I think we are going to have PLENTY of coders, both experienced and not.
Artists are our weak point, or so it seems to me, they appear few to be
and far between in these forums...

So I feel we should aim for a game with a low importance on model quality.

By preferance, I would like to see "Z"-like game with a bit more focus on the
resource-building side (lke settlers).
Or maybe you could say a Settlers-like game with more strategic combat control.
But with a zoom-able playfield of 3D models like Dawn-of-War series.
The actual "time-zone" of the entities is not important to me, but ...
A "command and conquer" style RTS of "humans vs zombies"? Ive never seen that...
(that also make the enemy AI easier to manage, zombies are pretty dumb)
And it can be 8-player multiplayer both co-op and competitive.

It would be especially cool if we can implement it through the
(apparently soon to be developed by conitec) web-interface.
I'd love to give Evony and its spawn a good kick in the face...

They say that for years now, wouldn't bet my money on a release anytime soon.

The webplayer has been removed from the forecast.

Awww, now that sux... I was looking forward to that...
Thanks for the heads up on that guys, even though its bad news.

Ah well, everything else I said still stands though.

I agree with darkinferno - multiplayer games have the greatest potential if it comes to commercial indie games...
So if you do want to sell something, go for multiplayer...

I'd say lets keep it simple, no next gen fps or something of course, maybe an isometric/third person game, that would make content creation easier as less details are needed.
I'd vote for some rpg, maybe Diablo style? Diablo was hell fun in mp.
And its simple, resources can be created rather easily, several styles are possible... Steampunk, classic fantasy, hell knows.

first of all, sorry for my bad english :-)

what about a space-multiplayer ? with focus on econommy, trading,researching and crafting an not so shooting and destroying.
The players should group together to build a spaceship or spacestation and help together to grow and become better.

Sounds like star sonata. But that was a nice game.
After a while, when a player or group becomes emperor of the universe, the universe resets and everyone could capture planets again and build bases and defend their piece of universe.

How about an adventure game? I know the genre is dying and I don't expect much sales, but I don't think anyone here is in this for the money. It may get us some nice reviews on some sites, maybe get our demo in the dvd-rom of a magazine, etc. It's easy to do, everyone can contribute (people who can't code or model can still pitch ideas for dialogues and puzzles) and if nothing else, it would be a fun ride. This could be about a boy trying to make it to the game-dev world (like in MI3 Guybrush wants to make it to the pirate world and needs to find a ship, a map and a crew) or maybe you could play JCL in the quest for his lost data files that have been stolen by a warez user:).




Uhhh.. I was kinda hoping for a combo...

I once thought of an adventure game, tell me what you think:

"Go to bed, NED!"
Yep, the title is lame, but keep listening, you might find it interesting:

"You are NED, a little boy who lives in Nobodyville. One night, as Ned is about to pass into a deep slumber, he wakes up and exclaims: 'I'VE LOST MY TEDDY!'. Yes, that's right: Ned is missing his favorite bear, Ted, and he's not going to sleep without it."

The whole adventure would be based on Ned's adventures, trying to find his teddy bear. The game would be mostly situated at night, so 80% of all the town's residence (including his family) will be asleep. You know it's hard to interrogate someone about your teddy when they're trying to sleep...

Anyway, for every place you search for teddy, you get more points. You never find your teddy in those places, though: after collecting a certain number of points (you'll have to search a number of places and interrogate a number of people) Ned finally returns to his room, very upset at the loss of his Teddy, only to find it under his bed, where he never would've looked. I can imagine the player's surprise when he searches all over town for this dumb bear, just to find it under the kid's bed...

What do you think?

honestly, if we have an opportunity to make use of so many talented users, why would we do a puzzle game? or some simple, solve this, roll the ball here game?

i think we can easily pull off any of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8k-V3czlXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEbU-DspSfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubvoZnaYKk

these games are nothing more than a few terrains with basic movement and some netcode

something simple yet makes use of some of the engine elements, terrain, basic movement, blocks, something that'd make someone wanna take a look at GS