Funky Game Idea
by Ben O · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 12/11/2002 (3:56 am) · 6 replies
this is an idea for a game that I want to make so i'd like some feedback from people on it
The game is set in modern times and the basic premise for it will be that a number of people have been infected by asn alien organism which makes them become living dead, these living dead arn't your average zombie though, they're smarter, stronger and faster than your average human. anyone bitten by one of these "super zombies" becomes a normal zombie (slowly shuffling around moaning about brains Etc). Most of the world isn't aware of the zombies or what the alien virus actually does to people and thats where the player comes in. (sorry about the amount of non game info background their) You play as a team leader from one of four diffrent Faction. you controll the game using a mapscreen(like the one on tribes 2) and can watch the action through helmet / shoulder cameras on team members. Each faction has diffrent goals as well as the "Stop the living dead goals" for example the government faction wants to stop people from discovering the truth about the virus.
i'll post more info bout the game later my hands are hurting from typig too much now
any feedback/extra ideas welcomed
The game is set in modern times and the basic premise for it will be that a number of people have been infected by asn alien organism which makes them become living dead, these living dead arn't your average zombie though, they're smarter, stronger and faster than your average human. anyone bitten by one of these "super zombies" becomes a normal zombie (slowly shuffling around moaning about brains Etc). Most of the world isn't aware of the zombies or what the alien virus actually does to people and thats where the player comes in. (sorry about the amount of non game info background their) You play as a team leader from one of four diffrent Faction. you controll the game using a mapscreen(like the one on tribes 2) and can watch the action through helmet / shoulder cameras on team members. Each faction has diffrent goals as well as the "Stop the living dead goals" for example the government faction wants to stop people from discovering the truth about the virus.
i'll post more info bout the game later my hands are hurting from typig too much now
any feedback/extra ideas welcomed
#2
nice idea though
12/11/2002 (5:11 am)
we are the borg, resistence is futiel (right?) you will be assimilated.nice idea though
#3
Good luck!
12/11/2002 (5:27 am)
OMG!! for a moment, I thought you somehow had come up with my same super-secret game idea!! Lol, I got scared, honest!! Cuz my game is about zombies too! hehe, but then, as I read on, I realized yours is a quite different game from what I have in mind, and it sounds fun too. "Evil Species" like someone said. I'd play it. I like anything that has to do with zombies B) Good luck!
#4
The people infected by the virus have the abillity to shift their bodies into new forms ( things like growing spikes on there arms, tough hide etc ) and can also shift the bodies of normal zombies but with less effects (littler spikes, slightly tougher hides ) the infected people would be enemy characters, each with thier own personallity and different type of zombies ( for some reason this idea makes me think of the goau'ld on stargate(hope ive spelt that right)) Ive got plans for stuff bout the characters but im gonna post that later.
12/11/2002 (7:33 am)
Yeah sorta like a species resident evil cross but with other things as well!!!The people infected by the virus have the abillity to shift their bodies into new forms ( things like growing spikes on there arms, tough hide etc ) and can also shift the bodies of normal zombies but with less effects (littler spikes, slightly tougher hides ) the infected people would be enemy characters, each with thier own personallity and different type of zombies ( for some reason this idea makes me think of the goau'ld on stargate(hope ive spelt that right)) Ive got plans for stuff bout the characters but im gonna post that later.
#5
Maybe make it darker and less explained. What if one fine day in all the big cities around the world strange monuments show up. Everyone who looks at them long enough becomes strange and intravert and after some time starts acting unpredictably and destructive.
No one knows for sure what the hell is going on, except for fact that things are getting worse and worse and after a while people affected by monuments change biologically as well.
That sort of premise is nothing unique as well, but at least it steps away from endless Dracula plot lines.
Because, lets face it - all the residentevils are copying Bram Stokers (I dont think I spelled it right in English) Dracula concept, and world if full of such stories.
Just my 2 cents though.
12/13/2002 (12:41 am)
Maybe you should get rid of "vampire-bites-human,human-becomes-vampire" concept and try something different. I mean, frankly speaking, it sounds a bit like a rip-off (which is not neccesarily always a bad thing, though)Maybe make it darker and less explained. What if one fine day in all the big cities around the world strange monuments show up. Everyone who looks at them long enough becomes strange and intravert and after some time starts acting unpredictably and destructive.
No one knows for sure what the hell is going on, except for fact that things are getting worse and worse and after a while people affected by monuments change biologically as well.
That sort of premise is nothing unique as well, but at least it steps away from endless Dracula plot lines.
Because, lets face it - all the residentevils are copying Bram Stokers (I dont think I spelled it right in English) Dracula concept, and world if full of such stories.
Just my 2 cents though.
#6
12/16/2002 (2:19 pm)
Resident Evil+Species+Ghosts of Mars= I don't know. 
Torque Owner Dr. John Nobody
... does that pretty much sum up the concept?