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[RadLab]

Funny, and quite something!

But the way I saw it was different: a game in wish the challenge is not reflex based, but choice based. You choose wether you want to kill someone or not. Depending on who you kill, different scenarios can occur (but not too much). Now that I think about it, this idea may look too much like Pathways, except you kill people instead of walking 

[Shpoonj]

Hi! This is my first post, but I'm a long time lurker.

I'm in the early production phase of making the following idea into a game... still trying to put a team together.

Top down 2D reminiscent of SNES JRPGs, non violent adventure puzzle gameplay(ie monkey island, myst, et al), Lovecraftesque dark fantasy mythos combined with something along the lines of the cutesy Persona horror atmosphere, and three interwoven plots contained within a single mansion.

I'm very interested in ANY feedback. If you think this is the worst, most overdone, lackluster idea since American Idol, please, let me know. Also, as mentioned above, if you need a project to work on, I could use a gifted programmer/scripter.

Thanks all!

[choiniere]

A ninja platformer about staying in the shadows and performing stealth kills rather than just ripping through your foes. Lights would actually create shadows realistically and smashing the lights would be an easy skip, but raise the alarm slightly.

Tenchu 1 and 2.

[Bree]

Now drop the ninja players into a multiplayer FPS. It's fail-proof!

[Harpo]

A 2D platformer game with a sandbox-ish world that uses similar movement to sonic advance and controls similar to assassin's creed (high profile/low profile) moves.

the low profile moves would be ordinary, but the high profile moves would be over-the-top, jumps that make your character soar into the air, high speed dashes, tackles and throws.

The game would have no conventional "attack" buttons, all damage to enemies has to be achieved through gaining enough momentum to do damage. via powerbombs, tackles, impacts or throws.

[KennEH!]

That sounds awesome.

[CK]

one line pitch for the project you're working on

you are a ninja.

dream game you'd like to see somebody make.

a spiritual successor to outlaws that retains the 2d art and the depth and gameplay and the badassery 

[nihilocrat]

A "roguelike" flight simulator with permadeath and randomly-generated missions, factions, and terrain.

[Durruti]

A "roguelike" flight simulator with permadeath and randomly-generated missions, factions, and terrain.

This idea is awesome, but leads me to ask:
1) Will there also be crazy-awesome planes and the pimping out/customization of such?
2) What are you thinking in terms of graphics?
3) This idea would be exponentially better if, instead of planes, one were to pilot giant robots.

Maybe that last one is just me. And maybe it's not a question. Who can say, really.

As for me, my current idea(/fixation) is a sort of multiplayer, competitive River City Ransom-esque beat-'em-up focused on acquiring turf and taking over a city. Probably involving some RPG elements plus some mini-games and neat mechanics here and there to keep things interesting. Assuming I can come up with any.

[JasonPickering]

harvest moon + I am legend.

[it_is_coming]

harvest moon + I am legend.

That doesn't make any sense.

I'm sorry.

[Seth]

As for me, my current idea(/fixation) is a sort of multiplayer, competitive River City Ransom-esque beat-'em-up focused on acquiring turf and taking over a city. Probably involving some RPG elements plus some mini-games and neat mechanics here and there to keep things interesting. Assuming I can come up with any.

I've thought about this idea many times over the years and I fully support it.

It's hard for me to think of how you would maintain control of your turf once everybody has to log offline.  But yes, a gang-system thing would be pretty cool.

[Alec S.]

harvest moon + I am legend.

So... you have a vegetable farm, but eventually realize that the vegetables are intelligent and by picking and eating them, you have become the monster in their legend?

[Seth]

That does sound awesome

[Durruti]

...multiplayer, competitive River City Ransom-esque beat-'em-up focused on acquiring turf and taking over a city...

I've thought about this idea many times over the years and I fully support it.

It's hard for me to think of how you would maintain control of your turf once everybody has to log offline.  But yes, a gang-system thing would be pretty cool.

Yes, I've been trying to figure out some creative way of handling that. Assuming I ever really start this project and decide to go with the turf war focus, I'll have to figure out some solution. Perhaps turf can only be acquired when someone is online to defend it, unless it's neutral? Who knows.

[cijolly]

A 2d two player platformer. Each player controls a robot. Each robot is in a level. Each level is the inside of their opponents robot. Each player is simultaniously trying to destroy the other, while at the same time move in such a way as to dislodge the robot inside them. For example, walking up a wall would tilt the other players world 90 degrees.

Hell of sand The Game, as opposed to hell of sand The Toy. Computers are getting to the point where cellular automata might be able to make a somewhat interesting world. Dwarf fortress is a step in the right direction.

Insert tongue in cheek: Dwarf fortress, The Game, as opposed to Dwarf Fortress, The Toy. You know what I mean.

An adventure game wherein you play out the abstract ineraction of ideas. At it's most basic level, the conflict between a flat world theory and a round world theory is played out as each theory argues it's own merits. The more supporters it get's the more powerful it is. A more personal narritive would involve the player dying, but living on as the idea of himself. As living people talk to each other, the idea concept of the player would change, even after death. What a lot of famous personalities mean to us now (Elvis, Lincoln, Cleopatra...) has been shaped by time, and would be massively different in the collective consciousness to what these people meant when alive.

[Stwelin]

...multiplayer, competitive River City Ransom-esque beat-'em-up focused on acquiring turf and taking over a city...

I've thought about this idea many times over the years and I fully support it.

It's hard for me to think of how you would maintain control of your turf once everybody has to log offline.  But yes, a gang-system thing would be pretty cool.

Yes, I've been trying to figure out some creative way of handling that. Assuming I ever really start this project and decide to go with the turf war focus, I'll have to figure out some solution. Perhaps turf can only be acquired when someone is online to defend it, unless it's neutral? Who knows.

booby traps.

[Robotacon]

A 2d two player platformer. Each player controls a robot. Each robot is in a level. Each level is the inside of their opponents robot. Each player is simultaniously trying to destroy the other, while at the same time move in such a way as to dislodge the robot inside them. For example, walking up a wall would tilt the other players world 90 degrees.

Brilliant!
Make on of the players a robot and the other one a human for extra weirdness.

[JasonPickering]

harvest moon + I am legend.

sorry i should have explained more. basically in harvest moon, you spend the days growing food, and building up your farm, while not over-exerting yourself. I figure the same idea can be implemented in a zombie apocalypse game where you need to scrounge for food, ammo, and build a base all while avoiding zombies (which was a lot of the begining to I am Legend), you could also look at Survivor kids or Lost in the blue as a base. the player is tasked with surviving, while the zombies slowly come for you.

P.S. i know that they were not zombies in I am Legend.

[medieval]

A soul ends up in the afterlife realm and finds it horrible. So he goes to a distant planet in search for a better place.