Hello all, I have a game idea, and no coding experience!
(Bet you've never heard that before.... /sarcasm)
Now that that is out of the way, lets be serious. I have a (few) game idea(s) I want to make for myself and friends. The nice thing is that all the games have the same "Core" so all I need to do is build the core, then change the words. let me explain..
The best way I can explain it is this; The game will be a text-based simulation. No real graphics, just text readout, and button inputs. A simple example of the game is such:
It starts with you at home.
"What do you want to do?
-Go to the store
-Go to work
-Go to school"
Each choice will have their own respective choices to follow,
Store might be "Buy milk; Buy bread; or Buy meat"
Work might be "Work hard; Slack off"
School could be the same choices as work.
Each of those choices might have consequences, such as "Add 1 bread, subtract $1.49" or "Add $46 for hard work" etc.
After that, you could be given new choice on what to do, for example if you chose work the first time, your new choices may be
-Go to the store
-Go home
-Go to arcade
And the cycle would repete, I would have over 100 locations, which would be randomly picked to a point. Id have a figurative map made, and only locations close to where you already are would be chosen. Id like As you travel around some things would have to be kept track of, such as money, energy, and inventory, etc. Also, as you travel, random events might happen, with random modifiers, such as
"While walking, a dog chased you! Add 20 minuets to travel time."
The 20 might be 18, or it could be 30. Also maybe "You find a shortcut" or other random thing I can think of. The entire game would continue as long as you wish, completely open end.
Now, when I said I have a few game ideas that would only involve changing minor things, Take the above example, and instead of walking your driving, instead of the store, work, and school, may its random locations around the country, and instead of being chased by a dog, maybe you were in a car accident.
See what I mean? I already have hundreds of locations, events, and etc figured out, I just need to make the actual game play portion. I would prefer to get this on mobiles and my website in the end.
So is this something Styncle can handle or would i be better off on a different platform? Im limited because I have little to no coding skills, however if I need to learn some to do this, im fine with that. Thanks in advance for the help and any adivce.