Community made game.

[krisbendix]

Hi.

 

I have been working on this idea for game. More like a world. Game, that would have something to provide for everyone. 1:1 procedurally generated Earth.
Imagining that kind of thing is easy. Something else is to actually do it. So, that is why I'm here and I hope you will soon understand why here exactly.

 

Procedurally generated games is something that becomes more popular. One good example is No Man's Sky. There is also thing called Outerra ( www.outerra.com ) which is currently the engine I am considering to use.

So going that direction certainly is a good idea. How we take that path, that is another question.

And there I have a different approach in mind. Usually we have a company, that makes the game. And then maybe let peoples mod it later. But how about modding it from the start... making modding a development process? And go even further and make modding partially a part of the game-play. Well, you can't call it modding anymore, if it becomes actual development, but you get the point.

 

For some time I was wondering how to pull this off, but then I remembered you guys - NexusMods modders. You do have the understanding about most of the game aspects - from gun-play, to character creation, to vehicles and building stuff like Fallout 4 settlements. And in most cases you even know how to do it better than original developers.

 

In short, that game would be about freeing the planet Earth from the enemy and rebuilding humanity. On the planet itself, there is nothing but desert, snowy desert and water. Plus the enemy, that did it. There is game-play that is similar to Planetside 2. There is game-play that is similar to Sims, and Sim city/Cirties xl + settlement building from Fallout 4, and racing, and farming... another example would be the Entropia Universe, tho minus the crappy game-play (that's imo). Just let your imagination go wild.

Peoples would be able to use initially designed stuff or come up with their own creations (from vehicles to guns, building materials etc.) when provided with creation kit. Then there would be some process to decide if put it in game - voting probably.

 

There would be some limitations and of course an interesting story. I will keep more details to me for now.
What I want to find out now is your opinion on that kind of development process. Would NexusMods community be able/willing to do it?

 

When it comes to management structure, my idea is to keep the rights to decide the general direction/story of the game to me. But other than that let community create it as they please. And therefore same goes for money. You create, you earn the biggest portion money. Unlike the usual practice, where game company grabs everything for themselves and make few peoples billionaires, and eventually starts to crap on fans.

In this case it would be the players/modders who become millionaires. And I do have business model in mind that would ensure that. On my side there would be only necessities like server maintenance, legal stuff, central management staff wages and so on.

 

 

P.S. There is lot of stuff in my mind that I didn't write about here. So if you have any doubts or skepticism, you can be 80% sure that I already have addressed it, and other 19% that I can come up with the solution. So it would be best if we could keep it now focused on NexusMods modders ability to do it. Will figure out rest of it later.