Creatures

[The Hobo]

I'm working on a game in Visual Basic entitled Creatures. The basic outline of the game:

You're a scientist that happened upon a weird lifeform in the woods. You have $3,000 to research these creatures and hopefully become famous and rich in the end. You must, through the game, sustain the life of these creatures and raise funds to do so.

I need help working out some details of the game and what I should and shouldn't include. I've thought of and started implimenting the following:

• Through the game there are 20 organizations that, depending on how far you are in your research, will offer you an amount of money for your research. Each organization has a catch to giving you the money, you must decide whether or not to accept it.
• Depending on your "score" through the game, the creatures will evolve into different lifeforms through the game. This will increase public awareness of the project and more organizations will offer you money.
• There are several disasters that happen through the game, such as equipment breaking, viruses, power outages, etc.
• I'm working on a way to make the creatures do something, for example mate, eat, and move food.

What else would be interesting to include in this game? Any ideas?

Edit: Attachment removed until I find out whether or not Jupitermedia will own it if I post it.

[Arbiter]

Fish!

Umm, er I mean. Never mind.

How about a multiplayer option, a high score function (internet linked as well so people across the world can compare scores/creatures)

The ability to view your creatures as they're evolving. You might want to use "bolt together" creatures (arms/tentacles/pincers, legs/wheels/sluggy thing etc)

[PsychoMark]

...and you should give it another name, Creatures already exists

[JaredM]

How about slaughtering the creatures for a wonder drug? How about mutations that make them violent?

[Fox]

Hello fellow programmer!

I just saw thy project and thought to myself "Damn that Timer!" so here's yer project back without these evil controls!

[Fox]

Hey that was a great idea!

Here's mine..

Blue ones: Male
Red ones: Female
Pink ones: Pregnant

If 2 male or female hit they'll lose energy.
If a male and female hit and the female has a certain age, she'll become pregnant.

[rjlohan]

A certain female age? How thoughtful of you Fox.

[JaredM]

What do you mean by hit? Do you mean the slang term?

In that case you can make some creatures like to hit more than others. That one hits all the time. That one really wants to hit that one.

[Fox]

erm.. hit=beat:

If 2 males/females collide they'll fight, therefore hit each other and take life energy of them.

[JaredM]

If two males beat? If a male and a female beat?

Nevermind I'm stupid.

[macai]

Duh, man, it's a simple concept (atleast i hope this is what fox meant). Well, remember the older RPGs like Chrono Trigger? Well, the "creatures" randomly wander the screen. If the bump into eachother, stuff happens.

So, ill put this is into simplified vb terms.

Private Sub CreatureTypeA_CreatureTypeB() 'When creature type a wanders into creature type b
Creature_TypeA.StatsAndStuff = "New stats"
Creature_TypeB.StatsAndStuff = "New stats"
End Sub

Catch my drift, dude? ;D

[The Hobo]

Even though this thread is almost a year old, thanks for the suggestions!

Man, I wish I wouldn't have deleted the source code to this.

[H-Zence]

You know what would be interesting? Make it that you can collect monsters from different areas, but you need a certain amount of money to travel to those areas.

A game life this could turn out to be quite spiffy! Keep up the good work.

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by H-Zence
You know what would be interesting? Make it that you can collect monsters from different areas, but you need a certain amount of money to travel to those areas.

A game life this could turn out to be quite spiffy! Keep up the good work.

I wish I could. I must have deleted the source for it in the last year.