40k indie? Thread - Warhammer 40K Fan Group

it seems fitting enough that 40k receive an indie away from the ultramarines and blood ravens monopoly on 40k games

any way...my idea for the indie is a co-op TPS featuring a death watch kill team on a planet to aid against a tyranids invasion.

1-the game starts off simply, you create your marine (armor is not an option of course) head,hair,codename and chapter specific shoulder pads and knee pads.

2-then you get to choose your marine's speciality: assault,ranged or close combat.

3-GUNZ!!: -assault marines: get jump jets,either two handed CC weapon or a bolt pistol and a one handed CC weapon
-ranged marines: bolters,multi melta,plasma gunz,(after a certain level threshold)heavy bolters,plasma cannons...etc.
-CC marines :hammers,swords,chain swords and so on...
4- as you play you get "valour points" that you use to increase your stat line:(hp,abilities,...etc.) OR to upgrade your weapon(s)..for example a bolter may get a blade attached to it or a laser pointer or better sights and so on

5- EXP AND LEVELING!!! no need to explain that

NOW!!! game engine

i suggest unity to be used it's light,it's fast and it's easy to use(or that i was told).i don't know if it supports offline gaming since all the unity based games I've seen are online ones :\

so leave your ideas and suggestions. =d

death watch marines:

Edited by: zamaziko

i think it would work but instead of using tyranids why not be an necron invasion and use multiple races oh say necrons as main enemy tyranids as a second then add IG to help as the pdf then maby include other elements.
i like your idea of the coop but maby add some diffrent elements like where you can control your unit personaly like a mmo but only for a short time. you could also add clases say a soppourt class and he recieves airstrikes and when leveled up call in a dreadnought or preadetor tank. his weapons would be like plasma ,bolter maby a force weapon. idk just some thoughts lol

XxChaosUndividedxX wrote: i think it would work but instead of using tyranids why not be an necron invasion and use multiple races oh say necrons as main enemy tyranids as a second then add IG to help as the pdf then maby include other elements.
i like your idea of the coop but maby add some diffrent elements like where you can control your unit personaly like a mmo but only for a short time. you could also add clases say a soppourt class and he recieves airstrikes and when leveled up call in a dreadnought or preadetor tank. his weapons would be like plasma ,bolter maby a force weapon. idk just some thoughts lol

nice ideas but the more races the more models, anims (which are easy cause of dow2),scripts.

oh and we have a dev team (astartes productions) all we would need are modelers, mappers, concept artists and of course CODERS.

nice idea but i think you should use tau as then u can have more variety like kroot and battle suits and the like

alpha234 wrote:

XxChaosUndividedxX wrote: i think it would work but instead of using tyranids why not be an necron invasion and use multiple races oh say necrons as main enemy tyranids as a second then add IG to help as the pdf then maby include other elements.
i like your idea of the coop but maby add some diffrent elements like where you can control your unit personaly like a mmo but only for a short time. you could also add clases say a soppourt class and he recieves airstrikes and when leveled up call in a dreadnought or preadetor tank. his weapons would be like plasma ,bolter maby a force weapon. idk just some thoughts lol

nice ideas but the more races the more models, anims (which are easy cause of dow2),scripts.

oh and we have a dev team (astartes productions) all we would need are modelers, mappers, concept artists and of course CODERS.

yes,but your progress is..slow :\ no offence bro.

for Xxchaos : i should have made myself clearer you don't control the entire kill team you control your own created marine whether he is assault,ranged or CC and for support class maybe an Apothecary?

and for the dread and the predetor they maybe a special power available to the team captain(voted on before the match) and they will be AI controlled. after they take enough damage they get out of the battle field .

and my choice for the tyranids was because my vision of the game is waves of smaller guys against the players.

for the maps i was thinking of every map being an important imperial bunker/shock point/strategic location that comes under attack by the tyranids and your kill team is supposed to protect it after each wave you get the chance to heal up, rearm and...put up defence..your captain can call in bolter turrets at becons that the players place.

the team loses if the spawn point is overwhelmed by the tyranids.

son-of-lorgar wrote: nice idea but i think you should use tau as then u can have more variety like kroot and battle suits and the like

i love the tau but the majority of the fan base love spess mahrenes so....spess mahrenes it is :\

zamaziko wrote:

alpha234 wrote:

XxChaosUndividedxX wrote: i think it would work but instead of using tyranids why not be an necron invasion and use multiple races oh say necrons as main enemy tyranids as a second then add IG to help as the pdf then maby include other elements.
i like your idea of the coop but maby add some diffrent elements like where you can control your unit personaly like a mmo but only for a short time. you could also add clases say a soppourt class and he recieves airstrikes and when leveled up call in a dreadnought or preadetor tank. his weapons would be like plasma ,bolter maby a force weapon. idk just some thoughts lol

nice ideas but the more races the more models, anims (which are easy cause of dow2),scripts.

oh and we have a dev team (astartes productions) all we would need are modelers, mappers, concept artists and of course CODERS.

yes,but your progress is..slow :\ no offence bro.

for Xxchaos : i should have made myself clearer you don't control the entire kill team you control your own created marine whether he is assault,ranged or CC and for support class maybe an Apothecary?

and for the dread and the predetor they maybe a special power available to the team captain(voted on before the match) and they will be AI controlled. after they take enough damage they get out of the battle field .

and my choice for the tyranids was because my vision of the game is waves of smaller guys against the players.

