What time period?

[ducktapemax]

If you where going to make a game set in one particular time period what would you choose?

 

[Insanum]

I'd make a game set during the Northern Irish troubles, that being 1969-1998.

You could play as the IRA, the British Army, the RUC, or the Loyalists.

That's copyrighted, by the way. I do plan to make this game.

Why would you want to play as the army? "Your objectives are to check cars & have stuff thrown at you by the locals that you are not allowed to shoot."

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OT: The Distant future, On the moon. Why? Because i can.[/I]

 

[Da Joz]

August of 1986.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

In a utopian future, because there are far too many games with dystopian future settings, I think it would be a nice change of pace.

 

[Dapsen]

1100-1350 in Denmark and Sweden.
this might bring up the question "why not Norway?"
because back then, Norway was part of Denmark.

 

[electric_warrior]

In the times of Henry V (not sure of the exact dates)

 

[Quaxar]

In a utopian future, because there are far too many games with dystopian future settings, I think it would be a nice change of pace.

What would you do in an utopian world? Go around, greeting people, doing the job you love and smiling at everyone you see?

 

[EnzoHonda]

4th century South America. I think it's a forgotten time.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

In a utopian future, because there are far too many games with dystopian future settings, I think it would be a nice change of pace.

What would you do in an utopian world? Go around, greeting people, doing the job you love and smiling at everyone you see?

Yes.

And? What more do you want in a game? Action? combat? Excitement? Well, Michael Atkinson disagrees. I bet you he'd love my idea.

 

[DoctorNick]

I'd make a game set during the Northern Irish troubles, that being 1969-1998.

You could play as the IRA, the British Army, the RUC, or the Loyalists.

That's copyrighted, by the way. I do plan to make this game.

Ooo! Can I play a gun-runner who brings in arms for the IRA?

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Anyway, my game would be in the future where space development has really picked up and you'd get to play as a hard-scrabble asteroid miner trying to strike it rich off in the depths of the belt.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I'd set it...in a dystopic future. Yay for originality.

Seriously though I'd probably set it in the 80s and make it a hard-boiled film noir detective story about people murdering Hair Metal band members.

Spoiler

PS: The killer is your characters aunt's dog and you're the last victim.

 

[reg42]

I would make an RPG set in Hell. The main "city" could be in the first level (limbo) and you would have to progree farther and farther into Hell. I'm going by Divine Comedy logic here.

 

[The Undoer]

In a utopian future, because there are far too many games with dystopian future settings, I think it would be a nice change of pace.

What would you do in an utopian world? Go around, greeting people, doing the job you love and smiling at everyone you see?

Yes.

And? What more do you want in a game? Action? combat? Excitement? Well, Michael Atkinson disagrees. I bet you he'd love my idea.

Nope, you might accidentally stand on a bug.

Personally, I don't know, End of the universe, not Darksiders style, but more like the Doctor Who "The Master Trilogy" in the third series.

 

[Omikron009]

Half past the future.

 

[Kortney]

Dinosaur times!

They interest me.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Mid-late 19th century. I'm a sucker for the clothing and a huge steampunk fan.

 

[zHellas]

New York, around the early 1900s. You're basically a lone, sociopathic serial killer hunting and stalking whomever you decide to make your victims.

 

[Kajt]

The Napoleonic Wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_wars

 

[ultrachicken]

In a utopian future, because there are far too many games with dystopian future settings, I think it would be a nice change of pace.

How would that be a nice change of pace?
In utopia there are no problems, and to have a story you need a problem.

 

[El Poncho]

Wars between Greece(Spartans, Athenians etc.), Persians and eventually Romans.