What Would Be Your Perfect BE Game

[Tinn]

Originally Posted by Gagecoalbrace

^.^ :looks up at poll: I believe 250+ plus people, a little over half, have said its will be a rpg game. with adventure game pulling in second at a 31% of the vote

I can confidently say that at least one of those votes would have been set to 'Princess-maker-esque game' if the option had been available. In fact, a princess-maker style game could be seen as a hybrid of those genres, in some ways, so it's hard to say how popular it would have been. A lot of posters seem to have supported it.

[Tinn]

Originally Posted by tsokei

> A constant state of tense readiness isn't very compatible with 'enjoying the view.'
I have to agree on this point. However it's possible to make a first-person shooter that isn't really tense - more like a first-person exploration game(Myst?) with a few action sequences or something.

I guess it depends on how the action was integrated into play. It'd have to be announced, rather than unexpected, for one thing. Also, the nature of exploration games is to have a lot of incidental content, requiring a relatively complex setting.

On an unrelated note, hmm. Now that you've suggested a myst-like, I can't help but wonder how one's own size could be used as a puzzle element in such a game, and what sorts of strange devices might be found throughout the world. That said, myst-like games have some significant disadvantages as a medium for BE.

[coramorgana]

i'm doing a little try for the BE arka-invaders

[Litch]

Ah how I lament that there are no decent "make your own computer game program" for the mac. It'd be interesting to try out.

I for one voted RPG, so either that or adventure game, because I believe that the most meaningful BE occurs in context.

[coramorgana]

nobody have new things?

[Muhznit]

Originally Posted by coramorgana

nobody have new things?

Without a unified genre to think about, there's not realoly any development going on, and therefore there's a lack of ideas.

[Phen]

Originally Posted by Muhznit

Without a unified genre to think about, there's not realoly any development going on, and therefore there's a lack of ideas.

I'd be happy to come up with whatever for an rpg as a writer of sorts. Currently I'm trying to structure some kind of choose your own adventure, but obviously it'd be text based as that is my force.

[tsokei]

Hmm text-based is intriguing. I would play/read them - however I don't find myself running to the overflowingbra mud all the time either so maybe not. I think most would agree perfect artwork would be in their perfect game.
But perhaps for some people, text - or their imagination - is the perfect artwork.

[calibretto]

Originally Posted by Litch

Ah how I lament that there are no decent "make your own computer game program" for the mac. It'd be interesting to try out.

I for one voted RPG, so either that or adventure game, because I believe that the most meaningful BE occurs in context.

Check out Unity:

http://unity3d.com/unity/download/#mac

It's primarily for 3D games, but I think it can be used to make 2D games fairly easily as well.