Opportunity to work on a highly unconventional game
I have spent my career designing unconventional games, and now I've decided to revive a game I built 25 years ago -- only this time, it can be vastly better because of the improvements in technology. I'm looking for a few people to accompany me on a process that is as much discovery as development.
The game is called Siboot; you can Google it to find out about the original game. The basic concept is simple: talk to others in an attempt to cajole them into giving you information that's crucial to victory. The "talk" is done with a kind of ESP that uses symbols that are assembled into sentences. The key to the game is the rich, complex language that permits deals, threats, promises, even lying -- along with accusations.
This will a browser-based game; I'll handle all the game logic but I need some people to help with artwork and animation. One of the animation tasks involves putting emotional expressions on the faces of alien beings. We're not talking about the low-energy photo-realistic stuff we see in most games -- I want to push the intensity of the emotional expression, and I intend to abandon photo-realism to make that happen.
Even wilder is the animation for "dream combat". Since this combat takes place in a "dream world", we have plenty of room for creative leaps.
The design essays for the evolving design can be found here
The call for participants is here
Chris Crawford
The game is called Siboot; you can Google it to find out about the original game. The basic concept is simple: talk to others in an attempt to cajole them into giving you information that's crucial to victory. The "talk" is done with a kind of ESP that uses symbols that are assembled into sentences. The key to the game is the rich, complex language that permits deals, threats, promises, even lying -- along with accusations.
This will a browser-based game; I'll handle all the game logic but I need some people to help with artwork and animation. One of the animation tasks involves putting emotional expressions on the faces of alien beings. We're not talking about the low-energy photo-realistic stuff we see in most games -- I want to push the intensity of the emotional expression, and I intend to abandon photo-realism to make that happen.
Even wilder is the animation for "dream combat". Since this combat takes place in a "dream world", we have plenty of room for creative leaps.
The design essays for the evolving design can be found here
The call for participants is here
Chris Crawford