New kaiju game from Matt Frank + Simon Strange [Archive]

[SpanishBulldog63]

*looks back at last post*

...I see what you mean.

[matrix]

This is a weird question, but what will the menu's look like? I love the menu in Godzilla: Save the Earth because of the awesome godzilla eye, its kinda creepy, and your in a boat, its so cool! can you tell me what your menu plans are? (if you have plans yet) I'm thinking maybe the screen is looking out a window at the city and monsters walk by.

[Supergeon]

The title should also be appealing to people who may not be monster fans from the get go.

Kaiju: Age of Monsters
That would be the fan in me talking

Call of Kaiju: Monster Ops
That would be the business man in me talking

[Mr. Strange]

This is a weird question, but what will the menu's look like? I love the menu in Godzilla: Save the Earth because of the awesome godzilla eye, its kinda creepy, and your in a boat, its so cool! can you tell me what your menu plans are? (if you have plans yet) I'm thinking maybe the screen is looking out a window at the city and monsters walk by.

I'll tell Mark you like the eye!

Unfortunately, as I've said a few other places recently, menus and menu systems are a huge difficulty in game development - so we save a LOT of time by streamlining menus and cutting them wherever possible. My inclination will be to use minimal menus, and use the time & money saved to make EVEN MORE MONSTERS.

Of course, my opinion isn't the only one that counts. If, during development people start to say "You know, we have enough monsters - let's work on adding bells & whistles to the menu system" - then that's what we will do.

[PopInPicsPresents]

I'll tell Mark you like the eye!

Unfortunately, as I've said a few other places recently, menus and menu systems are a huge difficulty in game development - so we save a LOT of time by streamlining menus and cutting them wherever possible. My inclination will be to use minimal menus, and use the time & money saved to make EVEN MORE MONSTERS.

Of course, my opinion isn't the only one that counts. If, during development people start to say "You know, we have enough monsters - let's work on adding bells & whistles to the menu system" - then that's what we will do.

I agree that the menus should be simple, but could you guys offer up an option to turn off the narrator in the sounds options this time around?

[GodzillaMothra]

Game Names

1 Godzilla Wars
2 Godzilla Operation Destroy All Monsters
3 Godzilla King Kong And Gamera All Out Attack
4 Godzilla Monster Wars
5 Godzilla King of the Monsters
6 Operation Destroy All Monsters
7 Godzilla Invasion Of The Vortaak
8 Godzilla

[JVM]

Taking from Supergeon's idea, but changing it up a bit... Age of Kaiju could work.

[hammysammy59]

I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I've never been a fan of the word "kaiju." I'd definitely prefer a title that avoided it.

That sounds a lot more nitpicky than I want to come across. Honestly the game could be called Shit-fuckers 3: Rise of the skreeonk and I'd still be donating.

[Mr. Strange]

"Age of Kaiju" is pretty good.

"Age of Monsters" is also decent.

Lots and lots of "pretty good" suggestions here. Can we come up with something really excellent? Ideally the name would hit all of these criteria:

1 - Be short enough to remember.
2 - Catchy.
3 - Easy to spell.
4 - Tell you that the game is about giant monster battles.
5 - Tell you that the game is online.
6 - Indicate that the game is expandable, and always getting better.
7 - Not use any words which might imply anything which is not core to the game.

In the example above, it's the word "Age" which breaks criteria #7. Is the game about a specific time period? If we want to do the all-'70s style thing, then "Age of Monsters" would be excellent, because it indicates the core decision that everything in the game is set in a specific time period.

[Kaiju-King42]

I have a question, ...but you probably won't like it. And I could use the input from other users as well, please.

Is there any chance at all that this entire thing is a scam by someone pretending to be Simon Strange or Kaijusamurai, and that they are planning to take our money? Call me paranoid, but I think it is important to ask this question before we start donating anything. Mr. Strange, my accusation may be wrong, and for that I'm sorry. I just want to make sure I'm donating to the right person first.

[miguelnuva]

I have a question, ...but you probably won't like it. And I could use the input from other users as well, please.

Is there any chance at all that this entire thing is a scam by someone pretending to be Simon Strange or Kaijusamurai, and that they are planning to take our money? Call me paranoid, but I think it is important to ask this question before we start donating anything. Mr. Strange, my accusation may be wrong, and for that I'm sorry. I just want to make sure I'm donating to the right person first.

Well the same thing here is posted on kaijusamurai's deviantart.

[Living Corpse]

Considering Chris is talking to the person I think we're in safe hands otherwise he'd talk to him on something like Skype and realize something is up.

[matrix]

How about, Rise of the Kaiju, maybe not perfect but I think we can build of it.

[matrix]

This is a weird question, but what will the menu's look like? I love the menu in Godzilla: Save the Earth because of the awesome godzilla eye, its kinda creepy, and your in a boat, its so cool! can you tell me what your menu plans are? (if you have plans yet) I'm thinking maybe the screen is looking out a window at the city and monsters walk by.

I'll tell Mark you like the eye!

Unfortunately, as I've said a few other places recently, menus and menu systems are a huge difficulty in game development - so we save a LOT of time by streamlining menus and cutting them wherever possible. My inclination will be to use minimal menus, and use the time & money saved to make EVEN MORE MONSTERS.

Of course, my opinion isn't the only one that counts. If, during development people start to say "You know, we have enough monsters - let's work on adding bells & whistles to the menu system" - then that's what we will do.

Speaking of adding more monsters, will there be even more monsters than unleashed? (just on the godzilla copy of the game)

[Chris55]

I have a question, ...but you probably won't like it. And I could use the input from other users as well, please.

Is there any chance at all that this entire thing is a scam by someone pretending to be Simon Strange or Kaijusamurai, and that they are planning to take our money? Call me paranoid, but I think it is important to ask this question before we start donating anything. Mr. Strange, my accusation may be wrong, and for that I'm sorry. I just want to make sure I'm donating to the right person first.

Nah, it's legit.

I'm not spending my time working with scammers

[Godz]

Tricked out menus vs more monsters?

Give me a bare bones Street Fighter 2 on SNES menu system if it gets us more monsters. As long as we have all the options I don't care how they are presented.

[Legionmaster]

Whoa. Guys. Brilliant idea here.

What if...navigating the menus was the game! :O

[GIGAN05]

Space Hunter M Wrote:
How does the Self-Defense Force advancing in the background of some maps sound?

That would be pretty neat ^^.

[UltramanGoji]

Whoa. Guys. Brilliant idea here.

What if...navigating the menus was the game! :O

[Legionmaster]

"Defeat King Ghidorah to toggle power-ups on or off!"
"Battle Gigan to continue a saved game!"
"Wanna download a new monster pack? Gotta beat Godzilla, Mechagodzilla, Biollante, and Spacegodzilla first!"