[mmo] Project Blackhawk searches new recruits!

Hey there,

Sounds like a good plan to make a game wich is MMORPG first/third person shooter, but since i dont see any game concept here is my idea for a good game concept.

My idea:
- Make it offline and Online.
- For offline game concept:
What:
RPG FPS/TPS

Platform:
-PC
-perhaps option for the XboX 360
-Perhaps option for the PS 3

Concept:
Since you have known your neightborhood is filled with gangs, there is alot crime going on. You where save untill now, but a new gang moves into town, your house and parents got burned because your father was suspected to be a gang member, but you got saved by a person who your father knew, his name is Thunder. Thunder (the person who saved you) has his own gang called the Thunder Squad (TS) and allows you to enter his gang and he offers you protection, wich he does for a couple of years until you are 21 years old, Thunder got killed and he left you leadership of the gang but you noticed a couple of your members have planned a murder on you, even later they try execute this plan and you notice the rest of your crew also was involved in this so you leave the gang and move into the woods, for now this is the only place save, you still got a couple of mates in town and so you want to start your own new gang and destroy the old gang. But the new leader of the gang called Black Hawk (BH), has connections and gets some alled (so your enemy) gangs into town for his protection. You build up your home in the woods (wich you can edit (build more things like shacks etc.)) and you try to gather some money by killing people and stealing their pocket cash and you will buy a weapon, with this waepon you can rob things like liquor stores, supermarkets and more, wich gives you money so you can buy wood to build better or more shacks in the woods for more gang members. Wich if you have enough could take over territory's, do missions, do organized crimes sush as bank robbery's or other big store's, break outs from the prison, and even more. With enough missions, gangmembers, territory and cash you can eventually take out the big boss hisself: Black Hawk.

Possibility's:
- Being able to buy store's for monthly profit
- upgrade the store's for more profit and perhaps to make it a bunker.
- Design your own Base
- Design your own Character
- Design your own gang
- Being able to make them pronounce your name
- Being able to make them pronounce your gang

Getting trough the world:
You make your own gang and being able to get many new recruits for your gang, You start with the only thing you have wich is your body and and your clothes, you got no money at all and you have to smash people on the streets to get minimum money for food, weapons and clothes,
with weapons you could rob liquor stores and supermarkets and even later in the game organized crimes sush as bank robbery's
But the main goal is to destroy your old gang but you cannot do this dirrectly or on your own, you need a big ass gang, and you need to destroy some of their allied gangs first before you can take out Black Hawk, the guy who toke out Thunder the original owner of the Thunder squid wich left you with the leadership.

Groups:
-Thunder Squid (TS) (Main enemy)
-Dah Row Street (DRS) (Secondary enemy)
-The People's Downfolk (TPD) (allied enemy)
-Your gang

The world itself:
There is a huge city, wich contains shops, buyable houses and buyable shops.
Next to the city there is even bigger forrest where you start, also there are mountains with caves where you also can hide and build things.
Also a bit of the shore there is a huge prison with some of your mates and other things.
Sorry for the desert lovers, i dont see a possibility for big yellow ugly deserts :(

Suprizes:
there might stay some things hidden during gameplay like somebody not being dead, joining the gang or other unexpected events. but also things like some people being not trust worthy even trough you would trust them. i don't say this would get into the game but i also didn't say it won't ;) (atleast if this concept gets trough) :D

I know some of this ain't correct english, but i wrote this in a hurry.

[Edited by - SonnyX on February 1, 2010 8:18:57 AM]

