An idea some of you might find interesting

[Vel]

So, I was thinking, "MAGS games with AGSers as characters are cool... but only one month a year do we have such rules. Why aren't there more games like, say, Mittens murder mystery?"

Basically, my idea is, let's have a RON-like world with AGS forum members as characters. The only arguable point would be the setting. I have some ideas of my own:

Mittens:
- at a cosy winter resort
- at a rockin' sea resort
Other:
- AGS university campus


Well, what do you guys think?

[Pet Terry]

I had an idea for 'Mittens Murder Mystery 2005' and I even vaguely mentioned it at Mittens. Basically, it was going to be set to Agia-Anna and was going to be a murder mystery... with a twist! I even scripted a fully working interface but I dropped the project when I decided to finish CW.

Personally, I have enjoyed the many games that featured AGSers and I would like to see more. But it's very important to get the characters to be recognizable in the game.

[evenwolf]

Download Who Killed Kenny Rogers from slugbicyclewhatnot.


I think your idea could work in that people would be motivated.  The downside would be:

1.) Who is going to make the first game? 
2.)  How many AGSers are there? and how do we not offend those omitted?
3.)  Personal grudges and putting words into others' mouths.


Personally 2 and 3 aren't that big of a deal.  What I'm saying is that you best make the first one and others will follow suit.  Don't wait for permission or community acceptance.  RON probably never would have happened today if they waited for consensus.

[Helm]

I think it's a bad idea to get into too much self-referencing. AGS is to make adventure games with, not AGS-community-centered stuff that nobody outside us will get. I wouldn't mind a few games because obviously I'd get the references, but I don't think it should become something like RON.

[Andail]

Helm doesn't like AGS-references
Helm made SOL
Ergo Helm is inconsistent

Goats can be inconsistent
Ergo Helm can be a goat

[Vel]

Helm, there are several thousand AGSers and at least a hundred who would get the jokes... the games won't be anything that special themselves, much like RON.
And I would make the first game myself had I the time to do so. As for which AGSers are included, well, I guess that their would  gradually increase.

[HillBilly]

This sounds fun, but how many people will work on the different games? Will there be one person, will there be a small team, will each AGS-er in the game draw and animate themselves etc? It would be nice with some more detailed details.

I could probably help out with some graphics if it's needed. You've seen my stuff, but I don't know what you had in mind graphically. Maybe you want to keep this old school.

[Helm]

the games won't be anything that special themselves, much like RON.

oh yeah, this sounds very inspiring

[Vel]

Hillbilly, the way I see it is that there will be several people working on the first game, and individual ones working on next games, gradually expanding the world.

I'd rather the graphics were rather old school 320*200/240, because we dont really need a bigger resolution, do we? Share your opinion.

And if people are interested in collaborating/there are already some sprites of AGSers done for sprite jams and games/, I'd gladly make the music for the project.

[HillBilly]

I'd rather the graphics were rather old school 320*200/240, because we dont really need a bigger resolution, do we? Share your opinion.

I'm not talking size, I'm asking if the graphics will be low-res/pixelated or hi-res/anti-aliased/vector.

[Vel]

Correct me if Im wrong, but I think that more people feel confident with the pixelly style.

[Theme]

I wish i could be famous agser to appear in one of those games 

o/

[Gregjazz]

What if everyone wrote their own character and uploaded the .cha file?

[Krysis]

What if everyone wrote their own character and uploaded the .cha file?

That aint a bad idea. But it would be good if we first see what kind of sprite shall it be or chaos shall roam the land once more... Err, I mean someone give an example or sumtin.Ã, 

EDIT: I'm drooling over the idea of a game like that.

[MrColossal]

For some RON history:

Everyone sat around talking about it and trying to organize it, Yahtzee just made a game while everyone was not and that's how it started.

So, moral being, just make it Vel. Set it in a space station orbiting earth, that way people can get to any part of the world they need!

Either way, if you just do it and release all the art you used [and make sure the game has lots of rooms [not necessarily important rooms to your game, but things for people to build off of] it might be picked up by other people.

Eric

[Vel]

Maybe I will, Eric, but when I have some more time... now I'm working on the ezine and some other stuff...
Meanwhile, I hope someone beats me to it! ^_^

[The Inquisitive Stranger]

I think someone should make a game about SCRAMM.

[Joseph DiPerla]

I second GeoffKhans idea. Everyone make your own character. Based on how the majority of the characters look, then we can decide the major part of the art style. Maybe we can also do our own little AGS cyber home as well. Drawings. Vel or someone could then organize an AGS map.

I say the cyber homes are fictional and not real. So a space station or some other planet would be cool. Even you yourself can have differences from a normal human or what you really are in real life. For instance maybe you can fly. Maybe you wear a super hero costume. I personally would dress myself like a Sith or a Jedi or something.

Maybe Vel, you can make some prerequisites for us to submit our characters, for instance:

*Must have 4 walking directions.
*Must have a pick up, pull, drop, push animation.
*Must have a talk, laugh, cry animation
*Must have a death animation.
*Must have an animation that would be trademark of you.
*Must have a sit down animation.
*Must have an animation of you drinking out of some Blue Cup.
*Must have a run animation.
*Must have a falling animation.

*Also each character must be submitted with his own cyber home. Atleast 1 room.
*All rooms must have walkable area's and walkbehinds already done and saved in room file (CRM) format.
*You must also include in a text file some words of wisdom that you would say.
*Must include atleast 3 items that you would want to use in an adventure and draw some graphics of them being combined.


If everyone submitted something like this, there would be enough artwork and resources for people to Make games, just like RON.

All you have to do next is just find a site to host this on, pick a setting for the universe of this game and then make a way.................

Good idea Vel! Good idea contribution GeoffKhan! I am game for this. In fact, I just started drawing myself. I look like crap, but what the hell, I dont look to bad. Now I just gotta get the next 400 frames in.

[AlbinoPanther]

This is what we waited for it sounds like a LOT of fun.Esspecially this draw yourself as a sprite thingy(if you choose that what we should do can we draw a two sprites of us two?).This could be a huge LOL game esspecialy to a regular(people who visit our forum everyday) AGSers

[Vel]

Joseph, don't you think that that's a bit too much work for one character for the first game? That's what I meant when I said gradually expanding. And Im not too keen on the remote planet idea... I'd rather have it on an existing place.

This aside, anyone who'd like to draw himself is more than welcome to upload his artwork, and then we'll see.

Of course, that's just my vision, that's what's great about open source projects - if you have another opinion, feel free to make your game otherwise.