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Design Journal - Game Concept: I am God

May 29, 2008

I had an idea for a unique RTS game to be made in flash. Basically its and RTS game but it is drawn out over a long period of time spanning several days and the premise is based on different religions. You are God and have given the gift of civilisation to a small group of animals on a world that previously had none. You give them knowledge to build houses, wear clothes and build buildings but there is a problem. Another God has come to the planet you have set your civilisation up on and given another group of animals the same advantage. Considering you are the one true God to your people and this intruder is telling their people that there is only one God and it isnt you, you are feeling a little hurt by this and have decided to do something about it. Throughout the game you build units and control your people as you strive to being the one true God for all of creation. There are many ways in the game to do this, you can destroy anyone who doesn’t believe in you by sending your people to attack or you can send your people into their villages and convert everyone in there, once you have converted them they now belong to you and can start converting others to your ways. This is just the premise for the game, I would try to make it an online game where people can play against each other and have a long list of statistics telling people of their empires and how many followers they now have, as people gathered more followers other people could enter the game under their name and soon (although every religion has a founding prophet) everyone would be choosing some of the larger ones to play under their name.

It’s a new concept I havent seen before and if I cant be the one to make this game then I would love for someone else to cause I think it could get really intetesting.