Making X-War or similar strategy/fan game (previously DYC 2)

[MercuryLime]

EDIT:

This thread was about making Defend Your Castle 2. Skye has now PMed me and told me that he wants us not to, in case he wants to make a new one. But we are considering making a (fan) game that incorporates aspects of each game into it, perhaps, X-War (if not taken). The rest of this post is what the original topic starter was.


[spoiler:1f22760f95]Who else thinks that making DYC 2 would be a good idea?

In that I mean: everyone in Flash Game Dev who is good at Flash would work together to make it. It would be like a sequel to DYC, and everyone would work together to come up with idesa, make the grpahics, and othe stuff like that.

Who thinks this would be a good idea? I PMed skye about it already.







Psssst! that means you, Denicaust, Brown Cow, Nexus, Eatmorechicken, Illrainman, ABC123, Shadow, and others![/spoiler:1f22760f95]

[The First]

Exactly what would this game look like? What would make it different? DYC is hard to make a sequel to.

Idea!

Different units >_< Yes, silly idea, but I like it. Maybe the possibility of sending foot-soldier like things out of the castle to defend it on the ground. Giving the enemy archers to attack as well and so on. The AI may be difficult, but hey... lots of good scripters :-)

[MercuryLime]

EDITED: DYC 2 is not being made. Read more of my edited posts if you need more info. The spoiler is of this post used to be before being edited.

[spoiler:5613917610]Lots of new enemies, more storyline and strategy, and more stuff to buy.

Idea: Multiple terrains.
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[denacioust]

Oooh, this is a great idea, I don't know if it'll work, but defianitely I will help.

[MercuryLime]

EDIT: DYC 2 annot be made by us. So what else will we do instead? Anything? the spoiler below is what this post used to be.

[spoiler:bbcdd4a7c1] Update: I added a poll! :D

Whether you could help out or not, please vote in it.

People who have volunteered (if Skye allows us to do it) :

Denicaust

The question is, will skye allow us to make it. He might not. :(
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[denacioust]

I think he will provided we credited him as I asked him about this when I made my game.

[The First]

We can bypass that little flaw by clearly stating that it's a fan game and all credit goes to the original by Skye. But why would he not allow us to make it? It's screaming blatant publicity for his site if a new game is up. Especially one that r0xx0rz so much it has to be made by us.

I'll help. I might even know some Actionscript by then. But I've had programming experience, so that's useful.

[MercuryLime]

EDITED: I came up with an idea for a game called "X-War", or "X-Gen War". I'll make a post about it when I'm done editing my posts.

[spoiler:77d4e74046]*psst* vote in the poll! *psst*

Because he might have plans for a Defend Your Castle 2, and if we made a bad one it would ruin any chance of a sequel. But personally, I don't see how he could say no either.

People who have volunteered (if Skye lets us) :

Denicaust
DarkReality
Skywire

P.S. Remember to vote in the poll.

EDIT: Got a PM back from skye:

Skywire,

I'll have to decline simply because I don't want to give up the opportunity to produce DYC 2.

I think a better idea might be to produce a game that includes all the XGen created characters and game concepts thus far. EG - The Stickman in StickRPG, Fishy, Castle, Cinderfall, etc.

A good name might be XWorld (if not taken).

Let me know your thoughts. :D

So what do you think now?
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[denacioust]

Well we could try

[MercuryLime]

Try to do what? We can make a game that's a combination of all of the other games, but we'd need to plan it out. Do you still want to do it? I think it kind of sounds worse when you say, this is a fan game, versus this is a sequuel.

EDIT: This is where the talk of a new game begins. Start reading here!

[tatorhead]

Umm well why not instead of a sequal, just make a blantant rip-off like : Defend your House (and you have to keep away vacuum cleaner salesmens and jehova witnesses) and you could buy dobermans and fences.

[MercuryLime]

Nice idea, but... I don't think so. :D

[The First]

How exactly do you incorporate Fishy into DYC? o.O An underwater Castle?

[eatmorchikin6464]

Well, although Im doing loads of other things, I feel it would just be morally wrong not to help out. I can do most anything.

[Freddy]

hmm...

this is an interesting little prediciment we have here. I can try to come up with a story or purpose for the characters or concepts. assuming its even possible to combine them all.

maybe, stickman can defend McSticks from an army of rats and slimes. But then I dont see how Fishy would play into that.

[MercuryLime]

I have a really good idea, but I don't have the time to explain now. I'll post it tomorrow.

