The game I plan - wolf's life simulation

[dolny]

Screenshot: http://www.echostar.pl/~dolny/smieci/gry/interwolf3.jpg

Of course I know it looks funny right now. I'm working on a different project right now but since I'm not a coder - I just plan the whole game, mechanics and maybe I'll do some simple gfx - I have some time to work on another title. I'll explain the game.

It is a wolf's life simulation + rpg. You can play free game or some missions like: find water, protect your family, live through winter etc. You use your senses like seeing, hearing etc. You must drink and eat, rest, heal your wounds. You can find a partner, challenge other wolves in the pack in order to win leadership. You would also look out for humans until you have a large pack/strong and intelligent wolf that could kill a human (if you wish to do that).

The game would feature graphics similar to the one in the main screen - not the interface! I mean the main game window - I could make the interface 100x better.
The things that would build the atmosphere would be music and sounds - howling, sounds of the night, nature...

What do you think? Anyone who is good at coding wants to help?

[Sye d'Burns]

It reminds me a lot of Unreal World (http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.html) with a neat twist. I've always been a fan of open-ended rpgs. I wish you luck with it.

[Wolven]

Have you seen this game (http://www.abandonia.com/games/531/Wolf.htm)?

[dolny]

Yeah. I played UrW - very nice game. But the ideas are probably a result of playing rpgs all my life :) I loved 'Wolf', liked Adom, Avanor (www.avanor.com), UrW, Doom - the roguelike etc.

The graphic display shouldn't be hard to code, I want multiplayer support - either 1-4 players or many players at once - for example rival packs.

Fighting would not be so boring as you may think - you will have different tactics (like aggresive, defensive), the night/day cycle that would affect your chances for winning/losing, terrain modifier (it's better to hide in the bushes and then attack).

I just need someone who can code in C++ / SDL (or other good cross-platform thingy).

[Lovechild]

Might I recommend caution with the artwork, I imagine some of it might not be under suitable creative commons license.

Otherwise I wish you good luck, and I would like to inform everyone that there will be a python game development contest soon:

http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/PyWeek

In case you or anyone feel like entering.

[weasel fierce]

Sounds like a fantastic idea

[agger]

Yeah. I played UrW - very nice game. But the ideas are probably a result of playing rpgs all my life :) I loved 'Wolf', liked Adom, Avanor (www.avanor.com), UrW, Doom - the roguelike etc.

The graphic display shouldn't be hard to code, I want multiplayer support - either 1-4 players or many players at once - for example rival packs.

Fighting would not be so boring as you may think - you will have different tactics (like aggresive, defensive), the night/day cycle that would affect your chances for winning/losing, terrain modifier (it's better to hide in the bushes and then attack).

I just need someone who can code in C++ / SDL (or other good cross-platform thingy).

I think that instead of attempting to code the game in C++ or similar from scratch you take a look of some of the gaming engines that are available under a GPL license and see how far it's possible to get with these engines without coding. I suspect it's possible to get pretty far!

[cmay]

What do you think? Anyone who is good at coding wants to help?
i love wolf .

i would like to help translate and maybe some i can come up with some sounds/ music as i have a small home studio and i play and write songs myself .

i am only learning to write c code right now so i can not offer to help code anything yet and it will also take some years to learn that much but the sound and translations for smaller projects i will always offer help with.

if you get this out some day i will like to play it. i like animals but wolf is one of the animals i like the best. i think it would be great if you make it as real as possible so that those who play it learn as much as they can about the wolf.

[Vostrocity]

Notice the thread is from 2005 and the OP probably isn't active anymore (still testing Dapper Drake?). ;)

Anyway I'm interested in whatever became of this. I'm always surprised that there are actually so many wolf simimulators. The best one I've played was a free Windows action/MMORPG released around 06 by some wolf conservation group. The best things about it were full 3D graphics and the MMO part. I'll see if I can remember the name.

[Vostrocity]

K found it. :D

It's called WolfQuest, came out in Dec 07 and is a free download (sponsored by the Minnesota Zoo) for Win/Mac. Surprisingly there's actually a sequel that is coming out later this year. From what I remember it's actually a pretty fun game, even though the chat filter sucks.

Offical site (http://www.wolfquest.org/)
Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolfQuest)
Hilarious trailer (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/01/todays-wildest-video-wolf-quest/)
Doesn't work with WINE (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655012)

[cariboo]

If it hadn't been for a spammer (long gone), this thread wouldn't have even surfaced again.

[cmay]

K found it. :D

It's called WolfQuest, came out in Dec 07 and is a free download (sponsored by the Minnesota Zoo) for Win/Mac. Surprisingly there's actually a sequel that is coming out later this year. From what I remember it's actually a pretty fun game, even though the chat filter sucks.

Offical site (http://www.wolfquest.org/)
Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolfQuest)
Hilarious trailer (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/01/todays-wildest-video-wolf-quest/)
Doesn't work with WINE (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655012)

no linux or bsd or solaris versions :(

[heroidi]

Sounds as an amazing game