Re: Crazy Idea: Let's start up a group project!
11-19-2011, 06:00 AM
Okay I'm going to toss this idea out there and you guys can judge it's worth.
Now I'd say that the real "group project" here is the eagle time forum itself but blahblahblah that's not what we're talking about.
However I was looking back at that Alternia bound thing that Andrew Hussie did but that's homestuck so who-gives-a-shit, but then I saw what kazergad (his name?) did for Prequel adventure (which you can check out HERE) and I was thinking
What if we did that, but made it an introduction to Eagle-Time?
We want to expand this forum to a larger audience eventually, and probably starting with an MSPA familiar crowd (since that's where all this jazz met up from), so why not give them a little game to play to get familiar with the forum rules and culture?
GENERIC PLAYER could enter the town/forum and start walking around talking to people (US) to figure out what there is here and what we're all about. Since it's a flash file we could build to it every now and then to add extra areas and subforums that crop up.
I mean there could even be a whole GRAND BATTLE BUILDING filled with cameos of all your favorite characters and writers to introduce newcommers.
These type of flash story things can lend themselves to organized collaborations (so and so get background music, make the tiles, need a sprite?, can someone write some dialouge? What sort of design will this have? etc.) And it shouldn't be to difficult to bounce around a shared .fla file between flash endowed authors.
As far as programming it goes, I have a little bit of experience with actionscript, not much, but just enough to say that it is not that difficult to pick up for computer savvy individuals.
I like this idea in particular because I think it's something we could easily complete and still have a fun satisfactory and purposeful product. Or something like that.
Thoughts?
Now I'd say that the real "group project" here is the eagle time forum itself but blahblahblah that's not what we're talking about.
However I was looking back at that Alternia bound thing that Andrew Hussie did but that's homestuck so who-gives-a-shit, but then I saw what kazergad (his name?) did for Prequel adventure (which you can check out HERE) and I was thinking
What if we did that, but made it an introduction to Eagle-Time?
We want to expand this forum to a larger audience eventually, and probably starting with an MSPA familiar crowd (since that's where all this jazz met up from), so why not give them a little game to play to get familiar with the forum rules and culture?
GENERIC PLAYER could enter the town/forum and start walking around talking to people (US) to figure out what there is here and what we're all about. Since it's a flash file we could build to it every now and then to add extra areas and subforums that crop up.
I mean there could even be a whole GRAND BATTLE BUILDING filled with cameos of all your favorite characters and writers to introduce newcommers.
These type of flash story things can lend themselves to organized collaborations (so and so get background music, make the tiles, need a sprite?, can someone write some dialouge? What sort of design will this have? etc.) And it shouldn't be to difficult to bounce around a shared .fla file between flash endowed authors.
As far as programming it goes, I have a little bit of experience with actionscript, not much, but just enough to say that it is not that difficult to pick up for computer savvy individuals.
I like this idea in particular because I think it's something we could easily complete and still have a fun satisfactory and purposeful product. Or something like that.
Thoughts?