The concept
I had a lot of thought put into this. About a year ago I came up with a concept of self replicating blocks. Each seeder block would replicate itself to the available positions in the grid and mark it self inactive while marking the replicating block active. The active block would the continue to do the same. Bit of recursion there.
This is a proof of concept I did back then. Green are inactive, purple are free and red are active blocks.
I call active blocks seeders.
I knew wanted to create a top down shooter where player would fight seeders and eventually beat the level. But at that time I had no idea what the gameplay design would look like.
The Blocker Project
I decided I would create a top-down-shooter multiplayer arena type of game where players would work in teams to eliminate the other team. Weapons/armor would be random spawned across the map and there would be a LARGE variate of weapons and power ups. Player wouldn't just pick up a weapon or a powerup and use it but it would go in thir inventory and they would use it for limited amount of time when they press a keybind for that weapon/powerup. The seeder mechanics at this time was pushed as a 2nd level quirk. There would be a seeder bomb (rarely spawned as a weapon) that you could use.
I figured since I'm a C++ network programmer in my daily job design/programming of the support protocol would come easy. It did. No worries there.
Not long after, I realized that there's a similar game from an indie company that followed my line of thought exactly. And it looked awesome. Can't remember the name but I will edit this article when I find out.
So I ditched that gameplay design alltogether.
Few months after that (the game was on haitus) I was talking to my friend one evening explaining the seeder mechanics and showing him the playable 0.1.5 version when he told me: "You know, this reminds me of the BitTorrent seeders and it seems to me you are fighting them".
I was WTF- struck. And immediately the idea of Unbit started to take shape in my mind.
The Unbit
Finding the similarities of the torrent seeders and my own contraption I figured I will make a game about one single bit. Part of the larger group of bits but where all other bits would showed (push away/bully (not a native english speaker)) him a side and said: "Let the real bits do their job. Don't interfere!" Hence comes the Unbit. Fighting inside of computer as part of the antivirus program against the corruption of the system. Levels would be designed as a part of the system (hard-drive, memory, net-card...) and you would have to defeat the virus in the end. It will still be a top-down shooter but this time it's single player and with story elements.
The Plot
I can't reveal much about the plot yet but this is some basics.
You are the Unbit, unaccepted, you are not even a Bit in other Bit's minds. But as faith wants, you are the one that saves the CPU. You will fight against the self replicating entity known as anacrx.028 and the lady's name is Arrianne. Your name is a name of the game. I won't tell it until the first youtube trailer.
