Wrestling Game Idea for OS

[Molarmite]

I have an idea for a fun game around here using TEW2010. You are allowed to control up to 4 organizations so I was thinking we could split up into four teams with the following roles.

Owner - In charge of everything essentially except for storylines and bookings. It seems like those are two of the major parts of being an owner but there has to be room for other jobs so the owner will be in charge of hiring/firing, internal issues, shows, ppv's, etc.

Head Booker - This person will be in charge of putting together shows/ppv's with the help of their writers. They will talk with the writers, who will give the booker their ideas on how he should book the show.

Writers - These people are in charge of coming up with storylines/feuds then reporting them to the booker. You can choose how to do this in your own promotion, you can assign a head writer that has the final say on storylines. You can have the owner dictates who he wants to push and that decides what gets written about or you can let the owners be on their own.



I haven't decided if we want to use present day rosters or start in 96/97 when there were a lot more workers to make each promotion strong.

Also we could do a fantasy draft to make sure all promotions start out on even ground.

I think this would be a cool idea and a good way to get as many people involved as want to be so let me know if you're interested or have any suggestions.

[zardon]

Re: Wrestling Game Idea for OS

Hello,

I've actually been coding a cut-down EWR game which I started last year after collecting loads of notes from different games such as The Show, MLB, Madden, NCAA football and did a boatload of wireframes, mockups.

Unfortuently the project got a bit too big for me, and I recently started a job which may mean I will have very little time to work on the project.

The project I was aiming to build was a cut-down EWR game for iPhone, and then perhaps gauging audience/demand via Twitter, OperationSports and the various wrestling forums out there.

Amazingly I found a company (with start-up cash, funders, programmers, artists, etc) who reached out to the wrestlers and is actually making the app you're talking about.

As far as I am aware their app will be a card-like game similar to the FIFA/Madden game on Facebook and on PS3.

Although I did look at this as an idea, especially considering how proven the model was, but abandoned it as I realized I was going to need a server, a secure API, and some way to track/manage all the trades so that people do not game the system or cheat, basically it needed a whole web app to help manage the whole project -- which I do not have the funds for.

The main reasons for why I haven't got much further with it is due to the sheer scale and size of the project. I agree, limiting to 4 companies is fine; and even limiting features such as stats to the Bret Hart scale may make things easier; but you still have things like avatars for each wrestler (there could easily be 10K wrestlers in the game, each with 50KB-100KB), and of course you still need to be able to make the computer AI actually do things on their turn.

Anyway, I did make a start on such an app, I just haven't gotten very far; secondly there is a company I met that is making this app, but it might not be what you are expecting.

[footballfan4life]

Re: Wrestling Game Idea for OS

This idea you're taking about would be alot more successful if you used it for TEW'05. It's free unlike the 30-something Tew'10.

[Molarmite]

Re: Wrestling Game Idea for OS

This idea you're taking about would be alot more successful if you used it for TEW'05. It's free unlike the 30-something Tew'10.

No ones needs to own the game, I can post screenshots and information about the necessary stuff. It would take way too long if I had to give everyone the file. I would put all the bookings and stuff into my game and sim everything using my game. The other players would just look at information, request whatever they need, and I put it in the game afterwards.

[zardon]

Re: Wrestling Game Idea for OS

I mis-read the title, I thought it said "Wrestling game idea for iOS" (as is in iPhone, iPad) and not "Wrestling game for OS"; which probably makes my comments null & void.

Although I have TEW05, and have played TEW10; I feel both are way too complex for an iPhone's interface, you might get away with an iPad interface for it, but I'm more of a "make things less complex" kind of guy, as the app would have a pretty large learning curve for complete newbies; in short I always felt it should have a pick-up-and-play feel, like EWR.

I'm not sure what you mean by

No ones needs to own the game, I can post screenshots and information about the necessary stuff. It would take way too long if I had to give everyone the file. I would put all the bookings and stuff into my game and sim everything using my game. The other players would just look at information, request whatever they need, and I put it in the game afterwards.

If you mean its for TEW than I guess it would work; but if you mean some kind of iOS game, sorry it doesn't really work that way, I've investigated it -- you need a CMS, an API to make your data talk to your device, you need some way to make sure every user can create and share data (scenarios/data packs) with each other. Its a pretty big job.

[Molarmite]

Re: Wrestling Game Idea for OS

No I don't mean an iOS game, I never mentioned anything about that, I said using TEW 2010 which is out for PC.