A Great New Idea........
by Danny · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 05/26/2005 (10:27 am) · 41 replies
Well where to start.....hmm...
well there is an idea i have for a game a brillant game one that would of never been made and a game where there is total freedom and unlimited possiblitys and no one telling you that you have to do this that way or this way and saying you have to go here and there.... and a game where you can do anything you want and anyway you want and however you want to do it and the game last for a long time maybe even years ;)
i wan the game to be just like it would be in real life medevil times so instead of being just a game it would be like steping through a time machine back to the medevil times and witness the feel of war and what its like to be a slave or a mighty king or a priest or a holy knight be anymedevil kind of person you want this way you could realy witness what its like to be a hardworking blacksmith or a humble knight or a priest or what its like to be a king... i love the histroy of medevil times and i would realy love to step back intime instead of just reading about it or seeing it in the movies all the time i would like to be able to see it and witness it formyself and im shure others would too but we cant its gone and dead..... but maybe with the creation of this game we could realy see what it was like and what it felt like to be in the medevil times.... sorry i got a bit carried away there.... anyways on with my idea......
Ok the idea starts off in old medevil times where people used swords and bows and arrows and heros were born and kings and queens rulled the land...
anyways when you first start the game you dont start of with a premade character and a simple role as a swordsman or archer or something like that like the other games do....
instead you get to choose your own from an unlimeted variety... choose how old you want to be what you want to look like and choose a family you would like whether you want one or not ....and best of all you get to choose a medevil carrea instead of just an archer or swordsman this way you can experiance
what i mean by a medevil carrear is you can choose from being a humple pesant or a hardworking blacksmith or a poor beggar or a young son of a mighty eveil or good hearted barron or be a king... this way u can feel and understand what its like to be that kind of person feel the troubles and the joy they went through and feel the losses of battles and other things...
when you start a new game and choose a carrear and a character what he looks like what his traits and attributes are and what hes star sign is and other stuff and if he wants a family or not and his age...you then choose witch part of europe you would like to live at (yes you dont start of in a small kingdom you start in any plcae you want i did say a freeworld with total freedom...) and then you choose witch town you want to live in and you choose witch house you want to live at....(depending on starting money)
then your game begins... if your a blacksmith and are above the age of 16 then the first thing you must do is find a job to make money to pay for your rent for your house to buy food and clothes to wear and to spend on furniture and taxes if your below the age of 16 say for example 3-15 you get the option to go to school and you have to have an adult to look after you..... and if you go to school you get to choose what you want to learn... as you get older you learn more things witch would be good for the future when you want to get a job.... you can make many friends at school too witch would be good for the future to ;) (remember it takes a long time to be able to grow up... probaly a few real life weeks... withc would keep you busy instead of just an hour or so and your an adult... )
well there is an idea i have for a game a brillant game one that would of never been made and a game where there is total freedom and unlimited possiblitys and no one telling you that you have to do this that way or this way and saying you have to go here and there.... and a game where you can do anything you want and anyway you want and however you want to do it and the game last for a long time maybe even years ;)
i wan the game to be just like it would be in real life medevil times so instead of being just a game it would be like steping through a time machine back to the medevil times and witness the feel of war and what its like to be a slave or a mighty king or a priest or a holy knight be anymedevil kind of person you want this way you could realy witness what its like to be a hardworking blacksmith or a humble knight or a priest or what its like to be a king... i love the histroy of medevil times and i would realy love to step back intime instead of just reading about it or seeing it in the movies all the time i would like to be able to see it and witness it formyself and im shure others would too but we cant its gone and dead..... but maybe with the creation of this game we could realy see what it was like and what it felt like to be in the medevil times.... sorry i got a bit carried away there.... anyways on with my idea......
Ok the idea starts off in old medevil times where people used swords and bows and arrows and heros were born and kings and queens rulled the land...
anyways when you first start the game you dont start of with a premade character and a simple role as a swordsman or archer or something like that like the other games do....
instead you get to choose your own from an unlimeted variety... choose how old you want to be what you want to look like and choose a family you would like whether you want one or not ....and best of all you get to choose a medevil carrea instead of just an archer or swordsman this way you can experiance
what i mean by a medevil carrear is you can choose from being a humple pesant or a hardworking blacksmith or a poor beggar or a young son of a mighty eveil or good hearted barron or be a king... this way u can feel and understand what its like to be that kind of person feel the troubles and the joy they went through and feel the losses of battles and other things...
when you start a new game and choose a carrear and a character what he looks like what his traits and attributes are and what hes star sign is and other stuff and if he wants a family or not and his age...you then choose witch part of europe you would like to live at (yes you dont start of in a small kingdom you start in any plcae you want i did say a freeworld with total freedom...) and then you choose witch town you want to live in and you choose witch house you want to live at....(depending on starting money)
then your game begins... if your a blacksmith and are above the age of 16 then the first thing you must do is find a job to make money to pay for your rent for your house to buy food and clothes to wear and to spend on furniture and taxes if your below the age of 16 say for example 3-15 you get the option to go to school and you have to have an adult to look after you..... and if you go to school you get to choose what you want to learn... as you get older you learn more things witch would be good for the future when you want to get a job.... you can make many friends at school too witch would be good for the future to ;) (remember it takes a long time to be able to grow up... probaly a few real life weeks... withc would keep you busy instead of just an hour or so and your an adult... )
Jacob (Kouga) Nicholson
@ peter: I can understand that on an international scale, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to know how to spell and articulate their thoughts in perfect American English. However, if you want people to give you more than passing glance, proper sentences help. It should be the same for English speakers when trying to, for instance, pitch a game to say a Japanese community. If you yourself can't write it up, see if you have any native speakers, or at least efficiently fluent, speakers in the language. Using the aforementioned example, I would call up a Japanese friend of mine, explain my ideas, and see if he could write it up, if I wanted to approach a Japanese developer or community with an idea. Furthermore, even if you don't have the time, patience, or resources to spell out an idea (since granted, it's just an idea not a business proposition) you can at least take the extra effort to spell out "you" instead of shortcutting it with "u".
@ the rest: Now.. the whole idea being a 'never-ending' game doesn't seem entirely realistic. For one, could you come up with a storyline that would never end? I haven't played them myself, but I suppose Simulators, such as SimCity or The Sims, probably don't "end", but then you have a limited audience, because gamers like myself can't stand games where you don't have enough structure. Just dropping a player into a world and having them get along on their own could bore them. If they struggle, if they die, it becomes difficult. If they become a wealthy businessman and set up a franchise of blacksmiths, then what are they supposed to do? Go spend their money.. and then what? So I think games need rules, need structure, need conflict. Now, it could be that I'm simply not seeing your vision in the same light you are; entirely possible, even likely.
The idea of "unlimited" possibilities is also a stretch. Overall it sounds like a rather far fetched idea to have a potentially 'never ending' game with 'unlimited possibilities' in which the player can do 'anything'.
Yet.. hey, it's not my idea. Not my game. If you believe in the idea, then what I say shouldn't make a difference; prove me wrong.