A new game development team

[hiratariq]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to this website and this is my very first post.

OK. I am not a hell of a game programmer but I am a fast learner. However thats not even the point. The thing is that I want to make a game of a standard like diner dash, cake mania and flower shop, if you guys play bigfish games than u must be familiar. So you see there isn't much technical stuff like 3D, FPS, RPG or MMOs.

I have got books to learn and sdk to start off with BUT I don't have any help, I am all alone. I have a friend who does a very good graphics designing, but her problem is that she starts being incharge of everything while I am trying to be a friend, a team member with equal importance, so I need few nice and friendly graphics designers and some starter programmers like me so we can learn together and make a nice and sweet game and earn some by trying to publish our game and start out our own company if we succeed and get recognition.

I do want to be an entrepreneur but my ultimate dream is to leave Pakistan, so I will only wanna be known as one of the co-founder, however thats just a dream and I am looking for people who also need recognition to get good jobs or anything.

I have an idea of a game but lets first see how many people reply to this post and I will also appreciate any suggestions and ideas for a game.

You can contact me here or on my email address, that is, [email protected].

Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best,
Regards,
Hira.

 

[Rapchik Killer]

Well im a game programmer.. this june july maybe we could work together coz i havent thought of doin anything in these two months.. Even if it isnt possible for us to work together i will help you along the way ..

 

[aameeshah]

Hi There!
Its great to see some new Guys ..er Gals interested in game programing! You will meet some guys around here, who Dream BIG like NexGen 3D engines and stuff but I wanna do Fun Stuff, Casual Games. I am big Fan of PopCap n BigFishGames.

I already tried Windows Shareware games with MinesXP. Its a tough field (Ok I Agree my game is not Casual/Cute enough). I strongly suggest you to do Flash CS3. Its very nice platform, AS3 programming is quite powerful. Its not quite C/C++ but certainly comparable to C# n Vb.Net . Its the Most popular Casual Platform and while game are Free for users, Good games earn money by means of Ads and sponsorship by sites like miniclip and armorgames.

So Join in! Flash is Easy and powerful platform and best of all Ideal for Casual games. You can start with Lynda.com and TotalTraining videos and then some books like AS3 Essentials and AS3 Game Programming University. Just go to this site and it has every thing: Knowfree.net

I myself have only been doing Flash for 1-2 months and I feel like I can have my 1st project done in next 2 months. I am into Physics Programming using this amazing Lib Box2DAs3: http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/

Where are you from? See ya Around!

 

[Normal]

i want to do concept art for video games.

 

[hiratariq]

Oh wow! I have replies.

OK Rapchik aka Umar, I've read a lot about you because before starting this thread I browsed all the other threads in this category, so I am honored that you find this activity interesting.

And Sadaat, you've reminded me of my long lost dream of making flash games, but the thing is, I am a pathetic graphics designer so I kind of get chills thinking about touching Flash, but ya, after making this dream game, I will explore Flash (I hope so).

And happy sad? anyways, You mean that you'll be the graphics designer, right? lets see some of your creations, I am a big fan of attractive graphics they just give a different meaning to the game, and the reason games sell are graphics more than programming.

So, I actually had an idea of this game: It would be like the games where a certain knight develops some skills, explores castles to find some hidden truth, these types of games are interesting and simple at the same time.
However, I have never seen such a game with considerably good graphics, so I am aiming for slick graphics that get your attention, would be great if we could get graphics like flower shop. But, I also think that the story shouldnt be about a knight like always, lets make it a prince who is on his way to save a princess in another kingdom. The goal would be to develop skills enough to beat the enemy who has held the princess as a captive and finally see how the princess looks like.
I know you all would say, typical girlish thought, but come on, it would be fun, we can have a good laugh while making the game.

If you have any suggestions I would appreciate.

Regards,
Hira.

 

[JChang]

Good luck in making a great game, but keep one thing in mind it not easy to make a game.

 

[hiratariq]

Well ya, but its not impossible, right?

 

[ASKnASK]

There's a guy (r3aper) here... He's good with Flash.
He has already made a couple of Flash-based Games.

You should introduce yourself first in the Introductions section.
Once people here get to know you, and your interests, you'll get all the help you need.

 

[hiratariq]

But this game is not gonna involve flash, it would be in C++ and Lua.

Sorry, I should have said that earlier but I forgot.

 

[Normal]

concept artist and graphic designers are two different professions, although ive been a graphic designer for a couple of years, ive been trying to switch to concept art. ;n;

you can see some of my work on my flickr http://flickr.com/photos/100kr/


id love it if the game youre working on is 2d pixel sprite based. n.n
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[hiratariq]

Wow! nice work dude, I love this one http://flickr.com/photos/100kr/182293239/in/set-72157594457134647/

By the way, yes I am trying to make a 2D game, but I was looking for 3D graphics, you know 2.5D, like flower shop.

