Wow this looks like a nice competition to enter. I'm thinking about partecipating.

Quote Originally Posted by cairnswm
I'm thinking something like an RTS game. Just trying to work out the details between the 'races'.

Ninjas is just so difficult to add to - you can make all sorts of robots but there can be only one (type of) Ninja.
Eheh an RTS would be perfect. It's probably the best way to make all "elements" in a single game

About ninja types, i think that if you have to design different units, you can push the concept a little. For example the ninja race could as well contains Samurai (like a kind of armored ninja) or unarmored (naked body) martial-art fighters (as basic weak unit). Also, you can have different types of ninja (with katana for melee attacks, with shuriken for distant attacks). Also a nice oriental monk/bonze could act as a mage
That is, i would make the ninja race as a kind of oriental-style race

Well that's just my two cents.