Game Design Idea: Destruction free game environment?

aersixb9 · 2010-04-10T02:46:24

I was playing around with Blender and the tutorial videos and was thinking it would be neat to have a game environment where players spent their time building stuff instead of killing each other and occasionally breaking objects in the environment. Construction could be implemented in physics code, possibly with a lego-like interface, where player characters and npcs could pick up and manipulate blocks of matter such as stone and earth, along with tools and glues/mortars to merge and cut the materials. It would kind of be a cross between a 3D rendering program and a game, in some ways, possibly with some physics and new code ("industrial code") thrown in as well. Another neat "game" idea would be a game that simulates another application. Blender is kind of tricky to learn, so a fun game might be "EZ LEARN BLENDER GAME!!!", which is a blender-like game that teaches the player to use blender in a series of game-like challenges on a reduced or simplified interface with some extra data files thrown in, along with possibly allowing blender experts to score their skills in a series of short blender-esque challenges. This educational gaming simulation might be handy on a variety of non-computer topics as well. A car repair game featuring a fully simulated car and a simulated player with a simulated kit of tools would be neat. You could even have the player start with few tools and a limited amount of money, and he'd have to fix cars for $X per customer to get more money to buy more exotic tools. Near the end of the game the player might be able to work on luxury cars, F1 racers, private jets, spaceship two, or even sci-fi machines like the inergalactic star teleportation drive. (The fictitious ones actually seem kind of silly...) Some other real activities that would be fun to model, besides the current ones of driving a car, serial homicide, flying an airplane (usually with serial homicide thrown in), and abstract puzzle games, would be activities like any manufacturing of any item (Intel could release "Microprocessor building game!"), as well as whatever else people do, enjoy doing, or could potentially do without some sort of challenge like not knowing what to do. I should note that this article was partially inspired by AA3.

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Started by aersixb9 April 07, 2010 01:45 PM

20 comments, last by aersixb9 14 years, 10 months ago

satanoui

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April 10, 2010 02:07 AM

hi i want to start to learn about game design ...where should i start

aersixb9

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April 10, 2010 02:46 AM

I'd try download trackmania nations (free) and building some tracks in the ez-mode editor, then the advanced mode editor. This will give you a feel for 3D modeling and level layout and design. If you master that, you can try scripting and hosting your own server. Ultimately you could use those skills to work with more complex and powerful toolsets to build better, more original games.

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