Idea

[ríomhaire]

I have an idea for a game.
A RTS like Command & Conquer but with people also as comandoes (Like Tanya) playing it as an FPS. That would make for crazy multiplayer games.

[Pi Mu Rho]

ha.
haha.
AHAHAHAHA

Ahem. Sorry.

Yes, it would be fantastic. I wonder if anyone is working on a game just like that, right now........

[The Dark Elf]

ha.
haha.
AHAHAHAHA

Ahem. Sorry.

Yes, it would be fantastic. I wonder if anyone is working on a game just like that, right now........
are you paying people to post these random hints? :p

[Pi Mu Rho]

Ha! If only they could see what I can see right now....

[StardogChampion]

I have an idea for a game.
A RTS like Command & Conquer but with people also as comandoes (Like Tanya) playing it as an FPS. That would make for crazy multiplayer games.
Go play Natural-selection.

[Pi Mu Rho]

Natural Selection is a "lite" RTS (with no offence intended to the NS team).

I believe what riomhaire was suggesting was a conflict in a similar style to C&C, controlled RTS-style by some players, with the others running around in the middle FPS-style. Somewhat larger in scale and scope than NS - kind of what C&C:Renegade should have been.

[ríomhaire]

kind of what C&C:Renegade should have been.
I had too high hopes for that game. ;(
Like renegade but with customisable characters, not just generic comandoes. You could be shooting at someone and then recognise them. Like in a MMORPG.
You could also give the comandoes units to order like Unreal or Republic Comandoe.

[Pi Mu Rho]

I'm sure that somebody, somewhere, is working on something remarkably similar to what you're describing.

[ríomhaire]

I'm sure that somebody, somewhere, is working on something remarkably similar to what you're describing.
I hope so. I also hope it's good.

[Pi Mu Rho]

I'm fairly certain that it is...

[StardogChampion]

Does this mean larger outdoor maps, rather than NS's small corridors?

[Pi Mu Rho]

I'm sure it'd have large, expansive maps, with ample room for large battles yet cleverly designed to allow for intense FPS play too.

*ahem*

[Foxtrot]

Savage is like that, Savage was pretty cool too except no one plays it. Natural Selection was an awsome game until they changed it and completly ruined it. Natural Selection was my favorite online game, and it was just a mod. It was much, much better than CS and DoD. Pi, are you going to link to your mod that you are shemlessly advertising?

[kirovman]

Let me fly the kirov airship, and I will endorse your idea.

[Pi Mu Rho]

Pi, are you going to link to your mod that you are shemlessly advertising?

I'm not working on a mod. I work for a commercial game developer...

[Malfunction]

My brother brought up a much better idea a few days ago when I showed him the screenshots of Comdemned. He thinks someone should make an FPS where all you do is escape from a mental institution. There are so many ideas that are sprung from this one idea, it's crazy.

[Razor]

Wasn't there a game a few years ago, can't remember the name, but it was set in the future and you controlled a hovering fortress where you built tanks, men and aircraft, and you could command them in 3d like any other 3d rpg, but you could also take control of any of the vehicles? It wasn't Incoming, it was an apocalyptic world.

[Foxtrot]

Wasn't there a game a few years ago, can't remember the name, but it was set in the future and you controlled a hovering fortress where you built tanks, men and aircraft, and you could command them in 3d like any other 3d rpg, but you could also take control of any of the vehicles? It wasn't Incoming, it was an apocalyptic world.
Urban Warfare or Urban Combat was like that.

[Samon]

Ha! If only they could see what I can see right now....

Pi Muh Rho's lost it. Either that or he's taking the piss. Or the answers really obvious. Or he think's he is some sort of god.

Reminds me of Bob page from Deus ex.... :eek:

[Pi Mu Rho]

I couldn't really drop many more hints than I already have.

[Jimmeh]

Pretty much, Pi is working on some project which he can't talk about as it's gotta be kept under wraps, and now this threads come up which is basically describing the game Pi is working on?

Something like that anyway :P

[Pi Mu Rho]

................ :)

[The Monkey]

I'm not working on a mod. I work for a commercial game developer...

.....yes? which?

[Pi Mu Rho]

I'm not at liberty to say. I've seen it happen too many times that a developer says something on a forum, and it gets treated as the official line of their employer (even to the extent that offhand remarks have been posted as news)
So, hints about my current project aside, I keep that side of things seperate.

[Samon]

The hints didn't hit me hard enough :P

Well now, you've got me interested. Your not by any chance wearing a blue suit with black, slicked hair and carry a grey briefcase?

[Farrowlesparrow]

That game concept is one I've always loved.

Remember Machines? Now that was a fun game :D I really wish it could have been taken further with other games. It would have been so fun if starcraft had had that ability(especially thinking about the user made maps which have come out)...Ah well, theres always Pi I suppose :P

[Samon]

Machines? Crikey, somone was in a creative mood :P

[kirovman]

I'm not at liberty to say. I've seen it happen too many times that a developer says something on a forum, and it gets treated as the official line of their employer (even to the extent that offhand remarks have been posted as news)
So, hints about my current project aside, I keep that side of things seperate.

Electronic Arts...it's Red Alert 3 renegade you're making, isn't it? :P

Or total annihilation 2.

[Pi Mu Rho]

No, it's definitely not EA. I won't ever, ever have anything to do with them. Ever.

[Samon]

No, it's definitely not EA. I won't ever, ever have anything to do with them. Ever.

Word.

I mean who would want to join a meglomaniac company intent on little more than churning out every last penny from the consumer. The only thing they care about from the consumer, or the fans, is thier money.

