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new mod: Street Fighter Cube

by D.plomat on 08/28/2004 03:41, 28 messages, last message: 09/23/2004 19:19, 9863 views, last view: 05/04/2024 01:01

Hello all. I want to make a mod based on the Cube engine. It's gonna be one of the biggest games ever seen so you should really join the team.

Here is the idea for the game:

Games with guns are really evil and unfair. The ideal thing would be an MMORPG where ppl fight with hands and hand-weapons. They can use vehicles like in GTA3, and skateboards also. Each player have a group of very-strong-IA controlled teammates he can command like in Globulation2 to add an RTS dimension to the game. But the IA teammates aren't just units, they have their own complete parameters of alignment, personnality, loyalty, multiple status and emotions. Those emotions are visible on their faces with an experimental emotion drawer. Also there is an emotional prosody filter/modifier in the built-in speech synthesis.

But that's only the beginning, later we'll add speech recognition and a flight simulator.
Also the technology evolves like in Civilization.

Every player must choose his religion when he signs on because the magic/spells aren't the same if he's christian, hindu, voodoo or satanic. Those magic spells are called by doing street-fighter-like keystrokes plus spoking loud latin sentences on the mic and doing mystical-religious movements on the webcam (or using the included USB voodoo doll)

It will be based on Sauerbraten engine so it's name will be "Super Smash Magic MMORPGRTS SauerFighter III"

Actually the team is:
1 leader
0 mapper
0 modeller
0 musician
0 coder
0 webmaster

The website is hosted at file:/dev/null ,is often updated so check it out often.

Well, it's a little bit ambitious but the concept is so good that i'll easily find 20 expert coders and 1 psychiatrist by posting my idea on each forum i can see that is somewhat related to one of those ideas.

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#9: Re: Hostility

by spentron on 08/29/2004 19:42, refers to #8

Although this thread is more someone having fun at your (innovati) expense, for the most part skepticism is intended to be helpful. We've seen what happens here, we've heard of what happens in other mod communities. Usually, if the leader isn't capable of "mission-critical" work, the project fails. Often the leader is a coder, but there are other examples, for example Nehahra for Quake was lead by a machinema expert. BUT this shows another thing, Mindcrime made use of code already created, or people were already working on. Cube hasn't created the same response as the Quake open-source release... I also must mention I thought Cube would be great platform for projects to become popular since it's free, but the big commercial games have a ready-made audience that apparently is more significant.

I hear a call for code, but not one mention of _specifically_ what this new code is for. Maybe if you detailed min. and desired requirements, someone might say they'll spend a few minutes whipping something up.

As to swords vs. guns, this confuses what the weapons represent with their role in the game. Firstperson is primarily about engaging foes at a distance, and can be redone abstractly, using Nerf, or whatever with no change whatsoever in the resulting geometrical puzzle. Fighter view emphasizes close range combat. Third-person is a bastard son of the two and is best for games deemphasizing combat or evasion over attacking.