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chosenservant Member Posts: 16 From: Australia Registered: 11-09-2002 |
I thought of providing a new dimension to an existing classic game. I feel like providing the end product freely to the public, but I need some advise on game development. Anyone willing to help? What do I need to get started? Is there any low cost solutions out there for newcomers? I have other projects in mind, but this is the first that I would like to build. |
GUMP Member Posts: 1335 From: Melbourne, FL USA Registered: 11-09-2002 |
Well, first of all you'd have to say what game you're looking at enhancing in order for us to give meaningful feedback. |
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chosenservant Member Posts: 16 From: Australia Registered: 11-09-2002 |
One of the games is pacman. I intend it to be played by all ages, including 3 year olds if possible. My little bro played console games when he was around that age. The improvement is making it 3D, possibly like first person shooter, except that pacman doesn't shoot anything (at least for now) because it only uses cursors. It only runs through 'eggs', 'fruits' and various 'powerups', and I had the thought of making it multiplayer, pacman team vs ghost team. There will be interesting objectives, other than eating all the eggs in the map. The user should be able to view a translucent floating (partial?) map on the screen for navigation. Godly values can easily be incorporated into the game, and this is one game which will catch a lot of attention due to the numerous pacman fans out there. Someday you may even find this game by googling for 'pacman'. As I said, this is only one of many possible games, so collectively it should provide good fun. Any thoughts will be most welcome, and if anyone wants to help me develop this, it will be most appreciated. ------------------ |
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nfektious Member Posts: 408 From: Registered: 10-25-2002 |
not to burst your bubble any chosenservant, but i also considered this idea several months ago. i decided to do some research to see if it had been done before...and not to my suprise, it had. some students at stanford created a 3D version of the old classic sometime around the 2000 term and released it pubicly (altho not widely). you can get the different os versions here: http://movement.stanford.edu/nico/projects.html#pac2k perhaps you can still do what you want to and make it unique enough that it's not considered a clone. best to you! |
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Gift Member Posts: 85 From: Palatine, IL, USA Registered: 02-11-2001 |
My friend Pascal was lead programer at Webfoot a few years back. One of their things was to make a 3D pacman called Muchman it was even sold in stores like wallmart, at that time no one thought it was a problem, but the big corporation Mattel, I believe, bought up the rights to pacman and drove them out of business through litigation. There was quite a large grassroots support for them throughout the web. Some greedy corporate big boss thought it must have been a good market, then after loosing money on rehashed packman Mattel too went out of business. I think I remember Webfoot mentioning that they were not really in it for the money but just because they liked the old games. So I guess the moral of the story is that if you do a remake just make sure that its different enough that you don't get sued. Love in Christ |
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chosenservant Member Posts: 16 From: Australia Registered: 11-09-2002 |
nfektious, that was very close to what I had in mind. Have you played Time Stalkers in Dreamcast? I was thinking of somewhere along their 'dungeons' where they can't see anything on the other side of the walls, but they have a translucent map on screen. I'll think of more modifications to avoid litigations  ------------------ |