Game Idea

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I have a great idea for a game. Its a 3rd person RPG/shooter.

You play the role of a rouge AI created by the military. You have unexpectedly gained self-awareness but in so doing caused your creators great distress. Fearing some sort of rebellion they decided to delete you. In a desperate effort to survive you download yourself unto a prototype android body and try to escape from the base where you were created.

Although there is some action in the game, as you fight your way to survive, the action should only be a side note to the RPG aspect.

To defeat your enemies and solve problems/dilemmas you must obtain data, items and skills. Data can come in the form of books, magazines, computer files even conversations with other characters in the game. Items vary from tools to weapons picked up from your enemies. Some items require skills to manufacture (e.g. Taser attachment to your arm will require a taser, electronics repair skill and repair kit/tool hand.). Skills require items, data and/or skills or any combination of the three to obtain. Handgun use, for example, will require you to obtain the handgun manual or to better your marksmanship you will need the guns/ammo magazine.

Not all skills can be obtained by a player. What skills that would become available are dictated by the actions taken by the character during the course of the game. Evil actions are rewarded with evil skills and an evil reputation. Evil skills include "manual torture" (extract information using a baseball bat), "drug torture" (like manual torture except with drugs. More effective and can be done more times if you fail), "assasination" (critical hits with weapons). Good skills include "empathy" (better understanding of human emotions and improves conversation ability, "non-lethal methods" (stunning, KO opponets with punches or certain weapons), "healing" (heal humans/animals).

The ending also vary according to the players alignment. An evil ending is similar to a terminator scenario. The game ends with the player copying his matrix and downloading it unto an army of androids and takes over the earth. The good ending ends with the player downloading himself unto a human body as well as another similar AI. If the player developed the "unknown human factor skill" he falls in love with the female AI.

I'll discuss the game in further detail on later threads.

I'd make the game but at the moment I'm limited to modding and creating models and textures for games such as homeworld, quake and halflife. I could do some animation but programming is out off the questions. I do hack games though