It's great to see people are still influenced by this game till this very day. I was a day one adopter, I purchased this game when it first came out back in 1998 and played the shit out of it day after day. I too for a while wanted to make a revamped version of this great strategic game and that is what brought me here.
Quilty, my hat off to you for working on the remake and posting your progress. I know how it is to develop something from scratch by yourself but could you imagine how much more progress you can get done with a team of developers? Like IpDipDawg said, I believe your best bet is to make this game open source, if organized with the right people this has huge potential. I believe this game must have multiple player and has to have the ability to have more than 4 main gangs. The map must be a lot larger than the original. Needs to have night and day. The work week needs to be really thought out properly, hoods should be able to enter any building you desire and have controls to do things like extort business owner, smash up, etc on the spot during the work week.
Now for the graphics they don't need to be next gen so at least there is some leeway there but the music and sound effects need to be spot on and of the highest quality possible. Must be 20's inspired music, Jazz stuff like that much like the original which has great music and sound effects.
We can go on and on with everything the game needs but we should work together to make this game. Find out the ways we can work together like using slack to communicate with each in the development progress.
I know the main issue here is trust and I completely agree.
When it comes to this sort of thing nobody wants to have someone else take their work and use it on their own project. But I do believe it can be done properly where we all come together and try to bring other great minds that can help contribute to helping make this game.
I personally can bring multiple things to the table on the project. If we have a clear vision and goal I wouldn't mind hiring graphic artists as well as potential coders and AWS hosting. I can code but it depends on the language, have experience coding in JAVA, C#, C++, PHP and Python. I'm very well verse in website development and can create many different types of websites. For this project we would want to have a landing page at first talking about the project and a forum if needed. Really can do anything if I've giving enough time to get familiar with the software, platform or system.
I believe finding people who can help contribute to the games development would be crucial in the beginning. I know a good friend of mine who loved playing this game as much as I do has great ideas for strategy and can contribute valuable ideas on game mechanics, he has lots of experience playing strategy games like myself. He and I every so often talk about the potential of an update version of the game and after finding this thread I texted him, lol.
Quilty, let me know if you would be interested in talking more about this. Maybe off the forum. I live in Southern California, in the off chance you might live near me.
See you later.
Jonathan.
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