SB game idea megathread

More frightening to me than any horror game

3 Likes

american football game with hyper realistic modern sports game graphics that plays exactly like 10 yard fight

4 Likes

Super Mario sunshine 2. Instead of collecting shines you collect plastiglomerates. Mario gets a tan

You play as one of the cats from mappy. The stages are panopticons and thereā€™s a lightshow and maybe a fog machine

5 Likes

An inverted Persona game (of the recent style) where you are Saitama from One Punch Man.

All the actual RPG-style ā€œbattlesā€ are just mundane shit like

  • Trying to get a refund out of customer service
  • Dealing with bureaucrats
  • Talking other superheroes out of trying to be your disciple

Meanwhile any actual fight is resolved through a dialogue scene and the only option you can choose is ā€œOne Punchā€

9 Likes

a light gun game with digitised sprites like revolution x, but set in the dystopian world of david dees art

2 Likes

drakengard 4 should be a DLC for the next dynasty warriors, just to make almost nobody happy

5 Likes

Pacman x Mirrorā€™s Edge

4 Likes

shadowrun / ā€œBrightā€ style high fantasy in a contemporary alternate reality setting thing where JFK is assassinated by a gnarly gnoll with grass growing on its back

7 Likes

just woke up from a dream where the premise of Subnautica Below Zero (what happened to your sister? Listen to audio logs to find out) was transplanted to a island that is a cross between nature preserve and natural history museum.

The core gimmick of the game is that you find a fully articulated Nature magazine/activity book which would have solutions for game puzzles in it, among other things. the example that came up was a page you could cut to reveal the layers under an animalā€™s skin on the next page, but if you flip it over and look at the other side it also lines up with a toothpaste ad on the preceding page.

3 Likes

Crazy Taxi but youā€™re Yoshi carrying different baby Marios all over a 3D map

5 Likes

Hazy Taxi. Like Crazy Taxi but the weather is really bad.

8 Likes

Lazy Taxi. Points for leisure and grace.

8 Likes

neurodivergent taxi

10 Likes

In another thread:

Backdoor Man, the stealth porn game where you screw around with other peopleā€™s partners and have to hide when they come home.

A 2D fighting game built around specifically balanced, more drastically asymmetric fighters. For example, there would be a roster of large, high health, but slow characters one player can choose and another roster of smaller, more agile characters for the other player.

An example would be a game where one player could play as the main characters of Red Earth while the other player has to play as one of the bosses.

2 Likes

Fighting Tournament Organizer Simulator 2022. Run a secret underworld fighting tournament! Recruit new members of the roster, foster their rivalries and friendships to give the fans the melodrama they desire! Book venues, deal with primadonna fighters, stop fight-crashers (or let them in!), deal with crazy fans and other disasters, and keep your sponsors happy. Note: Your sponsors may also be fighters.

3 Likes

A raising / dating sim in a virtual midwestern college town where you are trying to inspire the best possible early 2000s indy / emo album over the course of a summer. You do so by setting up parties, dates, breakups so the right musicians meet and have the right sorts of inspirations. They need time to practice, work enough not to go completely broke or burn out before recording an album. To accomplish this you need to learn their personalities, needs and motivations.

4 Likes

a game that is 120fps at 4K that maintains its framerate by just moving on to rendering the next frame regardless of whether or not the frame was finished rendering, resulting in objects flickering in and out of existence like an NES hitting its sprite limit

7 Likes

as in, horizontal tearing but the game only rarely gets halfway down the screen buffer? For live updates, look to the stars; for the past, look to the earth

8 Likes

The image in my mindā€™s eye is of a renderer that draws the skybox first, and then draws the rest of the scene in a semi-random order from front to back until it hits vblank or whatever, at which point the entire (possibly) incomplete image is displayed onscreen.

(granted, I get the feeling that modern deferred rendering systems would produce different results than what Iā€™m imagining.)

6 Likes