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[ostrich160]

Hi guys, so Ive started developing this game, and I've came across a potential problem with it, and just wanted to know what you guys think I should do. Anyway, heres the basic of the idea...

its a 2d top down sandbox survival game set on a world complete with massive decaying cities, mutant zombie creatures, hidden bunkers and a few other features, and the point of it is to survive. However, in the center of the map, a black hole starts from the beginning, and over the course of 1-2 hours real time, it will consume the whole world, so it implements the idea of evacuation, a constant threat, nomads and decided what to take when you need to leave quickly.

So the problem is, do you guys think the game will be bad if your death is on the clock, that you will die within an hour or two and theres no way of stopping that, unless you die sooner by zombies? Would love to hear what you think

Thanks alot
Tom

[marcgfx]

just add a way to survive, escape ship? delaying death by an hour or two doesnt really sound like much of a reward . ok maybe something like this: congratulations, you were the last surviving human! unfortunately, no one will remember you.

[Udderdude]

It sounds like it either needs a win condition (You stop the black hole, you escape from it somehow) or you need to add a good scoring system so players have a reason to do as well as they can before they inevitably die.

[soryy708]

I agree with marcgfx and Udderdude.
I'd like to add some more ideas to the pool:

The hole grows, yay. Let's say you have a scoring system. Make a way to delay the hole's growth (perhapes reduce it's mass?) through a kinda difficult 'quest'. This way you have the illusion of the ability to gain score infinitely; but why not make these quests increasingly difficult to accomplish? That certainly adds to replayability; just don't overdo the difficulty.

Not that? Well how about a hidden "evil karma side thingy"? Side with the hole, feeding as many things to it as possible, but not dying either. Perhapes the hole could promise to spare you?

[ostrich160]

I agree with marcgfx and Udderdude.
I'd like to add some more ideas to the pool:

The hole grows, yay. Let's say you have a scoring system. Make a way to delay the hole's growth (perhapes reduce it's mass?) through a kinda difficult 'quest'. This way you have the illusion of the ability to gain score infinitely; but why not make these quests increasingly difficult to accomplish? That certainly adds to replayability; just don't overdo the difficulty.

Not that? Well how about a hidden "evil karma side thingy"? Side with the hole, feeding as many things to it as possible, but not dying either. Perhapes the hole could promise to spare you?

Thanks for the ideas, but in the end Ive decided to go with some different ideas, I just dont think it works as I thought it would, unless the world is infinite, but thats a project for another day when i know more about that