But you've got really nice work done, I want you to check out my friend's work over here http://www.geocities.com/hiratshaikh/screenshots.html, the programming of the games is done by me but the graphics are made by my friend and looking at your work, I think you can make even better graphics, because I like the colors that you've chosen, gives such a good feel. Can you make 3D graphics? Doesn't matter if you can't, I still need you in the team.

 

[Normal]

thank you!
yes im not very good with 3D graphics __;n;__

and i dont know flowershop. but i think by 2.5D you mean isometric...like final fantasy on the gba:

the characters your friend makes are kind of nice. the backgrounds however arent very well thought out. o:

tell us more about the game you want to make
how you're going to make it. whats the story, what type of game is it etc etc

 

[hiratariq]

Nah! I've atached a screenshot of flower shop.

 

[hiratariq]

And ya about the game, I am still unsure of it, as I said before it would be a quest of a prince to save a princess of a far away kingdom. So a funny idea I could think of that he stopped in the way and got robbed, now he has to live in a town and get a job, earn some money, buy stuff and the kind of job he'll do will effect the concerned skills, for example, if he picks up heavy stuff his strength will increase. He can then use the money to buy a car or something and then reach the castle, but outside castle there will be another town where he can develop skill he missed in the previous town, because his main concern was to buy a car, so ya, when he develops skills enough to beat the enemy, he will get to see the princess, and obviously she has to be special.

So what do you think?

 

[Normal]

wow, can you really code all those ideas? thats amazing if you can. i know the story is in its early stages. ive some questions:
what era is this set in (it has cars so i think its not so old)
what kind of world (if its a fantasy world we can come up with a different means of transportation)
where did this enemy come from (edit: oh sorry i didnt ready your other post, the enemy has held her captive, got it)
why is he driving cars
why are there cars?!!

but i understand the idea, Person A goes in search for Person B, something bad happens, change of plan, tasks, some more tasks, SHAADI

i think itll be fun if youll allow us all to come up with ideas for it even if they arent going to be used. like we can switch around characters and worlds for e.g :

a skyscraper (in an urban world)
a homeless dude has the hots for a ceo's daughter, he starts homeless, outside, begging, eating out of trash, get a job in the skyscrapper as a janitor, and then works his way to the top.

a mountain (like minas tirith in LOTR)
almost the same as above with a different setting, same kind of dude, trying to work his way to the top of the mountain, replace the ceo with a king, his daughter with a princess!

 

[aameeshah]

So! As far as I get it. You wanna do this task based game (like ur favs. u mentioned) to earn money and Upgrades and follow a nice story line along the way. Its girlish! but its totally casual material and should work.

I played cakemania and dinner dash online (FLASH) versions. I don't exactly like doing these chores over n over again but its still kinda addictive and with your added RPG, Story elements it will be a Blast. So good luck! Seems like a very nice project.

But i will still insist on Flash because of its Broad Audience. A Windows game will be LOST unless u can get it published on BigFishGames, etc.

@happy I Like your concept Art. Do you use Illustrator? Your work is very suitable for vector based environment like Flash. I will hopefully ask you to do Main Game Screen/Logo for my next game in a months time Inshallah. Are you willing?

 

[hiratariq]

happy? let me know ur real name please. I like your idea... mine is very vague and I am still thinking of a slick story line, so thanks for ur idea, sounds great!

And Saadat, no it won't be like diner dash, cake mania, or flower shop, I referred those in terms of graphics and availability on bigfishgames and other big websites. There is this game called cute knight, it has pathetic graphics but if it had good graphics and a good storyline it would have been good. Such games sort of give a mystical feeling and make people get desparate to know the ending because of the number or activities that you can do.

And again happy? this game would be easier in a sense that there won't be any physics involved.

 

[hiratariq]

I am not completely beginning C++. I have made games in C++, C#, VB, Java and J2ME, but none of them were complete, perfect and professional because they were all made as academic projects to get some marks.

But now I have time to learn, perfect and make a professional game. I am in no hurry here. And I believe you'll never know whether you could or could not do something unless you give it a try.

Thanks for the help offering Cade.

 

[Normal]

sorry, didnt see this thread updated. my name is Sa'd.

@happy I Like your concept Art. Do you use Illustrator? Your work is very suitable for vector based environment like Flash. I will hopefully ask you to do Main Game Screen/Logo for my next game in a months time Inshallah. Are you willing?

i'd love to, but im currently working on some stuff so have my hands full, so i guess at the end of the month or early next, i'll be free to pick something new.
and yes i do use illustrator.

 

[aameeshah]

Thanks Saad! I am not in any hurry! I am just starting out my project But Will remind ur after few weeks ok!