Well. I haven't been on BYOND a lot lately, although I was working on a mini-project. The game was a top view shooter, much like my second/third XI projects. I had a basic system with shooting, a decent amount of graphics(all custom), and some cool mechanics. Such as the grenade system where you hold the button with the meter going up and down to choose the impact speed/height(go over objects). Also the in-progress melee system which I was planning on being very unique, and other things as well.

Anyway, I'll get back on to what I was saying. While working on this project(not that much) I thought for a second. When you look at BYOND, what kind of games does it need. It has many Anime, Survival/Horror, different shooters, lots of fan games differing from Final Fantasy to Mega Man, etc. Although, I thought back to when I had Crisis XI ready for the early beta test. I made that game since I thought BYOND NEEDED some sort of Side-Scrolling RPG, since it has not been done. Being unique is always good since you stand out, but not always enjoyed by the community. So I'm thinking of asking YOU(The community) on what style of game I should start to work on. Feel free to suggest anything, I'd prefer a Action or RPG-style game. I'll give some ideas here, post any "others" you would like to see.

1. I was mainly thinking of re-creating Sabre XI with a style that Crisis XI sort of had. So a 100% custom graphics RPG/action platform game having many things to do in an open world like the main story-line, extra missions to destroy you opposing side(there are 2 factions), PvP.. etc.

2. A real life simulator, sort of like my old-school "Real Life" game but with a better approach. Games like Grand Theft Auto you can only live life the hard way, but this game you'd most likely live by owning a business, farm, etc.(Or become a criminal or cop, etc.)

3. My shooter I mentioned earlier. Many different game-types, and maybe a built-in story mode eventually. Basically what you see in most BYOND shooters except tweaked to perfection.

4. A space game! Much like my old(fail) space game, Mission XI. Maybe on planets it could be like a platform game, or just generally normal. Go around making your ship better, getting a crew, fighting, etc..

5. A 100% PvP platform game. If I made this, I would like to put it in the XI series since It'd be nice to make everything have an animation, most fan-game genres would limit you to sprites of their game. It'd be mainly a "Team Fighter", like Team Deathmatch, CTF, with vehicles and such.

6. A space-station horror survival. Somewhat like Murder Mansion or Mafia. Everyone has a job, like a scientist, engineer, guard, etc. Than you place some bad things, like an infection(disease, or a virus that makes people turn into zombie-like creatures), an assault on the space station, and more. Anyway, pretty much a group of players work together to try to beat whatever is trying to kill them all!

7. If all that is garbage, why not a fan game. I wouldn't accept doing a Castlevania game since I would never go threw the hassle of working on that again. BUT I'd most likely work on a decent Mega Man X, Sonic, Halo, FF Plat former, etc. Mostly any sort of game that's not Anime, but it would be nice to have someone assisting me with the sprites.

8. Suggest whatever you think would be a good idea for me to make :)