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Original post by SonnyX Hey there, Sounds like a good plan to make a game wich is MMORPG first/third person shooter, but since i dont see any game concept here is my idea for a good game concept. My idea: - Make it offline and Online. - For offline game concept: What: RPG FPS/TPS Platform: -PC -perhaps option for the XboX 360 -Perhaps option for the PS 3 Concept: As a young kid your neightborhood is filled with gangs, there is alot crime going on and its not save going over the streets on your own without a being member of a gang, so you go to the Thunder Squid (TS), You are save here for a while, but a new gang moves into town, your house and parents got burned and your gang moves into a new apartment, this goes on for a couple of years until you are 21 years old, you became leader of the gang but you noticed a couple of your members have planned a murder on you, even later they try to do this and you notice the rest of your crew also was involved in this so you leave the gang and move into the woods, for now this is the only place save, you still got a couple of mates in town so you want to start your own new gang and desroy the old gang. Possibility's: Being able to buy store's and upgrade your base in the woods and upgrade the store's for profit and perhaps to make it a bunker. Getting trough the world: You make your own gang and being able to get many new recruits for your gang, You start with the only thing you have wich is your body and and your clothes, you got no money at all and you have to smash people on the streets to get minimum money for food, weapons and clothes, with weapons you could rob liquor stores and supermarkets and even later in the game organized crimes sush as bank robbery's But the main goal is to destroy your old gang but you cannot do this dirrectly or on your own, you need a big ass gang, and you need to destroy some of their allied gangs first before you can take out Black Hawk, the guy who toke out Thunder the original owner of the Thunder squid wich left you leadership. Groups: -Thunder Squid (TS) (Main enemy) -Dah Row Street (DRS) (Secondary enemy) -The People's Downfolk (TPD) (allied enemy) -Your gang The world itself: There is a huge city, wich contains shops, buyable houses and buyable shops. Next to the city there is even bigger forrest where you start, also there are mountains with caves where you also can hide and build things. Sorry for the desert lovers, i dont see a possibility for big yellow ugly deserts :( I know some of this ain't correct english, but i wrote this in a hurry.

nice idea, sounds a little like GTA trough

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Original post by flrlucas Quote: Original post by SonnyX Hey there, Sounds like a good plan to make a game wich is MMORPG first/third person shooter, but since i dont see any game concept here is my idea for a good game concept. My idea: - Make it offline and Online. - For offline game concept: What: RPG FPS/TPS Platform: -PC -perhaps option for the XboX 360 -Perhaps option for the PS 3 Concept: Since you have known your neightborhood is filled with gangs, there is alot crime going on. You where save untill now, but a new gang moves into town, your house and parents got burned because your father was suspected to be a gang member, but you got saved by a person who your father knew, his name is Thunder. Thunder (the person who saved you) has his own gang called the Thunder Squad (TS) and allows you to enter his gang and he offers you protection, wich he does for a couple of years until you are 21 years old, Thunder got killed and he left you leadership of the gang but you noticed a couple of your members have planned a murder on you, even later they try execute this plan and you notice the rest of your crew also was involved in this so you leave the gang and move into the woods, for now this is the only place save, you still got a couple of mates in town and so you want to start your own new gang and destroy the old gang. But the new leader of the gang called Black Hawk (BH), has connections and gets some alled (so your enemy) gangs into town for his protection. You build up your home in the woods (wich you can edit (build more things like shacks etc.)) and you try to gather some money by killing people and stealing their pocket cash and you will buy a weapon, with this waepon you can rob things like liquor stores, supermarkets and more, wich gives you money so you can buy wood to build better or more shacks in the woods for more gang members. Wich if you have enough could take over territory's, do missions, do organized crimes sush as bank robbery's or other big store's, break outs from the prison, and even more. With enough missions, gangmembers, territory and cash you can eventually take out the big boss hisself: Black Hawk. Possibility's: - Being able to buy store's for monthly profit - upgrade the store's for more profit and perhaps to make it a bunker. - Design your own Base - Design your own Character - Design your own gang - Being able to make them pronounce your name - Being able to make them pronounce your gang Getting trough the world: You make your own gang and being able to get many new recruits for your gang, You start with the only thing you have wich is your body and and your clothes, you got no money at all and you have to smash people on the streets to get minimum money for food, weapons and clothes, with weapons you could rob liquor stores and supermarkets and even later in the game organized crimes sush as bank robbery's But the main goal is to destroy your old gang but you cannot do this dirrectly or on your own, you need a big ass gang, and you need to destroy some of their allied gangs first before you can take out Black Hawk, the guy who toke out Thunder the original owner of the Thunder squid wich left you with the leadership. Groups: -Thunder Squid (TS) (Main enemy) -Dah Row Street (DRS) (Secondary enemy) -The People's Downfolk (TPD) (allied enemy) -Your gang The world itself: There is a huge city, wich contains shops, buyable houses and buyable shops. Next to the city there is even bigger forrest where you start, also there are mountains with caves where you also can hide and build things. Also a bit of the shore there is a huge prison with some of your mates and other things. Sorry for the desert lovers, i dont see a possibility for big yellow ugly deserts :( Suprizes: there might stay some things hidden during gameplay like somebody not being dead, joining the gang or other unexpected events. but also things like some people being not trust worthy even trough you would trust them. i don't say this would get into the game but i also didn't say it won't ;) (atleast if this concept gets trough) :D I know some of this ain't correct english, but i wrote this in a hurry. nice idea, sounds a little like GTA trough

