MGSting
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The idea is essentially a non-simulation American football game, sort of arcade-like, with a side-view of the field. We already have games like this, Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES. However because of how horrid EA's Madden games have been in recent years, suppose we had a small team creating a game like Tecmo bowl without an NFL license (it might even be possible for one person to do it on GMS) to provide an alternate football experience reminiscent of the NES sports games. The gameplay will basically be football, each team has 4 run plays and 4 pass plays and the defense has to guess what play the offense called to counter. There could be a few arcade elements too like "on fire" from NBA Jam.
Now most of you are thinking, why not just play Tecmo Super Bowl or one of the mods out there? Well, the big "selling point" for this indie game would be total control in team customization. The game will start with 8 generic teams and the player can then use the team creation feature to create a maximum of lets say 300 teams. They can then go into season mode with 8, 12, 32 or even 100 teams if they're dedicated and create their own season rules and playoff formats. And this team creation suite will be very open, such as a pixel art thing that allows the player to create a logo and the uniforms from scratch in pixel.
One last thing I'd like to mention is that it would probably play best if it was 8 bit like the NES Tecmo bowl games. That would also make it easier to develop on GMS
Now most of you are thinking, why not just play Tecmo Super Bowl or one of the mods out there? Well, the big "selling point" for this indie game would be total control in team customization. The game will start with 8 generic teams and the player can then use the team creation feature to create a maximum of lets say 300 teams. They can then go into season mode with 8, 12, 32 or even 100 teams if they're dedicated and create their own season rules and playoff formats. And this team creation suite will be very open, such as a pixel art thing that allows the player to create a logo and the uniforms from scratch in pixel.
One last thing I'd like to mention is that it would probably play best if it was 8 bit like the NES Tecmo bowl games. That would also make it easier to develop on GMS