What would you play?

[bluestarultor]

NonCon and I were talking about game mechanics last night, which got me to wondering, just what is there a market for that a small-timer could fill?

To put it this way, things like 3D shooters are pretty much dominated by the professionals, as is pretty much anything else in 3D of any note. That's not really what I'm asking about.

What I am asking about is stuff like first-person and top-down RPGs, point-and-click adventure games, side-scrolling platformers and fighting games, etc. Basically the stuff of yesteryear that's been making a tentative comeback lately. What would you like to see? How retro do you want it to look and sound?

This is just to sate my own curiosity, because I know what I want and I'm making it in my spare time. I'm just curious as to what (an albeit small sample of) the rest of the population is interested in that the indie market could offer.

[Regulus Tera]

I want more on-rails arcadey shooters like Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. But none of this on-rails-no-avatar-on-screen bullshit from lightgun games.

We could start by having a new StarFox. Preferably developed by Treasure. Now that would be swell.

[Grimpond]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

We could start by having a new StarFox. Preferably developed by Treasure. Now that would be swell.

Shit Yes.

hmmm. I..can't really think of anything else

[Yrcrazypa]

Vertical scrolling shooters! I'll accept side scrolling ones too, but I prefer the vertical ones, for some reason. And I don't care too much about what it looks like, but something along the realms of the fantasy genre for it would be unique. I haven't heard of too many that aren't Sci-fi in that type of game.

[Hanuman]

We need another god damn planetside.
We need a game designed for gamers.

No million dollar graphics, no BROWN, no hours spent on putting in bloom coding.

Game. Cooperative. Massive Scale. Axis vs. Axis.

This is what we need, a WAR game, not just skirmishes, not arenas, actual large scale combat where the fuel station outpost, the hacker, the driver, everyone helps, everyone's job goes towards a tangible goal of total world victory.

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On the other hand, micro-transfer games are really coming up for the small scalers, tons of spoiled kids are willing to pay upwards of $20 to get silly items in online games, get enough of them together and you can justify a 6 person dev team over 4 months easily.
Look at games like gunbound or mabinogi, micro-tranfer games to unlock certain features.

Now look how Facebook has done that, Farmville has like 150mil/day users... and its a crappy browser game, a terrible ripoff of a GBA game!

It's not really about the game as it is about the way you spread it, and how it's networked, and how people can spend money on it.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Lev

We need another god damn planetside.
We need a game designed for gamers.

No million dollar graphics, no BROWN, no hours spent on putting in bloom coding.

Game. Cooperative. Massive Scale. Axis vs. Axis.

This is what we need, a WAR game, not just skirmishes, not arenas, actual large scale combat where the fuel station outpost, the hacker, the driver, everyone helps, everyone's job goes towards a tangible goal of total world victory.

Planetside?

Me when I get the skills to make something like that solo ->

Until then, let's stick to something indie.


Edit: Ninja'd so hard! DX

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Planetside?

Me when I get the skills to make something like that solo ->

Until then, let's stick to something indie.


Edit: Ninja'd so hard! DX

Planetside was the best large-scale coop pvp game ever, it was the first game where instead of being in a 20-100 person guild like WoW you could be in a 500-1000 person guild split up into 5-10 sections further split into 3-10 task squads each.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Sky Warrior Bob

I always loves me a good adventure game. Of course, designing them can be tricky & I've seen more than one attempt fail.

I would suggest you look here, if you consider this route. The basic software to make adventure games & plenty of examples of fan-made games. Not sure how much programming is involved, but it does at least require a little ability from what I've heard.

SWB

AGS is a nifty little piece of software. I actually looked into it a while ago. The syntax is a lot like Javascript, so even a beginning programmer could make something with it given a bit of time, effort, and possibly resources just to speed it up. I actually suggested it to my teacher (who has a lot of pull) for the intro to game-making course he teaches, but apparently the powers that be are set on starting students off on Visual Basic in every area.

Put simply, VB is not ideal for making games. Well, you CAN, but there are better options.

Originally Posted by Lev

Planetside was the best large-scale coop pvp game ever, it was the first game where instead of being in a 20-100 person guild like WoW you could be in a 500-1000 person guild split up into 5-10 sections further split into 3-10 task squads each.

While that's impressive, and the game looks awesome (seriously, when did this come out?), this thread is about parts of the market indie developers could fill.

[Yrcrazypa]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

While that's impressive, and the game looks awesome (seriously, when did this come out?), this thread is about parts of the market indie developers could fill.

2003. Yeah, really. And there hasn't been anything to replace it in the mean time, too bad the game is more or less dead now, due to Sony's horrible mismanagement of the game, and time causing the playerbase to dwindle to nearly nothing.

[Kim]

I want a game where I investigate crime scenes, looking for clues, and some of the investigations are to find normal murderers. Others are to find out what monster in the bestiary killed the villagers and if you do well you get bonus info and/or damage during the boss fight against said monster.

But none of you get to make that game.

That's my game.