Okay, it's been a while since my last post. Reason being, I've been a little busy working on this game development project that I cooked up one sleepless night. I have a small portion of the code written, but I've mainly been working on the graphical portion of it most recently since graphics are, for me, a bit more time consuming and difficult. I've been using the 3D modeling software "Blender" to develop graphical ideas, i.e. game tiles, buildings, etc. I'm also attempting to sort of brainstorm ideas on what I should make the game about.
The basic inspiration for the game is Kabam's "Godfather Five Families", which is referred to as a "massively multiplayer social game". I've been playing it since December 2011, and lately (within the past 3-4 months), the company's just going downhill with it, although some would argue that they've been going downhill with it from the start. So, I did some looking into various game laws, and found out that I can use the same basic game concept in the development of my own game. By game concept, I don't mean centered around Mario Puzo/Paramount's Godfather trilogy. The term "first person shooter" is a game concept. Kabam may hold copyrights and trademarks on aspects of the game such as graphics and various names, however, they don't have copyrights on the way they have the map laid out, or the basic premise of the game which is to get ahead in your family and become the "Don".
While I don't think I'm going to be going with the whole mafia setting, I am going to be developing a similar map (with my own graphics, of course), as well as a similar battle engine, although I may decide to tweak that one a bit to bring more strategy into play, along with a few other things, such as research, building upgrades, etc. There are a few more ideas that I've had that I would like to see implemented in Kabam's game that I will be attempting to incorporate into mine, but I'm not going to elaborate on those quite yet.
Aside from working on the graphics, I've also been working on getting the money that I'll need for purchasing the domain, as well as figuring out what I'd like the domain to be. Of course, it's not going to be game specific, simply trying to figure out a catch-all name for my web development projects. The one I originally thought of was taken, despite the fact that typing it into my browser didn't take me anywhere other than a "cannot display webpage" error. I've also been looking into various web hosting services to figure out which one I would like to go with, so I know how much money I need to come up with to cover hosting costs.
Well, that's all I have for now, I'm sure I'll be updating on how things are coming along, although updates may be a bit sporadic, at best.
