African Felines Sim

Hello everybody!

I recently had an idea, which was to make a sim where you play as an African feline. The choice of felines would be as follows:

African Golden Cat
Sand Cat
African Wildcat
Black-footed Cat
Cheetah
Leopard
Lion

You'd pick one, and then you'd hunt prey, have cubs, etc. Your aim is to stay alive and raise as many cubs as possible, to pass on your genetic code. Cubs can be killed, starved or drowned, and your character can die as well. You have to try your best to survive. Prey would randomly spawn for you to hunt. It would be a multiplayer game, so you could chat to, fight and mate with other players.

Any thoughts or ideas? Also, how would I go about making a game like this? Any comment helps!

 

Are you intending to make this game for fun or to make successful sales?

 

Good luck trying to find proper target audience for it

Feeding and caring about cubs makes it sound a bit like care bear/tamagotchi game for kids. Then cubs starving and drowning while parents hunting and killing they prey usually very violent way is red flag for parents saying no no.

 

With proper execution, any game concept can be awesome. Go for it!

By the way, if you want to impress the community, put up a prototype instead of the idea. It gives us a lot more to give you feedback on and shows the effort you put in so far.

 

It is a definite change of pace from trying to survive alone on an island. Or against zombies.

 

I'd play it, but only if I get to be Panthro...

 

It's just for fun. There's another game called WolfQuest, kind of like this except you are a wolf. You get pups, they can drown, etc, but that game had quite a lot of people playing it. The hunting wouldn't be graphic, it would be sort of like WolfQuest's hunting where no blood shows or anything, you just have to take down the prey's health until it dies.
@superpig-yes, a bit like that, but multiplayer and you can choose different animals, not just lions.

 

Keep your head out of the sky. Start making the game before saying it's going to be multiplayer or deciding that there's going to be no blood in the hunting system. You're not going to get much help from us at the moment because there's not much at the moment but I'd love to hear about your progress once you start making the game.

 

haha, beat me to it. Wolf was far better. It was my very first PC game that came on a CD-rom.