Game Development Project.

Some of you may know me from the MU section of the boards. I have started building a LARGE scale game. Let me explain it a bit first and where I currently am with it.

The front end of the game it finished, by this I mean what displays the game. And the backend will save information to a database that we want to record. I am planning on making this a fully 3D first person shooter but at the same time be a true online persistant world.

That was the easy part.

Now acctually comes the harder but more fun part of designing the game and objects that will be in the game. Things like weapons, buildings, characters, sounds, particles (sprites), etc...

Defineing the game and what it will be the objectives things like How will people level?, Where will battles take place? etc..

I cannot do all of this myself and really don't want to, because I have well, limited creative abilities. So I am going to offer this to anyone who may be interested:

If you are interested in learning or helping the development of the game you will have your name placed in the credits along with what you built or helped with. Also depending on the ammout of work that is put into building these objects or the game design itself. You may be looking at a future full or part time poistion with us one the game goes to a live status. However, all partisipants will also have a ingame account with a unique character or item that only developers and designers have access to. And all will qualify for CV, Alpha and Beta testing :)

At the moment we are looking for:
- People with knowledge in 3DMax, Lightwave, Maya, or Milkshape
- People with level design experience useing a tool similar to Valve Hammer or QuArK
- Skinners
- Texture artists
- Artists to sketch renderings of what we need, then pass those off to the modellers.
- Some scripting (a variation of C) may need to be done as well.
- Developers, we need some people to help acctually decide what the game will be exactly about and how it will function in its different stages.

Note: We do not need any coders, as we have 5 coders and the source for the game will not be released past the designated team of programmers.

Please send me a PM if you are interested in anything we need help with and how many hours a week you feel you can put toward the project.

Brent

i will move to the game section but ill leave it here a short while as simply more people will see it here

Try posting at DeviantART forums as well

i would love to help , but I aint no designer or coder :( unless some1 wants to teach me
but remember my support is with you

How many people proclaim this? How many people actually make it? I have not seen a single project finished, or even brought into a alpha phase. I have been on a couple teams who said they would make a game.. but never did. I have an issue here, a guy from the MU section, the most complaisant of them all, stakes a claim on making a game..?

At the moment we have 5 people working on the game and we are mostly programmers.

The game is at the a stage where, you can login and interact with other players logged into the server at the same time. So if 2 players logged in I could insert items into their inventory and they would shoot each other and whatnot.

Like I said if you were to exit the game, it saves all of your stats to the database. The current database model is decent but needs some updating (I believe it is currently in 3NF).

We have come to a point where theres not a lot we can do without some artists and designers

Brent

well i know a bit of maya but i dont think id come of some use, since i cant really build characters only swords and other polygon shapes i can use some nurbs though but meh

You say some scripting may need to be done with a variation of C, is this what the game so far is using? and what is it?

Is this your first time trying to make a game? If not did you have any finished games?

It's of no use, hes probably using the NES looking engine.. he has way to much; not possible for his current status.

This is not my first time working on a game project.

My first game development experience was a game called 10six. Its not being played any longer. It used Solaris as an operating system and required 64-bit sparc (Sun) processors (for the database server) and this is mainly the reason I don't want to contiune with it any longer. The code is really a mess and not worth spending all the time to port it and clean up the mess. This used a home grown quake style game engine (it was released over 8 years ago)

My 2nd game development experience was with endlessages, still being played but the population is quite low http://www.endlessagesportal.com. Worked the engine developer and helped build security and some of the ingame systems. (once again its a home grown engine. The engine supports full use of 2.0 shaders. i.e. bump mapping, reflections, refraction, etc.. )

My programming experience includes, a great understanding of relational databases (SQL, Oracle), C, C++, C# (.NET), Java, and some scripting languages like PHP and perl. I have helped build a small operating system used for one of the servers at the college I attend. I also have a good understanding of complicated data structures (binary trees and hash tables), complicated searching and sorting algorithoms (quick sort, merge sort, etc..) and other high level programming consepts.

We are using a built engine to save us time, the engine we are using however does not affect what can be done with the game as we can build everything into it we want. Its just a nice starting point and saves us over 2 years of development time. The engine we are using has a scripting language. Most engines use scripts to build objects without having the recomplie the whole project each time a small change needs to be made. We may need some people to do this, however we are unsure.

Brent

I always wanted to play Endless Ages, looks pretty cool; i'm a stickler about money.

Just out of Curiosity what API's are you using?

DirectX 9 (would like to impliment OpenGL2 when its complete) and OpenAL.

I am signing for the beta testers!!!
approximatly when will it be done , like month or two?

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Originally Posted by r1moza

I am signing for the beta testers!!!
approximatly when will it be done , like month or two?

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Depending on the ammout of artitst and designers we get 6 months to 1 year.

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Originally Posted by Brent

Depending on the ammout of artitst and designers we get 6 months to 1 year.

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Put me on the wait list ;)

We did a little check of what we have and what we need. It has come to my attention that above all we need level designers. So if anyone has experience designing levels in Quake or for one of the half life games. And you have some free time to put towards something please send me a PM.

Brent

darn.. i cant belive im doing this... here goes... >_<

BUUUMP!!!!! (would be nice to see this game complete.)

Still looking for some people.

Fully 3D MMOFPS?

Im a Pretty ok Map designer..
What exaktly will you be building the world/maps in?
Maybe i can help? ;p

Interiors need to be built in Valve Hammer or Quark. If you know any other tools that can generate a .map file tell me and I will make sure they are compatable.

ive designed levels for counter strike before but since you already ignored me once...

Well.. I have been useing Q3Radiant for quite some time and i belive it can save maps as *.MAP files..

i could help u a bit.. in another way though
i will create a topic in my website www.mg-zone.net and see if i can get some ppl to work for u :)

I'm down with testing for exploits and attempting to "hack" it during the Beta stage. (Only if given permission, of course). If you're game is to become big, it's going to be the talk of most "game hacking" (I use the phrase loosely) communities. Despite most of the people populating those boards are simply skiddies, there are some that can actually do some amazing things. (Take a look at what happened to GB) I guess I could be your Beta tester, if you really need someone to test it for such things.