#a hypothetical

[tigereyes45]

A Transformers Strategy Fan Game

Playing as Optimus Prime a brand new prime who must learn how to be a leader in a war he wasn't prepared for. The game would be focused on deciding who you assign to which missions, and resource gathering, with a heavy focus on character dynamics with each other. More of the initial idea can be found in this post.

This will be a fan made game that will probably take a couple of years to completely put together. Currently looking for writers, artists, and programmers!

Some ideas of what to include in the game is:

Characters building bonds with those they go on missions with, including Optimus (potentially negative and positive).

Missions that go well can results in resources, or even new characters on your team.

Missions that go poorly can result in lost resources, injuries, and dead characters.

Characters give bonus on missions, or penalties if on a mission while injured.

Characters betraying their teams (decepticons & autobots depending on choices).

Missions taking a varying amount of in game time (1 week, 1 month, etc.)

[zolupine]

You and me, we’ve got something to lose : )

[apollohour]

Use your own judgement to decide what each one means to you :) * Childbirth, while it was initially supposed to mean being born can also mean giving birth ** You can decide whether as a mixed person it would've been possible for you to have been born (e.g. in my case I couldn't have been, but that might differ depending on the person) *** You can also decide the location, whether that be your current location or where you would've been born historically

[linkcharacter]

We should have some

[stardustfanfare]

what ive learned from making joke headcanons is that within an hour theyre usually no longer a joke

[danshive]

YOU! Are granted the power to suddenly own ONE video game franchise, and to hire the best people who have ever worked on it (and/or anyone else you want in on it).

What video game franchise are you rescuing--er, acquiring?

[phosphorus-noodles]

how do we feel about a cis girl using he/him pronouns

[prokopetz]

I think we're starting to dilute the meaning of "terminally online". Like, no, it's not terminally online to have eccentric opinions about a popular TV show – people like that existed before "online" was a thing. Unless we're talking at least an "it's homophobic for gay furries to have rat fursonas because they're depicting gay people as vermin", the onlineness falls well short of terminal.

[shyjusticewarrior]

Duke: Would you slap your favorite brother for a million dollars?

Damian: Yes.

Tim: Yeah. Sorry, Dick.

Jason: I would slap Dick for free.

[oilan]

I love practicing by painting master studies, BUT

I love painting master studies and I learn a lot from them. But I don't want them to clutter up my house and it would be nice to recover some cost of art materials used for practicing. I see other artists selling their studies, but I'm torn. (Obviously, this does not involve trying to pass off your study as an original! That is called forgery :) )

[tigereyes45]

I wish there was a Transformers video game where you play as Optimus Prime, and you have to send your allies out on missions. You can go on them too.

If a mission goes well maybe you gain resources to new allies, if it goes poorly you could lose them instead. Your team or the enemy could have characters on it that might die if they go on a mission injured, or due to danger chance.

Characters could have special traits or abilities that better fit some missions over others. For example maybe sending bumblebee on a scouting mission would give a 50% bonus to discovering energon deposits, or sending him on a mission not scouting focus could mean he gives a 10% chance of finding energon. Sending Ratchet on a team could lower the chance of injuries picked up. Putting Ultra Magnus in charge of a team could lower the amount of time the mission takes.

Maybe when you are on a mission, or you're at base in between missions you could talk to your teammates who are around. Perhaps some missions last a day, others last days, or weeks in game time. So whoever is around you can talk to and build bonds with leading to more conversations/plots revealed. Maybe if you don't trust a bot enough, or don't talk to them/meet their needs that can lead them to betraying you. You could include so many of the transformers in a game like this too (and people could learn about them as Optimus does in a setting that feels natural).

I'd just really like to see a game where you play an Optimus who is at the beginning of being a leader, and learning the devastating cost of war, as well as how far Decepticons would be wiling to go to win. (And you know it wouldn't have to have romance elements but I would have any Optimus I control hang out and listen to Ratchet so much).

I wish I knew how to code games so I could make this happen. Alas my skills rest primarily in writing. However if someone else is interested and needed help with writing it, I'd totally be down for it!

Edit: It seems like a lot of people are interested in this idea. Or at least think this is a kind of game that would be fun to play. So I have two questions for everyone:

1. Do y'all think I should try and put together a team of fans to make this game happen?

2. If I did try and put together a team would you want to join and if so and what capacity? (Ex. Artist, coder, writer, etc.)

[dyleeart]

Starmaker

(suit based on David Tennnant's)

[canmom]

hypothetical 1

you have £1,000,000 to distribute evenly between a number of people. you decide how many.

all the recipients will be total strangers

you will never meet them after they receive the money, nor find out what they do with it.

they are chosen uniformly at random from the entire population of the world

the money will be in a form they can easily access, converted to their local currency.

for simplicity, the number of people must be a power of 10.

if you don't distribute this money in this way, it will be destroyed.

[zillychu]

I'm normal about act 5. why do u ask

[ditzybat]

bernard: i just love true crime, don't you?

tim, trying to impress him: i may or may not be a war criminal with a hypothetical body count in the triple digits who's trained under multiple trained assassins as their apprentice

bernard: ???

[wolfythewitch]

Ulysses dies at dawn,,, At least, that’s the word on the street from those what saw what went down at Calypso’s,,