This is a question I’ve asked before - But I feel the need to ask again. Recently, I’ve had a major pause in motivation when it comes to developing during this pandemic, however I’m starting to get interested again so here we go:
I need help in picking a project to dedicate myself towards, however, I want it to be something the community would be interested in.
Untitled Space Game:
In this game, Players will be able to pilot their own space ship across an ever growing universe, this game will feature a story-arc focused around events taking place within the Universe. It will also feature Role Play aspects, upgrades & unique side quests.
Untitled Fantasy Game
The Player will traverse a large, fantasy, realm. Similar to my other concept, this will be story based with the possibility to explore further, unlock different realms and role play.
I don’t have a big interest for space or fantasy but I tend to like space more. I voted space but you shouldn’t feel limited to just one.
Here are some of ideas you could have for each one:
Space
Aliens are very well known and often connected to space related things, you could have a alien type boss battle or have little minions trying to kill you or stop you.
You could have a few missions where you have to travel to a certain universe/planet and get some type of special gem and you get a reward for that.
Following up on the previous idea, you can award players with in game currency(maybe asteroids) and with enough money/asteroids, you can buy a better, faster spaceship, you could offer upgrades to the spaceship if people don’t want to buy a new one, like a brand new weapons system, or you could also use the money to buy some cool gear.
Fantasy
This is actually gives you more freedom as to what to do with your game since there are many ideas as to what fantasy is.
You could have different levels in game. For example, you could have a evil castle level where you have to fight a bad witch/wizard which is the boss battle. Another example would be a dragon stage and when they defeat the dragon, they can keep the dragon as a pet!
There’s another way to go about with this fantasy game and that is to have a storyline.
It could be something like this:
You’re an ordinary teenager but one day, you find a magical/mysterious portal and you get sucked in and you black out. When you awake, you find yourself in a weird land and after some exploration, you try your best to leave but a evil dragon(you can make this whatever you want) stops your path because he controls all the people in that land. Just when your chances seem low, a girl/boy that is somehow not affected comes and helps you on your path to escape. You can just make it a happy ending where you manage to escape, or you could spice things up! You could have a plot twist where it turns out that the girl/boy is not unaffected but rather being controlled by the evil dragon. The dragon wanted to use the girl/boy to bring you to him, so he can drink your blood. You could either make it such that you manage to defeat the dragon and he can no longer control the people or you could have your own ending.
Do note that you can use all these ideas for one another. It doesn’t only have to be for one of the ideas.