Sometime ago I posted a GG blog about my quest of finding someone to pair up with on finishing a small project I was working on. I found someone, we discussed details but (as it does do) real life creeped up and snatched him away from me, so I'm on the hunt again.

I figure this time around I'm going to lay out all the cards on the table. If you're interested please email me at: mack@xrucifix.com with 'Natural Condition' in the title - serious inquiries only.



Natural Condition is a simple territory capture strategy game where two teams (Nature and Progress) have to capture Neutral or Enemy land to expand their control and get resources to buy more troops. The objective is to capture the other teams base.

Units

Each team consists of four units with different functions:

Seeder:

Seeders are a non-combat unit who have a 'poison' attack on the hex, they toss seeds down which linger above the hex. After the hex has taken enough 'damage' it will convert to the players side.


Grunt:

Grunts are a combat unit who can attack the seeders 'poison' cloud, killing it off, they can also attack other units.


Commander:

Commanders are a stun and light combat unit, they use their abilities to hook onto enemy units to pull them into the Commanders territory. They then attack the unit with a chance to either stun or lightly damage.


Champion:

Champions are a heavy damage combat unit, while slow, they have plenty of health and when closed in on an enemy unit can often convert them in a couple of hits.

Information on Converting:

Once an enemy unit looses all of their health they will convert to the players team. Players can tell which units are hurt as they have sick idle and sick walking animations.

Information on Hexes:

If a enemy unit steps on a players Hex the Hex will slowly damage the unit until the unit looses all of it's heal and converts to the players side. Hexes that are damaged themselves will heal overtime.

Headquarter Bases:

Simplistic functionality, players click on these to bring up the buy screen to buy units. The objective is to attack the base till it looses all of its health, thus capturing it.

What is done:

Everything you see here is done and shown inside of Torque 3D 1.2, the models are animated. I'd just need to have some particle effects done. I also have an SVN, I'll have to update it to get it back up to par. If you wanted to use yours that's fine as well.

Help Wanted:

I am looking for a programmer as I have limited talent in this craft. Other than the gameplay functionality I would like an AI to play against the players.

Split of whatever sales of the game come in will be split 50/50. If you only want to code and don't want to be involved in the business side that's fine, I will send you reports of the sales as they come in (typically monthly), I already have a few digital distribution sites setup who are interested in the game.

Ideally I'd like to have the game integrated with Steamworks for their matchmaking services. I understand that the game would have to be in a fairly completed state prior to taking it to them. I think it'd be beneficial that, while having an option to wait in a lobby, the player could launch a game VS the AI and the AI is booted and the level restarted when a player joins.

While I'm open to discussing design and changing things around I would also like to get down into the dirt of development and start cranking out builds to play test to get a good feel for the game and build maps for it.

If you're interested please email me at: mack@xrucifix.com with 'Natural Condition' in the title - serious inquiries only.

(The headquarters models and hexes were done by the talented Adam deGrandis at www.adamdegrandis.com. I highly recommend working with him)