Indie budget game you'd make if you could

[Bester]

Imagine you can make games.

Please describe what are the titles that you'd make on a budget of $30-50k, i.e. games like Serpent in the Staglands, Age of Decadence, etc.

You can use existing games and say what you'd improve. You can mash two or three existing games into one. Go wild.

If you go over budget with your description, I'll tell you.

 

[Pope Amole II]

Neither AoD or Serpent are 30-50k games. Authors working for free/future does not mean their work is not being counted, not to mention that volounteers are very, very difficult to find. Even paying people does not always guarantee them working well, so yeah.

 

[Bester]

Neither AoD or Serpent are 30-50k games. Authors working for free/future does not mean their work is not being counted, not to mention that volounteers are very, very difficult to find. Even paying people does not always guarantee them working well, so yeah.

Sure. In my hypothetical scenario, you can code yourself, but need to outsource 2d/3d art. The rest you have to do yourself (animations if it's 3d, music, sounds, game design, scenario, etc).

In which case both games can be completed on that budget, albeit taking a long time.

 

[Owl]

Sometimes I think about making a hard scifi single character "blobber" rpg with glorious pixel graphics. A kind of super-Xenomorph, with deeper gameplay systems.

 

[JarlFrank]

Foot Fetish RPG

 

[Avonaeon]

A Boy and his Dog as a game, with Doom/Build/Quake level graphics.

 

[Jacob]

Game where I can play as a professional thief-hunter

 

[†††]

Anal Fisting Simulator

 

[Swigen]

I’d make a contemporary isometric turn-based rpg with C&C, sex and gore. I think the dude that was asking about games where you start a cult had a neat idea. That’s what I’d make. You could have it be a suicide cult, or exploit people for money or sex or maybe stockpile weapons to start your own free state. There’s a lot of potential there.

 

[Baron Dupek]

7,62 High Calibre or Marauder - Man of Prey, just with more content and game world. Spend money on removing bugs because hoo boy, they sure have a lot of them

A Boy and his Dog as a game, with Doom/Build/Quake level graphics.

so basically - Ashes 2063 but without dog?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Beat-'em-up with the premise that President Trump has been kidnapped by time-traveling terrorists and to save him the United States has summoned the four greatest presidents from history: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. Up to 4 players can play simultaneously, choosing from these four characters, and the levels will take place at various times in American history with suitable villains. Game mechanics, graphics, and sound similar to beat-'em-ups from their golden era:

 

[Kutulu]

Rogue Legacy but with a more serious tone & gfx ala Golden Axe 3, Moonstone.

 

[Wunderbar]

Survival horror with fixed camera angles

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Tactical rpg set in Chile during the 70s.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I'd love to create a click and point adventure.
No money in it nowadays, right Blackthorne ?

 

[SniperHF]

Originally I had conceptualized a sequel to one of my mods for D:OS that would be something akin to Dragon Commander's abstract strategy layer but with RPG gameplay instead of RTS gameplay. So it would be something like Expeditions Conquistador but with more robust exploration, quests, and party management and not supply management and such. But the difference from the Expeditions games would be that like Dragon Commander there would be other AI actors on the strategy map actively moving against you instead of waiting for you to move on them.

So I'd make that.

 

[Grauken]

Scifi Wizardry-like where you explore abandoned generation ships drifting in the void between the stars and try to solve what happened to the missing populations

Wizardry-like taking place far in the future inspired by Hodgeson's Night Land with a light mechanic. Everything is dark usually and only when you use rare consumable you can light up the creatures lurking around, who then will show their horrifying look

 

[Avonaeon]

so basically - Ashes 2063 but without dog?

Kind of, yeah. Ashes was great! I'd have less focus on the shooting and more on trying to get into places and survival, like gathering resources at a location before moving on to the next. Dog would be optional.

 

[Reinhardt]

100+ floors 8 person party blobber.

 

[Melan]

Wizardry IV-based blobber:

• instead of an adventuring party, you control a main character commanding a small army of recruited henchmen/monsters, battling other small warbands/armies;
• set in a fairly open world with multiple points of interest instead of confined in a single dungeon;
• Ultima V-style puzzles / discovery, allowing you to find deeper secrets of the world;
  
• normal difficulty level instead of trying to be The Hardest Game Ever.

 

[Edija]

I'd make Jagged Alliance 40k, CSM vs SM. They are throwing the license at everyone anyway.
But I know it's what the masses want since I'm not a retarded suit that thinks that some sort of overly flashy innovation is needed to make a successful 40k game. Bloody, gritty, GRIMDARK, combat, with DLCs adding other races and mechanics. Good animations on melee and weapons, make them have impact and weight. Seriously, it's not that hard.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i have some intriguing ideas i'd like to explore with a sci-fi mount & blade, easily tweakable to be at the same time single player, multi, moba, last man standing or whatever else you could want from a fps.

 

[Jimmious]

Very small open world TB RPG, with complete focus on AI. AI controlled enemy parties that have same goals as yours etc. Bring something fresh in the genre

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

I've had an idea for a Roman-era card based strategy game for a long time. 2D map, family trees and decision cards for period politics and Risk-style map and units for strategy and empire building. Basically a cross between Crusader Kings, Alea Jacta Est, and Gwent. I think if you stayed away from 3D, limited the battles and character plays to the card system, one could probably get that done at the indie level with a fairly cheap budget. Give the game scope a few hundred years to enjoy building a Roman dynasty and go conquering.

 

[Blackthorne]

I'd love to create a click and point adventure.
No money in it nowadays, right Blackthorne ?

Yeah, it's very difficult to many any money in it. I mean, it's possible - Wadget Eye is doing it, of course, but it's difficult. We still haven't broken even on Quest for Infamy, let alone Order of the Thorne.