#transformers game

Megatron: “Soundwave…Are you even TRYING to stop them?

*Meanwhile this motherfucker got Wheeljack killed multiple times while he was repairing the cargo lift. By using like five different giant Robo arms to try and fuck our shit up, sent countless soldiers after me in my playthroughs putting me in literal hell since this is on Warrior Difficulty*

If a mission goes well maybe you gain resources to new allies, if it goes poorly you could lose them instead. Your team or the enemy could have characters on it that might die if they go on a mission injured, or due to danger chance.

Characters could have special traits or abilities that better fit some missions over others. For example maybe sending bumblebee on a scouting mission would give a 50% bonus to discovering energon deposits, or sending him on a mission not scouting focus could mean he gives a 10% chance of finding energon. Sending Ratchet on a team could lower the chance of injuries picked up. Putting Ultra Magnus in charge of a team could lower the amount of time the mission takes.

Maybe when you are on a mission, or you're at base in between missions you could talk to your teammates who are around. Perhaps some missions last a day, others last days, or weeks in game time. So whoever is around you can talk to and build bonds with leading to more conversations/plots revealed. Maybe if you don't trust a bot enough, or don't talk to them/meet their needs that can lead them to betraying you. You could include so many of the transformers in a game like this too (and people could learn about them as Optimus does in a setting that feels natural).

I'd just really like to see a game where you play an Optimus who is at the beginning of being a leader, and learning the devastating cost of war, as well as how far Decepticons would be wiling to go to win. (And you know it wouldn't have to have romance elements but I would have any Optimus I control hang out and listen to Ratchet so much).

I wish I knew how to code games so I could make this happen. Alas my skills rest primarily in writing. However if someone else is interested and needed help with writing it, I'd totally be down for it!

Edit: It seems like a lot of people are interested in this idea. Or at least think this is a kind of game that would be fun to play. So I have two questions for everyone:

1. Do y'all think I should try and put together a team of fans to make this game happen?

Yes, folks, it's happening. The thing noone but me asked for. Alternatively: With the help of my amazing boyfriend @the-mcintosh we (read: him, his team and me as moral support) are trying to put the game back online! Once (or if, but let's be hopeful here) we manage to do it, we'll hopefully make the game widely avaible for the Transformers community yet again. And with the horrid lack of any transformers games lately (especially after the tradgedy that was Reactivate…) hopefully this can put us in high spirits!

Now, onto the technical side:

(Special thanks to the person from discord who after seeing an earlier message I sent DM'd me and gave us more game files, which turned out to be basically the finished product. I swear my bf was drooling through the screen when I sent them over)

Progress is going steady, especially today it picked up quite a lot once we've managed to get the files of the game's latest version, when up until now we were working with older alpha builds. The managed to get into the game's source code, which basicallu opened up the flood gates. It's amazing I'm making this as basically an introduction and will promptly give up the mantle of update making to my bf, who insisted on making his first post after he manages to get into the game's main menu. Right now, it "does not wanna FUCKING ACCEPT MY FUCKING BITCH ASS FUCKING DLL" Anyways, to finish: Here's some screenshots of the progress made. Hopefully this exites at least someone out there!

and some loading screens!

The game itself is pretty mid when it comes to gameplay, not really in a bad way since it controls well but it isn’t anything special, but the premise of the gameplay is actually brilliant.

Cause, one of the problems of making a transformers racing game is… how can you make it feel like transformers? If they’re in their alt mode the whole time, it’ll just feel like a normal racing game with a transformers coat of paint. If they’re not, it would be weird that they’re riding in a car when they can turn into a car themselves.

Well, the answer here is simple - they made it a racing action game. Basically you transform into robot mode during segments of the race and go through obstacles and enemies, using the same button for accelerating to fire your weapon.

They also tie them together in some interesting ways, like your boost meter is tied to your special weapon meter - so if you boost before transforming, now you can’t use your special weapon that could help you in the action segment. It adds some strategy to normal racing, to decide whether boosting is more beneficial than potentially using a special move or if you can regain your energy before the next segment.

I just think that’s a really smart way to make the game more unique in a way transformers can do - they have two modes, so having two types of gameplay which can affect one another fits the gimmick.