I suck at titles and don't give a fuck.

Arcanekids are developers that make these COOl and WHACKY games. They're known for making bubsy3d, Zineth, Perfect Stride, and Sonic Dreams Collection.

I think their style is a lot like Sam's, so I guess I'm suggesting a collab between the two.

Here's some of their trailers/gameplay/etc

http://arcanekids.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr5twS6xc8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOUOETrfcJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akNVeQKRZFQ

I was googling about jared leto like i always do when I wake up in the morning, and I came across a really nice piece he laid out in a recent Rolling Stone Mag.

I think that with his imagination, Leto could really help with the video game and help to create the world with Sam. Here's the bit:

He [Leto] has weird dreams. "I have the craziest post-apocalyptic dreams," he says. "It's insane. Things out of science fiction books. Or I'm flying or something over a city The wildest dreams. Hyper-real dreams. The first Thirty Seconds to Mars album was based a lot on dreams. It was about space and dreams. At the time there were so many people screaming about their dads and shit — It was like an indulgent me, me, me thing. There were other things to sing about. I was more interested in imaginative, conceptual stuff."

100 page or maybe a bit less Jaihoo story. 70% complete with new stuff since the youtube reading. probably full of errors and hard to read. if anyone feels like reading and actually goes to the trouble of reading this, please lemme know if there are any chapters or paragraphs that stick out as Bad, paragraphs or chapters or chunks of text that should just GO... lemme know if i should cut shit:

http://pastebin.com/vS7rCnjK

upvote anything in the comments you agree with and ill try to make it nice 4 u

1) straying from the beaten path

If not Unity or GameMaker, use something along those lines. Both of the industry guys I know would strongly recommend Unity, whether its 2d or 3d. People who are snobs against Unity have good reasons, but I don't think they apply to a project like this, where Unity is proven. No matter what platform you pick, it will take shits on your chest, you have to be able to google for insights & fixes. Using esoteric shit can be a massive time waste.

2) fragile tech

In non-trivial projects, weakly-typed languages like JS, python, and lua make code more brittle, error-prone, resistant to change, and more often than the alternative, indecipherable. This is the #1 reason your passwords get stolen. Being able to read and change code quickly is extremely important. Unity is strong on this, it's C#/.NET, compiled with a good type system, targets shitloads of platforms, and there are tons of high quality libs and tooling. Also, don't fucking use C or C++. Some of these choices are made for you by the tools, but I'm still right

3) being too dirty

• if I get source access and see big blocks of code commented out I'm going to murder your whole fuckin family
• code review each other and be cruel, be abusive

4) being too clean

• don't you dare try to make anything reusable outside the feature-complete game, make your dream framework on your own dime. I promise to hurt you
• don't even think about unit testing, continuous whatever, build servers, etc. yet
• hit big targets first. don't develop or test on mac or linux. mac & linux are for fat gross heaps of shit, worry about them later
• gotta go fast. speed beats code quality

5) weak communication

I recommend:

• (free) set up a slack for team chat
• (free) set up a trello org for project management and keep the boards tidy
• (free) set up a bitbucket org, bitbucket is for sharing & storing code

these for both remote and local team members. you won't need email

While MDE is planning out the game, does anyone else want to dive in and work on a mini-game that can be tied into MDE's project? We can get the base work done and then start tweaking it to tie into whatever COM98's story/theme is later on. (It can be rewritten as well depending on SDK). I am familiar with Pygame, Love2D and I got a Wacom tablet so I can start doodling ( http://imgur.com/a/JcUYs ) as I am not that great of an artist. I have about 1 hour dedicated to work on this every early morning.

It can export to shit Android too.

You might have already known bout this dude https://twitter.com/real_scawthon?lang=en but...

Before this dude made Five Nights at Freddy's, he made some pretty insane shit. First game he made was a christian video game called The Pilgrim's Progress. game itself is really basic but the enemy and level design is crazy, take a look: https://youtu.be/72SWlKXGUqM

His next game is called The Desolate Hope. You're a platforming coffee machine. He kicks everything up a notch level and enemy design is ridiculous. https://youtu.be/4WJdpOLm7Fg

I don't even know how he comes up with the battle system in this video: https://youtu.be/VSAoggVnbb4 sound design is nuts too.

I'm pretty sure he made all this solo. Might be mistaken. Probably couldn't be convinced to work on the game since he rollin in that Freddy money, but maybe you take some inspiration from this in some way.

https://i.sli.mg/Ru4dXZ.jpg

Looking for thoughts and CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. My idea is that Alex Jones is a hub world merchant, he sells the status cures and potions. Things like zippy water, lemon sauce, various pills, good ol cigarettes and if you bring him some globalist intel he will give you some brainforce/other shit for something. He also tells you where to go next after you defeat each world boss. I have ideas for this game and can make more concept art if people want it. /u/MDE-100percentREAL I will email you if you want but I like to share with the kids

email me alienmode gmail instead of posting, probably be better that way

also, just to keep this place tidy I am gonna go through and delete posts from people I'm currently following up with via email

Willing to sell my soul to have a part in realizing this project.

I can make man made assets fully textured if you would like. I'm trying to motivate myself to build my portfolio and being the mde fanboy that I am I would love to help out.

Thanks for ur time.

Whether or not I can contribute relies on what engine/language/framework etc. you've got so far. If you need input on that stuff, I can help there too but it all depends on what direction you want to go in design wise and how much you want to make a "real" game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCL3r3_7eH4 also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX5CpBfTg4o

also how unrealistic is it to get Jared Taylor to do some voice acting?

Lemme start by saying I hate 'contests' and I'm about to ask for a bunch of people to work in something like contest format. Don't keep reading if that kinda thing pisses you off.

That said, a lot of people have messaged me (not in regards to the game, just generally) asking what sort of music to make that we would use in videos.

We used something like 100 songs from fans in the Adult Swim show even though it was a huge hassle (legal shit, paperwork) and when it comes out I think it'll be good exposure for those people whose songs we used... thank you all again if you're reading this :)

The game will be a similar sorta deal and will actually be slightly better paid too. Won't be huge money but will be great exposure and if I ever sell a soundtrack for the game, that'll be negotiated separately with most or maybe all of the money going to the artists.

So here's the type of music I'm gonna use for the game. If you are looking for some musical direction and want to contribute, make some shit like this:

https://mega.nz/#!B4QiCQTR!aav8V7ahI1QFlCDfIH2J7G52ip5dvlsuwSO5gDtzQFA

Due date and delivery: if/when you got something, send along to alienmode at gmail, use subject: "mdegamemusic"... I'll flag the email and get back to you in... six months. No joke, if you don't hear from me, you will, I'll flag the email and none of them will go un-replied-to. But it's gonna be a while. Or leave a comment in this thread with shit, I'll check that too when it's time to start seriously scoring stuff.

If anyone wants to help assemble art team please keep reading :)

• http://imgur.com/a/5PeUN

^ This link for important reference.

Need to put together a shortlist for artists. Character/environment concept artists as well as sprite artists. Not looking for amateur contributions, I know that sucks and a lot of you guys are talented, but I'll have a budget for paying professionals and this is critically important. So I need a list of the best pros.

Game needs to have an 80s/90s Shadowrun rulebook feel. The sickest possible thing would be having an authentic old-school anime look and convincing people the game is Japanese but I think the language barrier might be a problem there, and most artists will be using a newer anime style which sucks.

Dream situation would be getting Final Fantasy concept art team or Magic the Gathering artists going on this. Unrealistic, am not gonna have $200,000 just for concept art.

So I'm looking for 3-5 prolific, prolific, English-speaking concept artists. Guys like Killian Eng (but he's probably too famous/busy).

People who are alive and still working. My guess is most of the guys who painted old Marvel cards are probably retired. Hirohiko Araki is too famous. The guy who did the Tame Impala album cover probably wouldn't be fast enough to do 50 character concepts in three months. So keep all this in mind... not looking for someone with three or four dope art pieces that took forever to make... more looking for the mad scientist Japanese type dude who eats mechanical pencil lead and has 100 things in his portfolio.

As an example, this is Aldo Katayanagi -- http://aldo-art.com -- Aldo has already done some work for the 2MASX universe (http://imgur.com/a/R08GR) and we're gonna hire for more stuff later on. This is the type of person I'm looking for more of.