   Elementary School Warfare
  Elementary School Warfare is a first person shooter on the unreal III engine developed by The Original Studios, it is based on American elementary schools and the kids that attend them but with a twist! It is a Geek's vs Cool kids Bonanza that will host game types including Death match, Team death match, Rescue the Teachers and many more. The maps consist of corridors and hallways with classrooms and rest rooms, there will be a playground map, a sports field, lunch hall and main reception area including the principles office! With original weapon types that will blow you away and character models that will make you smile this is sure to be one of the hottest new indie games to watch out for this year!The plan for the game is to create the first map and have all props and characters completed and in engine to release a alpha beta map test open to everyone. If the first map proves to be successful we will continue work and complete the on-line multi-player and then create a single player campaign. The idea is to start small and then see what we get, if the product is fun and exciting then we will pursue it and continue working our little socks off to get a fully finished and downloadable game.All positions are none paid jobs but the opportunity to create some really interesting portfolio work is just waiting to be grabbed, if the game proves to be successful then we may look into publishing it but that is not going to be discussed until a working beta of the game is completed.We are in need of the following positions;3D Prop Modellers - Must use 3ds Max and have some sort of portfolio to show.Programmer - Must have a extensive knowledge of Kismet and script writing.Texture Artists - Must be competent in texturing in a cartoon style much like TF2 and other titles of a similar nature.Also Unreal Mappers- must have a high level of mapping and be able to get the job done.Check us out on moddb here http://www.moddb.com/games/elementary-school-warfarePlease if you feel you could bring something to this team and are able to be a reliable member of a serious small indie development team please do not hesitate please contact us on either our moddb game page Moddb.com or simply PM me or email the team on originalstudiosteam@gmail.com   
  I dont think anyone would publish this game. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.I think the idea sounds fun. But i'm capable of separating video games from reality. Some people aren't. Some people are going to have so much fun with your game that they take a real gun into their school and play "team death match."Is that really how you want to start your game career?Why dont you change it to something more socially acceptable. Like fighting another country, or 'bad guys' (instead of school kids) ?   ;Quote:Original post by bzroomWhy dont you change it to something more socially acceptable. Like fighting another country, or 'bad guys' (instead of school kids) ?Something non-violent, such as water balloons or laser tag might be socially acceptable.   ;Quote:Original post by bzroomI dont think anyone would publish this game. It's a lawsuit waiting to happenThis is just sad (because it's true)... When I was in school we always made Quake (etc) maps of the school complex (because they often make good DM levels!), but now-a-days, people have been arrested for doing such things in America, let alone making a whole game about it.Maybe if you're living in a sensible country you could get away with it, but not if it's based on American schools.   ;  Thanks for your interesting comments let me try and re explain the concept to you all I do not think I explained it very well.Elementary School Warfare is a Cartoon comedy first person shooter on the unreal III engine developed by The Original Studios. The game is based on a (fictional) elementary school and the kids that attend it, but with a twist!It is a Geek's vs Cool kids Bonanza that will host game types including Free for all match, Team squad match, Rescue the Teachers and many more. The maps consist of corridors and hallways with classrooms rest rooms, there will be a play ground map, a sports field, lunch hall and main reception area including the principles office! With original and classic weapon types such as sling shot, blow pipes, water balloons, crayon guns, water bomb launchers, stink bombs which will blow you away and character models that will make you smile this is sure to be one of the hottest new indie games to watch out for! Keep tuned for updates and more! PS Please be aware that all content is fictional material this does not reflect actual school life.Hope this clears anything up for you.The positions are still available.   ;  Just as a suggestion to really emphasize the non-lethality of the "weapons" in the game, when a player "dies" you could show his character stand back up and start running home to mom *grin*EDIT:Or perhaps you stand back up, and have to run back to a respawn zone before you can start playing again. The amount of time it takes you to run back to the safe zone could act as a respawn timer of sorts. In certain game modes, you could have respawn zones scattered around the map, that you could capture from the enemy.   ;Quote:Original post by MortusMaximusJust as a suggestion to really emphasize the non-lethality of the "weapons" in the game, when a player "dies" you could show his character stand back up and start running home to mom *grin*EDIT:Or perhaps you stand back up, and have to run back to a respawn zone before you can start playing again. The amount of time it takes you to run back to the safe zone could act as a respawn timer of sorts. In certain game modes, you could have respawn zones scattered around the map, that you could capture from the enemy.I like this idea but you'd have to make it an automatic run back otherwise people would abuse there dead state to spy on the enemy team without the threat of being shot.   ;  Thank you for your input guys this is a possibility and we will look into it further, what did you all think of the progress we have made so far in one week though? I am waiting for authorization for the next news article to be published on the site, If you know of anyone that would be interested in joining the project please get them to get in touch with us via originalstudiosteam@gmail.comThanks again guysThom Maggs   ;  You need to edit your post to comply with the mandatory posting template in the forum FAQ.   ;  Looks like we have another running with scissors. This sounds like an excellent Postal type game, though I would have to agree that it would be very difficult to get published. Why not just turn the Jocks/Preps into brainless zombies? That should take care of most of the legalities. :)   