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[Pishtaco]

I haven't heard of that game, I'll have to check it out.

Have a look here and here.

[Nektonico]

An RPG with no numbers.  None.  No health, no mana, no str, dex or agi, no skill points, no levels.  The only numbers visible to the player would be the amount of money and items they have.  Everything would be visual, aural and descriptive cues.

Nice idea. A MMO game with no visible stats, and a focus on exploration and treasure hunting (no grinding, just looting). Also, permadeath. It would be awesome.

[LazyWaffle]

People should stop worrying about having original content that is completely new, and more on making a game that's actually fun to play.

[KennEH!]

People should stop worrying about having original content that is completely new, and more on making a game that's actually fun to play.

Sometimes those are both the same. Playing the same thing all the time does get tedious and boring.

[cynical duck, the]

This isn't completely or anything, but an idea I had would be a platformer with a deeper fighting system than just a kick and spin (a la arcade fighters, or something.)  This falls right into the trap of "this.. except...", but the real 'meat and bones' would be in the story, which is about a drug addict trapped in an art museum dealing with his own twisted psyche, and the level design, with levels based on M.C. Escher or in which you have synthesizia, so the audio and visuals are reversed.   Stuff like that.

(PS: Where should I go from here?  I have some more ideas for this game, but I don't think its appropriate to post them on this forum, and it's more fleshed out then many of the things on the "pitch your idea" forum, so I don't know where to go from here.  Any ideas?

[Xion]

Start making it?

[SirNiko]

Edit: Nevermind, I'm replying to posts from LAST december.

-SirNiko

[Newbrof]

I have an idea for a game, where the player has to decide that he is done and has to go to the game over screen. Why should he want to do this? Because continuing the game will be harder and harder, so that he will decide: I stop now and submit my points (score).

[SirNiko]

This has been done many times before, but this does not make it a bad idea.

Tower of Greed uses this model: the player must continue to climb to avoid falling behind and perishing. Every so often, and exit appears. Do you quit, or stay longer for a higher score?

Risk vs. Reward, a staple of good game design.

-SirNiko

[Paint by Numbers]

This has been done many times before, but this does not make it a bad idea.

Tower of Greed uses this model: the player must continue to climb to avoid falling behind and perishing. Every so often, and exit appears. Do you quit, or stay longer for a higher score?

Risk vs. Reward, a staple of good game design.

-SirNiko

That's not a bad idea, but this is the thread for things that haven't been done before.

[Kren]

hmm, I have been wondering, there are alot of topdown games.. how about a "bottomup" game?

[Danmark]

^ It'd be an upskirt perv's fantasy.

How about a game with this projection?:

I've seen a better picture of it (in a natural setting), but I couldn't find it.

[Tanner]

there was a sonic game on the saturn that was cancelled that used something like that, iirc.

EDIT: yep, there is:

[Pishtaco]

It looks like the title screen for World of Goo.

[Kekskiller]

I would really love to play a game like this. Also, the music in the video is gorgeous.

[pgil]

hmm, I have been wondering, there are alot of topdown games.. how about a "bottomup" game?

I'm pretty sure there were a couple of scenes like this in one of the Leisure Suit Larry games, but I can't find a screenshot of it.

[Danmark]

there was a sonic game on the saturn that was cancelled that used something like that, iirc.

EDIT: yep, there is:

I reckon the projection would look cooler with a top-down camera, but that's just incredible. Especially that it was attempted 13 years ago.

[SirNiko]

That image makes me think of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A game about substance abuse, where each level has a graphical style and control system that mirrors the substance in question, sort of like how F&LiLV used different camera techniques for each scene to match the characters' current influence?

-SirNiko

[X3N]

That image makes me think of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A game about substance abuse, where each level has a graphical style and control system that mirrors the substance in question, sort of like how F&LiLV used different camera techniques for each scene to match the characters' current influence?

-SirNiko

I'd swear there was a PS2 game which simulated the effects of various drugs. Can't remember the name.

EDIT

"Select the
drug in your inventory, then press R to use it. Congratulations, you're
officially high in a video game. After the effects wear off, talk to them."

[Teddy]

MMORPG which starts your character off as a child and basically as defenseless and dependent on others as children are.

I was planning a game like this, except it's not an MMO.  And you're a child for the whole game.  Most of the game would involve running errands, solving problems, etc, but in dangerous areas, you'd have to hire bodyguards to fight for you.  The few times you have to fight without a bodyguard, you'd have to find a clever way to defeat the enemy using the environment, cause you're too weak to just beat it up.

That's not the whole game of course.  I guess I can post it in this thread since I don't believe it's been done before.  But basically the game revolves around time, and you have to collect the "hours" of the day, which give you more parts of the day to play through. NPCs are in different positions, areas are opened or closed, etc, at different times of day.  It results in some interesting time-based puzzles, like someone forgetting to buy fruits, but the store's closed, so you need to go back earlier in the day to when it was open and buy it for them.