A friend and I have this small game we love called Shadows of Doubt where you’re a detective solving procedurally generated crimes in a procedurally generated world. I think the game’s pretty fun and very unique, but I also acknowledge that once you get a feel for how the game works then it starts to get pretty same-y as there’s not a large variety of ways to figure out what’s going on and there are quite a few ways to kinda cheat your way through some mysteries.
The idea we had was a procedurally generated detective game but set in a fantasy world. I’m talking trying to figure out who sent poisoned food offerings to the dragon lording over the area, taking down the local death cult sacrificing people to some god of chaos, tracking down dangerous wizards who broke out of jail right before being executed, and whatever other silly, absurd, or creative ideas they come up with for crimes to be committed or be solved in a high fantasy setting.
I think the game should have enough variety in the types of crimes to be solved that it shouldn’t really run into the issue of getting into a routine of how things work, but I also feel like this could be addressed by having it so if you start getting into a routine of mechanics you engage with then it starts nerfing those mechanics. Keep using mana sensing to find the people at the crime scene? New crime scenes will start to have more muddled mana so it’s harder to detect or isolate exact matches of people. Keep using eye witness testimonies? People start having trouble remembering exactly what they saw. Keep using company/government logs to track who could have been involved? They become less cooperative as time goes on as they start to think you’re leaking that info OR the next criminal heard you did that so they specifically damaged those logs so you can’t use them.
I can’t remember which game it is but I’m thinking in the same vein as that game which adapts to how the player disposes of enemies by identifying you’re doing a lot of head shots so giving enemies helmets, or body shots so body armor, etc.
A space strategy/tactics game with realistic physics. Basically ftl stops at the edge of a solar system, and then ships can reach a small percentage of c while traveling within the system. Lasers travel at c, but you have to anticipate where your enemy will be over long distances. Missiles or torpedoes are evn worse with the addition of worrying about fuel consumption to reach their target.
I think it would make for interesting dynamics. How would fighters/drone swarms work? Mines? Bases? How would ambushes work.
Farming ideas for your next dev project? 😜
If I was a dev the question would have to be changed to: “You’ve just won a competition and now a couple of mid-tier game developers have to listen to your game idea, because no other devs would take part. Be ready to compromise. Your vision is a starting point but be ready for it’s content, scope, theme and narrative to be modified heavily. What game do you make?” 🤣
A porn one
No, I will not be taking questions
Remake Phantasy Star Online please.
A game where you feed and pet and take care of guinea pigs. Varieties of vegetables and reactive chin scritches and they yell at you when they notice you going about your business. Also my guinea pig has to be in it you have to ruffle his fur or you will instantly die.
Possibly a setting in the Andes, I dunno it would be funny to be a guinea pig herder. Otherwise it just has to be comically over designed and marketed as competing with Death Stranding.
Over-budget motion captured acting with Nicholas Cage. He’s a pig shepard named Armando Marìa-Castañeda. The publisher should go into debt and barely recover from all this.
The idea of Star Citizen, but actually finished and without selling individual ships for real cash.
3 words: Assassin’s Creed Discworld 😁
A game where you walk around an existing town and fix things. It teaches you real stuff about how the things you’re fixing work. For instance, you can fix light switches and do so using examples of how real wiring works.
Omikron : The Nomad Soul 2
History Is A Nightmare From Which I Am Trying To Awake: The James Joyce Experience.
An RPG that faithfully recreates the entirety of James Joyce’s oeuvre, starting with Dubliners, then Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, then Ulysses then Finnegan’s Wake.
Imagine the minigames - can you jerk off on the beach and climax at the same time as a one legged girl?
Can you get the married woman drunk enough so she jumps in front of a train after you rebuff her advances?
How many sex workers can Stephen visit with his monetary prize from the Jesuit school?
Gripping stuff.
I love how half of you took this as a challenge to see what would be the most expensive project to cause game studios into bankruptcy 😂
I want a game that is just the dungeons and raids parts of WoW. No outside grinding. You just log in with your guild and smash your face against bosses together.
I think I saw a game like that. It was like an mmo but just normal multiplayer and the dungeons.
Was it called Fellowship? I’m keeping my eye on that, but it seems like it’s not exactly what I’m looking for. I think it’s only small group content and from what I’ve been told the fights are a lot of “avoid the bad stuff.” I really miss the kind of fights we had to strategize and optimize for. I might still try it anyway when it goes 1.0, but I’m really hoping for something a little different.
I would love to see a grand sci-fi game that’s a mixture of Titanfall and mirror’s edge.
You would have open world runner sections where your entire job is to run messages between agents on a city/station that is working hard to steer the war… and then you go and do big stompy robots combined arms, titalfall-esque fighting, just open world instead of the (rather great) map, point-to-point of the original.
Alternatively, just give me either a single player or MMO implementation of The Allbright System.
Whatever I choose, I would just like the engine to be released under GPL, and the assets under CC-3.0-BY-NC-SA so that it lives on, regardless of however well it does.
I’ve always wanted to play a game like “tropico” but instead of managing a parody of a banana republic, you have to manage the decline of a parody capitalist empire.
