game where you build ACME CRIMENET. you know how in carmen sandiego there’s already people built who have done legwork for you when you arrive in a city like checking places she’s been, setting up interviews for you, etc? well you have to do all that manually to start. you start as an encycolpedia brown style kid detective and slowly recruit and build out a labyrinthine network of informants & detectives like XCOM or MGS5 until it stretches around the world, the universe, & through time
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An RPG centered on fantasy flora and entropic weather. The fauna include titanic bugs and psi cats that may or may not actually look like Louis Wain drawings. The world is scattered with clockwork villages circulating telephone games speaking of higher fantasy and cyberpunk dungeon ruins from a future that stopped making sense. You unlock the ability to gain XP by becoming a folk hero & the ability to cash in XP for lvls by locking clearance on the mutating objectives of the global grapevine game.
A wheel graph side scroller about samara in a surreal realm of suffering chimeras. Loops both ways like the repeating castles in smb1 and smb2j, but with multiple vertical tiers like in Sonic. Dying is the spoke leading to the hub where you take on another form like in EVO: The Search for Eden before returning
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Just looked up from browsing my Steam library and am surprised that Sega hasn’t made any attempt at a The Swiping of the Dead mobile game.
I think light-gun style shooting game x match-3 puzzler could be a pretty cool game actually. Approaching enemies have a color/shape etc emblazoned on them and you have to match 3 accordingly to take them down.
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But I’m sure the first studio to do it will make it be some game about making anime girls orgasm it’ll be like
AHEGAO TILE BLASTER or something
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I’m mostly imagining this as some kind of zombie dating app now, they’re all lumbering towards you and you are just swiping left on the ones you aren’t interested in, and right when you meet your true zombie match
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The idea of defeating something with dating app swipes is true horror. Must I date every zombie I swipe right on? Or do we just message each other a bit ?
You can choose not to date the zombies you swipe right on, but if you don’t, they’ll send you angry text messages calling you gendered slurs
Name of the app should be
They came from the Friend Zone
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Room Escape games that take place within recognizable porn sets (e.g., that little office with the black leather couch, etc).
There must be overlap in these audiences and I think you’d sell a lot of copies to people buying them ironically/for the lulz
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Inspired by this post and TLOU2 in general:
A game that starts out like a normal FPS, but the first time you kill someone, you immediately jump into a flashback from that person’s perspective, with one of two outcomes. Either you play as that person up until the moment they are killed by the original player character, or until the person you are currently playing as has to kill someone else, at which point you leap into the past of that person, and so on, ad infinitum, until you end up at some kind of 2001 prologue sequence of Early Man bashing another guy’s head in for the first time
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Implement this in Dynasty Warriors 10.
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Maze game(Tower of Druaga grid) with fluid dynamics, tracing the flow causes you to accelerate and allows you to break walls or bump into other inhabitants. There are multiple exits on each floor and they do not warp you sequentially, but pits can be used to access the floor directly below. The goal is to gain enough speed spiraling upward to uproot the tower.
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Geometry Wars style twin stick shooter only your weapon is a flamethrower that leaves behind pools of flame you can’t move through without dying. They last a few long moments so you have to make sure you don’t paint yourself into a corner with flames. Enemies emerge from underground so you’re not able to just encircle yourself with a wall of fire and camp out.
I keep going back and forth on whether or not to make the mechanics more complex. Maybe the intensity of the flames decreases so enemies that walk through them don’t get burnt up but merely are ignited on their approach to you and increase in speed, etc.
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ALSO these game devs are mining every available IP but in a world where so many games want to let you do parkour shit and climb on everything there’s not a Tremors game c’mon now
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An RPG where one of the conceits is that the battle engine was built by easily-amused idiots, and thus the system is absolutely riddled with stupid magic numbers- for example, any time you make the chance for an event exactly 69.00%, it is guaranteed to happen and gets a ‘Nice’ bonus to damage/healing/whatever, while getting your max MP to 420 means spells no longer cost MP. Since the battles are built around the assumption that you’re using these ‘exploits’, usually the most valuable treasure is gear with useful penalties.
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The opposite of a battle royale game: 100 players start out in a tiny Minecraft style world where every few minutes cosmic inflation pushes all the blocks apart (by making new blocks in the interstices). These interstices are selected by using locations on which players have not built on nor trafficked. Thus, your patterns of interactions with the other players rapidly determines whose world you can easily get to. People who don’t interact grow physically further and further apart.
The rate of cosmic inflation increases as the game goes on and so you have to invest ever more heavily in those players to whom you wish to remain close. Eventually, all players are isolated and their horizons are expanding ever faster.
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or: having friends after you’re out of school simulator
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Just mash up the two most interesting Kirby games into Kirby’s Canvas Course
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oh my god that rules, like Desert Golfing with Abilities, plus you can draw a little bit of extra ground every time you smack the ball
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You are a magic mollusk creature whose main ability is mimicking. Mimicked things are not restricted to living beings. The mollusk learns from other creatures like a blue mage and can use abilities on the over world like the HMs in Pokémon. Your home is not attached to you at first so you can only move it around like in Dragon Slayer. You have to commit to a build as you adapt to the ecosystem you’re in. Then you lay some eggs and die shortly after.
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