for the maps i was thinking of every map being an important imperial bunker/shock point/strategic location that comes under attack by the tyranids and your kill team is supposed to protect it after each wave you get the chance to heal up, rearm and...put up defence..your captain can call in bolter turrets at becons that the players place.

the team loses if the spawn point is overwhelmed by the tyranids.

son-of-lorgar wrote: nice idea but i think you should use tau as then u can have more variety like kroot and battle suits and the like

i love the tau but the majority of the fan base love spess mahrenes so....spess mahrenes it is :\

our progress be the slowest bro.
but i mean if we got some modelers, coders, texture artists and maybe a few mappers we could make like a fps wave defense kinda game to start no story line though.

my idea exactly bro

may i ask to give me permission to get those Xenos as known as modelers, coders, texture artists and mappers from the howiling depth of moddb and talk in behalf of the dev team?

yea play as space marines but fight the tau coz then there would be more variety and they would be able to think for themselves unlike the tyranids who are controlled by the hive mind!

son-of-lorgar wrote: yea play as space marines but fight the tau coz then there would be more variety and they would be able to think for themselves unlike the tyranids who are controlled by the hive mind!

well as alpha said first we must get a small TPS up and running against waves after waves of tyranids and after wards maybe more races will be included and don't forget that deathwatch fav enemy are the tyranids(i know they are under the ordo xenos control and tau are xenos but the tyranids are more grimdark than tau)

yea i see what ur saying now and that sounds better than useing tau

zamaziko wrote: my idea exactly bro

may i ask to give me permission to get those Xenos as known as modelers, coders, texture artists and mappers from the howiling depth of moddb and talk in behalf of the dev team?

permission granted but to start we need to design what we want to make so we must discuss what we want and what is realistic for us.

alpha234 wrote:

zamaziko wrote: my idea exactly bro

may i ask to give me permission to get those Xenos as known as modelers, coders, texture artists and mappers from the howiling depth of moddb and talk in behalf of the dev team?

permission granted but to start we need to design what we want to make so we must discuss what we want and what is realistic for us.

i'll PM you about it...just to keep this thread about the game itself.

son-of-lorgar wrote: yea i see what ur saying now and that sounds better than useing tau

i like where this is going. it saddens me that i am of no use since i have no skills in the matter.

lester2096 wrote: i like where this is going. it saddens me that i am of no use since i have no skills in the matter.

same here but we all have ideas that we can add to it lets make this the mod of our group everyone should partake if its ok. and as for my previous comment i didnt understand it fully lol but do now thanks to zamaziko's enlightenment

XxChaosUndividedxX wrote:

lester2096 wrote: i like where this is going. it saddens me that i am of no use since i have no skills in the matter.

same here but we all have ideas that we can add to it lets make this the mod of our group everyone should partake if its ok. and as for my previous comment i didnt understand it fully lol but do now thanks to zamaziko's enlightenment

if you can draw you can help!

alpha234 wrote:

XxChaosUndividedxX wrote:

lester2096 wrote: i like where this is going. it saddens me that i am of no use since i have no skills in the matter.

same here but we all have ideas that we can add to it lets make this the mod of our group everyone should partake if its ok. and as for my previous comment i didnt understand it fully lol but do now thanks to zamaziko's enlightenment

if you can draw you can help!

well i have no artistic tallents at all but i can choose music or help pick it out i really want to help but dont have any tallent unless i took the idiots modding course in a day lol

alright, i will be able to do some help here... as to the copyrights we have... i'm not gonna get into that part...

first off, I have no graphics tablet, meaning no photoshop concept art.... i can do the best to draw out from my sketchpad and scan the images here, Alpha, Zam, i'll send you PMs on your ideas.

understood, i`ll talk to ox as well!

also zam talk to some of the people in the concept artists group.
right here Moddb.com

alpha234 wrote: understood, i`ll talk to ox as well!

also zam talk to some of the people in the concept artists group.
right here Moddb.com

most of dem dudes are offline permanently

fudge!..where is a good artist when you need him/her ?

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zamaziko wrote:

alpha234 wrote: understood, i`ll talk to ox as well!

also zam talk to some of the people in the concept artists group.
right here Moddb.com

most of dem dudes are offline permanently

fudge!..where is a good artist when you need him/her ?

we may have to venture in to the sea of piss (4chan) to find some people (just kidding stay the fuck away from 4chan kids)
yeah i have no idea where to look

alpha234 wrote:

zamaziko wrote:

alpha234 wrote: understood, i`ll talk to ox as well!

also zam talk to some of the people in the concept artists group.
right here Moddb.com

most of dem dudes are offline permanently

fudge!..where is a good artist when you need him/her ?

we may have to venture in to the sea of piss (4chan) to find some people (just kidding stay the fuck away from 4chan kids)
yeah i have no idea where to look

yeah there will be a whole lot of good drawfags in there...but...i'm too afraid to look

and off topic i'm 4chan-free for 4 months now!!

zamaziko wrote:

alpha234 wrote:

zamaziko wrote:

alpha234 wrote: understood, i`ll talk to ox as well!

also zam talk to some of the people in the concept artists group.
right here Moddb.com

most of dem dudes are offline permanently

fudge!..where is a good artist when you need him/her ?

we may have to venture in to the sea of piss (4chan) to find some people (just kidding stay the fuck away from 4chan kids)
yeah i have no idea where to look

yeah there will be a whole lot of good drawfags in there...but...i'm too afraid to look

and off topic i'm 4chan-free for 4 months now!!

congrats

anyways cryengine 3 is free to use