[POLL] GIVE LIBERTY (OR WHOEVER DOES IT) IDEAS FOR EVENTS

author=Solitayre
I do think the Event system is due for an upgrade. It's always been staff-gated and it doesn't need to be. Users should be able to submit events the same way they can submit game profiles (probably with more specific standards for what's acceptable.)

I don't think they should require a staff member to set up the page.

Well when I said 'users submit events' I meant it would go into the queue for staff approval like anything else.

author=Solitayre
I do think the Event system is due for an upgrade. It's always been staff-gated and it doesn't need to be. Users should be able to submit events the same way they can submit game profiles (probably with more specific standards for what's acceptable.)

author=StormCrow
I voted for Opera, but only because I'm maybe the only other living person insane enough that they actually had the idea of making a rock opera in RMK prior to this?? (It was going to be Final Fantasy: The Rock Opera, I think, specifically.)

Dude, I like the way you think. Also, the whole opera in FF6 was what gave me the idea.

Anyway, getting assigned to teams and forced to include voice acting and/or singing (my GOD I cannot sing there's no way that's happening) could be really cool. I think rather than Opera, maybe open it up to just the game must have mandatory voice acting, singing optional? I mean I would think a lot more people feel comfortable speaking than singing (I could have pursued a career in voice acting if I wanted to, although I was already stuck on my career path when I noticed I had some talent there; on the other hand no one ever has or would imagine me having a career in singing). As for the technology, it's basically just a microphone, right? I feel like the music video idea has more of a technological barrier although maybe I'm just saying that because I'm afraid of screen capture software and have never got it to work.

Ummmm, well it's more complicated than this. For Oracle of Tao, I mainly did talking at the opening/ending of each game (kinda like how those big splashy Square Enix games pull out the HD stuff only for the opening/ending). It's saved for big stuff because it's harder than you think to pull off. You see, on 2k3, you have the choice of mp3 or wav. With wav, you play once, but the size is about 10x larger meaning your game size quickly becomes bloated. With mp3, you can't play it from sounds, meaning you either need Disharmony and to make mp3.wav I think it was files, or have a common event that cuts sound after one play. It's awkward. You also needed some conversion programs, and to show file extensions. I think later engines were better about this.

I also thought the fan-game idea was kind of neat. Ten years ago I would have never said that. Ten years ago I would have said "JESUS H CHRIST ALL WE HAVE IS FAN-GAMES, HOW ABOUT A MAKE SOMETHING ORIGINAL EVENT" but the fan-games percentage has really deflated over the years. And in all my years of makery I've never actually made an honest-to-gosh full on fangame (just very derivative original games the odd adaptation, which are IMO different from fan-works).

My favorite fangame I think was Inuyasha Tamashii. Sadly, the game doesn't link properly anymore (mediafire killed it off), so you have to indirect link.

I would like to make a 3d platformer based on the original Ninja Gaiden trilogy, with a fourth part. I tried it out, but the whole deal with animating the cutscenes, and trying to puzzle out how to get it to work right. I wanted a sort of deal where you have a party (Ryu, Irene, Robert as a temp character, and Ryu/Irene's daughter on the fourth one), which attacks if the creature touches you first, otherwise you can swing your sword and get rid of them. And I wanted it timed and to have a kind of parkour feel, with you gradually gaining new abilities like climbing and swimming as the story progresses. And timed, with exp bonuses for avoiding party battles (sneak attacks) and others for speed running. But the mapping was such a nightmare since I had to plan out different elevations and handle jump mechanics.

Historical fiction might have interested me if I had not JUST DONE THAT for the last event.

I can't exactly explain why, but the year long idea somehow like fuses all of the worst aspects of working on a game for a jam/event and working on your game to get it done. Do not want.

I totally understand. From my perspective, this was basically for people who are between games, and want to tackle kind of a team game. I imagine this is usually done in the hiring/help me sections though.