Hi guys. I guess I should add a few words about my entry “Mars Runs Red”.

I should have given more time to explaining game-play. My original idea was for it to be a straightforward shooter either first or third person. But later the thought of an orbiting space station and moving in weightlessness seamed more interesting.

The primitive life forms where supposed to be four legged beasts with something like the behavior of dogs but looking more like dog sized spider apes. It might be cool to see them scurrying about some weightless space station.

At this point I think a game like this would be better served as a first-person game, focusing on escape form the surface, and a final battle in space.

I also didn’t mention some of the back-story elements but the game itself was never meant to be anything like Dune or Avatar.

I was hoping to focus more on human treachery and cooperative game-play and moral struggle not “spice etc.” or any other material commodity.

I prefer the Enemies game, personally, as the most clear and artful of the Game Design Documents in the voting.

PS:
Good luck to all in the Game Design Vote.

Did it end ?

It sure did end! Team members, please email me - george at acknex dot net - your info so that we can set up the team. I've got emails from about 5 people until now; I know that many of you have posted their info at the forum, but I need your email addresses and I need to know that you are motivated to move on to the following phase. Don't forget to tell me what you can do (programming, modeling, level design, texturing, etc) and how many hours per week you can do it; we'll choose a lead programmer, artist, musician, etc.

i'm the only one who voted for broken planet? i thought it was a good idea.

It _is_ not a bad idea. Not at all. It could be quite a lot of fun.
But this poll was not only about idea, it was about concept and how far the concept seems already developed. And, it seemed quite similar to Superku's concept, and there his videos and additional ideas were the advantages over your's.
You still can develop the concept further and write a prototype.

I think that all the ideas are good; nevertheless, some of them (including mine) have received fewer votes. This doesn't mean that the idea is bad, but that the people appreciate the others more. We'll see how fun this / these idea(s) are at the prototyping stage.

A big congratulation to Superku

Count me in...

When is this going to start? I'm currently on the move, so in February I won't have much time.
But there were many interested coders, so you might prefer those who have time right away.

Currently I'm building up some sort of own template system.
It features some useful things which might come handy. If needed, I could contribute some of the templates. It's not much, I know, but I thought I could share.

Congrats to Felix

Thank you, Slacer! Please email me your info (see my post above).
Thank you, Firo! We should start it all next week; I hope that you'll join the team at some point in the future.

Thank you!

Today I've done some prototyping regarding gravity and movement and there is a lot of potential. Think of round/ square objects that have there own force of gravity like in Super Mario Galaxy: