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« Reply #1740 on: September 30, 2013, 06:33:10 AM » |
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aha. you have to be in-sync. the game needs to be such that the robot is usually awesome, except when the players actually cooperate, in which case it is super awesome.
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« Reply #1741 on: September 30, 2013, 08:40:58 PM » |
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What would make the robot unawesome?
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"Around here, however, we don't look back for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
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« Reply #1742 on: September 30, 2013, 09:23:44 PM » |
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« Reply #1743 on: September 30, 2013, 09:43:37 PM » |
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A game about birds.
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« Reply #1744 on: September 30, 2013, 10:53:20 PM » |
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Iron Roads is Railroad Tycoon meets FTL, a Railroad Baron simulator for bossing your peons to victory.
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« Reply #1745 on: September 30, 2013, 10:55:30 PM » |
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A game about birds.
Are they angry birds? |
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"Around here, however, we don't look back for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
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« Reply #1746 on: October 02, 2013, 04:52:30 PM » |
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Someone make me a realistic flight simulator in a futuristic scifi context.
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« Reply #1747 on: October 03, 2013, 09:04:47 AM » |
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I posted this on a another forum, but I think you guys would get a kick out of it too:
Soap Opera Tycoon:
Play as the Producer/Director/Writer of a soap opera production company. The goal is to capture the highest ratings in the Daytime TV genera. The player will hire actors/characters each with stats such as Likability, Attractiveness, and Respect. The player will also buy plot points to run on the characters eventually creating a web of intrigue and drama. Each episodes rating will be converted into advertizing revenue with which the player can buy better actors or more elaborate plot points.
The Audience is fickle. Focus groups and tabloids will inform the player about the ever chaining pop culture land scape. The player will need to add plot points, kill off characters, and introduce new ones to keep up with audience trends. Other Soap operas (AI controlled) compete with the player for ratings, and running the same plot points or similar characters will lead to audience fatigue.
Here are some Plot points:
X is secretly in love with Y
X wants to inherit Y's fortune
X married Y for money
X is the unknown love child of Y
X is dating Y to make Z jealous
X has incriminating evidence on Y
X Sabotages Y's car
X Saved Y from falling off a cliff
X took a bullet meant for Y
X feel guilty for horrible thing they did to Y
X goes to jail for Y's crimes
X has a secret drug habit
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« Reply #1748 on: October 03, 2013, 10:01:30 AM » |
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@Wilson Saunders I like the idea! You need to add the whole confusing family elements:
- X is dating Y, not knowing Y is X's sister
- X hurt Y's business deal, not knowing Y is X's father
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« Reply #1749 on: October 03, 2013, 12:15:21 PM » |
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How would the plot influence the gameplay? I'm thinking about making audience directly proportional to complexity of plot and inversely proportional to inconsistencies of the plot. Thus at each chapter you'd be compelled to make it more complex but being careful not to break logic and make someone its own father or something like that.
This is really funny lol
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« Reply #1750 on: October 03, 2013, 12:47:09 PM » |
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Making up the plot is the gameplay. I had in mind 6 different criteria of why people watch soap operas:
1) Schadenfreude: Boy am I glad I am not that guy.
2) Wish Fulfillment: I wish I lived in such a place.
3) Connection: That character is just like me/ who I want to be
4) Vicarious revenge: I really hate this character, I look forward to seeing them get what they deserve.
5) Imagination fuel: If I were in that situation here is what I would do.
6) Voyeurism: I like watching these characters bumble about not knowing what I know.
Each plot point and character would give the episode a value in each of these categories. The audience would consist of AI agents with preferences in each of these categories. If an episode meets the agent's preference stats that agent will remain loyal to your show or switch to it from a different one. Tabloid trends may sway large sections of the viewership.
For example the lottery jackpot has not been clamed in a few months and there is a 28 Million dollar jackpot everyone is looking at. Suddenly Wish fulfillment and Imagination fuel are now twice effective at drawing an audience.
Another example: a respectable public figure has been caught up in a sex scandal. Voyeurism and Schadenfreude become more effective.
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« Reply #1751 on: October 04, 2013, 12:50:44 PM » |
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SHMUP dating sim
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« Reply #1752 on: October 04, 2013, 01:03:55 PM » |
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Finishing up where CAVE left off?  |
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« Reply #1753 on: October 04, 2013, 01:10:26 PM » |
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« Reply #1754 on: October 04, 2013, 01:19:24 PM » |
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« Reply #1755 on: October 05, 2013, 04:07:34 PM » |
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no humans. no semi humans. no human related things at all.
big ass space freighters slamming together in the infinite abyss of space. giving birth to little ships.
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« Reply #1756 on: October 05, 2013, 04:48:08 PM » |
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Well, that was unexpected.
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« Reply #1757 on: October 05, 2013, 06:23:42 PM » |
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lol
Gigantic cruiser slowly approaches giant station. Cheesy porn music pawn chik pawn pawn..
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« Reply #1758 on: October 06, 2013, 03:08:05 AM » |
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A dungeon crawler where you don't get to control the adventurer. Instead you lay out the dungeon one room at a time (including treasure & monsters) and he proceeds according to his AI. You want him to explore, level up, find treasures and ultimately survive - but you don't get to directly control him. This is the game I'm making for the October Challenge. Thoughts? |
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« Reply #1759 on: October 06, 2013, 03:16:58 AM » |
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There better be a speed control so you don't have to watch him proceed at the same speed every time.
Also mixing up the AI so you can't just build the exact same dungeon every time.
A lot of the game's fun factor is going to be based on how the AI reacts to stuff, so if the AI is perfectly happy going down a straight corridor, it's not going to be very interesting to design dungeons for.
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