1. Crazy Chicken 2: Crazy Chicken( Pacman clone) with cooperative multiplayer, and large variety of powerups, level editor etc.

2. I Drive a Bomb: Remake of an arcade game called GTI Club (I think) where you drove a mini (car) around some streets with a ticking timebomb that you could only get rid of by tagging an opponents car. When the clock hits zero, the car with the bomb loses.

3. Turn Based Fortress: I loved Team Fortress in it's day, but I had an idea that it would be really good if you could play the role of Commander, and direct troops where they needed to go. I thought maybe an overhead 2d tactical turn based version would be pretty neat.

4. Airwolf 3D: A 3d remake of an old side scrolling Spectrum/C64 game where you had to pilot a helicopter through mineshafts to rescue trapped scientists.

5 3d Movie Maker 2: You may have seen Microsoft's 3d Movie Maker program from several years ago, which allowed you to make some neat little cartoon movies, but with a fairly limited amount of movie sets, actors and props. I started to make a fully 3d version which I think would be quite marketable, especially to all those interested in 'Machinima'.

Anyway, your thoughts appreciated.

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Matthew Teboe
Null Games
www.nullgames.com

I use Blitz Basic/Blitz3d for coding, which may sound a bit 'basic' but it's amazingly powerful.

Our project:
http://www12.brinkster.com/infinitumdd/

3d movie maker 2!

I'd get it. I was addicted to 3d movie maker

Or, if you know UT2k3 engine, join my dev team

I think that would a very large undertaking and require more technical know how than a lot of other projects.

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Originally posted by AmazingJas:
Torque engine heh? I recently got their non-commercial version sent to me for free (well $4.95 postage). But it's a bit to technical for me. Looks like everything is done from within C++. Is that true? Having said that, the sample game that comes with it (driving game) is quite impressive, so you should be able to achieve some good results. Thanks for the offer, but I kinda like doing my own thing. Mainly because if my heart isn't in it, then I lose motivation very fast. I would probably be more of a liability to you than anything.

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Torque.. no, where'd you get that?\
Anyway, i just thought i'd ask anyway

BlazeQ, I did a prototype of 3d Movie Maker2 with Darkbasic, and I didn't find it too technical. It's basically just having a large range of models and poses (which I am fairly proficient at building), and some code to let you select them, set waypoints and animation, and add some media elements. I find C++ in itself to be difficult to get to grips with, and it seems to require lots of code to do the simplest of things. I've tried it a couple of times and it's always annoyed me too much. Maybe a professional developer can use it more efficiently but I just didn't take to it. That's why I'm using Blitz.

Forkman, I have worked on a couple of small UT (not UT2003) mods, and your mod looks very unique, but that era isn't of much interest to me, unfortunatley. I think I have a game called Gettysburg somewhere which might give me more of a feeling for your theme, maybe I'll give it a play sometime.

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Originally posted by AmazingJas:
Forkman, I have worked on a couple of small UT (not UT2003) mods, and your mod looks very unique, but that era isn't of much interest to me, unfortunatley. I think I have a game called Gettysburg somewhere which might give me more of a feeling for your theme, maybe I'll give it a play sometime.

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I have a few tricky decisions to make concerning the interface, specifically how you drag and drop 'actors' into scenes which I may ask you guys for some advice on.

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Matthew Teboe
Null Games
www.nullgames.com

The main reason I'm using .b3d is because it allows you to do skeletal animations and I wanted to be able to add lip syncing, and head movements while other actions were being performed, eg, while running. You can't do this with the .md2 objects.

I'm thinking of using .bsp files for the 'sets' for the movies.

I've been using Poser for many years which is great for character animation, but lousy because of the limited number/type of characters, and also the difficulty in importing textured props and environments. I hope that I will be rectifying this in my application.

On the mesh issue: Are you going to include an animation/modeling utility inside this application to allow for importing static models and creating the lip sync animations, and such?

I don't mean to put more on your plate; just thinking through the benefits of this tool

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Matthew Teboe
Null Games
www.nullgames.com

I wont be including any modelling/animation tools for importing custom meshes. It will be possible to add custom animated characters but it will be a slightly techo task (ie, create their own .b3d, create a txt file with the animations, and add to the appropriate directory). THinking about it now , I might consider allowing md2,3ds, or .x animated imports but not sure yet. Importing static meshes will be simple straight in job, no modification other than scaling/rotation. Just back to my earlier point, I want to include enough actors out of the box to keep 90% of users happy. And make it possible for the other 10% to customise but without making too much work for myself.