RaGEZONE: Frontier

Games Development Proposal.
By Joseph "DonTonberry" Horan

Game Title: RaGEZONE: Frontier
Genre: Space Trader/Fighter Simulator
Scale: Small - Maximum of 1000 players on the server. This allows for a small scale game, unlike EVE.
Platform: Windows

Game Design Overview:

• After downloading the client, the player registers using his ForumID as the Username. Once ingame, the player creates his avatar. Since this game is going to be simple, I'm talking basically Race and Faction, Avatars name will correspond to the ForumID.
• Once avatar creation is sorted, player is thrown into the game in a basic starter fighter ship in some beginner space station. Think EVE start but not as complicated. Beginner star system has fully open PvP but is limited to those in starter ships, which cannot be upgraded. NPC's will be congregated to allow EXP and Monetary gain.
• After a while, other systems are opened up to you. The game takes off then with intensive PvP Action and hopefully crafty political intrique. Each system is different from the next, with the prominent planet being a centre for shopping, upgrading, trading and bartering.
• PvP Combat will be faction based, combat style will be similar to Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed - point and click FPS Action.
• Controls will be WASD based.
• The idea of having your avatars name the same as your ForumID is to link the stats in with RaGEZONE. On your profile you could have PvP Kills, PvP Deaths, 'Level' etc and use these stats as bragging rights on the forum. In RaGEZONE Terms, they will make your ePeen bigger.
• Experience Points will be gained per NPC Kill and PvP Kill, which will be utilized like "Money" to be spent on different areas, such as ship upgrades, ship skills etc
• Experience Points for traders will come from negotiating sales, picking up 'contracts' which act like trader quests and supplying faction headquarters with materials for construction.
• Money will be used to purchase ship parts and help in trade.

Game Engine:
Use of a commercial engine is not ruled out, Torque3D seems a good cheap contender as does many other engines.

That sounds pretty damn sexy. I'd play it!

Sounds awesome to be honest. I've played some pretty ridiculously fantasy/sci-fi based games like this and they were terrible, so can we keep the whole fantasy/sci-fi thing to a minimum? :P:

Overall, good start. It's not going to be 2D is it?

Well bare in mind this is just an idea I have, this is not necessarily the design that will be selected by the community and/or team.

I'm just gathering views on it.

Yeah, well I like it. At least you've put something out there than we can change/build on, otherwise we'd probably get nowhere in choosing.

DTB I'm so glad you're so into this. The fact that you're back, and so enthused makes me want to help out any way possible.

Hey, you know me I'm a giving sort of guy ;)

I want to do this not merely as a project, but to give something to RaGEZONE and experience the joy of being involved with the community again.

I've been gone far too long.

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Originally Posted by DonTonberry

I've been gone far too long.

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Yeah, where have you been and why have you been gone so long?

The only thing I can really help out for is Audio Design. So when you get to that stage let me know.

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Originally Posted by DaCheat

The only thing I can really help out for is Audio Design. So when you get to that stage let me know.

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Thanks for the offer, will definately need help like that if it gets that far :p

This sounds pretty sweet.
Best of luck on it.

O I would play it :)

Yall should check out that engine cartoon network used for fusionfall. Purely web based seems like a good idea.
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Dude. We should make a MUD.

:D Well hook me if you need help at giro58@live.com, possibly for gui, web etc graphics.

It sounds awesome! I'd love to try it out!

Thanks for this, glad something new is being developed and I'll play it :)

That's going to be difficult.

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Originally Posted by Error 404

That's going to be difficult.

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... Why?

# The idea of having your avatars name the same as your ForumID is to link the stats in with RaGEZONE. On your profile you could have PvP Kills, PvP Deaths, 'Level' etc and use these stats as bragging rights on the forum. In RaGEZONE Terms, they will make your ePeen bigger.

Linking to RZ.

As I said, it's not set in stone.

I was replying to Negata actually (:

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Originally Posted by Error 404

# The idea of having your avatars name the same as your ForumID is to link the stats in with RaGEZONE. On your profile you could have PvP Kills, PvP Deaths, 'Level' etc and use these stats as bragging rights on the forum. In RaGEZONE Terms, they will make your ePeen bigger.

Linking to RZ.

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There's the arcade and other games that were linked to your RZ account, so there must be some way. vBulletin seems to have some API.

Can't you just connect to the SQL database from the game server? It's been done before.

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Originally Posted by MDK

Can't you just connect to the SQL database from the game server? It's been done before.

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Isn't that how all server's are made?
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Originally Posted by Foxy

Isn't that how all server's are made?
o_o

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Speaking about linking it with the RaGEZONE profiles :P

Well exactly. I don't see how that's difficult? :mellow: