Very cool. I agree that it deserves custom gameplay/levels/monsters though.


ideas for gameplay:

Beacons you could light up, or drop, that freezes them within a certain area whether they could see you or not.

In a similar vein, 'safe rooms'. I love games that really have a contrast between safe and comfortable areas, and dangerous, unknown places.

To increase the eerieness/scare factor, monsters that do huge damage if they get to actually touch you.

(Limited ammo) weapons that actually can hurt the statues.

More weapons with ricochet attacks so you can damage the monsters with skillful shooting (which of course is much harder under pressure).

Monsters that move in interesting ways - this is a rather undeveloped thought, but I was imagining chess pieces, like guys that can only move in one direction, or only jump forward a set amount. Then if you combined them with environments with appropriate obstacles/layouts you've got the basis of some puzzles.

I've been tempted to make a flash game for a while, I'm actually tempted to expand this idea and give it a go... 

The mod would be even better if there was a short freeze period, like 0.3s in which the monster slows down to a halt and vice versa. Maybe combined with a sound effect and blending into the grey skin (sometimes tells me things like these are why DP is so popular, heh). 

Also starbuck's ideas are delicious except for the rotten Flash bit. Maybe Pygame would be an option? 

I definitely agree on the slower freezing. Don't want to derail with game platform discussion, but I can't see any projects that looked very pro when I checked out Pygame, are they out there somewhere?

My criteria for picking a platform are pretty standard - easy to develop with, produces nice result, easy for people to try.

Contenders are Flash (scores pretty high in all), Unity (extremely easy to use, but requires a plugin that'll shrink the audience) or to make an iPhone app (looking for an excuse to buy a macbook pro,really :)) 

It's funny me and a collegue were talking about something a bit similar a few days back, started from talking about Left 4 Dead and Alan Wake.
The idea was zombies, that move really slowly when you can see them, but really fast when you can't (this can be not only due to player field of view, but also pitch dark areas etc).

We were talking about is as a multiplayer mode though, think L4D versus like this, with the survivors having no weapons (maybe only flash lights, with limited battery/recharge rate), and the zombies being other players, trying to get as close to the survivors as possible to grab them... Not so sure it would work out as is, but could be interesting. 

smw 

 

Mario Galaxy 2 is about to be released.... 

Got mine preordered from Amazon, then gonna use the $20 preorder promo code to buy Bioshock 2 Collectors Edition.

Sweet. 

So any of you folks use Twitter? 

No one uses Twitter.

It is a dead medium. 

But it is brain dead 

I was really pretty late to the whole social media thing, but now having watched Facebook "evolve" over time, it feels so bloated and awkward, that the simplicity of Twitter (which I originally thought of as way too limited) actually starts looking very very good. 

"No one uses Twitter."

Except for the millions of tweets sent every day, yes, no one uses it. 

I personally dont know anyone who uses Twitter, but I did read some of the QuakeLIVE tweets a while ago.

But just because its not a major part of my tiny existence does not mean anything really! I mean who the hell am I? 

 

That a collection of bitter misanthropes who hang out on a message board in support of a 12 year old game don't know anyone who uses Twitter is not particularly surprising news. *eyeroll*

heh. 

Nah, I'm a hippy!

By the way Quake is 14 years old next month. 

just stop it. stop it now. 

Cool will be a good date to release a map!

Will try to finish mine in this day... 

I like ice cubes. What's Facebook again?? 

has a point though.

But spirit wins. 

@Willem RT @Spy: @madfox Check Your #mail
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spirit check your mail

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:rofl: 

It's like knocking on your neighbors door to tell them that you're calling them on the phone.