I’m thinking about making a game. Specifically an RPG computer game. Due to limited knowledge I can only make text-based programs.
So does anyone have any suggestions? Any quests you’d really like to see in a game (Not that you’ll ever see this game, but…)? Monsters? Weapons?
All answers will be accepted (though not necessarily used), both serious and facetious.
Hmmmm.
Ultimately, it’s up to you, of course…
But I think a “time-slip” game, if you will–different characters from different places and times fighting together with different skills and weapons, like a ninja with a knight with a WWII soldier, fighting in a 17th century battle… that would be so cool!
That does soud interesting. I would never have thought of that, which is why I posted this here. If two heads are better than one, then surely 50,000 heads are better than two! Any more?
So you are saying it will be sort of a computer game version of Jack Williamson’s Legion of Time?
Well, it was a good book and I could see the possibilities.
Give him a call. He lives down in Portales, NM. Sort of teaches at the University there (he’s in his late 80s - could be 90s). Eastern New Mexico University. Generally he loves to talk about anything even vaguely related to SF/time travel.
Who knows, he may have ideas on the subject.
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I’m not saying it will be; I’m saying it might be. If anyone else has any ideas at all, they will be considered. Anyone?
ooooh, a creature in the game with 50,000 heads? and most of the heads are constantly babbling mundane and pointless things? and a smaller subset of the heads would be constantly arguing with each other about God and about gays. 
Curious – when you say “limited knowledge”, what are we talking about? what language or development environment? How much programming background do you have?
Random ideas:
Post-apocalyptic world (after nuclear war). Characters band together for survival, perhaps some quests to seek lost but useful technology/artifacts. Must fight bandits, mutants, etc. Perhaps some new social structure or rudimentary societal rules have formed that characters must work within.
on the time-travel idea, a variation: characters are a team of time-agents, sent on missions to alter history (supposedly for the better, although potential for strange twists). Like a mission to infiltrate WWII Germany and assassinate Hitler. etc.
And with a more facetious idea…
SDMB based game – fight to seek ultimate knowledge by finding the elusive Cecil, and learning all his secrets! Pad your post count while avoiding the Mods. Try to enlist alles and attempt to keep from being pitted? Avoid being smote by Og.
Or maybe that’s…
what we’re already playing!
Oh! Oh! I got one: A squad a vikings using 1920’s syle death rays!
What if they weren’t able to use their own weapons for some reason, but had to use one of the other people’s? You’d have a knight using a gun, a ninja wearing heavy clanky armor, and a WW2 soldier going buckwild with ninja weaponry. There’d be plenty of room for funny mix ups.
It blows my mind that JW is still around. Man’s older than dirt. Damn good writer, though.
My vote is to go for a science fiction based roguelike. There’s far too few of those floating around.
Or, hey, break new ground. How about a Wild West rogue-like? Or a wild-west scifi roguelike? Sorta like Firefly meets Mechwarrior meets The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? With random quests, dungeons and upgradeable items?
Dammit, I wish I could program. 