collective Lassie game for charity
Hello and welcome, boys and girls, Are you bored and looking for a challenge? Then look no further, we may have just the thing for you: getting involved in a collective Lassie game for charity! Making a collective game was first suggested by Matt Kempke, and from there it was only a small step to making it a game for charity. The trouble is that "collective" means "more than one", but how to find out how many Lassie Community members would be interested in contributing their skills? Fortunately NigeC came up with the perfect way to find out: a poll! He was even kind enough to put one up (thanks mate...), so please vote and let us know what you think! If you are interested we'd love to know what you'd like to help out with, there's plenty to choose from! And if there is more than one thing you'd like to help out with, or if it's something we forgot to put on the list, just post a reply on this thread. :) Oh, and to all those people who might be thinking: "Contribute?! But I'm not good enough!..." just this: don't worry! No-one's expecting you to be the next Rembrand or Shakespeare lol, it's fine if you're a newbie (I am...) or haven't had much experience making games (I haven't...), every little bit helps. I personally would love it if every member would get involved! Although that would probably drive whoever ends up being in charge of planning&coordinating stark raving mad lol, but we'll worry about that when the time comes ;) For now all we want to know is how many of you like the idea and would like to participate in this. Not a member yet? Quickly register and take the opportunity to help out too, we'd love to have you on board :) Thanks for taking the time to read this, now VOTE!!! :)

What a great idea :) (not that i wasn't involved in any shape or form in the planning :wink: )

Keep it short and this could be the demo game project for the Sheep-series tools (Shepherd / SuperSheep). I'd like to get the basic game systems running this year (interactivity, character motion / dialogue) with all their controls tied into the Shepherd editor. The good news is I have about 80% of the raw code done on all that. The bad news is that the last 10% of the work will take about 90% of the time (classic scenario). So, as long as we don't go nuts with a game model, I'd be willing to unleash some alphas of the Sheep series for integration.

Great! I'd be up for anything as long as it's light and small and on the side ... :) Ok, any suggestions for game content or the charity we would do that for? I think the title should directly be "Team Lassie presents: XYZ" (XYZ would be the title). Since it's a team work and something that should appeal to everyone (players - so we get a lot for charity), how about we use a very "classic" adventuregame context (eg. pirates/adventurers etc. or soemthing similar) Let's get this started! ;)

I vote classic movie or book spoof. It gives a pretty solid basis for a story to work with, which cuts down on the difficult process of ideas and making the work as a story.

I know CJ has some cool ideas kicking about, we did talk about a classic style game Would it be possible to create a Team Lassie group forum Greg so the plot etc doesn't go public?

Good idea! How about something based on "Alice in Wonderland" ... or something with animals - for children you know - like "wind in the willows", which is wonderful.

I just created the forum: It's visible for everyone but you can only enter and read and post etc if you were selected by BIG BROTHER. Which is me. And Greg. :) So if you want in and join Team Lassie, just apply here! CJ and me are moderators so far. Selected members so far: Greg, CJ, Nige and me. Try it! BTW: When you are allowed to enter and you go in, the forum shows a "locked" symbol where the post / reply buttons should be. Just click on it - works the same way. It's confusing ...

This sounds like a great idea.. and I'd love to help out. Though i'm confused how it would actually make money for charity? How about something film-noiry, since we were talking about Casablanca there?

count me in for a voice or two.... I hate my voice.... But I enjoy doing voices for no reason

Ok...
NOW it should work :) BTW please join the group "Team Lassie I" by clicking on usergroups on top of the page. Thats the new way to join in. I'll then approve it and you're automatically in.

How about Warchild or Unicef for the charity? Every child should have the best start in life possible, giving them the opportunity to grow up into stable adults. I'm starting to sound like a regular Mother Goose, aren't I?... :D Oh, we could work her stories into the game, I think even Roberta Williams did a game like that once, so if it's good enough for her... Erm, I'm not quite sure what "ideas" you're talking about Nige, are you perhaps thinking of the ones I mentioned for that Escape the Room con-*test*-('")? :)

Oh, I nearly forgot :oops: : thanks Nige and Matt, for putting all this stuff up!