64D Com-Unity Game

Posted by Moikle on April 6, 2015, 12:13 p.m.

What do you guys think about doing a community Unity game?

Remember when we did that 64d community RPG? I really enjoyed that, and want to do something similar.

Our community games tend to revolve around game maker, which we are all pretty much fluent in, I was thinking that we could all work together on something we are slightly less familiar with. People who already know unity can point the rest in the right direction and offer support as well as stabilize the probably messy buggy code we produce.

Everyone, no matter your experience can take part, as long as you have some idea of how C# works, and have some idea that you can contribute. Even if you doubt you can even make a hello world program using tutorials, you could submit some art for the game, 3d, 2d, textures, sound, level design, writing, anything that comes to mind. Just get yourself the free version of unity, and do the basic tutorials to familiarise yourself with the navigation and the very basics of the program.

We could take turns to add to the game, like we did with the community rpg, we would share the files with everyone using git, so others can see how it is progressing/offer suggestions/support. That or we could take a less structured "add stuff whenever, as long as you don't delete other people's stuff without asking, and document all your additions." approach.

I am well aware of how interest in these community projects often tapers off and it gets abandoned, but if we don't restrict ourselves to a specific order, and are allowed to come back later and add stuff, then I suspect a few people will be left adding to it for quite a while.

I propose we write up a very basic GDD together at the start to keep ourselves focused on a common goal for the core aspects of the game, and to decide things like genre/setting/important mechanics and things like that.

yes, this blog is very rambly, but it is just a brainstormy type thing, and if anyone is actually interested then I will write up a clearer blog and plan for the project.

So?

Comments

Moikle 9 years, 8 months ago

Yup

spike1 9 years, 8 months ago

Fair enough, I'll see if I can come up with anything as well :). Should we have like a week or two for people to work on prototypes before doing a vote or something, or just go with whatever comes first?

Iasper 9 years, 8 months ago

I think we should make sure we build a game with online multiplayer. That way, even when the project is over, we can continue to enjoy it by playing the game we all contributed to on TS Nights.

Moikle 9 years, 8 months ago

great idea spike, and you too iasper, that is the general notion of conversation on TS last night

Nopykon 9 years, 8 months ago

Lol, I like it. The one with the most appealing project wins a small army of workers. Unless we're all sore loosers and drop out. ^_^