Hey,
My name is Chris, and recently a good buddy Wright and I completed a flash that made it to the Newgrounds frontpage, Bacon Samurai . So Wright, another friend (an Experienced programmer), and I were talking about making a Bacon Samurai game in the fashion of Castlevania, here's some ideas we've flushed out:
One large map
Ability to Save
Items and RPG style equipment (a la Final Fantasy)
Special abilities to allow further exploration of the map
Experience and Level ups
Bosses drop equipment or abilities
Animated cut scenes explaining some of the huge Bacon Samurai backstory
Breakable environments
Our programmer (his name is Clayton) has little experience with Actionscript, but is an exceptional coder who has worked for the US Government. Wright will design characters, write the story, and animate movements. I will function as producer, help design weapons, abilities and enemies, as well as fill in the gaps in production to make an epic flash experience unlike anything we've seen.
The purpose of this post was to drop this idea on this community, to see what people think about it. Also, if anyone would like to lend a hand (we could use help coding, animating, planning and testing). None of us have made a flash game before, but we're an ambitious group of total nerds who are bent on creating an immensely enjoyable gaming experience.
Thanks for reading this through. Hope to hear from you.
-Chris
Moving Box Studios