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For a while I've had an idea for a Star Trek Horror Game, in the vein of Amnesia and the upcoming Alien game. You're stuck on a ship with Species 8472 AND the Borg. Not only are both species hunting you, but they're also hunting each other. The whole ship is open to you at any time and you have to figure out how to dispose of both intruders.
Challenges
-The Borg Drone has already adapted to both your phaser rifle and pistol and conventional weaponry only angers Species 8472
-Use your environment in conjunction with weapons and tools to suppress and attempt to kill both of the intruders.
-Both the Drone and alien will attempt to repair long range communications and contact allies. You must attempt to do the same, while halting their progress.
-There is a communications blackout throughout the ship, so all communicators are offline. If you come into contact with other members of the crew, you must work together. They can either be assimilated by the drone or infected by Species 8472 (possible multiplayer)
-Same concept can be used with Jem'Hadar/Shapeshifter except they wouldn't be hunting each other or Cardassian/StarFleet officer and you are a Maqui.
I don't really have any knowledge in modding or creating a game, but I do have the creativity. Who knows, maybe a team could be started and we could try something out. Feel free to share any ideas.
This is a pretty cool idea. You might be able to find an active modding community that would be interested in doing this (although I can't really suggest for which game, since I'm not much into horror myself, although I'm a huge Star Trek fan).
Unfortunately, as far as I know there hasn't been much in the way of ship interior assets being created for Star Trek in a long, long time (the notable exception being STO, but most of what is found there would probably not suffice for this sort of thing). Ah the 90's... if only it hadn't seen the creation of hip-hop it would have been a wonderful decade...
But I digress...
Frustratingly enough licensing issues will probably prevent us from seeing much in the way of Star Trek games for another long, long time.
Happily, that doesn't stop people from making free mods!
I'm not much of a Horror fan either, but I've always wanted a game where the Borg are an unstoppable enemy. Fortunately modders can make this for a game that already exists or just create a free indie game for the crytek or unreal engine. Heres a few more ideas about it.
1. It could be one of the 8472 training facilities, a Borg Cube or a Starship.
2. Only one of you could work, but so could a handful of people or even a whole bunch. Also have multiple of Borg and Species 8472. Remember the Borg can boost their numbers with your crew. I guess I've always wanted with the atmosphere of First Contact, when Picard first attempts to retake engineering from the Borg. The crew was helpless and the Borg were relentless. I've always wanted a game where the Borg are almost impossible to stop by traditional means. Adding in Species 8472 later in the game could make that even more interesting and maybe keep it from being repetitive.
3. Hunger is so overused and wouldn't really make too much sense. Possibly Oxygen, but once one of species takes completely over all of ships functions then that would be the time limit. But lets say the Borg completely take over the ship and you're still alive, it basically comes down to you possibly destroying the ship and everything with it, or the borg just completely over-running and assimilating you.
4. I don't think creating an alliance with either of the species would be possible, you just need to find other members of the crew. But remember combadges are disabled and you need to protect each other from threats.
I was thinking along the lines of a Sneaky FPS with a few hints of tactical shooters like the original Rainbow 6. A game where the player(s) and allies are easy to kill and the enemies are an extreme challenge; even a single enemy. Multiplayer could be interesting, but singleplayer would be the best.
StarTrek Elite forces allows you to wonder around the Voyager and their is a recreation of the 60's enterprise here http://gambitrealm.com/index.php?auto_slide=&ID=4&Lang=En&Parent_ID=¤t_slide_num= which could be used as basis of a mod.
Any tried the Gambit Realm one?.
I don't think Elite Force would be a good place to start, not because it is dated, but the Quake 3 engine just can't offer the level of immersion I want. I was thinking either a mod of an Unreal game or a Crytek game, or just a completely new game in general. Obviously the game would have to be free and all credit would have to be given to whoever holds the rights to star trek.
The game should be dark, eery, have lots of great shadows. The game would need atmospheric lighting.
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