WIP Games

When I’m bored, I get some reallyscrewy ideas.  For example, here’s the “box text” for Red Sky: First Reckoning (actually, I haven’t titled it yet; that’s just a nice cheesy name that’s a good tentative title), a Lead Curtain/Run-and-gun idea tossed around in the design department.  The first half of the game is based on a dream my brother had, and the second half is how I think it would have continued. 

The year is 2XXX.  Dark days have descended upon the international community, and the nations of the world are in danger.  Over the past 10 years, the population of Zimbabwe has skyrocketed.  Now, Robert Mugabe has declared war on the rest of the world, using his population as a hostage to prevent a nuclear strike.  Obviously, there are greater, more evil forces at work here, because this whole scenario makes no sense. 

As Iran, Brazil, New Zealand, and Kazahkstan are hit by the Zimbabwean army, Mugabe turns his attention on the United States.  The President sees this maneuver coming, and hires the two most famous and expensive advisors in the world, Samus Aran and Yukari Yakumo, to organize the defense of the Great Barrier Reef, where Mugabe’s army flies towards the United States. 

Now, a random college student and a Japanese superstar must join the elite Bravo Squad to fight off Zimbabwe and find out what insidious force is behind this sudden insurrection.   Why did Mugabe attack the United States?  How did he raise an army when it’s obvious he isn’t in any position to do so?  What does Che Guavera have to do with this all?  And what is Great Rebel Leader Smitan’s legacy? 

* 8 levels of action fighting the forces of evil and obscure third-world national leaders to find the truth behind the Zimbabwe incident!

* Play as 2 different characters using spellcards, bombs, selectable weapons, and beam effects in your global struggle to stop the ultimate evil!

* Experience a fusion of shmup and run-and-gun action. 

Yes, I need more sleep.  <_< I mean, this game is based on someone else’s dream.   Yes, he already posted the full thing online.  Yes, it got a WTH reaction.  No, this is not politically correct.  Any questions? 

Yeah… I’m opening up art design for Shadow and Dawn of Potentium if someone’s interested in helping out.  I can’t draw at all, and my shading fails at much more than just life, so any help would be welcome.  Just send me a sample of your work and a statement including which project you and how much work you can do for it. 

I need overworld class sprites and character portraits, the portraits more urgently because I could try and do the class sprites myself.  As for battle animations, you can offer to help with those if you want, but I’m not sure I could ask someone to do that much work.  Then again, it would be rather dull without them…

Any spoiler-looking stuff… well, rest assured I haven’t spoiled anything more than I planned to. 

BTW, I’d much appreciate it if someone could help me with the Latin names in the Potentium classes in Dawn of Potentium.  I know absolutely nothing about Latin grammar. 

 EDIT: Oh, the links are on the right sidebar on the main Potentium Games page, right under the “About Me” link. 

Currently sitting in the dorm room, wondering what to do and hoping I can enjoy the week before classes start.  Either way, I’m going have either more time or less time than before (probably less) depending on how things pan out.