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[Pasidon]

We'll call the main villain Mob DJ, and he has a large group of incompetent and evil Mob'erators.

[Gen.Kenobi]

We'll call the main villain Mob DJ, and he has a large group of incompetent and evil Mob'erators.

Sounds like a plan! I support this!

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I'm with you, too. Actually, you could even have Mod-erators! You know, 'mod' and 'moderators?... Oh, never mind.

[Pasidon]

You're fired.

[Gen.Kenobi]

You're fired.

This.

[duke_Qa]

Going to look a bit into making the scripts for managing a vehicle, the class for wheel-physics is available, so it shouldn't be much work. Here's one tutorial right off the bat: http://www.gotow.net...log/?page_id=78

[Pasidon]

We need people making concept art and doing coding as well.

[duke_Qa]

Problem is I can do both but not at the same time

 

I'll focus some of my evening sketching into something halfway relevant

[Pasidon]

It was more of an open invitation for someone else to offer their services... Fell.  You should get some concept art done of the carts and characters. 

[Ridder Geel]

Unity eh? Are there any restrictions to using Unity as the engine for the game? (Just wondering, since I've never really looked into Unity, even though game-lab groups at my school are allowed to use it nowadays..)

It's C# right?

Currently at school I do C++, but perhaps, if i manage to find the time, I could help you guys out with the programming... (just minor syntax differences between C++ and C# if I'm not mistaken)

Edited by Ridder Geel, 21 January 2013 - 02:17 PM.

[OmegaBolt]

Well I once wanted to make a typical 2D sidescontrolling shooter about a Commando that's about to defeat an evil terrorist group when the leader tries to make a quick escape through his time machine. The player damages the machine thus taking him back in time too, before the terrorist group emerged (the force of traveling through time also tears off his limbs, so he gets rebuilt as a cyborg). He then obviously knows what the group is gonna try to do and has to stop them through a series of incredibly fun and challenging levels, I supposed inspired by Gunstar Heroes and Streets of Rage. You fight through jungle, streets, airships and lastly on a disintegrating nuclear rocket ship.

 

Then obviously was thinking about endless sequels (needs to be a series with at least 4 entries), fighting aliens and stuff. Could actually use the time travel element by stealing the Sonic CD idea and have 3 versions of each level at different places in time which you flick between.

Edited by OmegaBolt, 21 January 2013 - 02:32 PM.

[Pasidon]

Well Bolty, that idea would be awesome if it was really fast paced and stupid hard.  Have some Braid mechanics with time alteration nonsense while having the athletic capabilities of a rob'it.  I can see the headlines now, "Harder than Meatboy... More money too."  That's what Clark Kent would say... but still think most people are adamant towards their kart nonsense.  Cuz we're all selfish and prefer to make things that involve ourselves. 

Currently at school I do C++, but perhaps, if i manage to find the time, I could help you guys out with the programming... (just minor syntax differences between C++ and C# if I'm not mistaken)

Well when you do get the time, sign up for our project.  Like I said, we're not going to put up with quitters or slackers.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Ah, had another idea, which this time could make things a little easier, faster-paced and more fun. I thought, about this project, that it's a little too similar to other racing car/kart games, and seems to be very akin to Mariokart, if you've ever played it. Thus, to differentiate ours, I came up with the idea of having, well, flying karts, more like hovering ships than standard vehicles. As I said, it would be theoretically easier to do, because instead of wheels for motion, you can just have a strong particle emitter like that of a rocket behind it which increases or decreases depending on speed.

This also means, we could make faster levels in canyons and forests, where at such speeds, you can butt each other out of the way and into walls, where they proceed to be destroyed (and respawn after a couple of seconds into a little parking lot just off to the side of the level, from which they can re-enter the race).

 

Thus, we could theme the whole game into a cross between, as Pasidon seems obsessed about, retro 80s style and maybe the whole propaganda-like presentation of Starship Troopers. And, if needs be, I can write backgrounds for the race, its participants, ET/foreign invented languages or general complex histories. And, of course, concept art.

