/ideaguy/ - For Idea Guys by Idea Guys

>Be out of high school for 3 years

>No money for college

>Working 3, soon to be 4 jobs just to pay rent at uncle's house, insurance, and bills

>In massive debt to grandmother after parents kicked me out with 0 warning and no job or money so she had to put me up in a motel for 3 months

>Massive medical bill debt from asthma related complications brought on by family that insists on getting several dogs and cats and smoking in the house despite my allergies.

>No time or energy after 3 jobs to sit down and learn to make things

>tfw mother spent $150 on this: https://www.schoolofinteractivedesign.com/training/ to surprise me a year ago

>A year ago it said "LEARN HOW TO DESIGN GAMES WITHOUT HAVING TO LEARN CODE"

>Literally all of the videos were shit you could watch for free on youtube but she tried and that's all that matters.

>tfw I never had/will never have any time to devote to learning and my year's access is almost up

I'm hoping my voice acting career takes off soon so I can at least move out of my uncle's house and support myself without having to work a 90 hour workweek.

ITT: share your sad excuses reasons for not being a gamedev

Rules:

1 entry per anon, 3 person max on a team idea

stick to the theme

have fun

Reward: $20 or equivalent purchase

Deadline: December 20th(open to change based on response)

Theme: Parasites

Mechanics: hostage & chisel

Requirements:

Word Count: 1500 min

Winners will be judged on 3 things on a 1-5 point scale:

Completeness: how fleshed out your idea is, try to avoid vague generalizations

Originality: :^)

Theme adherence: Did they successfully communicate the Theme and mechanics in an active role.

Send Lemonsquare@8chan.co an email with a name if you're planning on participating, so i can get a count. Then send another email with your idea when finished. Ideas can be edited until the deadline. Ideas will be posted publicly in the thread by me.

Slots for judges will open up down the line. There will be a community vote and judge vote.

I'm trying create a videogame with a friend, but we don't agree wich idea is better.

1) He wants create a game mixing "The forest" and "the walking dead" (and decisions like LiS), with a gameplay similar to Resident Evil 5 and/or Kingdom Hearts. You have some companions, but they can die if you didn't choose the correct answer or lost their lives in a battle. Only 1 level of difficulty and he want to split it into 3 "seasons" (chapters). Basically action + survive with a lot of decisions.

2) My idea was create a horror game like the 3 first Silent Hills, set in Japan (90's) where the monsters are legendary japanese creatures. You have to survive and complete the story, you can choose 3-4 different levels of difficulty and secret characters with their own plots, once you beat up the main story. You don't have any sidekicks, and some actions determinate how the game ends (not the last decision of the game, like LiS, more like 1 and 2 Silent Hills).

Which game would be better?

not really sure where to start. I have this concept I've been sitting on for several years. tried reaching out to a couple people way back to try and get it started, but nothing so far. unfortunately as well, the only thing I could really contribute to development besides the idea, if anything, is to do the music.

anyway, here's what I got.

>Type:

story-driven RPG

>Feel/Inspirations:

mainly inspired by Final Fantasy X. would probably feel pretty similar. as well, Skies of Arcadia, the Tales series.

>Description:

story-based RPG. active battle system, maybe similar to Tales of–, but with combos? maybe someone could help flesh that part out.

>In-depth:

I dunno. ask me stuff.

>Permanents:

each (playable) character has 3 different weapon styles (some form of hand-to-hand, plus two actual weapons), with several enemies being stronger/weaker to specific ones. dimensional travel. again, ask me stuff.

>Help & brainstorming:

basically everything aside from he music. I have the story more or less figured out, but could probably use help coming up with the smaller parts of it. minor characters, etc.

I'll be honest, this is a huge shot in the dark, and I'd need a lot of help with it.

>Type:

Third Person Action RPG

>Feel/Inspirations:

Kingdom Hearts and Dungeon Seige's combat with a bit more weight and a hint of Titanfall set in a medieval post-apocalypse kingdom.

>Description:

Action RPG with Kingdom Hearts's basic combo system, but with a bit more weight to the combat, similar to how Dark Souls did it, just without the stamina bar, and Dungeon Siege's squad based combat. Weapons consist of swords, spears, axes, guns, and cool shit you salvage from the old world and repair. Main mode of travel in the world is a mech that you can upgrade and repair as you go on your journey to do stuff.

