Caveman game.

[AndersM]

I thaught about making a game about this caveman named Urugh or when i've finished the game i'm currently doing (in may 2035 or something.)

Anyway: Today I watched this documentary on Discovery channel about cavemen, and they said that they thaugt that the cave-mens use of language probably was very 'basic' and uncomplikated.

In my game, shoud I the characters say "Oona, Would you be kind and hand me that stone-axe" or shoud I be 'realistic' and use "Oona! hand Urugh stoneaxe!" ?

I'd like to go for the second alternative, but maybee it gets iritating?

[Jimi]

Mats berglinn made a cave man game.

[m0ds]

I like the second type of speech. Makes it more realistic and harder, in one!

m0ds

[SSH]

Well, you could use the first option as humour...

Shaggy caveman says: "Oona, my dear, would you be so good as to pass me the earl grey, old fruit? Jolly good!"

I recommend that you go the the library or Amazon and read the Earth's CHildren series by Jean Auel...

[n3tgraph]

lol no use the second

Urugh somewhat reminds me of Ugh!
that great taxi-heli game from my early years

[veryweirdguy]

The second one.

As m0ds said, it could be harder & lead to harder puzzles eg. one caveman wants a drink, but since you can't understand him properly then you have to work out what he means first.

[wOoDz]

NAH too easy, my daughter talks like that every morning and funny enuff i understand her!

woodz

[AndersM]

I talk like that when I'm drunk, but then I don't understand myself. So ya all think that I shall go for the 'undeveloped' speech-style? Me too. Could be hard with the converstaions, but I don't have to write those multi-Gigabyte dialogue-scripts. Instead it will be "ARRRGH!", "Lrrrrrgh!", "Urug [Censored] Oona!", "Urugh kill !!", and "Hhhhhh" that fills the 'need' for communication for those poor cave-bastards...

[BlackBaron]

2nd looks good to me, but remember, you could always do a translation file   (I bet that would look weird: caveman-to-english translation ).

I also like the idea of SuperScottishHero, maybe in some situations (probably when Urugh gets mad because noone understands him) he would say stuff in a very sofisticated english, that would be so funny.

[Gilbert]

Mats berglinn made a cave man game.

Heh, as far as I know, Def was making a caveman game too. But who cares? Go ahead.

[remixor]

I like the idea of the caveman speech, but I don't think the intention (or byproduct) should be to make the character more difficult to understand.  I mean, aren't you supposed to REPRESENT that character?  Why would you have trouble knowing what you yourself were trying to say?