New Project : Ground up

[darkgummy]

Hey, long time lurker, first time contributor, ect ect

I come from more of a c++/C# background and I'm just about to start poking at Flash (the CS4 link you guys have in a thread here), but I was wondering if anyone has tried to (and if not why) build an extensible ... engine? For others to create these kinds of games in.

Look at the Unity engine, you can make side scrollers in 2D or 3D which flash does cover the 2D part.
But it can also do first person, third person, and even top down (think diablo with break away armor)
Or put a female character in almost any survival horror game.

If you define the class structure properly, and that just takes a few different software minds bouncing ideas off each other, then you can build something that can easily be extended by people who just know how to make new characters.

Most of my ideas for this have come from the EDEN series which was just a choice based movie playlist, and the "Dark Conception (Monster game)" here at Creative Corner. EDEN which has girls in a space ship with a monster running around, and Dark Conception with the idea of a game literally just like "natural selection 2" except with monster sex.

[Activeagressive]

Hmm... a game engine you say?
Doesn't sound like a bad idea, don't know how many people you can get to help though.
I've had a little experience with Visual Basic and C# but something like this seems a bit out of my league.
BTW you should of just posted this topic in Discussion.

[Nookie]

Hey, long time lurker, first time contributor, ect ect

I come from more of a c++/C# background and I'm just about to start poking at Flash (the CS4 link you guys have in a thread here), but I was wondering if anyone has tried to (and if not why) build an extensible ... engine? For others to create these kinds of games in.

Look at the Unity engine, you can make side scrollers in 2D or 3D which flash does cover the 2D part.
But it can also do first person, third person, and even top down (think diablo with break away armor)
Or put a female character in almost any survival horror game.

If you define the class structure properly, and that just takes a few different software minds bouncing ideas off each other, then you can build something that can easily be extended by people who just know how to make new characters.

Most of my ideas for this have come from the EDEN series which was just a choice based movie playlist, and the "Dark Conception (Monster game)" here at Creative Corner. EDEN which has girls in a space ship with a monster running around, and Dark Conception with the idea of a game literally just like "natural selection 2" except with monster sex.

As far as game engines go, it's a project in itself. Some choose to work from scratch, but I'm for the idea of using a pre-made engine and enhancing it to one's needs.

[Thaedael]

I don't know if you saw, but in the mario is missing 2 thread, there is an engine dump you can use;
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1607
Hope this helps!