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.