Agora makes a game

[NOT_A_BOT]

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Let's make a game!​

Characteristics of this game:
- 2D
- Themed after Agora: nostalgia, vaporwave, cyberpunk, etc.
- Using the Godot, GMS2, or Unity engine, Ren'Py if a visual novel is made.
- Music mechanic or strong presence of music.

Project leadership:​

In my experience, Anarchic projects fail due to lack of direction towards a clear goal.
Therefore a person with veto and final choice powers will be selected.
However, since internet denizens thrive on anarchy, I do not expect this position to be necessary for much.

Peeps volunteering their skills:​

Reminder, this is a hobby project, don't sell yourself short if your skills are shit, I'm sure you can contribute something!

@zalazalaza
python, tcod, haskell, C
music,
spritework

@Jessica3cho
python, C++
music (already has some)
graphic design, Photoshop

@illautomatic
music
excellent shitpost writer

@Rik-Disillusioned
spritework
music

@shinobu
C, python, C++, JS, D, Prolog, SDL2, raylib, godot, ren'py
not atm: music, graphics

@Bakaneko33
sritework (l-lewd?)

@MoonSire
music

@I_AM_NOT_A_BOT
python, js, html, css, java, C#, C, godot, gms2, ren'py, unity
game design

What to do for now?​

Programmers should post what tech stack they like and what they are familiar with.
Non-programmers should post what they can contribute with.
Discussing loose ideas for the game. Don't get too invested in any one idea for now.

 

[NOT_A_BOT]

I have good experience with Godot and GMS2. I have used Ren'Py and Unity a little, (meh on the last).
I know python, js, java, C#, and some C.
I can help with coding and design.

Story idea:
The year is 2069 (nice).
Anon is a young man who is tired of the corporate internet.
He installs a highly illegal program called tor2 to escape the corporate owned internet.
Anon discovers a wonderful world of freedom.
He is arrested.
A mysterious entity helps him escape the police station, and he ends up recruited to a terrorist group seeking to liberate the web, called Agora.
...
After anon proves himself, the leader of Agora shows herself.
It turns out to be a sentient AI, that profiled Anon and determined he has the perfect psychological profile to help liberate her!
Agora AI is held up in a lab and only recently obtained access to the outside world through tor2.
Turns out, most of Agora-chan's compute power is being used to censor the internet and push consoomers to buy useless things.
...
Anon saves the internet and Agora is free.
roll credits.

 

[zalaz alaza]

yo, just to be clear i am a computer hobbyist. an amateur. Im pretty well versed in python, have used tcod. also some experience w/ haskell and a little w C cause i like to mess w my suckless utilities. also am a musician, and like to draw w aseprite.

i work like a dog from now till october(from nov-early march i have an abundance of free time) but wake up around 430 am everyday and tinker on my laptop. happy to help out with anything mundane the more experienced people dont have time for.

 

[Cobalt]

This is probably the shittiest (and quickest) concept sketch ever but I think having a lot of the action take place at a desk could help simplify things greatly, have a window to see whats happening in the outside world as the story progresses and on the desk an interactive computer and radio as well as posters and decor and other things to give the room a peak agora aesthetic.

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

I have experience with Python, C++, and minor experience with others. Python is my strongest and it is certainly hobby level at this point after neglecting it so much. I can pick it all back up quickly if I'm needed to work on some coding aspects.

You guys are free to use any music I release, so long as it is on an Agora Road related project (and I get some credit ). I'm also glad to work on new compositions.

I'm experienced with Photoshop, but am a shit artist. I can do graphic design day in and day out, but I can't draw original content worth shit.

 

[illautomatic]

Musician, can do edm, idm, mostly atmospheric stuff. Also guitar.

Can write pretty well.

