Topic, BL Game Ideas

  Gecko, my next game, which I've been at work on long before your post, is something similar to what you've described. And I know people will ask this, so let me just shut this down before it happens: no testers right now.

I'm planning out it's programming language on paper for now, making sure it's easy to understand. It will also have some entirely new features I've never seen implemented in other languages. Should be pretty neat!

  Ohh! I read about that in the Nintendo Magazine. It sounds awesome! The problem is, just typing 'ostrich', doesn't give you much flexebility.... You need a code to make ostrich move left by one pixel if the left arrow key is pressed. High-level scripting languages can allow some flexibility but still be very simple - and like I said, there could be a Scratch-like interface to make it even more simple.

I'd love a Blockoban variant! Are you planning on making an iPhone version, or is it too early to decide yet? Btw, the OpenPandora forums announced that Adobe will be adding Flash support for ARM systems... This means I will eventually be able to access BL with a tiny computer the size of a DS!!! I wonder what playing Hog Pop is like with a stylus? :D

  You know what Geckojsc... That idea can actually be made a bit more simple (I think xD)

Just look at this: Scribblenauts

  Indeed, there are many game concepts that we haven't explored... maybe... no, what I'm thinking is too ambitious.

  Wow, more blocks :) I have several ideas for puzzle games but it's quite difficult to find one that players can easily create levels for.

  Yes, that game's cool. That would be awesome. And a game like Incredibots would be cool.

  Why don't we try towards something like this?

  Hey gecko, this is the ultimate BL game, where each level is an entire game :) :) :). I think Captain had something similar in mind.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm not as ambitious as making each level a whole new game. But I've always been looking around this idea. Actually what I had in mind first is a kind of AI scripting langauge for a boss fight game. You design a boss, its weapons etc... and you design also its AI with a custom scripting language.

But.. this would make the level design accessible only to developers, not for the average joe.


By the way, I think that my next BL project will be a variant on BLockoban. The game I will be inspired from Vexed ( http://oos.moxiecode.com/examples/vexed/index.html ). And I will add more options to enlish the number of possible levels.

  WTH!? Nitpicker... Does it really matter?

Anyway, I just had an idea! Technically not a BL game, but a BL game engine! It's an easy-to-use flash-based scripting language that allows BL members to create their own games. The user would just have to add the following text to the level editor:
addObject(spaceship, Bob)
and the space ship movie clip would be added to the game and given the name Bob. Then:
if(keyPress=space){
(moveObject(Bob, 15, 40)
}
and Bob would be placed at x=15 and y=40. Get the idea?

The engine would be as simple as possible, but still allow for a wide amount of creativity. All the types of objects (man, spaceship, bullet, tree) would be created by the game author in Flash, so you wouldn't need to worry about the graphics or anything. You would use if statements and many of the features of structured programming to make it do what you want. The user would be able to implement things gravity, and friction through the use of variables.

The basic aim would be to make game creation as flexible yet as simple as possible. If the developer was good, they could give it a Scratch-like interface to make it more user friendly, or a frontend mode for people who couldn't be bothered to learn all that complex script stuff. What do you guys think?

  Jim674, it's jp, not JP. :)

  JP its Nitrome not Notrome :)

  Yes that's fun and it's a kind of game I would love to make for BL/iPhone. But maybe without the charm of Notrome games...

  That's fun!

  This game is awesome!

  A roguelike on BL would be really cool! The dungeons could be user-created instead of randomly generated, and it could make heavy use of the user data. Hopefully I'll make it one day!

  I want Capsules on BL!
Please? :P

  Maybe the game "Red remover"? Its on pepere too.

  Yes we definitley need a new puzzle game.

  I want a puzzle game...Blockoban is boring

  ...
Maybe not everything on 3d... That would be boring...

Ink Ball! :D

  @Brolling: Ok

I got another game idea:

Jump Gear 3:
EVERYTHING on 3D, like the allyally level, 3-D Revolution (Jump Gear 2)
Lines on 3D, and everything on 3D...

  I have an idea a bunch of little mindless things are let loose in the level and you must manipulate objects to get them to the end safely

and about the golf gundu talked about. On an old gameboy color game wario world 2 i think. There was a golf that would be a really good model for that. Even though i think the ideas been shot down.
Just sayin.

  Quoting niimporta from BL Game Ideas

Niimporta,

There are already a game like this... Marc maked the game, its called Brick Mania.

  I've got an idea for a BL game:

Mouse Escape (the screem in the game is from above):

The goal of the game is to catch all pieces of cheese in each level. You are a mouse in this game and there are also (little) snakes who will kill you. If you die you go to the beginning or to the previous cheskpoint (like in Rolling Turtle). Each level takes place in the house (in the livingroom, kitchen garden,...); on tables, chairs and the ground; with many objects and items.

Is this a good idea JP,...?

  this isnt as much an idea, but more of a sugestion for jg2. you could possibly save "ghost races" that could then be played back later. i dont know how hard this would be to create. and is there any free game developing program? i would want to learn some code.

  I wish a pro game designer wil come here...
Like jiggmin!!!

  @Ratman, yes of course it's a good idea, but as gecko just told, it requires a lot of time and money.

  Ratman, online multiplayer games are incredibly hard to make, and there is often a lot of money involved, what with all the servers and stuff (I suppose you could use something like SmartFox server or Nonoba, but this is far from perfect) it is very hard to test for bugs when you need to be playing against a real person, and there are tons of other problems and difficulties that I can't be bothered to mention...

I'm pretty hopeful that one day an online multiplayer game will come on BL, but it won't be for a very long time...

  There is a 'golf' setting for score(convieniant name for a golf game)

  ummm is that a good idea