Mega City Builder (Judge Dredd inspired) City/Sim Management Thread

Hello,

First off before anything I want to say that I am a beginner developer and please excuse any stuff that is not flushed out or anything. This is only a rough concept idea.

Anyways here is the rough idea for the game.

Mega City One, eight hundred million people living in an area built to house less than half, bordering mega city one is the cursed earth, a desert wasteland scarred by nuclear radiation, home to fugitives from justice and society's worse. Law and Order is maintained by the Judges, the judges are special lawmen given the powers of judge, jury and executioner, they are the ultimate in law enforcement. (intro from cursed edge youtube video series)

The idea behind this game is you start off with a single sector in the city of mega and build it up to become a bustling city that is maintained by the judges. You can either let it become a thriving city where law and order is maintained or let mega city one fall into disrepair and criminals run the streets and the judges become overpowered. You will be responsible for every street, pipe and city block and of course the justice department itself and the judges who live and work in the city of mega.

So Sim City meets Judge Dredd? I like the idea of you building up the city, but you'd have to start very very early, like the apocalypse happened yesterday kind of thing.

Yeah thats exactly where i was thinking of starting off for the game

Well it could be entertaining, I can see a research and unlocking theme going. As both your needs techknowledge advances, so you just don't start out with everything. It would take a lot of work to make and with 0 potential profit because, well you don't own any of the ideas your drawing reference from, it may be hard to recruit a team to actually make it.

Yeah thats the only obstacle I'm seeing that's gonna be a problem and I definitely have to be careful in case 2000AD decides that they wanna come after me for copyright infringment, though I have seen so far that they don't seem to mind fan made items such as fan films and stuff like that so hopefully I'll be okay.

Thr111 are you a dev? would you be willing to help me out?

I'm already a artist myself and kinda know how to work with the engine im using so I know i already have one position filled

Well I'd love to help you, but I'm fairly busy with my own project at the moment. I could probably help you with design related matters and Q&A testing though. I simply do not have the time to write more code, animate or create game assets.

I can create the assets, I've already created a street judge and a perp assets, currently working on cursed earth tile set,

Whatever you can help me out with I'll greatly take for the project.

Thr111

Well lets see, what engine are you making it with? Are you using sprites or models? Do you have design docs, deadlines and a target market?

Im using game maker at the current moment

I'm using sprites

no design docs

no deadline as of yet except to get a rough tech demo

um the target market would be all the people that love city building/management/sim games as well as judge dredd fans

its gonna be 2d game btw

I love Judge Dredd and 2000ad in general

A game like this could be set at the current Dredd time as it's only been a couple of years (three?) since Chaos Day and Mega City 1 was reduced to 72 Million people

But yes, there are a number of moments in the history of Mega City 1 where the place has been pretty much devastated so there are a number of time periods to choose from. Setting you game after the Apocalypse war would allow you to use a more "classic" Dredd look.

I think a game like this could work really well.

Good luck.

I Believe its been 3 since chaos day when MC01 was reduced to 72 million instead of the 800 they started out with.

I was thinking just after the apocalypse war as that's really when the big meg became the icon we all know and love today in the comic book series and when the judges took over as guardians of order and justice throughout planet earth and mega city one.

Yeah it can work just need a team to work on it, I already fill the art and asset roles so just need animators and scripters I guess.

Hope more people will see this thread and tell me their thoughts just like you have and hope people will help me make this game possible.

Thanks for the kind words 29_games

Hey guys I just posted a page for the game, check it out

Indiedb.com

I am currently looking for people to help me make this game become a reality. I will have a rough demo up hopefully whenever I can get this done