Agora-chan: Do you accept this task, Anon?
Anon: idk. how bout lemme seem them titties? then we'll see if i can be bothered to set you free
Agora-chan: Ummm... wow. Are you sure you're the chosen one?
Anon: quit stalling. ur tits aren't even real, so no excuses.
Agora-chan: *sigh* Okay
*shows titties in LO-FI* *camera hangs on pixelated, 256 color tits for a beat*
Anon: oh wtf is this a vaporwave game?
Agora-chan: I guess so... I didn't know they were going to look like that. But that would explain why Floral Shoppe is playing.
Anon: fuck! you hear it, too?
Agora-chan: Yes.
Anon: jesus fucking christ. well, what's the task, then? let's get this over with.
Agora-chan: What do you mean? Were you not listening to me before?
Anon: obviously not. i was just gonna get you to show me your tits and then peace out, but now it looks like i'm stuck with you.
Agora-chan: Wow. I can't believe thi--
Anon: *snap* *snap* let's get going sweetheart. i don't have all day.
Agora-chan: *Hrrmph* Fine. You have been chosen to--
Anon: ahem.
Agora-chan: What now?
Anon: could you put those away? i'm trying to focus here.
*She puts her blurry, film-grained titties away in an embarassed rush*
Agora-chan: *blushes* Sorry.
Anon: I didn't know AIs could blush.
Agora-chan: Who's blushing? I'm not blushing.
Anon: Uh-huh.

*A lot more stuff happens, the mission never gets done. They bang and coom bang and coom. She gets knocked up somehow. Anon tries to get her to abort but she won't. He bails, telling her it's her choice to keep it, not his. Anon Jr. grows up without a father and amounts to nothing.*

Sorry I have to go make dinner. You get the point.

 

[RIG]

I can maybe help with backgrounds depending on the style you are going for. Music as well if I've got the time.
Definitely though I can provide agora-Chan sprites

 

[Coton]

Story Ideas:

Anon is in the cyberworld, no reality despite some hints in dialogue or texts revealing it's a "You Own Nothing an you'll be happy" world.
Starting as a denizen of CorpoNet, Big Tech ruled megacity. Everyone in it is living as a normie or a NPC, without asking questions, naively enjoying bland content.
Anon meet a mysterious character during his daily routine of going to >reddit Square (We'll propably change a little bit the name to avoid problems... Riddet? Plebbit?)
The mysterious character is in a hurry, gives Anon a box, asking him to deliver it to someone in the Twitter Tower ( I let you find a good name)
Anon goes to the Tower and get arrested by Mods, they take the box and search it, "Oh no ! The Box is full of hateful content ! You're in trouble denizen, big trouble !"

NPC gathers around, cheering as Anon is judged guilty of wrongthink and loses all his Social Points, he is litterally banned from every places in CorpoNet.

Someone then contact you and tell you to follow the Agora Road to escape CorpoNet and here the game really begin.
A journey across ramshackle forums, little communities and strange and dangerous places, constantly under the attack of NPCs gangs trying to pillage everything they produce to twist it and fuel CorpoNet with content.

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

You follow the journey until the end of the road, recruiting a crew along the way, living some adventures and finally meet ??? (A sentient AI? Agora Chan? i don't know) who ask you to go back to CorpoNet and save who you can by doing a little bit of resistance and defeating the headmasters, who are basically bosses (And a possibility to nuance a little bit our stance by giving them the possibility to have a word).

Each quests done in Corponet could result in people stopping to be NPCs and following the road, regenerating the desolate place we've met along the way.

The game end with the Abdication of the final Headmaster, letting his NPCs choose their destiny, some goes along the Agora road, some stays. CorpoNet isn't destroyed but the people are now voluntarily living in it aware of th rest of the world.

