It has been a while since I have finished programming Draughts and I think that it is time to move onto a new project. About a week ago from today I met up with a few friends of mine whom share a common interest in creating games. Together we discussed potential game projects and ideas. As I mentioned on Twitter, creating interesting game ideas is hard.
One of my biggest inspirations for game development, Everyday Shooter
By the end of the night however we all agreed upon several ideas that we wanted our game to incorporate. The feeling of true consequence in a game and the sparing use of color and sound to signify importance of things in the game world. Over the weekend we all individually thought up potential game concepts that were based around these ideas. One thing that became quickly apparent to me while brainstorming is that having real consequence, consequences that makes the player feels guilty or sad about is hard. After this realisation I removed this idea from my mind and focused on an emphasis on color and sound. After some more brainstorming I came up with a concept that I thought was interesting but not entirely a good representation of what we had discussed. I discussed this with the group who also shared this enthusiasm for my idea. Another idea had fluctuated to the surface that was also interesting. The aim of my next project is to develop a prototype for the idea that I had designed. I want to keep the details of this idea behind closed doors for now because it is most definitely not concrete.
Paint, so much game potential here.
Currently I am intending on creating the prototype in C++ using my old pal SDL. Before finish I will tease a clue, it involves paint and a lot of different colors. I will keep you posted.