 

You can disregard it if you wish, just thought it'd be a good idea. Or suggestion, before we get into proper development.

[Gen.Kenobi]

All right, let's get some points straight>
a.k.a LET'S GET THIS FREAKING SHOW ON THE ROAD.

Characters - who will be in the game (suggestion):

- Pas
- Fell
- Phill
- Hostile
- GenKen
- duke

- Mathjis

---For their art, I'd suggest we use Pas's drawings at the Grand Revorian Portrait Board.
@Pas: If you could create model sheets - isometric front, and side drawings on scale -, that would be awesome.

Karts - we'll start with just one kart model - like the standard MarioKart version, after they are all done and ready, then we can start thinking about other designs.

Tracks/circuits - here we can go very creative. We could have some levels based in a forum board with enemies as spammers and stuff. Our main antagonist, Mob DJ.

Discuss!!!!

 

[Mathijs]

I guess the guy who thought of the idea to create a community-driven game won't get included, eh? :(

 

I'll come up with some concepts for cars. I like Fellbeast's idea, so they won't have wheels.

 

Also, I'm sorry, but I'm not a big fan of Pasidon's art style, so I would have to vote against that. Also, generally, I'd say there is no need to indulge ourselves in creating personal 'avatars' yet, even though it may be fun. Let's first focus on deciding what exactly the concept is, and then look at some designs for vehicles and stages. 

 

I suppose it's fun to base some 'characters' off of ourselves, but I don't think we should go so far as to create levels and artwork based on a message board aesthetic. I'm sorry, but this sort of stuff, to me, is notoriously un-funny.

Edited by Mathijs, 21 January 2013 - 06:05 PM.

[Pasidon]

Since we're already planning and crap, we should get Phil to make a section for the project (in Unity) so we can split up the topics of work neatly.  We'll just call the game 'Revora Racer' for now so Phil has something to title it.  We can leave this topic open for more ideas, just in case we really come up with a great option for our next project.  I think I heard someone say, 'retro 80's' and 'robots', so we're onto something there.

 

Also, I'm sorry, but I'm not a big fan of Pasidon's art style

Finally, a voice of clarity.  You're the smartest guy I know, Mati.

[Gen.Kenobi]

@Mathijs: I forgot you. Just added you

Well... I don't know what could we use to base our designs then... Pas had a nice start... I'm not a good drawer, myself.

[Pasidon]

Instead of having a bird faced dumb-dumb just randomly make up concept art, you could ask the people you're putting into the game what they want their characters to look like.  And I can work on the concept 'art', but we don't have to reflect the actual game off of the style I do it in.  In my opinion, the cartoony style (cell shaded / low poly / smooth HD ) would be our best selling point anyway.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Tracks/circuits - here we can go very creative. We could have some levels based in a forum board with enemies as spammers and stuff. Our main antagonist, Mob DJ.

Uh.... yeah, I'm with Mathijs on this. Whilst I think it's an intuitive idea, it's ... not much for eye-candy, in my opinion. I personally would go for a naturally-scened racing track style, maybe with forum-like features or UI. What I had in mind earlier, though you're free to contest it, is a very destructible and destructive environment which is rather like a curvy desert-stone maze, with occasional larger areas with clumps of trees, for one of the maps.

[OmegaBolt]

Don't think a natural style would be as interesting unless this was a genuine racing simulator, which I very much doubt it would be. I think having cool, fun themed tracks would be much more enjoyable to play and create. Some kind of cyberspace track would be cool, maybe of Revora or just a generic forum type environment. You could have tracks on other planets or even in space on giant orbital racing platforms.

 

Maybe combat elements would be great, like shields, rockets/lasers etc and powerups. You could have some environments with interactive elements like tornadoes, maybe firewall defences in a cyberspace track, asteroids in space or aliens on other planets.

Edited by OmegaBolt, 21 January 2013 - 09:56 PM.