Insid
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With the advents put forward with Half Life 2 a new sort of video game could be constructed, and in my opinion, if such a game were made it would become quite popular. I just need to find out how to sell the idea to someone who will listen and has the power to make it happen. This isnt some custom fitted game just for me, this is a large story I have been working on for years, that I someday wanted to make into a movie but now realize could be made into a game like none other. I talked about my ideas on it in the general editing thread but now I want to actualize them. Hear me out...
The game has no real narrative of itself, except what is broadcast on television. See, the game would recreate a large bustling city (with different sections) in which you live. The city would have strict emergent properties. (an emergent property is something that comes out of a group behavior and could not be present with just any one member. such as a flock of birds or a swarm of bees) Such emergent properties would govern an actual working system in this city, such as a law system, an active and actual media system, taxi service, mail service, etc. As well as the people who live in the city, they would be subject to group mentality based on individual AI encounters with the player or antagonist NPCs. (NPC's play a large role in this, with HL2's facial system NPC's can act out scripted movie like sequences such as press confrences and media events as well as public demonstrations and even personal stories with meaning and conviction)
Because, at the point when the player gets acustomed to the city, its workings and such and how actions play into consequences, all hell breaks loose. During perhaps the second week living the in city (game time) when the player is out doing things (too much to mention now) large space crafts enter orbit, you will see them but at a distance, not like in ID4. The media system will be taken over and a general message will go out to the people. It would be a greeting message from an alien race. They would extend their offer of peace and wish to meet for an exchange of technology as they are a nomadic group. Relinquishing control the new telecast would come back on (there would be varios televisions everywhere, and at someplace in the city a news center would be located, complete with reporters, anchors, camera men and helicopter.) the anchor would talk about the space ships for a bit with various camera coverage, the space ships themselves would lower further into the atmosphere. After a short while, with general news coverage, a press conference with the president is set up. He adresses the people and says he wants to extend his hand in freindship towards the aliens. One of the ships lands, leaving two others higher up and one final one, larger then the others, still in orbit. This would be clear to see in the sky, and if the player attends the press conference they would see the aliens and the people meet peacefully. But then everyone looks up to the sky, and a small blip of light crosses from the horizon and imacts one of the two ships in the air, in a brilliant explosion the main remaineder falls to earth taking out several large buildings in the process.
The aliens quickly retreat to their ship and it takes off, shooting at the people and buildings as it goes. Military and police, already on the scene, fire at the ship and try to calm the people. Suddenly the other ships, the one in the air and the one high up in orbit start decending, the news cast on tv further explains the story that people arent quite sure who fired the nuclear missle.
The people go nuts, hordes and hordes or people looting and screaming and fighting the police. The military further advances, and up in the sky the two space ships are met by the larger one, nearly ten times their size. The three ships now begin firing at any aproaching aircraft, sending planes and helicopters falling into the busy metropolis. Through all this the player is either on foot and running past televisions in store fronts or on fronts of buildings, if they are driving they can listen to the radio news. At this point the game is survival. I wont go too much further other then to say that this escalates much further. You much survive in this city as the aliens destroy it and fight with the military, while the people in hordes and ganges loot and fight through the city against the police, fires break out, buildings fall down and then suddenly the space ships emit a loud humming noise and cause a huge earthquake. The ground breaks up and more buildings fall. At this point water starts slowly flooding the city, and at the same time dozens of military helicopters fly into the city and fire at the ships. The larger one realeases a swarm of smaller alien fighter type jets which dog fight with the missile and gun equipped copters, then fighter jets fly in to help fight the battle. You survive below, hopefully aquireing guns and vehicles. ( the game relies on the player being very self sufficiant. In the games reality the player doesnt play any sort of main role until near the end. Until that part you are subject to the world of the game and must survive to fufill your destiny so to speak) The large ship will eventually land and the hundreds of people and police in the city will meet hundreds of aliens in a huge melee and gun combat war. (There will still be extensive dry areas since parts of the city would be above the flood line still)
The story continues and so much more happens, eventually you bring down the large space ship which crashes into the water causing a huge wave to destroy even more of the city. So much water that boats will be availible.
