‘Cat Hero’ rhythm game with fully strummable plush cat peripheral
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A metroidvania with a built-in randomizer mode as the post-game. The randomized maps have alternate bosses that you can fight in the same boss arenas that only show up if you meet specific secret (but hinted at) criteria before the fights. These alternate bosses are either a new version of existing bosses (see Iudex Gundyr and Champion Gundyr) or are an alternate universe take on story events- for example if you have two allies Alice and Bob, and in the main story Bob kills Alice and becomes Bloody Bob, in the alternate story maybe Alice murders Bob and becomes Adversary Alice. If you manage to chain together all of these secret requirements, alternate universe story beats also happen and you can reach the False Ending.
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non ironically posting this here
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A sports game combined with a relationship sim ala CK3. Like ‘career mode’ in many sports games, you control one specific player. But the focus of this game isn’t on your suceess or failure as a sportsman, it’s about the personal relationships between your character and his team-mates and rivals and the owners and so forth. It’s all about the dumb random things and the sex and the drugs and the injuries and so forth. A melodrama generator.
Has there ever been a game where you’re fighting for control over the main character against the game itself? Off the top of my head premise: character becomes “possessed” by an entity hellbent on killing people, destroying shit, causing chaos and you have to constantly fight against your character attacking people or idk jumping into traffic or shouting obscenities. Aside from the negation of physical actions, maybe you also have to maintain other health factors (blood pressure, hydration, audio/visual stimulation) to stabilise them until you can get them to…a doctor/job interview/their wedding/birth of their child/inauguration.
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i know this is not what you’re talking about but pac man 2 i think is kind of striving to be sort of like this
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pac man 2
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i always termed this the rowdy dipshit genre and yeah pac man 2, wonder project j, kumatanchi, Ganbare Neo Poke-kun, maybe even the last guardian count in my mind
rimo cocoron is a neat one of these where you have to give the characters ideas to clear the screen
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Pac man 2
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This is kind of like a project I want to do called “BURSTING WITH MAGGOTS!!!”
In “BURSTING WITH MAGGOTS!!!” you are a bunch of maggots who live in a skin suit which must go about its daily tasks without being detected as such. It has a QWOP style interface for controlling your skinmask’s facial muscles but you also have to keep jamming space bar to keep maggots from falling out of your body.
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The idea of it being a third-person action game (heck, even a flying or driving game) really appeals to me and now I’m thinking about a competitive mode where two (or more?) players are fighting for control over the same body for different goals. Maybe there’s some kind of “resource” or point system you’re trying to acquire and maintain that allows for greater control over certain aspects of the avatar.
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Isn’t this kind of what Octodad was?
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fictional women’s wrestling game with vtuber commentary
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How about youtuber wrestling game.
youtubers are a bunch of pencil-necked geeks though
so you get to laugh when your dude tries to suplex someone only for their spine to snap in half from the attempt.
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First person billiards for true doom murderheads
RPG in which the world is a pneumatic system, it’s inhabitants generate speech bubbles containing a phonetic symbol that fly around and coalesce. Babble storms
You’re the guardian bubble of a mobile panopticon, you must stay near, but you’ll pop if it sees you
Mega man with mega men management. They hunt their bounties on a world map like the missiles in Missile Command. Upgrade units like in Alpha Centauri.
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Instead of giving your lo-fi video game a VHS filter, consider piping the graphics through some cruddy old mpeg1 or realmedia codec from the mid 90s.
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i just posted this on twitter, but: ff7 remake that instead of being an all-new 3d action game, it’s the original game with all the prerendered cg backgrounds replaced with hd photos of miniature sets
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