>In-depth:

Story consists of you being the apprentice of a legendary mechanic, who knows a lot about technology before the bombs fell and everything devolved back into the feudal system. One day, he just disappears out of nowhere, leaving you to go look for him. The radiation has mutated the land so that the mutations resemble fantasy creatures like elves, fairies, mermaids, dwarfs and shit.

You can play as either the master or the apprentice, each with their own combat style. The master's style is more heavy, using a huge wrench that doubles as a warhammer, while the apprentice is more based on agility and stealth, along with the utilization of gadgets.

Elves are for the most part disfigured, with long and thin limbs in proportion, along with their distinctive ears. They're especially adept at tree climbing and dwell in the forests, in a network of houses in the trees with bridges and walkways strewn about. Their skills are with long ranged weaponry, due to their advanced, albeit somewhat sensitive eyes.

Dwarfs are natural tunnelers, and due to their small stature, and tendency to reproduce about a dozen at a time, they often do well together and learn to cooperate and dig/crawl from a very young age. Whenever a dwarf is in your party, there will be at least 3, with a leader dwarf commanding the others. Their skills are specialties with mining, and operating a downsized mech that they can pilot themselves.

i have been making this in my free time at work.

can some ideafags suggest what i do with it next: right now i can randomly generate "maps" like pic related and a blue square that can move on them

thing is it has to be turned based, and graphics are pretty much out of the question (all i have to work with is the default python libraries - this is a tkinter canvas - cause i can't install anything on these pc)

pls feasible

After playing around with the lockpicking mechanic of Fallout 2, it made me think about doors. How do you code doors?

There are many kinds of doors and there is much that can be done.

•possible characteristics:

•can only swing into one side

•can swing into both sides

•slides open

•can be locked

•can be boarded up

•can be broken

•can walked into (weak force fields and bead curtains)

•transparent

•can be blown up

•can be shot through

•vulnerable to one thing

•can only be open from one side

•automatically closes

•automatically opens

•uses a mechanical lock

•uses an electronic lock

•uses a keypad

•is trapped

•can be slammed

•has a jammed lock

•has eye holes

•has a pet door

I wished that I could have just locked warehouse where Frog Morton hiding, create a fire, and force them to escape into the Wanamingo Mine where I can kill the victor of the impending battle.

>Type:

Third Person Simulation-Arcade (simcade) Fighting Sandbox

>Feel/Inspirations:

Martial Arts films, Mount and Blade Warband, Civilization 5, EA UFC, STALKER series, and Skate 3

>Core Features:

Analog stick/mouse based fighting system like EA UFC

>In-depth:

You use the right stick/mouse to fight. There are button modifiers for blocking and parrying, punching, kicking, and grappling. Fighting is based on how you move your mouse or right stick, like Skate 3. There are different fighting styles, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, taken from real life. The controls have to be responsive so that fights can be fast-paced and intense later in the game when the enemies are more skillful and you're more familiar with the system. Players can move around and side-step using directionals. Throwing punches and getting hit takes stamina, and there are chances for instant knockouts. The system uses a soft lock-on so that you can choose your targets while in the middle of fighting. Should you take down an enemy and grapple them on the ground UFC style, you can, but it's not recommended. Melee weapons use the same system and can be countered with parries and side-steps. If I choose to put in a sandbox, there's another control scheme for when you're not fist fighting.

The game's sandbox controls are seamless with the fighting system, and can instantaneously switch from fighting and running. Stealth is incorporated into the "sandbox controls" and features crouching and prone, fast take downs, and distractions. The cover system is soft-locked and detects when you're near a piece of cover placed by map designers. When you run, or move away from cover for half a second either at the edge or in the middle, you disconnect from cover. Efficient but stylish parkour is incorporated into the sandbox and parkour spots are detected with two actively scanning ray-traces. There is a dialogue system where players can court or condemn named NPCs either romantically, politically, or socially. This uses a 1-100 system where 1 is Despise and 100 is Love. Some NPCs have a limit depending on your gender or race. The crime system is realistic where NPCs have to see you to report a crime, and thenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Type:

Management sim

>Feel/Inspirations:

There was a cool little flash game called Oligarchy (http://www.molleindustria.org/en/oiligarchy/) here you played as the CEO of a major oil company and basically fucked the world up post-WW2

>Description:

A management game where you manage a professional online shill company. You have to make it the no.1 shill/propaganda company in the world.

