Why limit your enemies to racial determinism, Paul? The most evil people alive are good, old-fashioned human beings. Why kill off the gameplay in your game by making cookie cutter enemies...?

paul
a nice latin definition to answer your quote :
to invent = inventare = to uncover, to reveal ... nothing to do with creation, it''s about seeing something that no one else saw before.
It''s only people with as much knowledge as Einstein who can say this kind of things... Actually, I am giving you pointers so that *you* can use *your* imagination. You dont make ideas pop up ex nihilo, you just make far stretched connections in your brain that no one else would have seen (that''s what make einstein a genius).
Talking of far stretched connetions :
it''s funny because your idea reminds me tremendously of the movie Screaming Planet. Ever seen that one ? You would like it I am sure, I think it''s a novel originally. At least I hope, because otherwise the movie doesn''t explain much of the why and how :/
There is also in your idea a hint of The Matrix (about the computers taking over).
Also I recall a cool episode of Seaquest where some alien comes and visit; their particularity is that there organism is silicon based (instead of Carbon based for Earth life).
And maybe .. mmm ... some Borg ?
Mix the whole thing, let it to stir for a while, and see what you come up with ? I''ll do the same on my side.

LF : Raise the standard and start the crusade brave defender of the goblins !

youpla :-P

Ha ha, the landfish still haunts the halls of the Game Design Corner ay, its been a while Actually the idea is that you play a cookie cutting. The players character isn''t much different from all the other freaks. What i''m doing is trying to work out the ingredience for that i''ll pure into the mold''s. It''s got to be tasty and original!

re:AnnonDot
Excellent idea''s, especially the smart glue. Thank you. I like the idea that it was a freak accident but it doesn''t really go with the idea of nanotech (as it''s ment to be a high precision tool) as in the game nano stuff isn''t something that you manufacture. Hey, i guess it could manufacture other things though *brainwave*. Like some sort of advanced manufacturing technique. Maybe that''s what it was orginally used for or mainly used for. Then -insert- happens and it starts manufacturing itself, spooky I slight twist to what you were saying.

re:ahw
As always i do very much appriecate your advice and pointers to good material to check out but i just don''t have the time mostly these days. It''s easier (and more fun) just to log on here and drive people like landfish up the wall Plus i like hearing all the strange, imaginative and essentric idea''s people layout here. then at course i''ve got about six books with bookmarks in them all ready. Why do i get the feeling your a bit of a book worm nerdy type? It''s probably got something to do with your vocab -intended as a complement!

Btw, does anyone know what that symbol on the right of the cash is up top? and is that a red witches hat further on? hmmm

"So you're the one that designed that game are you?"
*Gulp* "Umm, yeah"

You know how it goes, Paul my friend. As long as you have a REASON.

Screaming Planet is based on a short-story by Philip K Dick.
Total Recall and Blade Runner are also from Philip K Dick...
( ahw, isn''t a novel a LONG story ? )

Aaah ! of course it was K. Dick, shame on me
yeah, in *english* novel is a whole book ... it''s just I didn''t read that one.
paul : I think the red guy is for "OMG!"
am I a book worm ? Well, actually, I''d be a library rat
I used to think that if you don''t come up with something on your own, you are not creating something ... then I wentto Fine Arts, and realised that this was misplaced pride. So I learnt from others. Now I am ok with getting inspiration from others, as long as it is only inspiration. When I come up with something, I try not just to copy/paste a cool idea I saw in a movie or book... that would be just so lame. But I realised that without material to feed on you cant create that much.
So I read
And you should, too It''s funny how many people tell me they dont have the time for that, but then spend ages coming up with an idea. Then I look at it and in 5 minutes I tell him where I read that idea in ... d''oh !

youpla :-P

quote:
"To copy from one person is plagiarism, to copy from many is research"

PS. I think the symbols you refer to are a traffic light and a traffic cone, but I could be wrong.

aaaah, I knew I had heard this idea of nanotech used to make people ! And it was in "Virtuosity", a movie with Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington (just did a bit of look up)
Basically, Russell Crowe is an AI, created from the various consciences of deceased serial killers, a sort of ultimate madman (very lame, I know). Then the scientist have this goo composed of nanobots. On their own the nanobots are pretty useless. But with a chipset, they suddenly can create pretty much what they want (depending on the chipset). They can regenerate by absorbing silicon (glass)...
the movie was pretty lame, but the idea seem to be a nice basis to work on.

sandman : I like to extend that quote to "and if you create something new from various sources, it''s called inspiration"

youpla :-P

I haven't read all posts yet, so maybe someone has already mentioned this :
Read the Gap series by Stephen Donaldson (if you haven't read it already).It'll give you some great ideas (BTW it's the best stuff I've ever read, and I've read a lot).

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Edited by - runemaster on October 14, 2000 7:04:23 AM

ooops...lol

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