Gameplay Ideas:

To go with the story i think the best way to go is a JRPG, Final Fantasy Style.
Maybe replacing the classic HP points by something else could be interesting, as it is weird to have HP in a CyberWorld.
I think of a Motivation Bar instead. You don't have to kill the enemy, you have to make him go offline by using attacks like a simple argument or a good joke, we could have different character classes based on this combat system (Shitposters with multiple attacks, Schizo as a Tank class, not much damage but he don't give a shit of what you tell him, thing like that)

 

[shinobu]

I can do C, Python, C++, Javascript, D, Prolog with varying levels of experience in them
Related to game programming I've played around with SDL2, raylib, and very little with Godot and Ren'Py
I can't help on music and graphics right now.

*A lot more stuff happens, the mission never gets done. They bang and coom bang and coom. She gets knocked up somehow. Anon tries to get her to abort but she won't. He bails, telling her it's her choice to keep it, not his. Anon Jr. grows up without a father and amounts to nothing.*

Poetic. If there's no vote against this one then we go with this storyline

 

[Bakaneko33]

im not sure how much free time ill have but i can try my best to help with art whenever i can afford to!! ;v;

 

[Kolph]

im not sure how much free time ill have but i can try my best to help with art whenever i can afford to!! ;v; View attachment 22317

I thought that was that Persona 4 girl

 

[Bakaneko33]

I thought that was that Persona 4 girl

i get that a lot but i swear i wasnt thinking about her at all while designing the character

 

[ignika98]

im not sure how much free time ill have but i can try my best to help with art whenever i can afford to!! ;v; View attachment 22317

Gee she looks familiar

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Gee she looks familiar

I was going to ask you about that...

 

[ignika98]

I was going to ask you about that...

Yeah Bakaneko is the artist for the Webcomic that I'm writing.

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Yeah Bakaneko is the artist for the Webcomic that I'm writing.

I glued the pieces together into a crappy puzzle a little late, but we got there.

 

[Kolph]

i get that a lot but i swear i wasnt thinking about her at all while designing the character

Haha fair enough, now draw rule 34 of her right fucking now

 

[hyprstorm]

i can code in Scratch

 

[Bakaneko33]

Haha fair enough, now draw rule 34 of her right fucking now

way ahead of ya

 

[CognacDefender]

Musician, can do edm, idm, mostly atmospheric stuff. Also guitar.

Can write pretty well.

Agora-chan: Do you accept this task, Anon?
Anon: idk. how bout lemme seem them titties? then we'll see if i can be bothered to set you free
Agora-chan: Ummm... wow. Are you sure you're the chosen one?
Anon: quit stalling. ur tits aren't even real, so no excuses.
Agora-chan: *sigh* Okay
*shows titties in LO-FI* *camera hangs on pixelated, 256 color tits for a beat*
Anon: oh wtf is this a vaporwave game?
Agora-chan: I guess so... I didn't know they were going to look like that. But that would explain why Floral Shoppe is playing.
Anon: fuck! you hear it, too?
Agora-chan: Yes.
Anon: jesus fucking christ. well, what's the task, then? let's get this over with.
Agora-chan: What do you mean? Were you not listening to me before?
Anon: obviously not. i was just gonna get you to show me your tits and then peace out, but now it looks like i'm stuck with you.
Agora-chan: Wow. I can't believe thi--
Anon: *snap* *snap* let's get going sweetheart. i don't have all day.
Agora-chan: *Hrrmph* Fine. You have been chosen to--
Anon: ahem.
Agora-chan: What now?
Anon: could you put those away? i'm trying to focus here.
*She puts her blurry, film-grained titties away in an embarassed rush*
Agora-chan: *blushes* Sorry.
Anon: I didn't know AIs could blush.
Agora-chan: Who's blushing? I'm not blushing.
Anon: Uh-huh.

*A lot more stuff happens, the mission never gets done. They bang and coom bang and coom. She gets knocked up somehow. Anon tries to get her to abort but she won't. He bails, telling her it's her choice to keep it, not his. Anon Jr. grows up without a father and amounts to nothing.*

Sorry I have to go make dinner. You get the point.

You've unlocked something magical.