I want to start a project with my other 2 team-mates, 1 of which is a writer, the other a modeller (i'm the programmer/coder). The writer needs an idea to start writing on, and the modeller needs to know what the writer is writing about...

So if anyone has an epic story idea, please share!

here's a list of what we've already thought of and the reasons we don't want to use them:

• Science accident, strangelet particle wipeout (cliche)
• overpollution (boring gameplay)
• nuclear wipeout (cliche)
• world war 3 (cliche)

your in an overprotective army based surrounded by giant walls, the terrorist have gotten ahold of an old banned expirimental chemical that can be airdropped into confined spaces that makes the inhabitants slowly grow more and more paranoid and viscious. This base is ideal for the chemical due to the giant walls surrounding the edge of the base, and you need to work your way out while saving you and your friends from insane coworkers, trained onsite military personel and a fleet of masked terrorists that drop in after the spread. Your father could also be part of the group that invented the chemical in that very base.

That's an awesome idea, but i need something effective on a global scale (pandemic?).

The reason i want it on a global scale is because i spent the last 2 months working on procedural planet implementations. Theoretically, you could be zoomed out and see the entire earth, then zoom into about 1 metre off the ground with decent detail.

Maybe you could tweak that idea to be effective on a global scale? Thanks for your suggestion anyway..

Any more ideas welcome!

the chemical binds to the ozone and is weighted to the ground by the heat of the sun?

Now that's much better! I'll send my writer an e-mail..

Thanks!

np

To point out as an writer and reader, "epic" means seriously insane amounts of work and genious writing. Everything has to fit together nothing is tacky, nothing is boring, but everything is suspensive.

You have to be able to affect the player at all times.

I knew that. At least it's not just me (3 mates)...

My teammate likes to call himself a genius

It's going to be really hard..

But this isn't the first project i'v worked on, so i can approximate development times better than i used to

Being able to approximate time does nothing if you don't have actual epicness in it. Being able to call yourself a genius (I do that alot, too, when I'm drunk) has nothing to do with your real skills.

A good hint to make a game is to test alot of stupid ideas. You think plumber jumping on turtles and saving princess from the another castle is stupid? Well I call that epic. I also call most Zelda's epic. Also I think HALO and Half-Life are epic.

Study these games, find what makes them "epic" and what makes others die next to them. Forget about the iconic Nintendo or the multimillion budgets. Find it in the storytelling, game settings and graphical style and general execution. Then make stories, just random scribbles and put them together. Don't be afraid to dump a idea. Remember that the original idea is NEVER the final result. NEVER.

I don't. far from it.


I'll try.. But I'm not the writer so i guess it doesn't help.. He needs to get himself an account on these forums...

This project is for later though(when i have tonnes more experience and get a new engine). The one i'm working on now is a game where you're a green radioactive blob and have to try and get around a large sequence of obstacles by bouncing around. The blob can separate, change colour etc..

btw, thanks for all your tips and suggestions !