Recruiting for a new standalone Game Thread

Hello ,

I have decided to start the development of a game using the Sauerbraten Engine (Cube 2) . This is an open source engine, meaning that you won't need to buy anything to play the game , it will be stand alone.

 I won't ask you to work if there is no alpha version ready . I just want to know if you are ready to start working once I have something cool done. I need to start "advertising" now if I want a chance to get people by the time the coding part of the project will be done.

This game will be a "port" of the Parasite Gamemode.

This game , inspirated by John Carpenter's movie "The Thing" and by the "The Ship" game , is multiplayer only (The gameplay of this game is so deep that it's not possible to create an AI) .

You play either as an human , or as an alien that can take an human apparence. As human , your aim is to survive and accomplish "missions" while trying not to get infected . The aliens have to infect all humans and make sure they dont find out who is alien.

If you want to read the thread about the garrysmod gamemode , here it is :
Facepunch.com

This game will takes the best ideas from the different version of Parasite gamemode , such as :

- Needs.
- Roles (robot , captain etc).
- Infinite ammos.
- Sounds.
- Paralysis.
- Jail.

More about the engine :

Pros :

-Pretty good graphics (better than source in my opinion).

-The possibility to edit maps directly in game and in multiplayer (quick map creation).

-Free , even for comercial use.

-Relatively easy to mod.

Cons :

-The engine , by default , isn't very good at preventing cheats. I guess it won't be a problem until the game becomes popular. Then , it will still be possible to modify it (it has already been done before) .

-The engine doesn't have doors working in multiplayer , but I'll probably change that.

-It doesn't have VOIP.

Features :

Sauerbraten.org

I have started to browse the sources of the engines , to see if I will manage to mod it effectively. It seems that I will. I have started to implement the hud , and simples messages between server and clients (You don't need much more to create a game).

This is an early screenshot of the game on a vanilla Sauerbraten map  :

So I'm Going to do all the coding part , and possibly a bit of the mapping part , just as I did for the first version of Parasite gamemode.

But a stand-alone game with no custom models / sounds / textures would suck. Also , the game needs a master server , and test servers.

So , I'm recruiting :

Needed :

-> Someone able to host the master server - not urgent but one will be needed if the game is released.
-> Someone able to host a dedicated server - I don't have the possibility to host right now

Important :

-> Weapon modeler - 3 or 4 weapon models are needed
-> Character modeler - at least 3 models are needed
-> Texture artist - to get rid of vanilla testures
-> Sound artist - to get rid of vanilla sounds , and because sounds are very important in this game , gameplay wise
-> Webmaster / webdesigner - we need a site / forum
-> Mapper - just to have more than one map at release :p

Appreciated :

-> Tester - real testing , it wont be playing

So PM me if you are interested. In theses kind of projects , the motivation is proportional to the number of persons interested. I'll probably seek for volunteers in other forum such as moddb , because I really want this game to have custom models.

The project has not really started yet , I want to see if it's possible to gather a team first.

I work relatively fast , so the deadline for a first playable version would be by the end of 2010. But it might aswell be ready in 2009.

My TIMEZONE is PARIS (important to notice for test sessions).

Edited by: Zirty

im not a huge fan of the cube 2 engine but best of luck to ya!

Good post you made there and a great idea, id like to help as level designer unfortunetly i dont have a clue about the cube 2 engine

yea havent read all of the post.. but the thing mixed with the ship gets my votes, and nice to see someone not goin crazy with source or something similar cube will do! good luck...

I will contact you all next week , I think . It's about to start officialy.

We need a forum ...

wow that looks great.. best of luck.

Ah i could help with that