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Idea for New Game

by Sean Pollock · in Torque Game Engine · 03/29/2003 (1:01 pm) · 2 replies

Hi folks, I just recently purchased the sdk and I am very happy with it...it is totally awsome. Anyway, I am working on my first game that will be a multiplayer and single player action game and I just came up with an idea for my game that I think would be very cool. I would like to allowing the users the ability to create their own weapons in-game. What I would like to do is allow a user to walk up to maybe a weapon station which would activate a trigger that would bring up a weapons gui screen...from there the user could create their own weapon such as the physical shape of the weapon (meaning...different skins) as well as the characteristics of the weapon too. I was also thinking of implimenting a credit system where a player would start off with maybe 100 credits and with every kill gain more credits so he can build better and more powerful weapons.

The problem is that I am not sure how to implement this and was wondering if anyone here might know of a way or maybe someone else has already done this. If anyone here has any ideas of how I might do this stuff then let me know and I am sure that others would find this information usefull to. If anyone has any comments about this I would also like to hear from them too. Anyway, sorry for the somewhat long post and I will talk to ya later.
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Torque Owner Stephen Hagyard
#1
06/06/2003 (1:02 pm)
There are so many variables that you can add to make this complete for example

Splash damage weapons (grenades & bombs)
Homing (laser guided/map guided)
Beam/laser
Bullets
Missiles
and no doubt more types (others will be able to suggest more)

With each weapon having a lot of different characteristics such as for a missile

Flight style, guiding style, exhaust effects, color scheme, spin rate.

It might be easier to develop a technology tree that can be customised, ie you can buy a weapon and alter some simple options (such as colors and damage/radius)

It is a good idea and should be entertaining.

Make sure that players can save favorite weapons and reload them if they want.

Stephen.

Torque 3D Owner Sean Pollock
#2
06/09/2003 (3:22 pm)
Thanks Stephen for your reply and giving me some ideas on how I might approach this. I think having customizable weapons and maybe even vehicles would be great for a game and something you really don't see a whole lot of.

If anyone else has any ideas I would love to hear it.

Thanks,
Sean Pollock
Dark Raven Studios