OCUK programming project?

I do think the whole 3D game will be very hard, well not so hard if the correct engine and libraries are used, but take a very long time to develop.
I'm up for a 3D game, but I do feel we need to start smaller and to get to grips with what this will entail exactly. Like has been suggested a 2D top down, or isometric game would be good a start. Something like the old school Myth Of Soma or Legend of Mir?
 
I do think the whole 3D game will be very hard, well not so hard if the correct engine and libraries are used, but take a very long time to develop.
I'm up for a 3D game, but I do feel we need to start smaller and to get to grips with what this will entail exactly. Like has been suggested a 2D top down, or isometric game would be good a start. Something like the old school Myth Of Soma or Legend of Mir?

Sounds good to me. And with web based trading / player ranking etc :)
 
Sounds good to me. And with web based trading / player ranking etc :)

So would this be a single player game that updates a central database with your character info and items you wish to trade?
Or a game where everyones is together? e.g. MMO?
I think the single player one to start with then build on it to an MMO level?
 
So would this be a single player game that updates a central database with your character info and items you wish to trade?
Or a game where everyones is together? e.g. MMO?
I think the single player one to start with then build on it to an MMO level?

Yea thats what I was thinking. Building a world for many players at a time and the communication between clients and the server/servers etc is very challenging. Once we get the world working for 1 player we can think about expanding it to multiplayer.
 
Yea thats what I was thinking. Building a world for many players at a time and the communication between clients and the server/servers etc is very challenging. Once we get the world working for 1 player we can think about expanding it to multiplayer.

Sounds like a plan to me!
I've been reading up on using ogre3D for doing games with and it seems actually quite simple, hardest is doing the models, textures and animations.
Theres also physics plugins and things for it, and a GUI manager for it, so you can draw a GUI on the screen.
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Ogre_Tutorials
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=782789
Doing 2D only will require a lot less effort in the modeling department than 3D, but the good thing is the code behind it in theory could be reused into a 3D version, so I would suggest using a 3D engine and simply using it to draw 2D (I'd prefer isometric to top down), then converting all the models from 2d ones to 3d and implementing camera functions etc. or it could even be technically 3d but fixed camera position, e.g. isometric :)
 
Agreed with the people saying we should do something simple, we need something that we can complete quickly so that people can see something tangible.

Half the people that say they're interested will end up dropping out reasonably quickly and if the project is far too complicated you will end up with one or two really committed people struggling to get stuff on on their own.

I vote for using a managed language either Java or .NET and build a really simple game that we can then add bits on to as and when we get the opportunity.
As I said earlier something like bomberman could be good - it's a simple concept, but is readily extendable with different things.
We could just do human players to start with and then add some simple AI at a later state.

If this first project is a success we can go on to bigger and better things and have a more experienced team to do it.
 
We just need a forum with different sections with smaller groups to discuss each thing
IRC channel stuff isnt viewable after as far as I know.
 
I think we need both, however right now it would be really benificial to have an IRC channel to discuss things.
 
I'd be interested in joining in with this, if its not too late. I have knowledge of Vb.net, C++, some python and lisp. I'm also learning how to do 3d modelling to use in some 2d games I'm making.
 
We just need a forum with different sections with smaller groups to discuss each thing
IRC channel stuff isnt viewable after as far as I know.

but its not as simple/easy as an irc/other form of big chat. you need an informal quick fire response chat setting in order to get things moving.
 
Setup a mail-list. That way people can reply when they can, and everyone is kept up to date. The one thing you absolutely cannot depend upon in open-source projects is time scales and 'meetings' (IRC or other). Contributors will only contribute when they can, and you absolutely cannot expect even the faintest idea of a deadline. :)

The biggest tip I can give to anyone new to Open Source projects is to forget any concept of time scales. They just simply do not exist, because they can't.
 
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Hmm what about a shmup it fits a lot of the ideas so far and everyone likes a good shmup

I quite like this idea actually, because a shmup would be quite easy to modularise - we could have different people write game logic for different enemies and powerups and such so the work load could be distributed quite nicely. We could even have overclocking themes in it, too. We wouldn't have the overhead of working in 3D, either, which I know is a big concern about the project. Also shmups are awesome.

and the last boss has to be gay president lincoln

Edit: Dwelling upon it more I'm liking the idea more and more. We should totally do a shoot 'em up.
 
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I quite like this idea actually, because a shmup would be quite easy to modularise - we could have different people write game logic for different enemies and powerups and such so the work load could be distributed quite nicely. We could even have overclocking themes in it, too. We wouldn't have the overhead of working in 3D, either, which I know is a big concern about the project. Also shmups are awesome.

and the last boss has to be gay president lincoln

Edit: Dwelling upon it more I'm liking the idea more and more. We should totally do a shoot 'em up.

something only a poll can decide :)

and we'll get a poll once we decide on a base of communications - I see 2 people so far setting up a site and I have been getting annoyed at how incompetant some hosting companies are (cant even access the web space login page let alone accessing the actual space).

imo we would better benefit the joomla site but I dont like the fact it has a seperate forum :p it does give a feeling of segregation :p
 
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