Hello community! (Bitte das Englisch entschuldigen. Aufgrund der Internationalität wurde dieses Schreiben vorrausplanend nicht auf deutsch erstellt.)
It’s time to go public and share some information about our ongoing project. Back in July me and Nicolas started the whole thing. After some wild discussions about settings, gameplay mechanics and project management, we finally got to the point where we wanted to be. We do have a plan now and we want YOU to take part in it!
This is your chance to be a part of the whole game developing process we are facing. Right now, we are strictly in concept/planning phase and this is where you’ll want to join, because in our team philosophy ‘equal opportunities for everyone’ is key.
We will use the Free CryEngine 3 SDK which was released recently. We have developed a document and a basic system in which every single idea, no matter how small, will go in form of a voting-process. We also use a free web-based project management software but we are considering to move to a client solution like microsoft project. Based on this system we will build up the game design document, which we already began. We created a few key features and facts which shall be the base of further development. Important for you to know is, that we do have a concrete plan of what we want to do, but it‘s completely open for suggestions.
I will go into detail soon but right now i want to tell you something about ourselves.
I, Christian, am a 22 year old student for „business informatics“ in Nuremberg, Germany. I’m in 2nd semester so i do not consider me a pro on the topic, but I do know one or two things, which will help to build a solid fundament for our team and the project. Due the time of planning this whole project my skills lead me into the role of the games project manager and game designer.
I, Nicolas, am a 29 year old office administrator who is also working on a local theatre as director, actor, singer and musical director in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. I consider myself the lead story writer. Based on my knowledge I want to push the acting-performance of our characters a little bit more forward. So, my responsibilities let me cast an eye at music, audio design, general acting and voice-acting.
As you might have guessed, one of our key features is a strong and intensive visual, cineastic gameplay experience. We want to rethink the genre ‚Adventure‘ in our own unique way. So unlike other games we also want to create a fun and intuitive gameplay which focuses on the total immersion in the created world. We don’t seek to build a MMORPG with tons of sidequests and little things to put in your inventory. Only the few necessary things you would use and interact with in real life should be important.
The perfect frame for such an ambitious scheme will be a (mainly) 3rd person action adventure. As there should be everything plausible (regarding interface , hud , etc.) we think the perfect setting will be in the near future. We don’t want aliens and other supernatural things. In our vision it will be just ‘regular living’ in a futuristic world with a logical past and a fresh and mostly clean look. Of course, we discussed the possibility of letting the game happen in a dark and rainy cyberpunk world. But hey, this was the scenario of so many other games – Let us do something new. But as always, it’s open for discussion.
Obviously we need help. This is where YOU come in. We need almost everything from C++ programmers over lua scripters and flash guys to 3D modelers and animators. We really don’t want to give you the impression of exploiting someone’s work and doing nothing ourselves. It might sound that way, but if you have read our introduction, you’ll understand that we are giving you the opportunity to build a team with us from scratch, and even commercialize our projects in the future. We are dead serious and full of enthusiasm and we hope we can attract some people to share that experience with us.
For further information i’ll give you my email. Of course you can PN me as well.
Looking forward to hear from you!
Regards.
Christian Herrmann and
Nicolas C. Ducci
Email: christian.herrmann.1988(at)gmail(dot)com
UPDATE1
Allright guys,
We do get a lot of offers and many of them are good. Pretty good. We discuss things and so far we are proud to say that we can welcome our first 2 new member into our core team!
One of them is called Alex_TNT a.k.a Alex Barbulescu and he will be one of our Asset Modeler and Modeler in general. He also considers going into level design.
Feel free to check them out! We think they are very great assets to our team.
UPDATE2 2011-09-16
As promised we give you a new update in our developement today. It contains a few new member, a story summary and our first concept arts that we want to share with our community!
Let's start with our new teammates:
First of all, there is Roshan Lohani. He is one of our new 3D Artists. Since he already got experience in serious game developement, he will be a very helpful asset to our team.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plot summary: (not set in stone) "In the future, the star which once made us all alive will soon put us to death. Because of the increasingly heat, mankind had to make the most difficult decision in the history of man - to leave the planet earth. Now, hundred years later, the menace still exists and is growing slowly. 6 cities were built, named after the paradise EDEN, at a capacity of 2 billion people. After building up a place to live, this new home had to become a spaceship. Since the day it was founded many people worked hard below ground to build these giant ships. 20 years ago Alex Milton was judged as a kid by ‘The human court’ for attempted murder. Bannished like an adult from EDEN IV, he surprisingly survived in ‘the wastelands’ and is ready for the revival of his activities. If he only knew what happened that day 20 years ago… "
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We promise you, we will update everything as soon as it is worth mentioning. Step by step we will erase all the doubts and hopefully attract some more people.
We're searching for talented people -CE3
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