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Is anyone interested in directing a group of people at the brink of a zombie out break?
The game play will be by most agreed upon actions controlling the group, though you may name characters and control others in the main group but it will not be a character progression type game. For reference check out how the Firestar spaceship game was played.

Please vote for the below stuff and then with interest I'll write up the actual thread!

Zombie
1. a) Slow Horde
    b) Running Infected

Settings
2. a) Large City (Pop >500 000)
    b) Small City (Pop ~ 100 000)
    c) Town (Pop ~20000)

Starting Group
3. a) Small (5-10)
    b) Medium (~30)
    c) Large (~75) (not everyone will make it)

Alright, I'll explain a little bit. I just have the basic display and engine stuff done around it.
I can't decide which direction to go though.. It will have deep ship design and customization, such as Aurora but without the complications and more streamlining, and probably a tutorial. I have a large amount of free time while on my co-op term and figure I will be productive.

The two choices are:

Realistic sci-fi like Aurora found on our forums and based around realistic solar systems.

Or a more retro style like Shellcore Command based on a fictitious universe, based around collection and havesting energies of different colours. Weapons based on realistic counter-parts. The energies would replace the resources of aurora, and be less complicated.

So thats the two themes, both would have expansive universes, that I hope feel large. The retro style would allow more RTS feeling and stuff, space would mostly be called the "Void" or something.
Both games would have similar gameplay style, fast-paced combat, but when no battlefields active you could skip through time while researching or sending ships on journies. I also plan to allow you to control a single ship, from deathstars, to battlecruisers to the basic fighter.

Anyways I would appreciate input, new ideas, new styles?

Above is the crapy basic triangular fighter. Particle effects(engine thrust/explosions) will most likely be added, and probably a thicker,  tapered or glowing outline, depends on which theme I go with. The ships would be heavily based around shapes among other things. Hence I lean toward retro.. but realistic sci-fi is more.. real.

In the retro world, planets would be replaced with habital "octagonal platforms". Basically if you have read flatlands its kind of like that? Eitherway I need to flesh out the ideas and build around them so I decide which way to program. Im currently just working on docking and flight paths of ships. Next up may be formations or maybe solar systems(or whatever would be equal in a different style).

Thanks in advance of any criticism.

Hello. I never post over here but I know Bay12 is insanely creative, so when assigned the project I figured I should venture over here to the Creative Projects sub-forum. I'm currently in my second term at university for mechanical engineering, and in my intro to computer science class we have been assigned a project. It basically consists of building and programming a robot using Lego Mindstorms.

Background on the project,
The controller has three motor outputs, each with the ability to return shaft encoder information.
The controller has four sensor inputs. Sensors available are,
Colour Sensor (Returns seeing the colours BGYOR, Black and White, or intensity)
Sonic Sensor (Returns distance to an object in cm, 2m range)
Bump Sensor (Pressed or not)

Now I'm not asking for blueprints, but just general ideas, what sensor we can take advantage of or how it may be used. Another member and I have substantial programming experience (recursion, best choice algorithms, advanced sorting) and we want something challenging (unlike the mandatory cs class). We also have two other members.

Idea 1. Is a CNC like robot. It will have a colour sensor hanging where the normal machining spindle would be and solves mazes drawn by the class.

Idea 2. Is a turret robot. It would detect people walking by, track, match speed and shoot elastics at it.

Thanks for any idea you may generate!

Hello everyone,
I post once in a while, run or participate in a forum game or two, talk in suggestions when a topic strikes me.
Anyways I am hear asking for advice. I am 18 and soon off to university, I have been accepted into two programs at the University of Waterloo, and they are as the title says, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science.
I am curious if any of you work in the aforementioned fields or ones very close too, if you could give me insights into the job availability, what you do? if you are currently studying the programs what is the likelihood to get a co-op job?
If you have no relation to the field I would still appreciate any comments.

Hello, I'm a long time forum goer, odd comment here and there. Over the years Ive seen quiet a few good artists post in the various boards and was wondering if someone would be willing to draw me and my friends some art.

We are making a game based in medieval times, so that would be swords, magic, alchemy among others. To create the game we obviously need some artistic talent which none of us geeks have. That is why I am here now requesting the great help of the dwarf fortress community.

We need a list of things which include:
~A main page screen, a 800x600 pixel picture of a castle or battle of a dragon,
  or anything that's awesome and fun, preferably well done, any style, we are open to all.
 
~Also various pictures/sprites with dimensions 32x32 pixels of things any object like swords, axes,
  arrows, armors, fruits, hammers and not to mention landscape, such as cliff-sides, tall grasses,
  water, fire, glowing orbs.

~We also need pictures of varying sized creatures ranging from centaurs to dragons to rabbits,
  the size can range from 32x32 pixels, 64x64 to 128x128(reserved for giant creatures).
  For the creatures we would need the creature in several frames of its walk in the four directions of
  north/s/e/west. For an obviously quick creatures we would need only two to three frames, for slow lumbering
  creatures five or more, that is entirely dependent on the step. Also the angle the picture would be
  from is at a 45 degree angle from the horizontal the point of view is coming from the direct
  south/bottom(yes like pokemon..).

Either way have fun, you can creature your own creatures and give it a name(we wont necessarily use that name) if you would like mention on the website when we put it up and the game reaches alpha please leave your name, I will mostly have a running list in here of the names of peoples work I use.

For reference to what we are looking for google the game "secret of mana". If someone would like to join the team pm me.
Thank you to anyone who contributes.

Note : Well I have taken akin to writing and decided to give it a shot. I'm writing a full story, but here is some intro parts, short stories, to set it up among other things. Please constructive feed back. Even if its a "bad grammar ):" or just a "good work!", point out what you like/dislike. Also include the age you think I am by my writing, I'm curious. Thanks.


Caution - Mature audience only, violence and profanity. haha.

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WATCH then comment..