First reflexions

First reflexions

With the group we have decided to go on a strategic game in space. But there is several things to determine before beginning the coding.

Here are my thoughts about them:

Multiplayer online vs single player

Multiplayer advantages:

• low quality graphics are more acceptable (ex: cs go)
• several business plans (pay to win, pay to fast, skin, gambling, case, monthly subscription
• no need for plot

Multiplayer disadvantages:

• you have to have servers
• coding the player-server part is not necessary easy

Single player advantages:

• no need for server

Single player disadvantages:

• need of a story
• coding the IA of the bot should be difficult

Buisness Plan

As said in the previous part, if we decide to go with the multiplayer game, there are plenty of way to make money with the game. But i think that the most profitable economic model nowadays is the microtransaction one. It could be just aesthetic addition like skins (example: league of legend, cs go) that change nothing to the gameplay, or it can be the possibility to pay to have better weapons/skills faster.

In the other way, if we choose the single player option, i thinck the most common economic model is to sell the game for a fixed price and then sell additional content like new maps/factions/weapons for an additional cost (example: mass effect, skyrim).

Unique Mechanic

For the time being we have tought of two aspects of the game that will make it "unique":

• A very large scalability (i think it's better for a multiplayer game)
• The aspect of gravity when a ship comes close to a planet/star/...

Divers

• Victory conditions
• capture homeworld of the ennemy
• or do we open more possibility (like economic victory)
• Type of units:
• only spaceship (bomber, fighter, massive ship,...)
• or spaceshipe and ground force
• Ressources:
• only money
• or several ressources (like iron, gold,...)
• Turn base (like civilization, endless space) or real time (like age of empire, battle for the middle earth)