Righteo, for the past few years I've had a little team who have tried to make a good PC game. Usually consisting of me doing the graphics, my friend doing the music, and someone else programming!
I've tried to work on a game called Archo - a simple match-4 puzzler with stylish graphics. That got quite far till the programmer decided he'd work for an actual video game developer. Boo.
So, I propose we work on a game! One of the other ideas I had in my head was a retro 2D platformer, very old school. I want it to play similarly to ye olde DOS games such as Secret Agent and Crystal Caves.
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/104 - Crystal Caves
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/124 - Secret Agent
Anyone who has played those games - kudos, it's quite an acquired taste. But hey! Anyway, basically the main protagonist travels underground and you have to complete each level avoiding booby traps and finding secret gems and locations. The whole underground is streamlined so the transition from Level 1 to Level 2 is seamless, though when you start up the game you are presented with a map to choose what 'Level' you would like to start on. There is multiple exits usually found by a secret, and gems also open doors later on in levels, so you can go back and collect the gems and then return to find a secret exit.
Here is something I whipped up in Photoshop, just an idea of what the game could look like:
There would be subliminal hints on what to do and whatnot to do, for example a switch with blood on it would suggest it is bad - as whoever stepped on it last must have been killed for whatever reason. So for that 2nd screenshot (lvl2) - the switch with blood on it triggers an arrow to be fired from the eye in the wall on the right, so you must climb up the chains and drop down to the tile after the switch to avoid dying and collecting the gem!
http://curiositylabs.co.uk/otherprojects.html - thats my website with stuff on it related to my unfinished games.
Here is a music track my friend Pete made for the game, since it's meant to have a kind of serene and lonely feel about the game:
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... i&newref=1 (scroll down and find Shareine Ruins) -
an amazing piece of music.So basically, I'm looking for people to help with the game for whatever reason! And who want to get a game online =] - so like a story could be made, I need peeps for level designs, graphics for tiles and objects/animation - and of course programmers, which is mainly what we need as I don't have anyone I know that can program!!