SIRMIXALOT: Goof and Cowbaby

Posted by SirMixAlot on July 6, 2006, 2:42 p.m.

Well I have two games in development (aside from the big TD(topdown) which I work on with someone else. It'll posibly be the best top down game I've ever heard of/played. And it wil be the greatest game maker game).

Cowbaby: I dont really feal like going into detail about this one but here is what I posted somewhere else on the game:

Quote:
Cowboy and Gorse

the above image is 4 mspaint colours

Story: In the wild west you are a happy baby boy who loves playing in the piles of money your robber parents make by stealing off of banking trains.

One day they take you on another train that they are gonna rob, but when they jump it you were left behind.

So you cry a lot on the train and get taken like hundreds of miles away and they dont know where you are any more.

A nice horse pulls you off the train and after you tell him your story he offers to take you home to your parents, because you have no legs to walk (your a baby lol.), but there is more to him then he says; he's in trouble with the laws in the city so he has to ditch the place.

Gameplay:

[*]Like the above picture, you ride on his back pretty much most of the time. But you will play as both characters.

[*]Cowbaby has the gun but he is behind you so you have to turn around just to shoot someone.

[*]You can press a key to put him on your head and put a coat over you so you look like a grown man; Good for robbing banks and stuff.

[*]Gorse can put Cowboy down for cowboy to crawl under lower objects… he can crawl but he is slow so you gotta cary him.

[*]You can put him on your back to run and jump canyons and stuff but it tires Gorse out (no bar will be on the screen to show this though, there wouldnt be much of a HUD)

[*]There is no health, but there are animal vets close by if Cowboy could crawl to them fast enough to save his freind (Gorse). If cowboy gets shot it is instant game over.

[*]There is money in the game so you can use some to buy more comftorble saddles to help Gorse run farther an stuff.

[*]Everything would be movieish… not a tiled room with enemies walking back an forth. It would be more like seiklus.

[*]There wouldnt be levels, all just one long continuos game.

Closing words: I'll see about drawing more stuff. Id like to keep the game to as few colours as possible but still be colourful… like seiklus, depending on where you are the colours are different but there arent many colours in each scene.

I was just doodling and I came up with it, came here to show it off, saw this topic and just put this all in on the spot… so maybe some of it contradicts itself, I dont wanna read through it all. I'll also probably get more ideas later.

The main feature would be the story which would be liek REALLY awesome and suspenful. And the level design would be HAWT and unique.

(Gorse is a stupid name now that I think of it… but i'll think of a better one later.)

GOOF: Goof is just a temp name until I figure a better one out. It is a topdown shooter I started while JW (Nobody) was online and said he was makng one. We sort of turned it into a contest to see who can update ours more.

Heres a screen of the prototype that is curently in development

It will eventuall be 4 player. Either 2 on one pc 2 on another (I dont have to find a comfy way to share the keyboard but I will have to find a way to code online) or all four on one pc (No online = easy, but sharing a keyboard = hard.)

Last thing:

http://radioblogclub.com/open/69260/7/the_avalanches___frontier_psychiatrist

Best. Song. Ever.

Comments

n1ko 18 years, 5 months ago

they all look nice. i really like the cretive ideas for the western cowbaby thing.

Eternal 18 years, 5 months ago

so yyou and JW are trying to recreate the platform wars?

Anyways, they both look nice. For the name of that game with the cowboy and the horse named gorse, you could do Howboy and Corse…. get it, corse? Since some people eat horsemeat? HAHAHA that wasn't funny.

SirMixAlot 18 years, 5 months ago

I can laugh at it if it makes you feal better. Ha ha… heh..heh… hmm..

Any way, thanks for the coments :D. Hopefully I could get a lame demo uploaded.

Stained Glass 18 years, 5 months ago

Hey, I saw your Cowboy and Gorse and Avatar over at PixelJoint! Game looks like it's awsome. =)

Radnom_Games 18 years, 5 months ago

I love the cowboy game idea, and the pic at the top is awesome!

Radnom_Games 18 years, 5 months ago

Psycho sematic, this boy needs therapy!

I'ma gon' kill you!

duckman 18 years, 4 months ago

I've seen your art before. Cool style. =)

ultim8p00 18 years, 4 months ago

I love the art style man!

oliv 18 years, 4 months ago

Sounds promising, I especially like the baby cowboy stuff :)

JW 18 years, 3 months ago

<3 Both awesome… About that topdown compo, you've already kinda won. :(

About that cowboy game: TOO COOL! Really, I love everything you made up. One thing: There should be a way to see gorse's tiredness… panting or something.