How do you plan how to make a game?

Danimal

Hi, well, my ideas are way too ambitious with nothing to back them up for now. Coding is not my forte and life gets in the way in every way it can. But I need to get to it and make something simple.

DaveTheCoder

For the only significant Godot game I've made, I started with an existing simple game (Dodge the Creeps), and a game concept that provided direction, and incrementally added features.

Danimal

I have been thinking lately in doing something which I can build upon and won´t be a crazy big concept from the very start. Cartoony post-apoc dude who lives in a city, right in the middle of mountains of trash, think of Deponia (very fun graphic adventures).

You are a scavenger and find a blueprint for a wind generator while sorting trash, build many of it with neccessary scavended pieces, sell energy to city, improve generator with money, scavenge more zones, find more energy generation methods. Go clean or go dirty (trash burners generators vs plant trees, make anti-trash walls...) and in the end reap what you sow.
First person, simple combat (critters among the trash in need of a whack on the head), a bit of automation. Latter suprising the player by making them worry about their generators not exploding by lack of cooling...

I know for sure I would have fun making the 3d models, not so much for the coding.

DaveTheCoder For the only significant Godot game I've made,

Is it available somewhere?

Tomcat

Danimal Do you guys know of better tools or what I´m missing?

https://godotforums.org/d/28944-free-software-for-content-creation

Sound editing: Audacity

Why is a program that collects user data so popular? Are there really no other audio editors? Well, at least ocenaudio.

DaveTheCoder

Danimal Is it available somewhere?

I haven't published it. I'm stuck on some last steps, such as deciding on a name, whether to make it free or charge for it, and submitting it to a store.

Tomcat

DaveTheCoder I'm stuck on some last steps, such as deciding on a name

For a modest percentage, I'm ready to come up with a name. 😹

Tomcat

Here's a good idea.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Conz@social.tchncs.de/116111014414099234

BTW Another World was created without any design document and turned out pretty well.

kuligs2

Tomcat
Good game, it has part 2

Gowydot

Currently going through making a game right now and I came up with this formula.
(your skills in coding + your skills in making assets) / 2 = game most likely be published.

Danimal

Gowydot (your skills in coding + your skills in making assets) / 2 = game most likely be published.

I always considered being published as a pipedream, nowadays games needs insane levels of polish. Not even indies can get away of it, there is so much market saturation that standing out is nearly imposible.
When I finally put myself to make a game, it will be because I want to make something I would like to play, getting money out of it would be welcome but unlikely.

Gowydot

Danimal
Well making a game is one thing finishing it is another. But if the game is finished you gotta publish it, somehow, just share what you make because that is the point of making it + a chance of making the money.

Making good money off it IS the pipedream somewhat but more like luck too I think, remember flappy bird? or calculated targeting like many nintendo games, Simple , fun , family oriented. No need for insane AAA level and It's still possible.

That's why I learned you should plan according to your skills so it doesn't overwhelm you halfway.

Tomcat

kuligs2 Good game, it has part 2

This game is very popular in Russia. But we mainly play this game in real life.

I can't speak for The Sims 1, but in The Sims 2, you could already mess with your neighbors. I guess it's a must-have feature for any social game.

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