[xamllew]

I had this idea of a game blah blah blah. In summary, a 2d pixel sidescroller adventure game, it would be a reverse Louis and Clark expedition. You would start on the West Coast of the USA and travel to the East Coast (which is not what Louis and Clark did I know). Basically you would start on the cold rocky coast of Oregon next to your small boat. the first few scenes would perhaps be ascending up the beach into a field with a mountainous back view and then into the trees which get thicker. each scene would be 300 - 500 (ingame) feet in length and would consist of a backdrop (which may be used more than once on close scenes) a foreground (where you would be walking) 0 to 3 conflicts / objectives / misc things to spice up the game (such as a note/grave/carving which you could read, a bear or other wild animal which would block your way, a natural terrain barrier, Indians, abandoned buildings, belligerent people, hurt people, etc etc). No fighting or health bar would be involved, only avoiding death. I would expect to make the game about 50 miles long of 300'-500' hand drawn tiles.
here are a few concept drawings of what I would expect the game to look like. Enjoy.
The Beginning

Some annoying asshole blocks the way

Cave in the mountain

THIS IS ONLY A CONCEPT, DO NOT EXPECT THIS UBER-AWESOME CRAZY GAME TO COME OUT IN YOUR LIFE TIME, THE GRAPHICS ARE TOO ADVANCED.
Does anyone know of any games like this? Similar in any way? Would you play this game? Does it have replay value?

[krten_2x 4b]

Reminds me of the dino run game.
I love the "advanced" graphics!

[Mini Reaper]

krten_2x 4b posted:

Reminds me of the dino run game.
I love the "advanced" graphics!

It probably reminds you of dino run just cause it's a pixel game. Anyway I remember seeing thi on SPB. :)

[xamllew]

That was sort of the style I was aiming for. I wouldn't want to spend 5 hours detailing a 300 foot long tile that will be passed in a minute and never seen again. Well, I could but a game of that detail and size would never get finished.

[barrierloss]

The graphics look a lot like the game Canabalt- http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/
This game sounds like an amazing concept. I hope it goes somewhere

[iPope]

Make a thread in tigsource devlogs and keep posting awesome concepts until you find a programmer, this looks awesome.

[INv3Rt]

Kinda reminds me of "5 days a stranger" the Chzo Mythos series.

Its made by using this freeware program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Studio

Do you think your game can be anything like that?

[xamllew]

Isn't 5 days a stranger more of a puzzle/ mystery - type game? Mine would be all out cross-country (literally) adventure with small traces of story but the game would be primarily set around exploration.

Thanks for posting, by the way.

[wewt!]

It's a puzzle/horror game

[creeding]

May I have a refrence? :madmax:

[Splurgy]

Sounds vaguely like Knytt.
It sounds like an interesting idea, but I think you'd need several different routes to avoid it becoming too linear.