Facepunch Game Workshop - Let's Make An Android Game Together! - Games

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/fpgameworkshops.png[/IMG] [B]Facepunch Game Workshop[/B] [B]Summary:[/B] So I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while, and I think we could make it work. I want to do a Facepunch game where we pool all our resources together and make a banging game. We can then put in the Market, and either give it away for free or donate all income to profit or something fancy like that, but the main part is making the game. So at this point you're probably raising an eyebrow and thinking "who the fuck is this kid" and waving me off as an ideas guy, but I've got proof I'm not. Check out my posted threads, I co-made a pretty major gamemode with a friend for Garrysmod, and I've been steadily working on Android development. [B] What can I bring to the table? [/B]So I'm bringing some programming skills to the table, what can you bring to the table? Well, since I've been around here a long time I know there's plenty of you who have skills. I've seen TONS of you guys make sprites and mods for games, and a bunch of you guys are artists. There's even quite a few other programmers around here. You can bring assets, sounds, art, code, hell even ideas to the table, we can make a badass game together. [B]This won't work.[/B] Of course it won't if you're thinking like that! If we can get a few dedicated people working on this we can make it work. [B] First order of business:[/B] We need a setting/plot/mechanic to begin the game. I've got a bunch of code I'm going to make public very soon, it's a little general framework I've written for Android games, it's no where near done yet, but I'm hoping to finish it as this project moves on. So that's the first matter, decide upon a game. It can be anything 2-dimensional, from Pong to an RPG (or maybe a Pong RPG!?!?). [b]Where can I see what you have now?[/b] [URL="https://github.com/MatthewBlanchard/FGW---Android-Game"]Github[/URL] - Currently a shitty pong game. [URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5796327/Game.apk"]Game Download[/URL] - For the less technically inclined download this and install on your device. [b]I WILL UPDATE THE OP AS THINGS GET DECIDED.[/B] [b]PROGRESS UPDATES:[/b] Fucking around with a game/art style idea. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/nah3.png[/img]

No one is interested?

I would be interested in spriting a pong rpg.

Well make something and I'll add it as we go.

[QUOTE=Jawalt;35489897]Well make something and I'll add it as we go.[/QUOTE] There is a small problem, I have no idea what super ping pong breakout rpg is supposed to have in it... Balls and bricks?

I call Ideas Guy

Really????[img]http://gbielin.info/g.gif[/img] [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("Failing Spambot" - daijitsu))[/highlight]

You know what, I think a pong rpg could actually work. Maybe combine it with a space invaders style of game? Like, you still have to get the ball into the other player's (ai/whatever's) goal, but have enemies in the middle advancing towards you/or down the screen (top to bottom). Maybe get gold/xp for kills and goals, and you can level up your paddle, ball, and maybe certain magic skills that speed up your ball or slow down the enemy paddle or something. I can see this going places. ALSO, I assume it's being programmed in Java, because isn't most/all android programming done in java? If so, I'm taking a Java course at my college right now, and I really would love to help. [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] and when I say java course I mean we're learning the basics. I'm going into game design and development starting Junior year.

i would also like to be a part of this as a programmer...but right now i'm pretty BASIC when it comes to Java haha... still, maybe i can contribute something

I do sprites and I'm bored. I could help. Do you actually have any real ideas for what it'd be like etc? <-dA link (I've got a DD for pixelart)

I might not be as good as some of the others here when it comes to sprites but I can sure lend a hand.

Oooh, another idea, perhaps instead of the original pong rpg idea (role ponging game?) or to go alongside the original idea. You go around an overworld/world map with towns/locations, and battles, random encounters and even boss fights, would be pong matches. And the money/xp you earn can be used to buy paddle (right, what else is the bar called) upgrades, or some kind of armor. I'm getting carried away here. [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] Or a pong Tower Defence? Could work, but there are WAY too many ugly + badly done tower defence games on the android market.

That Ninja I actually made a prototype of a game almost exactly like that. There's no overworld, but it's the basic concept: [URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5796327/taaoj_win.zip"]Linky Linky[/URL] It's full of bad humor, and bad art, I made it in 3 days for a compo. [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] Notice your linux: [URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5796327/taaoj_lin.tar.gz"]Linucks[/URL] [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=manian112;35490742]There is a small problem, I have no idea what super ping pong breakout rpg is supposed to have in it... Balls and bricks?[/QUOTE] Check out the prototype, that'd be a cool idea, I guess. I dunno, we've got to decide on something.

I still think that a game like Canabalt would be the most fun to create!

Canabalt is already released on Android, no sense in making a clone.

Hey guys whoa guys hey hey What if We made a game like canabalt, except except you move towards the LEFT!!!!

[QUOTE=Lizzrd;35493627]Hey guys whoa guys hey hey What if We made a game like canabalt, except except you move towards the LEFT!!!![/QUOTE] give this man a medal oh wait, I JUST DID.

[QUOTE=Jawalt;35492598]That Ninja I actually made a prototype of a game almost exactly like that. There's no overworld, but it's the basic concept: [URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5796327/taaoj_win.zip"]Linky Linky[/URL] It's full of bad humor, and bad art, I made it in 3 days for a compo. [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] Notice your linux: [URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5796327/taaoj_lin.tar.gz"]Linucks[/URL] [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] Check out the prototype, that'd be a cool idea, I guess. I dunno, we've got to decide on something.[/QUOTE] Sweet, but for some reason Facepunch likes to think that I'm posting from Linux, when I'm actually on my Android tablet browsing FP. So I guess it isn't ALL wrong. For some reason this only happens with Opera Mobile. All the other browsers show it as Android. I'll check out the game when I get home later today. I hope this doesn't mean an outright "no" for the Pong RPG. It's a novel idea. As for the canabalt like game, I practice Parkour (for real though, not like those silly people that joke/dick around) and I've been wanting to make something like canabalt, but with more parkour moves. So maybe something like fancy pants adventures? [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] Pong Canabalt!

I will be the safety advisor.

[QUOTE=That Ninja;35495563]Sweet, but for some reason Facepunch likes to think that I'm posting from Linux, when I'm actually on my Android tablet browsing FP. So I guess it isn't ALL wrong. For some reason this only happens with Opera Mobile. All the other browsers show it as Android. I'll check out the game when I get home later today. I hope this doesn't mean an outright "no" for the Pong RPG. It's a novel idea. As for the canabalt like game, I practice Parkour (for real though, not like those silly people that joke/dick around) and I've been wanting to make something like canabalt, but with more parkour moves. So maybe something like fancy pants adventures? [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] Pong Canabalt![/QUOTE] That's not a 'no' I was just showing you I had that exact idea :P.

Maybe you should make a pong game where the background moves like in canabalt

I'm playing around with something like that right no supersepa :D

Fuck, if you guys were going to do a 3d game i would had asked to help with modeling and possibly texturing said objects... Nevertheless, good luck on this!

[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/nah3.png[/img] Okay so I came up with a cool little game idea, there's a screeny from the emulator. Those cloud things move from right to left, and will do so on the top as well. You'll play as a little guy in a like old cosmonaut style space suit who's got a little jetpack and flys up and down collecting coins, fresh air bubbles, and avoiding debris. I'd call it Atmosphere. [editline]10th April 2012[/editline] Someone make a little cosmonaut guy :D [editline]10th April 2012[/editline] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/atmosphereef.png[/img] Both sides, it moves, just don't feel like recording a video.

Gave it a go... [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/notteemo.png[/img]

i realize now i messed up the lighting pretty bad... oh well