So I'm an indie dev, writing/programming a title that's based around a post "Soviet Union" nation undergoing regional instability and an imperialist western power trying to edge in on leadership. (I put that in quotes, all of the story is written in a strangereal sort of fashion with fake nations that represent real ones.) Basically you're a special forces commander dealing with hostage negotiations, bombs, terrorist barricade situations, etc. in a squad management RPG style like Valkyria Chronicles that includes a negotiation phase where the meat of the story is in a Visual Novel format.
One of my characters is a sociologist/psychologist that's an advisor to you and hostage negotiator and is basically Slavoj Zizek. The story involves mostly a lot of things to do with ideology, terrorism, and immigrants. There's definitely a lot of content to choose from, but I was hoping maybe someone here could help me uncover a few lectures or books more in the topic I'm writing on.
I'm halfway through The Parallax view and listened to his lectures on religion (which also plays a part in my game). I hate to really do his character a disservice, even though authors are basically allowed some artistic creativity, if I can give his character the amount of screen time I would like, I feel like he's someone I really need to nail and get right.
Sorry mate I cant help you with that. What kind of framework are you using?
Jose Johnson
Mostly good except for blue-collar crime from the lower class whites and hilariously self-defeating levels of white-collar crime from all the the Asians.
Ethan Jackson
They were forced to move their products at a loss (and to great gain for the Southerners). The Northern factory owners started crying and throwing fits. "But Mr. Congressman! Those dirty stupid Southerners want to buy spades and shovels for $4 from England instead of paying me $8 for the same one! make it stop!"
So, Congress says "Hey, let's pass a ridiculous tariff and support our local sucky factories. Forget the South. They have money." The South doesn't like this. they would much rather that the North put out good products than have to pay more. Too bad. Due to the bigger population in the North this ridiculous tariff passes in the House of Represenetives. So now, the Southern farmers have to pay $8 for a Northern spade or $12 for a British one. At this point, they feel like they're being taxed unfairly, so they say "Look. States should be able to decide this kind of stuff, not the federal government." The federal government says "Screw you, give me money." The South then tthreatens to secede. Elections happen. One candidate is sympathetic to the South, the other isn't. You know who wins.
Therefore the South says "Forget this, we're out." At this point, the North is screwed and they know it. They can't survive without the South. That's where all the money is coming from (Southerners are the only buyers of their bad spades, since Britain is still selling theirs for $4 a pop to get rid of their excess). They know that if the South leaves the Union, they can't force them to buy their goods, and then the economy is going to flip.
The Confederacy is formed and the Civil War begins.
Jackson Watson
Trump's plane is probably better than air force one.
Jaxson Allen
pol plz
Levi Campbell
In Unreal 4. It's a weird engine to choose for a game like this, but half of it was it was easier to do blueprints/blackboard for the AI portions that I wanted or want to do eventually. I already have enemies in the game world that walk around a building and shoot at other enemies and follow squad leaders. Right now I'm writing a driver in c++ that would read in a file and give the game a script for the dialogue along with any stat adjustments like buffs/debuffs that happen to your own members based on your decisions.
Eventually I'd need an artist to do the work of making portraits for each of the characters, but that's a ways down the road yet.
Is 8ch broken right now? Wtf is going on with this thread.
Gavin James
Rolled 8 + 5 (1d20)Heres a program for you OP
I roll a persuasion check with a +5 modifier for charisma to see if you implement the code as your storyline
Jonathan Taylor
Sauce?
Parker Lopez
I'm sorry OP but you came at a terrible time we're being rided by spambots
Brody Price
My operator sees through your scheme, foiling your plot.
Some /ak/ thread on the other chan.
Well that sucks.
Julian Nelson
Actually now that I recall, some artist did a fanbook for Modern Warfare 2, I think it's from there.
Ryder Gutierrez
I suggest watching the pervert's guide to ideology, I'm pretty sure there are some places you can torrent it if you don't have netflix. Besides that, this lecture is one of my favorites of his youtube.com/watch?v=L2fF6j6d9D4&t=1582s
Oliver Walker
Already done fam, maybe I'd do another watch through after writing my driver and started writing the story.
Chase Sanders
Reminds me of some sort of future girl cop anime. I forgot what it was. You got any of those fam?
Blake Rodriguez
If I did, I wouldn't know, my /ak/ folder is mostly unsorted right now.
Here's anime cop girl though as requested
Andrew Fisher
Do you have a thread up on forums.unrealengine.com ?
How good are you at programming?
And do you need an artist? I was interested in doing a socialist themed game recently, but programming is not my strong suit.
I'm nice with 2D, 3D, Music, and Sound Design tho.
My ideal situation would be to work with someone who could handle the broad majority of the programming aspects and I can probably handle most of the artwork by myself.
These are a little outdated but I'm not on my computer right now. From a Homeworld mod I worked on.
at what stage is the development at? can you give us some demo or sg?
Blake Bennett
No thread, I'm not into advertising until I have a semi ready product.
I'm currently in school for computer engineering so I think I have a decent handle around programming. I've been on a few projects not related to video games but really just wanted to create something. Basically did all the stuff you see in my preview in a week before finals started. Right now though I'm working with Unreal's version of c++ and how to implement it to the editor.
I'd maybe be interested in working together, the style though is a bit simple modeled more or less after Ace Combat's "after action" screens, just to keep it cheap for now until I know I've garnered some interest.
I had the ability to place friendly units RTS style, but then changed a lot of stuff, so got set back a bit. Probably won't have a working demo until maybe the end of the month.
That vid is perfect btw.
What's better then? Unity? At some point I'd like to use 3d to add different floors in real time for the player to monitor and game maker doesn't really do 3d all that well.
Blake Allen
Sounds interesting, can you give contact info? Or I could give you my temporary email address. I also draw characters if you need art for the visual novel part.
Lucas Anderson
I don't have a good throwaway right now. If you want, go ahead and send your temp address and I'll reply asap.
Elijah Lewis
[email protected]/* */
Dylan Watson
Some botnet is spamming leftypol, pol and int or somrthing.
Robert Brown
Why the fuck is Zizek on a comic and why isn't he sniffing and so on.
Why should we help you? I mean, I'm guessing your game isn't going to be FOSS, so the least you can do is pay us each $20/hour consulting fees.
Robert Howard
I'm not asking you to. In reality, I'm probably not even going to make a living wage selling this thing, probably enough just to cover expenses for an artist or for steam related costs.
To me though it's an opportunity to give a voice to imperialism and anti-capital sentiments in a place where little actually exists in that area. I don't care about the money to be honest. I want to make something that people can get invested in, learn maybe about how the west operates in 2nd world nations and get them to care when say, one of my characters dies in their campaigns (One of my main points is perma death, not just perma death, but also making the player save scum as little as possible).
And as much as I know, making a product and selling it is not exactly revolutionary, we still have to be able to survive in our current system in order to usher in the next.
If you'd like, you can post an email or a blog to show me some work, and I can find a way to get you on the team. As it stands this is a solo project, but there's a company and potentially funding behind it if I can show them there's interest in something like this.
