Meeting #3

We have a game idea!!! It took two meetings this week (we had to break a tie) and there is still a lot that needs to be fleshed out, but we finally have a high level concept for the game.

We had our regular weekly meeting on Wednesday. There were 4 game ideas then. Everyone presented their vision for the game ideas at the start of the evening. It was interesting to see how people had evolved the original concepts. For instance, one of the ideas from last week was a top down shooter with a special twist. This concept got morphed into a story driven epic by one person and a multi-player racing game by another.

After the presentations, we voted. Two of the ideas were pretty clear front-runners, so we dropped the others. But we were unable to come to a unanimous decision on our favorite. We spent some time discussing the merits of both ideas, but were unable to find any real middle ground. We decided to sleep on it and reconvene at the end of the week with some final arguments.

At the special Friday meeting, the decision came amazingly quick. A few people had done some further work on one of the ideas, and the direction they were taking it in, was amazing. Its action packed, looks visually crazy, and should be a ton of fun to play.

So with the game idea in hand, the real fun begins. For the next meeting everyone will begin to scope & refine the high concept into a “realistic DBP entry” and decide how they want to contribute to the development. Next week we will present the game idea on the blog, so stay tunned for a first glimpse of International Conspiracy’s game idea.