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The idea
Ok I am a programer and wanted to make my own game, and sence I am also an sc nerd, the obvoius choice is an RTS . I started off getting a bunch of programers to help be on programing team, and they would also be on the design team, but none of them have played any RTS's, and if they have they aren't good at them =P. So I want some SC players to help me design this game. The whole project will take 3-4 years, and I'm not trying to create the next Starcraft or anything like that, I am somewhat realistic here and realize this will never get amazingly popular, but might get some playtime in the RTS community, and definatly some in the game dev community (as most big projects like this do). So I already have a few programers, and know that I can get more who are willing to work on this, so finding them is not going to be an issue.


Your job
I would get a few people and form a design team. Incase you are unaware, a design team fully plans out every aspect of the game before it is made, of caurse many things will be changed throughout but it will still have the same backbone that was created in design, and the beteer desgined it is, the less has to be changed, and the faster the game gets finished. The designing will probobly take about a month of work on the initial design, plus any time in beta testing. I plan to either give away or sell the game (if it is good) on a website so you'll will get a small portion of the profit if there is any, keep in mind it will be very small cause there will be alot of designers, and you'll will spend a short time on this, compared to the programers who will spend years of work on it.


Plans so far
These are just the basic plans, I have more ideas, and these ideas aren't set in stone if the design team dosen't like anything here.
Game Play
The main focus on the game will be vercitility and variaty, two games with the same races can go COMPLETLY diferent dpending on the map and what your opponent builds, and what they do with what they build. The gameplay, like reasources and terrain is going to be the first thing the design team is going to have to tackle. I am goign to have a campaign mode, and a multiplayer mode.
Setting
- Due to two super powers of the galaxy, a total war has eccalated into Chemical warfare able to cause more damage than nukes and in a chain reaction they caused tramatic reactions with the Stars, and the galaxy is completly distrought.

Contact info
Email: Syrreph@gmail.com
AIM: Syrreph
MSN: Syrreph@gmail.com
USEast: Syrreph.scm
B.net-X - Syrreph
Or you can just post here with your comments/ideas.

I'll help test. Not much I can offer other than that.

@ducky ok, contact me in 3-4 years then =P.

And I forgot to mention, please if you try to get on this be atleast decent at melee, you are goign to have to have an idea of how sc works, before being able to judge what is balanced and what is going to work, and what isn't.


Also for you UMSers, this is goign to have a very extensive map editor, which will have a more codelike trigger system, and you can do all kinds of things to units (like change their models, their attacks, and alot of other things). And alot of things that require asm editing to do in sc.

Im interested. What language are you using.

c++, I am not recruting programers right now, but if you want to be on programing team, i'll add you and talk to you about it when design is done. or you could be on both =P.

wow

If you need music, my and my friend can help. I can play the trumpet, the guitar and the piano, and my friend can play the trombone and the drums. I can also do a little programming if you need me to.

oh, and about UMs, for those who know anything about programing. The actual game itself will not do much on it's own, it will have things like interface and so forth, but mining, units, builds, AI, and all that will not acutaly be programed into the game, but into difrent files, that you can include with your maps. But when you paly melee, it uploads a default set of "rules", and when you make a map, it starts off with those default rules, and you can edit them.


Yea sure, any programing help would be much appreciated, and we hope to have alot of diferent styles of music (and hopefully you can even upload your own playlists and stuff =P, not hard to do at all, but kinda hard to make an easy to use system that will work in the game).

Looks interesting.

I could loosely contribute unit models here and there.

i can throw in some ideas every once in a while...like view types and spells...

I have Cubase (Professional music making software)

Need any tunes, I can do ANY kind of tune.

Classical to Electronic Music.

Syphon, yea do you do 2d and 3d? I haven't decied what I'm doing yet, both have pros and cons.


And yea music would be helpful, but that's wayyyyy later =P.


If you want to help out on the design team, please, contact me .

I do 2d, and 3d poorly. Someone gimme 30 bucks for maya

We'll weither it is 3d or 2d is still going back and forth.... So don't know what kinda artists we need yet.


And if anyone things they are good with coming up with stories, we could use some help with that now =P.

Make 2d. I doubt this will become a huge game, and 3d is very difficult to make.
I could contribute, but I will probably be too busy next year.. high school.
Tell me what you need before I need to go.

bump, com'on we still looking for some people to help out with story planning...

ADDITION:
And the concept is being COMPLETLY scared btw, cause alot of people don't really like it ><.

Ok, here is the new concept...
- Due to two super powers of the galaxy, a total war has eccalated into Chemical warfare able to cause more damage than nukes and in a chain reaction they caused tramatic reactions with the Stars, and the galaxy is completly distrought.

And we haven't really decided yet where it is going to go from their, or even what races this is going to involve. It will probobly lead to some sort of war for reasources, land, and control of the destroyed empire. So the game basicly starts at the end of a war between two main races.




Ugh, and people who message me still seem to be confused. This dosen't require any programing experiance, you will not be doing any programing. You are just going to fully plan out the game and evertyhing that will be in it. I will then get other programers, and work with them to actualy build the game.

One thing you need, make buildings very customizeable. Same with units.

We still really need someone who is good with stories ><.

Hi. I can make a story, but it may or maynot take awhile.

Just so you know, I've started to work on that music thing. I'll post it here in a few days. I've also come up with and partially programmed a possible menu . My friend also made some drawing. Like it seems, everyone I told is in to this

OMFG, What's it pay?






ROFL, just kidding...If you can somehow get me to not be lazy I can uber help you.

Here's the story. I'm a professional writer, Hamilton's best. Here's the story that took me a minute to type (and 30 minutes to think about ).

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