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Heads up UK folk - Asda have ROTF Jetfire for £10. Well worth it even with the scottish accent.

I like the visibility of the transformations. It does look pretty cool.

Oh well, back to the old drawing board.

Many games companies will accept unsolicited pitches, but getting them seen is the hard part. Do a little research into the best person to contact, find out who the lead designer on the previous transformers game was, or who is in charge of the brand at the studio, and send it to them. Keep it focus...

Thats a very thorough concept you have - really good ideas too. The only problem I see is that games with that level of complexity tend to lean towards a more hardcore audience of gamer. I would like the game to have just enough balance to appeal to both core gamers and TF fans who might not play ma...

Not necessarily too complicated, just some basic rules needed to set it up. I'm completely open to suggestion so whatever the majoritory want is what they will get, hopefully. Like I've said though once the framework is in place theres no reason why other people shouldnt take it and make what they w...

I think that's an excellent idea, to both the environment and the scale issues. What about weapons? For the time being, and certainly for prototyping, the characters will have their standard issue blasters and some basic melee. As things move along I hope to give them secondary weapons, more powerf...

Then don't do mass shifting... the official fiction often fudge scale up anyway, so divide the transformers in two (or three) size groups. Micromasters/Minibots, and the average transformers (normal Autobot cars, Seekers, Soundwave, whatnot) and larger transformers (Prime, Magnus, Megatron, Team le...

Okay, for initial prototype will give them built in weaponry - the usual primary and secondary. I will look into melee too, but that might have to follow much later. Minions - a good idea but again, that will go on the backburner for now. No reason why all characters cant be playable really, make so...

Personally, I prefer more real weapons- I like the explosives and machine guns and clunky swords of the movies more than the lasers and lightsabres of the cartoons but hey, thats just me also: I think the weapons should be built into the 'bots, rather than guns they can pick up. They could be all u...

I've been thinking a bit - For simplicity the player will play as one, upgradable character. Overcomplicating things is always a bad idea. I mentioned setting it near and around mount st helens - I dont know much about US geography, but mount st hilary was supposed to be in oregon whereas st helens ...

Thanks for all your feedback guys. To answer: The world could be as big as I can make it - I can split the map and have a buffer to load the next section while you play - thats how most large scale sandbox games do it. I like the idea of starting as a protoform and you can earn upgrades that allow y...

Yeah, I was thinking of maybe using the whole ark/mount st helens setting, which would give a nice mix of population density.

I was thinking along similar lines for character creation too. Good call. cheers. keep your ideas and feedback coming - I really value input for every aspect.

So you like open world sandbox play? (GTA style) The concern I have with that is that if you are running around a city as a bot then civilians will see you - in which case the need to transform is eliminated. Unless a gameplay mechanic could be stealth, i.e. get to your objective but dont be seen in...

I'm posting this in a couple of forums, so users of other places might see this post elsewhere. :) As some of you might know, I work as a game designer, and obviously I am also a massive TF fan. Annoyed at the lack of quality TF games available, I've decided to make my own, in my free time, for fun....

I'll try and get him to namedrop the site. Cheers mate.

Looks like a few will be used, not sure which ones until final layout. Clay, what name do you want to be credited with mate?

I dont have any room to display mine at the moment so they are in the cupboard under the stairs. All my boxed stuff is stacked, my older more delicate boxed stuff is packed in larger boxes. My loose ones are individually bubble wrapped and packed in boxes, my damaged and spare ones are in a bag, and...

Thanks very much Blackjack and Clay, I really appreciate it. I'm going to link these to the dude who's writing the main article and if he uses any then I'll let you know.

Cheers again.

Numbat, they're excellent - cheers mate, I really appreciate it.

Cheers Clay.