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Would people be interested in a Sci-Fi action/survival game that takes place right before the extinction event of the Cretaceous period? (Maastrichtian stage)

Home to creatures like these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate_fauna_of_the_Maastrichtian_stage

Characters are brought to the time period by the malfunctioning ai captain of a wrecked space ship that is intent on documenting and researching the life forms on the young planet, and their potential for growth/development.

Is the ai idea too overdone? Would people like to see a different reasoning/objective for a dinosaur game set in the past? Does anyone want this?

i do think the malfunctioning AI thing is a little overdone, but if you have a unique enough setting to go with it - which this is, as i can't think of any other games currently running that involve dinosaurs - then i say go for it.

(also years ago i was toying with the idea of starting a Dino-Riders game - the canon practically has a built-in jamjar mechanic to excuse characters getting sucked in from all over the multiverse [a space-time manipulation device that results in the canon cast getting stuck in the past].)

Question for both you and the anon below! If instead of the ai, it was just a malfunctioning wormhole device pulling people in from different worlds/times with no explanation available as to why for the characters, would that sort of concept be preferable to the ai?

That was the original idea I was toying with, but I wasn't sure people would accept a game without an over-arching plot reason for characters being there.

ALL OF MY FAVORITE DINOSAURS ARE HERE

i do think the ai thing is a little old, but like anon said, i think it'd be fine because the rest of it is different enough. i'm a little sick of smart ai npcs that people can interact with, though, so if it didn't talk that would be refreshing

how long will the game run, though? will people be more focused on fixing the ai than interacting with the planet? will the ship run out of power/fuel? how do they leave? is it just one of those "you're stuck here until the game dies with no objectives" games?

personally i think it'd be fun if characters had to complete an objective before the ship let them leave. like, getting skin/blood/egg samples from a list of different animals and a bunch of plant and mineral samples. that could be fun. it gives them a reason to interact with the world, and you could turn it in to events if a certain animal or something is really rare. have it pop up only every so often

The idea was going to be that the ai would not allow the ship to leave until 1. Repairs were complete and 2. It felt there was sufficient data collected.

Good ending 1: Characters escape the planet before the asteroid strike that comes at the end of the cretaceous.

Good ending 2: Characters escape the planet and find a way to divert or destroy the asteroid (Send it through a Wormhole? Destruction of asteroid into smaller debris?)

Bad ending: Asteroid strike

Without the AI idea, characters would have to figure out survival, maybe dinosaur taming, etc.

As far as the AI itself, less a functional being ordering them around and more just a computer bank that asks for more data/gives objectives.

It wouldn't have a personality so much as just being a provider of instructions and a data analyzer. AI would assume all characters are just crew members.

No underlying 'evil' ai plot, I want the focus of the game to be the dinosaurs and the cretaceous period to be honest. The ship is just a way to provide goals and a few basic supplies to characters and the ship itself would be relatively small/uninteresting to explore.

you'd have people whining about why can't their special computer genius baby hack the ship????? in under five minutes.

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