don't know if this is possible

[darkedone02]

I just have though of this, but is it possible to make a god-playing game for civ 4? like you are god and you suppose to believe in you if you do lots of miracles stuff like in Black and White? in other words, can you make a gameplay kinda like black and white in Civ 4?

 

[Hadrean]

Yea but that is a lot of art conversion.

 

[Gerikes]

I just have though of this, but is it possible to make a god-playing game for civ 4? like you are god and you suppose to believe in you if you do lots of miracles stuff like in Black and White? in other words, can you make a gameplay kinda like black and white in Civ 4?

I once thought about this after watching a documentary on Peter Molyneux (and after many a game of Dungeon Keeper 2). Of course, the main problem with creating a game such as Populous or Black and White for Civ4 is that Civ4 isn't built for these types of things. Just the fact that the way a game entity something reacts in god-based games to your actions have to have so many variables and cases that thinking them up and programming them all in would take a very long time. That, along with the fact of the many SDK changes that would be needed just to change initially the rules of the game, would mean that a project like this would be a huge undertaking.

Not impossible, but certainly a very large project indeed. It would be rather interesting to see people taking ideas used in a god-playing game and combine them with a mod, though.

 

[darkedone02]

i know, but it going to be a lot of work to make this type of gameplay, a lot of art, and graphics, and also trying to make that gamemode. Very time consuming to make this but will be nice to be the first to make a different gameplay other then the samno thing we been playing.

 

[Gerikes]

i know, but it going to be a lot of work to make this type of gameplay, a lot of art, and graphics, and also trying to make that gamemode. Very time consuming to make this but will be nice to be the first to make a different gameplay other then the samno thing we been playing.

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea in any respect. I think I'm one of the bigger fans of total conversions (I better be, I'm in the process of creating one!) I'm just saying that it's a lot of work, is all.