A Few Game Ideas - Comments?

In Progress

Rotating Wonders: A small (5x5) board, with a unpassable lake in the middle of it. Each players goal is to build the biggest tower. Combat is resolved by cards, but how many cards you can use is determined by how many pieces of your tower you are willing to lose. Also, who the player can attack is determined by a rotating cube in the middle of the board.
What is the oint of combat in a game like this? I would see it more as a puzzle game.

Modern Combat: A modern day warfare game. With the whole sah-bang (Tanks, Infantry, Submarines etc.) This was a friends idea, that I am going to help create. (Finally, Another teenager I got hooked with me on game design.)
I would see this modern warfare game better done as a smaller scale. such as only working on naval warfare, or troop warfare, or commando/guerilla warfare. I would like to see a good game in which each player has a fleet and tries to destroy one another, or where one player is trying to sabotage various supply routes/factories/etc

Hit-men: All players assemble a crew of Hit-men to pull of there dirty deeds for them (I.E. Hijacking, Stealing, Shipping "Hooch"). You can easily hire low-life scum to do your deeds, but hiring the tough crooks will take a lotta moxy (I.E. Infulence). Moxy is earned by completing various tasks. Cops, and ratting out other crime boses, will also play a roll in the game.

Comments, Suggestions? (All will be greatly apprieciated, good or bad)

P.S- As these game progress even more, I will begin creating journals for them (If I can figure out how to use the dang thing. *Ok now how do I get paragraphs, bold print, italics?, ugh, this is going to take awhile*

-Justin for journals, use a '<' and '>' command. that is how formatting works for those

I also said it would be better if it was smaller scale, but he didn't care. He's kind of a nut for war games. (and i'm not paying for the supplies!)

-Justin
P.S- Thanks, now I can finally right journals.

I was thinking about a commando/guerrilla warfare game, and I was wondering how to do it, and what I would want to see in such a game. Although all of my thoughts lead towards more of a one player game than anything else, and would probably lend itself more to a video game. I was thinking I would want to be able to assemble my commando team and then try to disrupt the enemies communication, supply, manufacturing, and transportation networks. Then of course I was thinking about what kind of guys I would need to buy, recon specialists, demolition specialists, comm guys, snipers, leader/coordinator of attacks, scouts, trailblazers, riflemen, interpreters, etc,etc,etc. Then I was wondering how do you figure out where something will be when of the enemies, and certain members of the unit would be able to do recon, which might allow for missions to be comepleted. For example, train will be coming along here at this time or general will be arriving at outpost at this time, etc. Then I was wondering how the player or players would go about finishing their tasks, maybe there would need to be a number of different scenerio boards like derailing a train, assassination, blowing up a bridge, blowing up a factory, infiltration of a spy netwrok. That is where I got caught up, and stopped thinking about the possibility of such a game.

better than the good vs evil game...

I have on the back burner a large scale wargame along similar lines...Modern times, covering the whole world, all unit types, possibly even including roles per nation (several hundred players...), this would be an online game. My Design Group currently has two games (one similar to above) in production, I have about ten more I am waiting to start.

If interested in collaboratiing please visit us at:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/phoenixgrp/

and then contact me

Troy

tmd2005@optonline.net

It wasnt my intent to spam anyone, and I have stopped as requested. I am not designing computer games, but rather pbems that are more like board games.I wanted to offer assistance and welcome anyone interested. I have been involved in game design in one form or another since I was about 10. I have been part of many groups that fell apart for a variety of reasons, I procrastinated myself for many years after spending enormous amounts of money...now I have a real viable program going, I am extremely excited and optimistic and simply wanted to offer the opportunity to others who have been through what I went through.

I am sorry I upset you guys-

Troy