Maybe I'm late to this, but what about a "Polycount Fortress" for some form of a 3D chatroom? I know there's Minecraft, but I'm sure it would be fun to do something all our own. We could build our own little 3D community in 3D space!
my favourite PC collab was the polycount town where you had interchangable plots.. maybe it'd be cool to do one of those pixel art towers ( http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse/ ) except in 3d.. just provide the floor/ceiling template and let people go nuts, then compile em for an animation
I really don't think doing a "Polycount Office/Tower" would be all too difficult. The main structure of the building would be modular (hallways, floors, ceilings) which would allow easy expansion. Each participant would be given a pre-built mesh of a room or office and a set of specs (tri-count, texture limit). They are…
Could always take some existing game's released source code and make a from-scratch pak for it!!! omg. The opportunities: Hexen Quake2 (could become a new scifi shit shooter more spacemariney than ever, with heavy blue/gray/purple emphasis and heavy aliens/starcraft influence) Quake3 (*COUGH*openarena*COUGH* the only time…