[Gretin]

You know Scrabtrapman.... No offense or anything, but you seem to be acting very high and mighty without any justification for that. I mean, you're calling yourself "director" and "games developer," but where's the proof of your skills? I'm not trying to be harsh (even though it's probably going to come across that way), and I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but even if you can show us all that you are as great as you say you are, a little bit of humility goes a long way.

In short - I don't know about anyone else, but I'm happy to work with you and the others who have expressed interest in this group, but if you want to be project leader (which is a more fitting title for making a game than "director" in my humble opinion) I do expect you to prove that you're up to the task. Otherwise it looks like you're just asking other people to make a game for you.

But like I said, I'm not trying to be harsh, and I apologise if it came across that way.

On the topic of ideas, I think this is where having our forum to discuss these things would be useful. In fact, if no one objects, I might go ahead and create it myself and PM you all the link, then we can discuss ideas there and avoid cluttering up this thread here. But on the topic of what kind of game to create, I did wonder if maybe we could work on both simultaneously?

For instance, I agree that doing a simple platformer as a start would be a good idea, and a good way to see where everyone's strengths and weaknesses are. But at the same time, perhaps Venks and I (due to Venks' high interest in getting an RTS engine running and my experience with TBS) could have a go at getting a basic RTS engine up, to see whether it's going to actually work and such.

The main problem I see with any type of game, though, is what are the graphics going to be like? As much as I respect the hard work that went into creating the Mario and other style sprites, I feel they don't really do Oddworld justice. Feel free to disagree here, since I realise I'm being somewhat hypocritical - I couldn't even create sprites that good. But I do think we could at least try having sprites in a different style - maybe not the high quality of OWI themselves but less of a kiddy style than the likes of Mario and Sonic.