Well i don't see any similarity to GTA exept for the part u can buy guns, smash people and there is a big city.

Oh and btw ive updated my concept :)

I must agre you concept sounds alot like GTA,

i like the sound of the original concept because it sounds like 2 organized army's at war, your idea seems to be more gang warfare.

if you are doing a MMOFPS tho i would think proper military war would be much more interesting then just gang warfare.

(and add on the fact that gang warfare 95% of the time is just a joke, it works for a game like GTA because it is a RPG , but for a FPS it makes more seance and in my mind gives a better game atmosphere is your character is a trained solder, not some random kid who lives on the wrong side of the train tracks with anger issues.

good luck with your game tho, the last MMOFPS i played PlanetSide (http://planetside.station.sony.com/) was ALOT of fun working together with your squad which was just 1 part of a much larger operation assaulting large compounds and defending against Armored invasions.

Best of luck to you.

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Original post by Zagoalie I must agre you concept sounds alot like GTA, i like the sound of the original concept because it sounds like 2 organized army's at war, your idea seems to be more gang warfare. if you are doing a MMOFPS tho i would think proper military war would be much more interesting then just gang warfare. (and add on the fact that gang warfare 95% of the time is just a joke, it works for a game like GTA because it is a RPG , but for a FPS it makes more seance and in my mind gives a better game atmosphere is your character is a trained solder, not some random kid who lives on the wrong side of the train tracks with anger issues. good luck with your game tho, the last MMOFPS i played PlanetSide (http://planetside.station.sony.com/) was ALOT of fun working together with your squad which was just 1 part of a much larger operation assaulting large compounds and defending against Armored invasions. Best of luck to you.

Euhm so my idea sounds alike gta,
but that way i also could think of his concept: Unreal Tournament,
but then the "omg im a human" version.

wich would be a almost perfect replicate of Unreal Tournament, also participating is that he said he wants to use the unreal engine or the Unreal development kit wich would just be a Unreal Tournament ripoff and just changing name...

not SonnyX his/her concept please!!!!

[Edited by - flrlucas on February 3, 2010 12:50:53 PM]

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Original post by SonnyX Quote: Original post by Zagoalie I must agre you concept sounds alot like GTA, i like the sound of the original concept because it sounds like 2 organized army's at war, your idea seems to be more gang warfare. if you are doing a MMOFPS tho i would think proper military war would be much more interesting then just gang warfare. (and add on the fact that gang warfare 95% of the time is just a joke, it works for a game like GTA because it is a RPG , but for a FPS it makes more seance and in my mind gives a better game atmosphere is your character is a trained solder, not some random kid who lives on the wrong side of the train tracks with anger issues. good luck with your game tho, the last MMOFPS i played PlanetSide (http://planetside.station.sony.com/) was ALOT of fun working together with your squad which was just 1 part of a much larger operation assaulting large compounds and defending against Armored invasions. Best of luck to you. Euhm so my idea sounds alike gta, but that way i also could think of his concept: Unreal Tournament, but then the "omg im a human" version. which would be a almost perfect replicate of Unreal Tournament, also participating is that he said he wants to use the unreal engine or the Unreal development kit wich would just be a Unreal Tournament ripoff and just changing name...