DarkReality - more or less. :wink:

EDIT:

Here is my plan.

Game name: X-War or X-Gen War

Description: The fish who live in the moat surrounding StickWorld's newest restaurant, McSticks, are angry. They claim that by dumping waste into the moat, McSticks has caused one Fish to become fat by eating other fish. Eventually, this fish grew very large and completely destroyed the pond ecosystem. The goal is to defend McSticks from the invading Fish. The problem - another effect of the waste dumped into the moat has caused the fish to become much smarter. The more levels you have beaten, the more deviced they will have invented to use in your destruction. Defend McSticks from the Fish!

Note: There are a set number of levels.

Game Play - Similar to DYC. The actual play may be closer to crimson warfare ( www.crimsonwarfare.com ), actually. There is McSticks on the right, and the fish base on the left. At the end of each level, you may purchase upgrades.

Storyline - The storyline is much more complex than DYC. There are a set number of levels, and a short intermission between each to explain more developments in the story.

Upgrades: You get income during the level, which can be spent on sending out new units, or can be saved until the end of the level, where you can choose to buy a new item or upgrade from an old one - meaning that you will still buy units during Game play, but they will be more advanced, or cheaper to send.


This might seem like a stupid idea, but I think we could get it to work. I am making a new help list. Please volunteer and state what you can help with.

Personally, I'm not very goodwith ActionScript, and some Flash in general. I think I'm pretty good at art, though, and storyline development and/or creating and maintaning the basic structure of the game. So if no-one minds, I'll be in charge of that.

I think that a good number of people to work on it would be 3 to 6, no more than six. We can work with less than 3, though.

Current list:

Skywire - Art / Scenario Developer

So who wants to help?

Or, have I ruined the idea of a DYC 2 completely, and does this idea stink too?

Thanks,
- Skywire

[MercuryLime]

*bump*

I'm really sorry about bumping this, but I have made HUGE additions to this thread, as well as editing my other posts and changing the title. I think it can be justified...

At least I hope.

[denacioust]

I'll help, sure I've nothing else to do.

[MercuryLime]

What do you want to be in charge of?

[Freddy]

Oh I can think up things to buy and upgrade.
...and juink.

[MercuryLime]

Hey Shadow, do you think you can make a system so that when a button is pressed, if you have a certain amount of money, a stick figure comes out, you have that much less money, and the tick figure walks to the other side, creates a bit of damage and disapears?

And have a system so that all the upgrades are buttons during the game where something like that happens? (you decide what the upgrades are?)


Is that kind of what you were thinking, or do you not know how to do that?


Current list:

Denicaust - [not specified?]
Skywire - Art / Scenario Developer (is that ok?)
Shadow - Weapons/Upgrades System Development

[denacioust]

Skywire, shadow just wants to think up upgrades and I'll help with Actionscript and some animation.

[MercuryLime]

Well, that's all fine and good. I thought maybe he could make a system... But if he doesn't want to...

Denicaust - ActionScripter
Skywire - Art / Scenario Developer
Shadow - Weapons/Upgrades System Development OR Weaons/Upgrades design (whatever you want...

P.S. Does anyone know if X-War is already the name of a game?

P.S.S. What is the code to make an instace of a movie clip at a certain position?

[Freddy]

whoa! I have the biggest title of all of u. But Cut it in half. I only want to think up weapons and upgrades.

Like instead of archers, we get frycooks. where they throw fries at the fish.
And instead of converting, we get the fish and they turn into fishsticks. which can later be used as a weapon against them.
Instead of Mages, we have Flying Copper. His 'spells' are Laser(takes out one fish), Ground Shot(several lasers comes from the ground and take out several fish), and FishFry(turns a fish to fishstick instantly).

[Kid]

I can help. I'm not very good at flash, but i can help with the planning.

[Solean]

Great idea! Why don't we NOT make this in flash and make it in some other language? Like Python? (easy to learn and much more powerful)

I mean, we could make it multiplayer. As in p2p multiplayer using an existing framework. We could use the pygame engine!

[phdrummer]

I found this post, sorry for the ressucitation of the zombie thread. but it seamed like a good idea and i would like to see DYC 2

[Skooma]

try not to bump realy old posts.

And lime im disapointed that you named il and not me.

[phdrummer]

sry, it's just that i really would like to see what "The Flash Guru's" could do. Make an awesome game pls. if u're still up to it.