They've got nothing. No plot layout, no locations, no characters, no ideas, nothing. These are all things you need to come up with before you even begin making a game. That's why so many fan projects fall apart - because they don't have a plan right from the off.
Let's say I want to make an adventure game. Before I even start with the coding and whatnot, I need to write the plot. No plot, no game. Simple as that.
Once I've come up with a good plot, I have to actually design the game. Figure out what locations I'll need. How many characters I'll need to animate. Where all the puzzles should go. Who's going to do the music. How many lines of dialogue I'll need to write.
Then, I need to go and do that. I need to draw the backgrounds. I need to create the characters sprite sheets. I need to write the dialogue.
And then, and only then, do I start coding the game in AGS.
I wish these guys all the luck in the world, but to be honest, they're stumbling in the dark. I doubt they'll last 6 months before giving up and packing the whole thing in.
One of the project's members has made a small demonstration in Visionaire. It's still pretty rough, and at this stage is more of a test than a game, but worth a look: http://youtu.be/_eV7jvFIrYo (the voiceover is in Arabic)
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fan projects are always real, but they always fail because people get tired and bored
but that was like ohhh
at least a year or more...
Let's say I want to make an adventure game. Before I even start with the coding and whatnot, I need to write the plot. No plot, no game. Simple as that.
Once I've come up with a good plot, I have to actually design the game. Figure out what locations I'll need. How many characters I'll need to animate. Where all the puzzles should go. Who's going to do the music. How many lines of dialogue I'll need to write.
Then, I need to go and do that. I need to draw the backgrounds. I need to create the characters sprite sheets. I need to write the dialogue.
And then, and only then, do I start coding the game in AGS.
I wish these guys all the luck in the world, but to be honest, they're stumbling in the dark. I doubt they'll last 6 months before giving up and packing the whole thing in.
I did the same thing years ago. My bad, but I learned.
You're forgetting "No Christopher Lloyd".
Unless they got Christopher Lloyd. Which would be all too impressive for a fan project.
Hopefully it wouldn't, amateur voice acting is usually a disaster.