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Where Do I Put A Mod/Indie Game Dev Discussion Thread
I am interested in getting input on ideas for a competitive multi player team game. The game is a GMod game that will hopefully become a full Source game with time. In the game, there is a team with heavy emphasis on melee combat and a team with heavy emphasis on ranged weaponry, each with job choices and classes to pair and mix. I want to know where would be a good category to put a thread for discussing game play and competitive depth so I can get an idea of what more experienced hardcore players, and casual ones, value in online gaming experiences.
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First, the answer to your question is that you've put this thread in the right category.
Second, there isn't much we can discuss on the topic, we have no information to go on here.
Third, yeah, it kinda would help if you had something to show, before you started asking us about this stuff.
Sorry if this all seems a little cold, but I just don't feel we could be terribly helpful to you without some idea of what's going on and what we can do, or even what to talk about. You've gotta make something first, good or bad. Break the ground, so to speak, get something rolling, before you try to steer it. Then, we can get to worrying about gameplay and competitive depth - I mean, with what we know so far, you could be talking about anything from re-creating counterstrike in Gmod, to a game about medieval archer-knights, just for two of the many possibilities.
The maps are designed to create scenarios where the virtues of melee weapons like swords and those of long ranged weapons like guns are equally demonstrated. The teams are very different in appearance and play differently.The "melee" team consists of anthropomorphic creatures with special skills, and the "ranged" team consists of robots with advanced capabilities. One team seems almost ripped from a medieval fantasy, one from a science fiction novel, but in truth both are creations of science. Hopefully, it will not be too difficult to balance such different teams, but that is where play testing comes in, I suppose. The teams each have respective races and makes that add visual and functional variety. You may also choose you character's gender. If all the customization (which will be expanded and staggered gradually) doesn't create an unruly mess, it should provide a unique sense of freedom and depth.
What about our Advance Wars clone? Frat Boy Fridge? ;^)
I can say that this time, for this one little game, I think I agree 100% with you on what it needs to be. We've never agreed 100% before on any idea that I can recall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Wars
I think starting with Pong is a fine idea.
http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2012/12/15/detail/spacewar-video-games-blast-off/
I had actually been considering looking into making something like a mobile X-COM, but the iOS market is so completely flooded at this point it would not be worth the considerable investment unless your squaddies were disgruntled avians.
100 Rogues does a decent job of having ok controls and decent complexity, but it's just so poorly made IMO (really dislike the monkey-cheese style too). Also seemed really easy to me. I guess the reason no one's really trying hard is that you probably won't make a damn penny if you make one that can really be considered a "good rogue-like."