Arrow and/or WASD keys move the square. But in the opposite direction :P so left/A moves the square right etc

On the button. Although if that doesn't end up working, I will indeed pick a genre or simply a base idea an try that.
Mind if I use this, with some mods?
Thanks for the advice, but Sachys is right when he says I'd prefer to do the more abstract thing. HOWEVER, if that doesn't work out, you're idea is the first I'll go for.

of course not - its actually a modded version of a base legal agreement template a friend and I drew up years ago for various projects we collaborated on and have used since in other projects with different people.

nontheless, if you CAN get the good advice of a lawyer, then its also worth it - but make sure they're relative to entertainments AND have a good knowledge of non-US law as the EU is still a little better protected. wont be cheap, but should the project take off quickly...

if you read the whole line it was for camera angles.
I was basically saying that if he can find the genera of game he wants to build then he can see and get advice on how to build up the rest of the game. He can get all the ideas in the world but without a focused start then he could build up 6 - 20 games without ever really getting a game to be happy with.


// This is the problem with design by comity.

1: by "genera" do you mean "genre"?
2: as i've already said to you (and then backed up by the OP as well) the idea is to make an abstracted / organic development flow - therefore deciding on a a genre at such an early stage, or even something such as a camera angle would be detrimental to its growth / ability to be sporadic and generate good or insane ideas.
3: with the exception of AAA games and in particular larger franchises, most game concept development is just that - the genre specifics and minutae such as camera angles etc are decided as things go along, so in the case of this project, its actually very sensible.

Edit: and heres a suggestion to start (no need for legal disclaimer as I see many dont get the idea): LOW GRAVITY

Camera added, new version uploaded!
Backwards movement added, new version uploaded!
Cross in the middle added by me to show the camera movement easily.

^ its working!

keyboard numbers switch the number of sides (or corners) of the shape.

dot/line(or circle)/triangle/squape/pentagon

woot, flatland here they come

It needs a potato. Definitely a potato.

troof!

All right, but what should the potato do?

I'm thinking it should be a potato that somehow got missed during a cultivation season and was allowed to continue growing, only due to a large asteroid passing by the earth causing an effect on gravity and altering the Earth's trajectory slightly it created an anomaly in the seasons and the potato was able to continue growing as winter was disrupted for several years. At the same time, a truck carrying various bio-hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials had an accident on the highway and caused a huge spill which entered into the water table that supplies the potato with it's source of life. The potato was allowed to grow to immense proportions and developed mutations over time, able to assimilate the DNA of some other plants and animals etc. that it came in contact with and eventually in a few years time it develops self awareness and the ability to freely move about.

It struggles but eventually becomes mobile and is able to remove itself from its Earthbound prison and walk the surface with various superpotato powers. It's eyes are like tendrils which it can use sort of like arms, but perhaps in a not fully articulate way kind of like Octodad perhaps but not quite so uncontrollable.

This superpotato could be an evil superpotato trying to take over the Earth, or it could be a friendly superpotato trying to spread goodwill and kindness towards man.

Seriously though? Evil superpotatoes attempting to take over the Earth will outsell some Gandhi wannabe superpotato 1000 to 1, lets be honest. So it has to have some kind of evil superpotato powers of some kind, and it needs to have an end goal in mind and the game needs a plot that can lead evil superpotato towards that end game. Let's call our potato supervillain... um... Spudlock? Yeah, I'm going to go with Spudlock unless someone else comes up with a more evil name.

That's a bit of a storyline to start with and some fuel for creative building.

Discuss.

Okay, not going to lie, I was not at all expecting to see a post that long about a potato. :D I have a good idea of how I want to implement this story, but I can't quite do it with the base that's there right now. I'll keep this in the file and add it in whenever the game can actually support narrative of any kind. :) Thanks!

I'm aware you were listing camera angles for different genres. However, I still have no idea what you mean by "shooters work best", and you didn't elaborate on it at all in your answer, despite the fact that that is what I asked about.