Well towards fan project i can help with organisimisation, story and shit if needed. Bounce ideas off me. But not too hard, you'll mishape my afro

Well, I'd like the serious discussion option. I must admit, I am put off by many off-topic subjects by the fact that manyothers degenerate into silly joking and going off-subject, or spiteful flaming of others for having different viewpoints. If there was a proper debate/discussion board where you could talk about such things without either getting flamed over your opinion (For while disagreement is fine, everyone should respect everyone else's opinion as they are entitled to one) or seeing the intelligent posts cut apart by drabble, I (and I'd imagine many other members too) would certainly be more active in such areas. Sorry if some of that was hard to understand at first, but sometimes when I express my views on certain topics, the sentences get hard to understand due to their length.

As for a forum game, I'm certainly no good when it comes to programming, flash etc. but I'd be happy to offer my ideas and input. I'm sure everyone who was interested in such a project would be able to help in some way. The trouble is, woud it be a fan-made Oddworld game, a different series, or a new/general/crossover game?

I think I should note that by "fan games" I kind of meant text based stuff like Shrink's Mafia game. It's somewhat RPish but I think we can put up with that.

Forum events would be anything from filming yourself doing something mad to drawing little comic strips. So I'm suprised that you don't like the sound of that SeaRex cause I thought that would appeal to you. We could have all sorts of competitions and things... and it would be something fun for us all to take part in. We just need to think creatively about what kind of things we could do.

See, that's where the problem lies. Everyone, myself included, wants to have a say in a big project like that, but when it comes down to individuals with the skill to produce... well... they're a lot more rare.

As for text-based RPG games, like Shrink's Mafia game, I think we need to get T-Nex in here. I have no information on future expansions of RPGs.

Still, you guys kick around some ideas. I might make individual threads where we can discuss the individual topics (fan games, shop hack, etc) tomorrow; that might make things a little easier.
Ah. I guess that sounds more interesting than what I was thinking. I guess I was just assuming that it would turn out to be like... the annual superlative things we do. Kinda boring.

Anywho, in summation, get some ideas brewing and I'll make a couple stickies tomorrow.

I'd think that with the forum events, Dino's suggestions where good. Contests could be an idea, the only danger would be that either there'd be rigging by certain mods, or the people who didn't win would feel picked on/ left out/ unliked/ whatever. But if we could do it without people whining about not winning, here's some ideas:

Bring back the Annual Forum Awards
Bring back the Oddlympics
Have fan-based contests, such as Most popular/liked/favourite FanFiction Oddworld or Non-Oddworld (I avoid saying 'Best' because again ,those who don't win ,may be disheartened)
and Favourite/tactful way of saying 'best' Fanart.

That's it for contest ideas. As for people with the skill to do a fan game, I knew a coupla guys who could do that, indeed we were planning and designing a fangame on another forum before it got ended by hacking. So I could try and regain contact with them, and bring them here for the game (Although this is where a non-Oddworld-only fangame would be better, as they aren't particularly into Oddworld).