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Name:	Mark
Date Posted:	Apr 22, 2006
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I must say with only myself working on this, Ike the childrens game is coming along pretty nice! I'm still feeling iffy about sending it to GG for publishing when I'm done. Or publish it myself.

I'll have to wait and see if the game is good enough in the end. Just to save myself and GG the trouble!

Also, I am naming this adventure: Ike and the Nexus Portals.

Ike is a helpful little monkey who is helping unfortunate friends retrieve precious things that was stolen from them. Hence the sad bumble bee.

An evil bad guy (dont know who yet) has stolen everything from numerous animals! He took the Bee's Honeycombs, he took the Eagle's baby eggs, he took the elephant's peanuts! And much more!

Basically, Ike jumps into these Mario-like portals and helps retrieve the stolen items. This makes the bumble be happy!

Each room will contain 4 portals for the player to jump through. The one in the screenshot is a honey-filled bee-like map where you collect honeycombs. Once you get enough items in all 4 maps, you move onto the next room where there are 4 more portals!

There are 4 rooms with 4 portals in each, meaning about 16 levels of fun!

The game will also be family friendly too, aimed more towards younger children. I hope the game turns out better than I hoped for, because so far it is!

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Anthony Fullmer (Apr 22, 2006 at 06:20 GMT)

One of the things I have learned - a game will never be more fun than it is in your head. You are off to a great start I can see, and the more I hear about your design and premise, the better I like your game. I know that if you keep plugging away like you are, your game is going to turn out to be something great and something the community (and paying customers ;) ) will appreciate.
Edited on Apr 22, 2006 06:20 GMT

Hokuto (Apr 22, 2006 at 06:50 GMT)

"I'm still feeling iffy about sending it to GG for publishing when I'm done. Or publish it myself.
I'll have to wait and see if the game is good enough in the end. Just to save myself and GG the trouble!"

You should only worry about it now if publishing it yourself or through GG would require the game to be somewhat different for each case. Like aimed to a different target audience, download or boxed with different requirements for download size, etc

Alex Rice (Apr 22, 2006 at 09:05 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

IMHO it's too early to think about distribution or even a final name for the game. If you haven't already you should release a prototype, to a few people or publicly, and especially get some kids to play it, and see if it's fun gameplay. If it's not fun gameplay and they aren't smiling and giggling then back to the drawing board :-)

Phil Carlisle (Apr 22, 2006 at 10:03 GMT)

Mark: for pity's sake, do *NOT* use that name!!

Think of your target audience. Kids.. how in the hell is a kid going to understand what a "nexus portal" is?

besides, it is just an un-memorable name that detracts from what would be a really unique character.

IKE is a good name. IKE the bee might be a good name. The point is, having a name which has this sort of hyphenated Blah and the blah blah is just not good.

:)

Great looking concept though, I'd definitely send it to GG if its fun.

Mark (Apr 22, 2006 at 16:12 GMT)

Thanks for all your input and comments folks! I'll definately take everything into consideration

Ace Jones (Apr 26, 2006 at 21:12 GMT) Resource Rating: 4

Haha I agree with Phil that the name needs some work. In some cases the name will come naturally at the beginning. Like in the case with my current project, Phoenix Epoch. In other cases you should just continue to develop your game, and like when I'm writing a story, (I first write a detailed description of each character asking myself what would they do in certain situations) the name will simply come to you. But the name isn't the most important thing at the moment. The most important thing (like Alex said) is gameplay. If little kids can't play your game for more than six minutes before chucking the controller/keyboard/joystick out the second story window, then you've got some work to do.

I personally am looking forward to seeing the finished product. No, I'm not a kid, but I know quite a few kids on my block who need a little entertainment-slash-distraction so they don't make my skull implode.

~Ace J. Jones

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