I just need to know how to get this idea, and its true look and workings which really cant come through on an internet message board, to the right kind of people. There is much more here, I guess I should write it all down in a proposal, I wonder if there is a specific format for such things. Probably, anyways hope i can get some help.
The game has no real narrative of itself, except what is broadcast on television. See, the game would recreate a large bustling city (with different sections) in which you live. The city would have strict emergent properties. (an emergent property is something that comes out of a group behavior and could not be present with just any one member. such as a flock of birds or a swarm of bees) Such emergent properties would govern an actual working system in this city, such as a law system, an active and actual media system, taxi service, mail service, etc. As well as the people who live in the city, they would be subject to group mentality based on individual AI encounters with the player or antagonist NPCs. (NPC's play a large role in this, with HL2's facial system NPC's can act out scripted movie like sequences such as press confrences and media events as well as public demonstrations and even personal stories with meaning and conviction)
Because, at the point when the player gets acustomed to the city, its workings and such and how actions play into consequences, all hell breaks loose. During perhaps the second week living the in city (game time) when the player is out doing things (too much to mention now) large space crafts enter orbit, you will see them but at a distance, not like in ID4. The media system will be taken over and a general message will go out to the people. It would be a greeting message from an alien race. They would extend their offer of peace and wish to meet for an exchange of technology as they are a nomadic group. Relinquishing control the new telecast would come back on (there would be varios televisions everywhere, and at someplace in the city a news center would be located, complete with reporters, anchors, camera men and helicopter.) the anchor would talk about the space ships for a bit with various camera coverage, the space ships themselves would lower further into the atmosphere. After a short while, with general news coverage, a press conference with the president is set up. He adresses the people and says he wants to extend his hand in freindship towards the aliens. One of the ships lands, leaving two others higher up and one final one, larger then the others, still in orbit. This would be clear to see in the sky, and if the player attends the press conference they would see the aliens and the people meet peacefully. But then everyone looks up to the sky, and a small blip of light crosses from the horizon and imacts one of the two ships in the air, in a brilliant explosion the main remaineder falls to earth taking out several large buildings in the process.
The aliens quickly retreat to their ship and it takes off, shooting at the people and buildings as it goes. Military and police, already on the scene, fire at the ship and try to calm the people. Suddenly the other ships, the one in the air and the one high up in orbit start decending, the news cast on tv further explains the story that people arent quite sure who fired the nuclear missle.
The people go nuts, hordes and hordes or people looting and screaming and fighting the police. The military further advances, and up in the sky the two space ships are met by the larger one, nearly ten times their size. The three ships now begin firing at any aproaching aircraft, sending planes and helicopters falling into the busy metropolis. Through all this the player is either on foot and running past televisions in store fronts or on fronts of buildings, if they are driving they can listen to the radio news. At this point the game is survival. I wont go too much further other then to say that this escalates much further. You much survive in this city as the aliens destroy it and fight with the military, while the people in hordes and ganges loot and fight through the city against the police, fires break out, buildings fall down and then suddenly the space ships emit a loud humming noise and cause a huge earthquake. The ground breaks up and more buildings fall. At this point water starts slowly flooding the city, and at the same time dozens of military helicopters fly into the city and fire at the ships. The larger one realeases a swarm of smaller alien fighter type jets which dog fight with the missile and gun equipped copters, then fighter jets fly in to help fight the battle. You survive below, hopefully aquireing guns and vehicles. ( the game relies on the player being very self sufficiant. In the games reality the player doesnt play any sort of main role until near the end. Until that part you are subject to the world of the game and must survive to fufill your destiny so to speak) The large ship will eventually land and the hundreds of people and police in the city will meet hundreds of aliens in a huge melee and gun combat war. (There will still be extensive dry areas since parts of the city would be above the flood line still)
The story continues and so much more happens, eventually you bring down the large space ship which crashes into the water causing a huge wave to destroy even more of the city. So much water that boats will be availible.
I just need to know how to get this idea, and its true look and workings which really cant come through on an internet message board, to the right kind of people. There is much more here, I guess I should write it all down in a proposal, I wonder if there is a specific format for such things. Probably, anyways hope i can get some help.
