Who would buy an equipment video game?

[Junior M]

Ok, well I am trying to help out Dieselnut from HEF with this game idear of his, so who would?

I am sure most of the guys that hang around Ron's favorite forum have already seen the thread, but for more information here is a link to the thread over on HEF:
http://heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=10607

[YellowDogSVC]

i bought one. It was okay but not too realistic. I play ultra realistic games where I can drive tanks so I don't think equipment would be too much different as long as I could crunch things!

[Junior M]

i bought one. It was okay but not too realistic. I play ultra realistic games where I can drive tanks so I don't think equipment would be too much different as long as I could crunch things!
Thats what we are goin for, a realistic game, but if Diesel got one made that was realistic as possible would you buy it?

I know theres got to be more people out there that would buy one!

[IMAGE]

yep .

[ksss]

It might be interesting. How about making it somewhat educational at the same time. I would like to learn to run a road grader. It would be cool if there was a grader simulator type game, I guess like the simulator flight games you see. If you could buy equipment specfic games, that would be a bonus. Make it realistic, the better the technique the more dirt you move, the better you score. It might be kinda difficult to create but if it was realistic enough, you could sell a lot of them I would think.

[Junior M]

It might be interesting. How about making it somewhat educational at the same time. I would like to learn to run a road grader. It would be cool if there was a grader simulator type game, I guess like the simulator flight games you see. If you could buy equipment specfic games, that would be a bonus. Make it realistic, the better the technique the more dirt you move, the better you score. It might be kinda difficult to create but if it was realistic enough, you could sell a lot of them I would think.
Thats what I was thinking..

Except incorporate a game, so like you have to go through a school and get certified to run the equipment before you can either start a company of your own or go work for a company and work your way through the ranks.. I am just worried we'll want it to realistic and then be dissappointed with it when we do get it..

[Dirt Digger2]

No....if you have time to me playing with machines on a computer then you don't have enough to do in the real world

But CAT sponsored one a while back I had...nothing spectacular

[Junior M]

Dangit, Diesel got great results over on HEF, as you can tell, I think I am goin to get some mixed results..

[ClearViewGroup]

count me in for one

[kreft]

I would buy it.

[earthmover]

Put me down for 1!

[bobcat_ron]

Nope, I like the VR games where I can touch a pair of boobies better.

[doubleedge]

I would buy one if it had a mode that you took the biggest equipment and had the ability to destroy a city. It would have to have a good physics engine that changes how things break based on force, angle, material strength, etc (like Pixelux's DMM engine), however.