How Ideas Mutate – A Girl and Her Shotgun

I’ve been through numerous game ideas, and have drifted around back to making a Cube mod.

My idea is inspired by time spent in AssaultCube using a shotgun. They’re such fun weapons that I want to make an FPS where the protagonist only uses a shotgun.

The game’s title is Shotty, which is also the name of the protagonist. The game will feature a handful of different shotguns. The player will have a basic shotgun which can fire either buckshot or an infinite supply of birdshot. There will also be a double-barreled shotgun, an automatic fire shotgun (Sometimes called a “Jackhammer”), and a low-spread shotgun that fires over long range. The bad guys will probably be trolls. Because trolls are ugly and mean, and make good villains.

The game’s setting will be lighthearted, starting in a quaint grassland and moving to a cartoonish Quake-like fortress. I don’t have a plot yet, but I like what I have so far. (Even though I have only vague designs and some slightly edited Cube sources)

I’m still hoping to finish one of these…

— Mr. Dude