The games crap? Who cares, we know people are going to buy it. Hey, add 2005 to that would ya?

Erm, sorry, this isn't meant to be a rip EA thread :P.

[StardogChampion]

No, it's definitely not EA. I won't ever, ever have anything to do with them. Ever.
What are you, a mapper for the game?

[Demolition man]

www.dead6.net

[dart321]

He works for DICE! Teh game is Battlefield 2! (Or you work for Truma Studios?) Am I close?

[CrazyHarij]

DICE is in sweden, isn't it?

[dart321]

I don't know. Why? Is Pi from Sweden?

[Pi Mu Rho]

It's not Dead 6, it's not DICE.

It's something that hasn't been publicly announced yet, but it is in development.

[Tr0n]

It's not Dead 6, it's not DICE.

It's something that hasn't been publicly announced yet, but it is in development.What timeframe would we expect this announcement to be in?A couple years?

[Shakermaker]

Wan't there a Russian studio making an rts-game with fps-elements? I thought it was Wartime Command (http://www.codemasters.co.uk/wartimecommand/), although when reading the FAQ they write nothing about being able to control your character in first person.

For the record: I'd buy an rts with fps-control.

[Pi Mu Rho]

What timeframe would we expect this announcement to be in?A couple years?

That's dependent on our beloved publisher. It won't be at E3 time, so probably later this year.

[Tr0n]

That's dependent on our beloved publisher. It won't be at E3 time, so probably later this year.Ok for my next question which I hope isn't gonna go to far in making you give more hints than what you already have given (which is what I'm trying not to do) but...

Graphics and physics wise is this game you're working on up to par with hl2/doom3's if not better?

[Pi Mu Rho]

Better.

[Tr0n]

Better.Awsome...can't wait for it!

FPS/RTS style game with graphics/physics better than hl2's....Kinda makes me giddy like a school girl.

[ríomhaire]

I have accedentaly uncovered a game secretly in development! :D

[Demolition man]

Can you tell who is making it?
Which engine?
And what kind off universe? (kinda like C&C? ;))

[Seppo]

Pi Mu Rho is Gabe Newell
And the secret project is Commander Keen FPS

No wait, then he should be John Carmack...oh well

[Samon]

Who'd want to be John Carmack and have the most boring job in the world :|

[DreamWraith]

www.dead6.net :P

[kirovman]

So it's a developer that is not common knowledge or released a game before?

I know! It's evil genius FPS ;)

[dart321]

You will tell us near the release of the game right Pi? That would be the coolest thing to play through a commercial game and actually know one of the developers. Or maybe not, if the game suck but anyway...

[Tr0n]

You will tell us near the release of the game right Pi? That would be the coolest thing to play through a commercial game and actually know one of the developers. Or maybe not, if the game suck but anyway......and give us a discount on the game! :D

[PvtRyan]

I like playing this game of Hints :P

Pi, licensed engine, or inhouse engine?

[Pi Mu Rho]

Licensed engine.
C&C-esque universe (i.e. slightly futuristic, but not very)
New company, old developers (some ex-Westwood, some ex-EA, some from other places)

[Tr0n]

Licensed engine.
C&C-esque universe (i.e. slightly futuristic, but not very)
New company, old developers (some ex-Westwood, some ex-EA, some from other places)Oh C&C like eh...my turn to ask questions!

C&C esque?Does that mean the game is close the C&C timeline/storyline?Also if it is how far futuristic is it?

Also mmmmmm...will we hl2.netters get a discount on the game?!?! :D

[Pi Mu Rho]

It has nothing to do with the C&C timeline/storyline. The only similiarity is the setting - near future, on Earth. (mostly)

No, you won't get a discount :)

[Tr0n]

It has nothing to do with the C&C timeline/storyline. The only similiarity is the setting - near future, on Earth. (mostly)

No, you won't get a discount :)Son of a bitch.... :(

Well at least by these hints I know it's gonna be badass...so I'll gladly pay full price.

What else kind info can you give us about this company and game....I know you already told a lot (probally a lot more than you should have), but we are curious because this game sounds really badass.

[Samon]

No, you won't get a discount :)

Pfffffft.

[PvtRyan]

Console, PC or next-gen console?

Singleplayer aimed or primarily multiplayer?

This is fun! :D

[Psychanalysis05%]

Unless somebody already mentioned it and I missed it, Hostile Waters was a game in the same vein.

[Bad^Hat]

Pi's gonna be in deep sh*t if he keeps going the way he's going :P

[dart321]

Nonesense, he's not revealing anything that his company's marketing department will in the next couple of months.

[Asuka]

ha.
haha.
AHAHAHAHA

Ahem. Sorry.

Yes, it would be fantastic. I wonder if anyone is working on a game just like that, right now........

A game like this already came out. Its called Savage: The Battle for Newerth.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/savage/index.html

[Mr_Fofo]

renegade multi player should of been like it was, except for each team one random player gets an overhead c and c style control view, and he could control the havester, buy veichels, give players on foot suggestions, ect.

[Samon]

Originally posted by Phi Mu Rho
Do you expect me to talk?

No Mr PMR i expect you to die!

Ahem. Yes, well, you were saying?

[Pi Mu Rho]

I've said too much already :)

[ríomhaire]

I just found out what the game is. Oh no it's Pi Mu Rho's hit squad..........

[Samon]

I've said too much already :)

You do realize, that there's a deadly red laser rapidly making its way upward between your legs, right?? :eek:

You might want to spill more info on the project, PMR, for your own saftey and health.

:p