After making 3 short games I'm realy eager to make a full lenght and exiting game. But I need some help. I need a story writer and puzzle designer for the game. I know what the game would be about but I'm hawing a block in my story department :P.
The story is basicaly about orange county chopers. But you don't need to know the show to be able to write the story. All you need to know is that the show is about some bikers that own theyr own bike shop. They fabricate theyr own theme bikes and sell or give them away. The main characters are Paul (the owner of the shop and in charge of the paperwork, sometimes he helps around the shop too), Paul jr.-Paulie (Pauls son and in charge of fabrication). And there are also some side charcters like Pauls other son Mike (I would prefer him to be a side charcter) and Vinnie ( a real help around the shop and a realy talented fabricator. He's supose to be a side charcter) . Paul is always bitching around the shop and complaining how things are supose to be done. But Paulie dosn't care and almoast ewery time does things his way (they usualy argue about that). That's basicaly all you need to know. You don't hawe to make it specificaly about orange county chopers becouse I want the game to be editable if any legal problems arise. So if you are intersted in helping me just post here and I will contact you. Let your imagination run wild!!! Here is also some character art i've done: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=17960.0
P.S.: Sorry if I posted in the frong place. If I did would one of the moderator be so kind to move it to where ewer it belongs...
Probably should have just posted in the ACR thread (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=17902.0) ...
Anyway.Ã, I must say unless the story writer comes up with something amazing I am not sure this environment would make a good adventure game?Ã, Are you going to offer some kind 'build your own bike' thing into it?Ã, What type of adventure do you have in mind?Ã, I have to admit that I wouldn't really want to play the game if it's like that show.Ã, I don't know that it would be any fun ...
Now ... if in the game you have to ride a chopper somewhere (like in Full Throttle) and go on some type of adventure (with the American Chopper characters as the players) that could be interesting I guess.Ã, Maybe you could have several of the theme bikes they've done as options to ride in the game?
Another idea would be that maybe Billy Lane (a rival chopper fabricator) has lost his marbles and has kidnapped Mikey and said he'll kill him if OCC doesn't quit making choppers!Ã, And Paul, Paulie, and Vinnie must find and rescue Mikey.
Something silly like that might work I guess ... but a game about fabricating bikes while getting yelled at ... just doesn't appeal to me I guess.
Good luck!
I am totaly aware of that. That's why I am asking you to help me.
About bouilding the bikes and riding them. That would be great but I think I don't hawe the necesery knowhow to compile a script fot that option.
But I realy like your kidnaping idea. I thought about it for a second and it sounds realy good to me. Maybee something like mikey or vinnie beeing kidnaped and paul and paulei go out and look for him. They get mixed up in more than just a simple kidnaping but in something far more sinister. But now that I am writing this it would be silly to put the orange county chopers people in to this game. Maybee I'll keep the sprites and make a totaly diferent game. A game about saving your kidnaped friend. But you find out that the friend knows some information that he shouldn't hawe known and is kidnaped becouse of it. You hawe to save him/her. But that's still the cliche thing that has been used a 1000 times.
What about that they had where buliding a new bike and they send it off to the painters but the parts go missing and they have to find the parts before their deadline. The parts could be in the shop (they can't find them beacuse the place is all messy) or some place else like their rivals stole them.
Shure that would work but it would't make a full leinght game. I don't think that it would make a medium leinght game...
Do you want the game to be humorous or serious? I mean do you want a wicked story where everything can happen and lots of jokes or a serious plot with less joking? If you want a serious one than I think it's harder not to follow a cliche, which is not really that bad if the story's well thought.
About the kidnapping part. What if the victim is really cooperating with the ones that kidnapped him.
Maybe it's like there's something hidden in a bike they have just built and the kiddnapers want to retrieve it.
well how about something like this:
They build a theme bike that needed a special handle bar. They order it but recieve the wrong package. ( there were some secret plans hiden inside the handle bars). As soon as the bike is built someone steals it. Now you hawe to find it. That would be the first chapter. The second one woould be becouse of your wictory vinnie or mike are kidnaped. Now you hawe to save them. And find out what are those plans all about. The game should be humorous. But now that I'm thinking about it I'm not goingto use the OCC characters. They just wouldn't fit in to any story. As Darth already mentioned. Maybee I'll just use another theme. If anyone is willing to help me with the puzzle design please send me a PM.