I'd second the notion of using TGF, if not Multimedia Fusion. I've used TGF since I was about 5 years, on and off. I've also got many contacts in the game making community that can give us a hand or two.

That's why I think we pixeller's should concentrate on designing a game that will be really asthetically pleasing. Anyone of us can go out and work on our own game, or find a programmer to do graphics for, but this is something for PIXELJOINT. So it's gotta be pixelingly beautiful, or theres not much point in this being a collaboration.

It's gotta be a game that allows us to use the best of the best of everyone's skills, whether it just means drawing backgrounds or designing big shiny bosses. That's why I think there should definatley be an isometric element to the game; we could make it like Commander Keen 1-3 or the Mario game where you walk around an iso playfield between levels.

Make sense?

Top work on the list Demon! Now I just think we need to focus on the graphical side of things. I'll post a link to this forum topic in some of the gaming website I know, and we'll see if we get any interests from abroad!

the plot lines sound very cool indeed, especially the chess club bit,
as i said before the level names need some work.

this woulds allow us to include an iso element to the game, perhaps a chess battle at the end! but perhaps it could have a twist to it!

-ollie

I've been trying to find action scripters and other pixel artists to work along side in a platformer-like game I'm going to make in Flash. The main character is a bird called Bandit. I'll post his pic here eventually.... I Have yet to draw him in pixel form. 

TakeOut! Haha, sorry, I mentioned checking out this topic to you in a different topic without realising you'd already been here!

Your game sounds cool, probably not right for a community collab, perhaps make a seperate topic to find prospective pixel artists? As to not confuse. I think I saw your birdy character on that Deviant Site you posted earlier, look forward to seeing in pixel!

I do like the idea of making a flash game though! I have no experience with the program, but it should definately be something we should consider.

Upon further revue. Or is it review? I dunno. Revue looks cooler.

How many of you have played super metroid? *raises his hand*

Although it did have excellent gameplay, replay value, and presented a challenge, it did not, in my opinion, have good graphics. So why don't we make our own version. My first thought is that it is a bad idea, cause its not original. However, I figure we can just take aspects from the game, such as the way they set up the world.

Haha, I'll make it all organazized.

Features used:

- Full, interconnecting map

- Different regions (Assign teams of people to reigions?)

- Bunches and bunches if secrets.

- And, if we really wanna mix it up, throw the Castlevania-style weapon-getting in there.

Reasons why:

- having different artists per region would add a nice touch. I can already imagine the backgrounds that Garage Inc. could whip up. And some of the enemy sprites Sedge could do.

- Super Metroid was a wonderful game, and would well suit the current #1 option for a mascot. For example, we could make him get a star wars... whassat guy... storm trooper helmet somewhere along the way, or maybe the whole suit, for protection against... disco lights.

- I've always wondered why noone has made a game similar to Metroid.

- Huge worlds mean huge opportunity for beautiful scenery.

Yeah, this idea leaves lots of leeway for anyone else's ideas. And its still a platformer.

As far as storyline goes, we don't wanna make it too much like metroid. But in my idea, we have to have storyline (sorry Akira).

And upon further reading, I see that its not supposed to be a huge game. Oops. Well, threw the idea out there anyways.

ya, cause a game is gonna have a story anyway...  Anyways, for those that have downloaded The Games Factory, here's a Prototype i've been fiddling with.  Notice how the character can hang onto the platforms with his huge teeth .  Oh and I've added a Tiny Enemy, a Football Player if you will, but does not have the ability to hurt Eugiene, I believe that was his name?.  But you can blow the enemy away with your cheesy weapons...  Space throws an assault rifle at the enemy, and after it is pressed you can Left-Click to Blow away enemies with a bomb attack .
Prototype


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agreed. The engine is the most important aspect in a game, and what is this gamesfactory? Is it capable of doing platformers and stuff? Easy to use just curious, cause I'm looking in to getting it.  If the engine fails in a game though the graphics pretty much go with it. Graphics are only important in attracting people to playing the game which is why you need good graphics. Music isn't that important really. It just enhances the gaming experience, and I know some of us will have to be able to make good music....

I say we get a huge team together and call our selves something haha, and then look for those to do music and those to do scripting and just seperate every one to different groups or regions at a time. I liked the idea further back though where we were all assigned our own regions to work in. That's a really good idea. But we'll all have to stick to a certain style which could be hard for some of us to do.

Oh and the bird on my DA profile wasn't the same bird that's going to be in my platformer I'm working on... THat was just a character I designed for my flash tutorial. The one I'm using I'll get up soon probrably.


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oh yes.. and screenshots please... I don't want to be downloading stuff like the games factory just yet anyways

Im pretty sure we've decided on using the Games Factory.  Yes it is easy to use, and creates many different types of games, such as Platformers.  There is also an addon that someone has made that allows multiplayer use over the net.

I don't think we've decided anything yet. We have the best options for things, like Istvan's nerd and your programming in Games Factory. I don't think that means we're gonna do the whole thing in that, we could, and might change plans.

lol ok well we need to make some draft art.  If we cant decide on a character then it wont be easy to think of anything else about the game.  I'll be posting the animated poses that i've done so far for iSTVAN's character soon. 

i cant wait to see what you come up with demon,

-ollie

Exactly my thoughts. I also have experience with MMF (also with TGF of course, but I'll have to get used to it again then )...

And Stryder, you can download the trial version of TGF from http://www.clickteam.com... But like iSTVAN, I recommend Multimedia Fusion (can also be downloaded from that site), since it's more powerful and has more features.

wouldnt his head and arm move when hes walking

well when you walk you move your hands forward and backwards and becuase your moving your head mught move forward or up and down just a tiny bit.

Hmm, if anybody's interested I'm working on an online game engine, DreamStones (http://dreamstones.gro.clinux.org/ - sorry for some reason I can't seem to make a correct link, the dialog just closes :-P).

It's written in Python (Python is easy ! Tho not as much as the Game Factory,  I guess), and is open source and free (There'll never be any question about license fees or anything, that *could* arise with the Game Factory).

The goal is to allow people to make RPG-like worlds they can connect together, and collectively edit (like walk around and add hou8ses, trees, or change a few tiles to improve things). What I'd really like to do is an in-game pixel editor - allowing players to directly create new items and stuff (But that's not forseeable in the immediate future).

The game's still in it's early phases, but right now it would be possible to set up a pixeljoint game server, with special graphics, and then anybody could connect and walk and talk around in it (You'd need a specific client, since the artwork isn't stored on server-side yet :-P But that's not hard to make. I can adapt the tile size too (and even make it FF/Zelda-like instead of diagonal isometric)).

DAMN, That's a pretty awesome game.

well there seems to be alot of ppl that would like to help program/put together this game, so thats good. 

I am willing to port the game to OS X if anyone is interested.

Good idea... I think if we just get something started more ideas will come out. The nerd/geek seems to be the consensus and why not? So what's a reasonable resolution for a game?

yes, that would be beautiful, i have an imac and it is so frustrating when i cant download things.

The larger the screen the more the effort. If you never worked on a collaboration thing, you better have a small resolution.
imo, 320x240 is good.



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320x200 seems as good as any... not too big and it has nice round numbers.

Posted: 01 May 2005 at 3:14pm > 17 August 2007 at 1:48pm