Wanted: Game ideas, beta testers. Artists, coders? Credit given

[Lord Orwell]

That should be no problem as long as it's 2D. Actually I have done animations professionally (for a zoo) but I am out of practice by several decades and I miss my late lamented Amiga 4000.

I take it that for the moment you just need the snake to snake along horizontally and not do anything else particular. If it has to do anything with its head -- spitting, pouncing, smiling at the camera etc -- I'll try to incorporate it. But does that mouse have any other tricks?

I'm not sure what to do about your poll. I know practically nothing about platform games.

BB

You're talking to a prior amiga owner. I had a 500, and i loved it. It took years for the pcs to catch up. Anyway, platform wasn't one of the options, and i am kinda leaning towards a side-scroller. So the snake would be travelling horizontally chasing a nutty mouse and waves of bad-guys and obstacles (rocks, bushes, etc) would need to be avoided. It will be a high-speed scroller and the current plan is that the spit attack will take out the bad-guys and there will be random powerups to give you hit pts. My current work is in trying to build a level designer, since the levels will be stored on disk.

as for the mouse, i've got it split into individual frames and can animate it manually in my code. I was thinking that eating the mice recharged a meter for venom, but that might be odd. Perhaps a gem or star or heart instead. I have graphics for all of these already.

Edit: looks like the voters like the zelda idea instead. If this is the case i would need a couple of frames of the snake moving up and down.
here's an example of a snake:
http://images.wikia.com/dukenukem/im.../Kingcobra.png
i can't use these images because they are owned by 3drealms, but the way they drew the snake when coming towards or going away was nice. Plus, i've been wanting a cartoony feel anyway, and yours fits in great.