An Idea For A Simple Game

[oracleguy]

A friend and I are looking for ideas for a computer game to make. Nothing huge, something that could be done with 5 or so thousand lines of code. It would be 2D. But we need an idea. I'd welcome any suggestions.

Thanks.

[scroots]

a)a card game e.g. solitaire or begemeneighbour (not sure if its spelt like that, if you want me to expalin how to play it let me know) or you could do a pairs card game, where you have to pick to matching pairs.

b) draughs

scroots

[maes]

How about a tetris clone, or egawalls (like pong)

or a small platform or arcade game like spce invaders
I once tryed to make a small space game (like Life force on NES) in DirectX. But I gave it up real quick. Reason: I can't draw a single line :( . My artistic skills are zero.

[dhtroy]

My first game was a small "Tank-like" game; developed in C back in the MS-DOS days ... good ol' DOS *sigh*

anyway ... it was only like 1000 lines of code, and the graphics were simple.

Plus - blowing stuff up is always a crowd pleaser ...

:D

[whackaxe]

how about a RPG (with a bit stratagy in it), where you incarnate a mercenary come trader who doesnt have to fight evil people but has to get FILTHY RICH! i would make that in PHP if i could be bothered or C++ if i could be bothed to actually learn C++

[whammy]

Remake the tank combat from the game "COMBAT" (Atari 2600)? :D

That was fun.

[oracleguy]

Originally posted by whackaxe
how about a RPG (with a bit stratagy in it), where you incarnate a mercenary come trader who doesnt have to fight evil people but has to get FILTHY RICH! i would make that in PHP if i could be bothered or C++ if i could be bothed to actually learn C++

That sounds like it has potential. I think we are gonna go with that idea. Thanks for all the suggestions.