Wether it is a Unreal rip off or not is a matter of graphic style, and gameplay storyline wise it is to basic to tell if it is a rip of off anything but then again what is int? i mean Avitar is a 100% copy of Pocahontas, still means its a good moving (be it VERY long...).

no offense meant against your idea but it does sound very GTAish, there is not enough detail in the original post to say if it is to similar to anything els but the fact is it does not mater, i personally do not like GTA, and i gave me opinion about the concept of a MMOFPS set in proper FPS style with proper military forces at war, as i am sure you gave your opinion because you like GTA stile of game play, nothing wrong with that its just up to the developer.

you guys talk about GTA because someone posted his/her concept on my topic about my game development not about your concepts, please don't post your own concepts here!!!!

To the original post this sounds just like Planetside remake.

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Original post by DenisCastellanos To the original post this sounds just like Planetside remake.

never heard from it before started this post and teh concept is tottaly diffent from planet side.

(full concept only for team members)

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Original post by flrlucas Quote: Original post by DenisCastellanos To the original post this sounds just like Planetside remake. never heard from it before started this post and teh concept is tottaly diffent from planet side. (full concept only for team members)

Lol cough, i think this post was to you...

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Original post by Zagoalie I must agre you concept sounds alot like GTA, i like the sound of the original concept because it sounds like 2 organized army's at war, your idea seems to be more gang warfare. if you are doing a MMOFPS tho i would think proper military war would be much more interesting then just gang warfare. (and add on the fact that gang warfare 95% of the time is just a joke, it works for a game like GTA because it is a RPG , but for a FPS it makes more seance and in my mind gives a better game atmosphere is your character is a trained solder, not some random kid who lives on the wrong side of the train tracks with anger issues. good luck with your game tho, the last MMOFPS i played PlanetSide (http://planetside.station.sony.com/) was ALOT of fun working together with your squad which was just 1 part of a much larger operation assaulting large compounds and defending against Armored invasions. Best of luck to you.

notice the it was alot of fun working togheter in planetside...
nah never heard from planetside,
dude u drown in ur own lies

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Original post by SonnyX notice the it was alot of fun working togheter in planetside... nah never heard from planetside, dude u drown in ur own lies

just because some random person posts about a game does not mean then he knows about it, hell i only read the 1st few lines of your post and got smacked in the face with the "GTA RIP OFF!" so i did not bother to continue. so who is to say he is lieing maby just never bothered to finish reading my post. it is clear that i made my post AFTER he made his about making this game so clearly he did not learn about planit side from me THEN make the post about making his own ripoff of it.

and the fact is what game is not a ripoff?

Note: 95% of all RTS games use the original WC UI layout and the Rock Paper Sisers unit balancing,

Note: Section*8 compleat ripoff of a mix betwen Crysis and... Crysis.

Note: almost EVERY SINGLE RPG is a rip off of Diablo, you evin get ones who dont evin try and hide it like Titen Quest...

Fact is entertanment in any forum 90% of the time is a ripoff.

i called your concept a GTA rippff as a bad thing because i find the hole concept of Gang warfare stuiped. but my concept of a planet side ripoff i liked because i liked planet side.

hell even look at Star Craft's GREAT storyline... humans created weapon weapon went haywire and started killing everything... -cough- Borg? -cough-

don't be mad at him just because he did not like your idea.

"Ripoff" is a strong word. I certainly don't think he is doing that. Sure, it does sound partly inspired by GTA. It is difficult to tell at this point though how much he plans to borrow from GTA (btw, I don't think GTA is the first Mafia/gang game out there). We have to consider style and feel of the game. No story is unique anymore. I am not sure if they ever were. He is definitely borrowing some elements, but to say he is "ripping off" GTA would be a little strong at this point.

As for the OP. I think you have a good start of an idea, but I think you need a lot more unique ideas to justify developing an MMO. So far you have only told me it is an MMOFPS. I would like to see this idea expanded and developed. As a developer, you need to inspire me to join your team. After all, our motivation won't be money because there isn't usually a pot of gold at the end of these rainbows.

Also, I would seriously look into technologies and figure out all of the technologies you are going to use. Graphics engine, physics engine, supporting libraries, AI libraries (if any), GUI tools, sound, etc. Your goal in your project should be to write as little code as you can get away with. Same goes for assets. I would look for generic assets that will fit your game's style. Light posts, chairs, tables, road signs, etc. Start putting a collection of stuff together. Always keep in mind of how you can get away with doing less without suffering too much on quality.