Hello everyone,I am in collage right now and working on getting my degree in video game design and development and well I have a idea of making a Transformers game with Hasbro and Takara.The game will feature a story as well many characters from across the Transformers multiverse.It will have a multiplayer that you can play as every Transformer character from different series or you can make your own Transformer.Besides just Transformers you can play as a human or aliens as well customized them.I like get thoughts and ideas from you guys and listen to the fandom even though I am in my first year of collage I like share and discuss about the game even though it's a thought but might happen.

 

Lol

 

maybe the story can be unicron opened a portal to the multiverse and is planning to take over every universe and have the other characters fight unicron as the final boss
and make it like war for cybertron or rise of the dark spark

 

That's sound a good idea since we know from the lore that Unicron is supposed be a multiversal being like Primus.

 

I'd love a game where I could play as BW Dinobot.

 

That would be so cool. And a playable Primus for the final boss when you play as Primus and fight Unicron

 

Good luck getting Hasbro or Takara to work with you. You need to work from the bottom up if you want to get any sort of notice. I've finished my second-to-last year of college - working on an Engineering degree - and trust me, the process of creating a product is much more intensive than you think.

 

That is true,I am up to challenge but that's going to be a while.

 

If it does happen you can bet I'm buying it.

 

That is true,I know what the first 10 Autobots and Decepticons that I want to place in the game but I was thinking about asking what Transformers community want as their top 10 Autobots and Decepticons for the start.It can be any from different series or eras.Plus the probably the hardest part is convincing Hasbro and Takara.

 

I hope so It basically a dream of my to make a ultimate Transformers game that everyone can enjoy it probably the most difficult part would be convincing Hasbro and Takara.

 

Please do!

 

I have the first 10 Autobots and Decepticons I want to put in the game but I was thinking about asking the Transformers community on what their top 10 Autobots and Decepticons as recommended the first 20 characters it can be anyone from any series or era.

 

what about Maximals and Predacons?

 

Yes,plus I have a idea for a DLC for Beast Wars as well.

 

10 Autobots/Maximals
10 Decepticons/Predacons
Characters who are not in the first top 10 will be added through DLC's.

 

You have some good ideas. Make it happen!!! Open world RPG Action adventure like Fallout series or Ghost Recon Wildlands/Breakpoint are great ideas!!

 

Ratchet (marvel colors) or bust.

 

Here is info from a guy in High School still (totally should be listening to me)
I though began working on small games ever since Unity back in 2014, and then to Roblox Studio in 2017, and then Unreal Engine 4 in 2019.
Over the last 6 years I've been following trends, seeing how games are developed, and etc.

First I will buy your game(if it's under $50)but for me to buy it you first need some advice on making it. 

I've read you are in college and are getting a degree in video game design which is really nice, good job.

Though I take it you have worked with Unity, UE4, or CryEngine, and if you have it might be easy to say that I want to make an open-world game(at least what I said after I found just the amazing amounts of tools in Unreal.)

If you are going to start developing this game, I very highly recommend you to use UE4, trying to do this in Unity would limit your open world size due to the map reaching to about 5k till floating point errors begin really showing(z-fighting, funny lighting, characters wobbling a bit, etc.) UE4 can reach 20k in maps before you either have to use world origin shift, or stream in a new level. If you want to world origin shift in multiplayer, where Epic says it doesn't work, it actually has support for it?   World Origin Rebasing (multiplayer) - Unreal Engine Forums
Take a look there, should help you like it did to me.

Now let's get to the coding part, if you don't like programming in C++(like me, I am a C# guy, but have to use C++ due to Epic  ) I don't Blueprints aka visual scripting will be good for this game, especially in MP where slow code can really hurt gameplay, by slow code I mean this:

, C++ is a must, trust me, I am currently using C++ and it's way nicer than spaghetti, but if doing simple things, like changing animations, you should be fine.

Lets now talk the models, I recommend using Z-Brush for sculpting, but Blender is perfectly fine, I personally use Blender since its Free  . Since you I assume will have the game on Earth only, using Quixel Assets which are only free to UE4 users, you should be fine for doing environments with them, there are over a thousand if I am not mistaken, ranging from water on grass to different types of massive rocks, it's quite massive library.

Now here we come to multiplayer, dedicated servers are a must for multiplayer, I would recommend AWS(Amazon Web Services/Servers) for your game, Super Cell uses AWS for its games like Clash, and other popular games. Though if you can run your own servers, better hire someone to maintain from online attacks, etc.

Now comes the biggest part, you won't make this game in 1 year(if you want to make a True High Quality game), games like Cyberpunk took 7 years or longer to make so for sure this is at least 3 years, and that's assuming you are in a well sized team(20-100), but if solo,good luck since I can't imagine doing a game like this solo. Getting an investment from investors or getting a good publisher is a very good choice to completing this game.

Make sure though you get the HasTak ok, before doing anything since if you work on this game all this time just to come and not have HasTak make an agreement will of course will be very unfortunate.

Good luck, I really hope you succeed, we need more TF games, since I haven't played a new TF game since Dark Spark which was a while ago in my opinion.
If need more help with UE4 feel free to message me, but don't like ask me how do I start making UI, ask questions like how do I get the character doing this in this condition, etc, and good luck again .

 

I wish you luck, but I think you should start with something small and indie. Make a game with your own characters (or work with someone who likes to make up transformers) and call them "Automorphers" or something first. If you prove that you can make a good game with mechanics that would work for transformers as a game, you might have a relatively easier time convincing Hasbro to allow you to work on the license... Maybe.