Yay and alien and his u.f.o heheh. I'm finally doing some clean art again.

This was help visulizing another game concept I had at the back of my mind. I've codenamed it "Signal" and it's concept is very simple.

What would YOU do if you owned a flying saucer?

A lot of the game is a sandbox like The Sims... you create your character then you take a basic ufo and turn it into your dream ship. The core of the game involves the ship itself though. You can do whatever you want to your ship, on the exterior and the interior... and later trade it in for bigger ships... or even a whole space station! The game loads you with all kinds of entertainment to put on the ship... so not only do you get a flying saucer but you get to completely pimp it out as well. You can use this to your advantage and advertise yourself as a party boat complete with rave clubs, casinos, working arcades, and hotel rooms. With this you can invite NPC alien passengers on board with lots of cash on hand. Alternatively you can invite real players online to come on board and party on your ship. The game will also be mod friendly and you can even add MP3's to your ship's music.

You can also use the ship for combat and fight space pirates or other players in pvp. In fact space is rather dangerous in this game... because there is NO intergalatic empire arround or any government for that matter. The law of this jungle is survival of the fittest, so you would be wise to put weapons and defences on your ship as well. You can also make money racing the ship in a number of "tracks" on planets or other locations... think of it as like owning a hot rot that can go lightspeed.

Visually, this is probably not going to be very furry unless you count aliens as anthros... though I might include some furry aliens you can be heheh. The look of the game will feel very much like Jetsons-style sci-fi and lots of Googie elements from the 50's and 60's... even your ships will intentionally have these looks... you'd think you're flying an old Thunderbird or Cadillac. Besides custom MP3s, I would really like to see licensed music in this one... the club feel will allow lots of familiar dance tunes - from trance, to hip hop, to new wave, to disco, to rock n roll, to swing - a wide variety so you can shape the club part of your ship to whatever way you want. Dancing is also very much an active part of the game, you can train your alien characters to dance like pros - or trip over their own feet if you're sadisticly inclined heh.

meh it's just a thought, obviously this won't come till much later though, I don't nearly have the reasorces and the knowladge to do this yet.