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[Wilson Saunders]

A side scrolling 2.5d brawler like castle crashers, only the entire game takes place on the tops of moving vehicles on a futuristic five lane highway. The vehicles would have different roof heights and be slowly moving in relation to each other. Players and enemies die from loosing all their health or being knocked off a vehicle and onto the road (where the next car that comes along hits them). Aesthetic would be mad max biker gang fighting against Judge Dredd style dystopian law enforcement.

[darkhog]

Ok. Let's see, if I can do this...


You're a computer virus. You spread and infect various systems.

No, no... That doesn't sound right, how about this:

In this amazing, epic and innovative 3D platformer you'll stretch your mind how to guide iconic Computer Virus to complete all the missions of the 100 level campaign.

There, it sound more AAAish. Link in my signature, just click the logo.

[The Translocator]

A first person shooter where you record the actions you're going to take for 1 minute, then watch the results of your actions vs your opponent's actions for 1 minute. Rinse and repeat.

[The MegaMagic Dude]

A first person shooter where you record the actions you're going to take for 1 minute, then watch the results of your actions vs your opponent's actions for 1 minute. Rinse and repeat.

I really like this. So it's more of a strategic game, isn't it? Like an "anticipate the movements of your enemy" thing. Right? I like it.

[The Translocator]

A first person shooter where you record the actions you're going to take for 1 minute, then watch the results of your actions vs your opponent's actions for 1 minute. Rinse and repeat.

I really like this. So it's more of a strategic game, isn't it? Like an "anticipate the movements of your enemy" thing. Right? I like it.

Right. I got the idea from the Shovel Knight streetpass mode for 3DS, but I think the format would work really well for a FPS game with more possible places for your opponent to be. Unless the maps had a LOT of chokepoints/ small hallways, the weapons would have to be heat seeking, rapid fire, or have a large cone of fire for it to not drag on forever. Plus there would have to be objectives for the majority of the gamemodes, because in a deathmatch setting there's no binary choice to predict "Are they going for my Flag or guarding theirs? Are they going for the control point or not?" Unless you had weapons sprinkled around the arena, like Quake. But then we have the issues of ammo conservation and weapon respawn timers and designing maps to facilitate specific movement patterns.

It would need symmetrical maps, including any items and spawn points. Also, it would be really cool if it had a minimap with your position shown and where they started that "turn" from but a circle growing from their start position showing a circle of where they "could" be. Naturally this would get bigger over time and restart with each turn, so the best time to attack them would be at the start of a turn unless you knew where they were going.



Somebody make this. 

[blurr]

I'm looking into mecha inspired games that offer a good degree of complexity, analogous to a simulator. Most of the stuff I've seen so far happen to be fast paced. The game idea I have in mind, doesn't have a third person view, just an inside view with in the machine.

The experience is to make sure the player understands the weight of the machine and give it a more mechanical feel. As such, it could involve, pulling levers, flipping switches, pushing/pulling a joystick etc. to perform an action, it might be a simple action. I'd like to play around a machine that does some simple things like moving forward or shooting first, I don't intend to craft a game around this immediately.

[gimymblert]

@blurr steel battalion

[blurr]

@blurr steel battalion

Well, that's certainly similar to what I had in mind. Thanks!

However, I want to see if any game offers a virtual environment of that kind than using actual hardware.

[rek]

MMO team arena combat (arena as in sports venue). Two teams of 10 or four teams of five players, each player one of 5-10 fighter types, a wide variety of armed and unarmed combat options. (Empty player slots are NPC, but you aren't told who is human and who isn't.) Big explosions, throwing people around, jumping attacks, dodges, lasers, spinning blades, arena hazards, maybe vehicles, rapidfire fighting in rounds lasting only a few minutes 3D chunky poly

[gimymblert]

@blurr steel battalion

Well, that's certainly similar to what I had in mind. Thanks!

However, I want to see if any game offers a virtual environment of that kind than using actual hardware.

steel battalion 2?

[Pfotegeist]

Alright I took an evening after conceiving to think this twice over.

I like the idea of asynchronous play. This is a trickle down social activity. This is the most harmless sounding pitch I can think of for such a serious topic.

First game is to be marked with warnings Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong Language. The player urged to "be civil and feed bunnies for respect" repeatedly. Then some cute bunnies, aww - and a score called "respect." There's actually an easy way, feeding the bunnies hay they'll try to come for it, or a hard way chasing them and using a hammer/injections/gas/and even swearing at them.

Second game is E, everyone can play. It will look overly cute. Bunnies with tummy aches need shots. After a bunny is sick for a day it will be incurable, and the population of sick bunnies is deliberately tied to the first game. You can save the new bunnies very quickly, and the terminal ones stay around to be pet until they disappear.

[kshaja]

VR 3D Space Invaders

[woodsmoke]

I'm working on a 2D mech sim with a single player campaign.

[Halogen]

Condemned for witchcraft, it's up to you to escape the stake and make it out of town alive. Little girl or not, you're being chased and it's your job to survive the three-day manhunt.

Wow that sounded so much better in my head jesu croix that's bad...

[diegzumillo]

Halogen. I like it. There is a lot of exploration of the survival idea nowadays, but I still think no one got it right yet. Make your game!

I have a dumb idea. I always enjoyed the sword fights on Prince of Persia (the original one). It's a simple game of reflex but it's fun and engaging, kind of like ping pong. And also like ping pong I loved when the fight lasted longer.

I know the natural evolution of that is the free flow combat we see in games like the Arkham series etc, but something was lost in the process. There is less tension, because you can get hit many times. So my game idea is sword fighting game like PoP, with more depth to it.

OK, now someone make this. Go go go.

[indie11]

A time based twitch platformer in which the player has to defuse bombs by just touching them OR by making certain pattern on switches present in the level

[Mariofan0]

Hows this?

"A Fighting/Platformmer Hybrid Game, with Metroidvaina Exploration, & RPG Elements, starring an Anthro Rabbit, his Family, & Friends, as they try to rescue those who were kidnapped by a strange Magic Jester, and her peons made of Pure Mana"

Any good? Did I reveal too much? Too Little? Too many lines? This is just for fun right?

[diegzumillo]

Ever stop to think about people just getting into gaming? They don't have 20 years of pre existing knowledge to help them understand the tropes and references. They don't know z is for jump on keyboard platformers or that shift runs on first person games. They wouldn't get the mario references on Braid.

So how about a game made to introduce all these things?! huh?? huh?? I'm genius. Someone make it and then give me 75%.

[oahda]

I've never played PC games (as of recently I do play games on PC but using gamepad and all of it is either emulated console games or exists on console too) and I don't like FPS games, so had no idea about those keyboard standards.

Isn't Mario rehashed so much that most people who are at least somewhat into games despite being young would understand those, tho (especially "your princess is in another castle"), in pop culture and actual games alike?

Sounds like a possibly interesting idea anyway, tho it's easy to fall into "le epic maymay" trap and look like someone just namedropping stuff instead of something genuinely set to invoke nostalgic feelings or teach gaming culture to newcomers.

[Schoq]

good fps gams have a walk button not a run button