Game Design

[Symbiot Spider]

Hey peoples, so I am working towards being a games designer and am starting on my very first game that I will actually finish and not let myself be torn away by new projects and tinkerings... With this said, I was also wanting to post here and share some of it with you. I have spent a couple years here now and think its time I start giving back.

My first game is still in the works, but is coming along very quickly and I will post a link to it here soon, but I thought I would start some of the chatting now for it.

It is an incremental game, so its a slow style game. You gain money/second and then spend it on some upgrades or hire more people to work for you. This is where I needed some help. I don't know which theme to use for this project, I was thinking about a mafia style theme where you hire punks/thugs/enforcers etc, but TBH those names can be switched with anything, so I ask you... my SW family, what should the theme be?

Ideas so far:

Mafia, Military, Alien, Basic Store, Restaurant, Pirate, Ninja

P.S - It will not become a SW one because I plan on selling it or making profit somehow :P

P.S.S - My blog that will also follow this as well as my gaming time is also here: Porky Pixels (Link might not work for mobiles, also, name suggestions are still welcome :P)

 

[Joy Carleec]

Military, Aliens, Pirates and Ninjas are currently overdone. Glad you didn't say Zombies.

Mafia or something could be interesting?

 

[Symbiot Spider]

Zombies is another thing, but I agree they are all overdone

I have decided to go with the restaurant idea, hiring backend and frontend workers... slowly players will hire more people and then purchase a larger restaurant, yada yoda yada

 

[Sovereign]

Dedicate it to the memory of Paul Walker.

 

[Clayton]

Make it a fighting game. Simple two player game where they face off against each other. Main guy could be Braiden. Title maybe, I dunno, Fatal Confrontation.

Or a restaurant/mafia thingy.

 

[Logan]

I think it'd be cool if you were in charge of a city government, like say the mayor. Hiring city employees, building stuff, that kinda stuff. Maybe later if you get online capabilities people could form guilds with their cities and those guilds would be like states and then there are leaderboards for which state is best idk.

Restaurants are cool too.

 

[Ser Gregor]

Mafia Restaurant simulator. You manage an Italian eatery that is a front for the Italian mob and have to manage the regular business side in addition to managing your crime-lord's assets that go through the restaurant. You can make it very sarcastic and cheeky to get the right feel, imo.

 

[Horizon]

Mafia Restaurant simulator. You manage an Italian eatery that is a front for the Italian mob and have to manage the regular business side in addition to managing your crime-lord's assets that go through the restaurant. You can make it very sarcastic and cheeky to get the right feel, imo.

I would play that.