>In-depth

Basically shilling all the time. At first I was thinking of making something like a imageboard shilling sim but then I thought that would be too limited.

You start out as a company of two(?) people. As you shill online and work your way forward you have to expand your company and get contracts from different sectors (Video games, technology companies, pharma, politicians, pro/anti-gun, etc are the ones I've thought of till now)

>Permanents

The shilling part

>Help & brainstorming

I've not done anything concrete, I need help with the specifics of shilling.

I'm thinking of starting the game with shilling on forums and then taking the company to a full-fledged shill machine.

Do I keep the shilling strictly online or venture into other areas? And what should happen once the company does get big?

I'm still undecided between :

>using a Interactive Fiction Engine, writing my own thing from scratch

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>Type:

Third Person Shooter RPG with stealth mechanics

>Feel/Inspirations:

MGS5 (for mechanics), Red Dawn/Tomorrow When The War Began/Freedom Fighters for feel.

>Description:

You're a survivor of the American Army during the 80s after the Cold War, behind enemy lines as the Russians and Chinese have invaded America. You manage to make contact with the army but extraction is impossible, so you're tasked with forming a resistance to fight them behind the lines. After liberating some fellow soldiers, you decide to demolish the now heavily guarded and entrenched port that the Reds are using deliver their soldiers. But it will take considerable manpower and resources to do that.

>Core features:

Open World (a city, two towns and a country side - all walled in with defensive positions by now).

Base Building System, building up hidden bases and outposts.

Stealth Mechanics. Sneaking through/around outposts, avoiding patrols, and sneak-killing you enemies.

>In-depth:

The combat will be short and tense. High impact, high chance of death after 2-3 hits. Ambush and relocation is preferable. Enemies can be dropped in 1-2 hits. You can take them hostage, or knock them out, hide them and have salvage teams take their equipment and then kill or ransom them. Cover Mechanics are to be emphasized.

The stealth systems should also include being required to disguise your weapons and walk around freely, limiting what you can carry around with you and in your backpack (which is your inventory, handled like the Attache Case from Resident Evil 4). If you want to go loud you can, or if you need bigger equipment for a mission you can have weapons caches located for you to pick up, or even have your resistance fighters sneak into the area and plant equipment/resupply caches for you.

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DAILY REMINDER YOU ARE ONCE A NODEV YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A NODEV

YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF THIS ETERNAL IDEAGUY HELL

>Type:

2D platformer, a la the early Vanias, only less claustrophobic.

>Feel/Inspirations:

It's like Mega Man meets Castlevania, with an industrial techno soundtrack. Inspirations are the early platformers I played, specifically Astyanax, 8Eyes, and (dare I mention it) Sonic 2 (The only one I had on Genesis back in the day.) Also a bunch of 80's-90's anime.

>Description:

My idea is for a platformer where you, the player, grow progressively more powerful as the game goes on. Every boss you defeat permanently modifies your abilities in some minor (or major) way. By the final level, you are akin to a Death God, slaughtering your way through the armies your foes have assembled.

>In-depth:

The setting I have in my head is a post-humanity future. You are an android who activates on top of a roof, surrounded by broken machinery. The game's final boss is flying over you. He says something about taking over the world, and flies away. He's arrayed his generals against you, 11 in all. He's designated Control Unit 13, they are Control Units 2-12. There are twelve levels in all, each one ends with a boss battle (1-11 generals, 12 big baddie himself). You start out with only a basic attack, a punch. The damage it does is low, and it is a slow attack. Each Control Unit you defeat gives you an upgrade (Some upgrades I am adamant about are in permanents)

The point of the game isn't a simple victory. As you progress, the upgrades change the playstyle drastically. Within a few levels, the most basic enemies can't even harm you unless you are very, very stupid. With each upgrade, you move farther and farther away from the basic humanoid form you started with, until in the final level you resemble nothing so much as a robotic angel of death, with rocket wings, a laser sword, and a glowing aura. You even gain an overclock mode, which grants you a temporary bullet time effect.

The world in which this game takes place is controlled by robots. To the player, it would resemble human society run amok. Each level Post too long. Click here to view the full text.