukes and are threatening to vaporize the East Coast unless their demands are met. They haven't actually named any demands per se, but they've started the count-down to launch anyway, so I think it's time to send in our elite secret agent. Whadda ya say, Farmgirl?


I say... I'm the woman for the job. p-)

[WARPIG]

I have an idea for .. well not exactly a game.
I thought that with chat being so popular... that game animators could create a sort of "SIM" for chatters. You create a base character and as you go to different chat rooms you change the appearance. That way you can walk around the room or restaurant or bar..... you get the idea... and do different things. For instance chatters use the smiley's and crap. My idea is that there are buttons, or hotkeys, or codes to emote different actions.
The idea came from a game called Asheron's call. It is a role playing game but is not turn-based. The game is pretty good but the most interesting part of it is the "culture" that has grown online from it.

The things that could be included are those PM or one on one chat things that go on. You could double click another person in a room and go talk with them in private. At that point the graphics become a close up of the person you are talking to.

[Izmirlian]

Sim Concentration Camp is perhaps the best idea I've ever heard.

[Fargin]

Sim Concentration Camp is perhaps the best idea I've ever heard.
Good enough to dig up a five year old thread?

[Mikhael]

Sim Concentration Camp is perhaps the best idea I've ever heard.

O great necromancer rise more dead topics please p-)

[62ECHO]

I am Legend Fallout 3 style!

[kramer]

Make a game about Chicago Ted. No bitch is safe from him!

[SrB-23Q]

i would like to see game about the Balkan Wars last decade, a proper game about the Balkan Wars not a MOD pack.

[Bro Jangles]

We need a game were you play as a genetically enhanced space marine that fights a coalition of evil genocidal aliens on a distant world.

[ronnieraygun]

Sim Concentration Camp is perhaps the best idea I've ever heard.
:oops:


I think they need to think up a colorful two-dimensional game where you play an Italian plumber on a quest to save a princess. It should have mushrooms both toxic and healthy and fire-breathing dragons. I think it needs something like flying storks and hammer-throwing turtles, too. That would rock.

[Hennie the Great]

A-team, The Game!!!!

[TDuck]

Trenches. You can play between French, English, Italian Russian, German,Austro-HungarianEmpire, and The U.S.

Weapons include and not limited too:

Rifle:

K98
Lee-Enfield SMLE
Enfield 1917
1903 Springfield
Lebel
Berthier
Steyr-Mannlicher
(Scoped version available on a few rifles)

Shotgun:

Model-97 Trench Gun

Pistols:

Luger
Webley Mk IV revolver
Lebel' 1892
Nagant
Colt 1911
Smith&Wesson Model 1917

Machine Gun:
Lewis Light Machine Gun (http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_lewis.htm)
Vickers (http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_vickers.htm)
Chauchat (http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_chauchat.htm) (Yes, i put in this piece of ****, because the game hates you.)
Hotchkiss
Browning M1917 (http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_browning.htm)
Pulemyot Maxima
Fiat-Revelli M1914

(The light machine guns are movable)
Sub-Machine Gun:

Bergmann MP18 (http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_mp18.htm)

Hand to hand:

Saw-tooth bayonet
1918 Trench Knife
M-1910
brass knuckles

(All hand to hand weapons you have to trade for)



The most interesting feature is the ability to search bodies. As you go on you can search bodies for stuff, cigarettes act as a trading tool, when you meet "stumpy"(Missing his left arm). A shroud man, who will trade if the price is right. You can trade for upgrades, scopes, optics, weapons, and better stats like increased health. Stumpy is in the beginning of every level. He is everywhere, and wears the same uniform you do, where ever you are. He is on levels.

You can play co-op or online with up to 16 people in the lobby.


(More details later)

[Karaahmetoglu]

World War 1 game like BF2.

[kawaiku]

World War Z...

[ayanami_tard]

first person shooter in napoleonic era

[SpecOpsGrandChild]

EA making a World War 1 Battlefield game, and a Korea one.

[Molli]

There's a First World War FPS in the works already: To End All Wars. That said, it has been some time since I last read about it...

[Karaahmetoglu]

A game where you can pit against anyone army against another one in FPS, with a range of Maps, in modern day.

[scrybe]

I would really like to see a legit sniper game. Sure there are scoped rifles and even ghillie suits in a few games, but I haven't played a single game that I feel like really captures the stalk, fieldcraft, and marksmanship of sniping. I'm talking massive maps that require varying speeds of movement and the use of terrain and vegetation to get close enough for a shot. Proper equipment selection to prevent detection. Extremely long shots that require bullet drop compensation, wind variance, heat, and whatnot. That would make me very happy.

[Cstafford]

A real MMO style fps, maybe set to modern warfare(not the CoD game, just modern day warfare in gen) ive thought about this a long time and if it could work, it would be awesome.

[ARGAR FORKBEARD]

Barkyard naked lesbian cucumber fighting.... in custard!

[szr]

SimAssemblyLine

The cut scenes when your assembly line gets outsourced to Malaysia will feature cutting-edge 3D graphics.

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

A RPG//FPS set in World War 2 during the Kakoda campaign.

the FPS elements will have you take part in all the different historical battles plus random/dynamic actions.

The RPG element will have you hiking, trying to survive in one of the most brutal and gut wrenching campaigns of modern warfare.

[MichaelF]

I want a ZARDOZ!!!!-themed game. Preferably FPS.

http://www.youtube.com/v/12hxZ77gZus&hl=en&fs=1

[Hennie the Great]

How about a farmer game including harvesting, seeding, shooting people and animals, having *** with animals, UFO landings and all that sh*t?

[Evolv5]

Duke Nukem: Forever.

[Bro Jangles]

Duke Nukem: Forever.
its a myth.

[Battlebuds]

An excellent 1st or 3rd person shooter for ps3 xbox, mainly multiplayer, realism max! 1 life per round online etc, not another rainbow 6, more like socom!

[AroundTheCorner]

something similar to GTA4, just that you can do whatever you wnat to. Work a job, where you get fired after you don't show up or are to late. where you can go into every house. where you can pimp your ride. all that stuff.
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and of course you can put attachmends like sights or AEGs on some of the 200 different weapons you can buy :)

[PeterRJG]

A Blade Runner MMORPG