If you could make your own Game...
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An Action Adventure game about a Physicist who is working on a project to build a telekinesis suit. But on the day of completion a group of mercenaries barge in and shoot up the building. The Physicist puts on the suit and escapes the building and goes on a quest to find out who attacked him and his coworkers and to get revenge
I would study a wide gamut of playwright's styles of narrative and especially actors/directors' theatre philosophies and methods to see what would fire that light bulb that keeps floating above my head, the creepy thing.
Because games seriously need to look for influences outside games themselves and movies.
Studying music theory would also be a good idea for that diversity to happen.
Because games seriously need to look for influences outside games themselves and movies.
Studying music theory would also be a good idea for that diversity to happen.
I instantly forgive you for the " Albert Eisenstein " thing.King Toasty said:
I actually just had an idea for a stealth/action game based on the underground railroad. U would hav to guide an escaped slave back to the north or something. Cue good writing, deep characters and all that shit. In the end, they could all die and that would b that.
I want to make an open world first-person brawler. The key feature would be that almost every conceivable object can be used as a weapon. There would be a few ways to use that object in combat, hit, throw, and block. It would take place in the future on another planet, the city would be in the middle of the ocean, the buildings would be built all the way from the ocean floor, to thousands of feet above the surface. I picture it as Taris, from KoTOR, where the rich citizens live higher up, and the further down you go, the poorer the people get. The game would take place mostly inside the buildings, with the player being able to take a train or boat from on to the other. I haven't thought much about the plot yet, but I know it would have the player fighting the cops.
A first person perspective game where the protagonist rather abruptly realises that the world they're living in isn't real. Everything is a fake amalgamation of their memories, or an incongruous lie that their subconscious can't accept. The world they're in is some sort of illusion, and they have to try and find their way out of their own mind and confront whoever or whatever has trapped them in there, and find out why they've been imprisoned in their mind in the first place.
The only problem is, someone else is out there. Some other intangible force seems to be controlling the unreal world in which they exist. Some other power is altering aspects of the world at will, in an effort to prevent their escape, giving the protagonist little to no control over their own mind. All the protagonist wants is answers, but, at times, it seems like there's no way of knowing if the clues they come across are hinting at the real story of how they ended up there, or just lies to placate them.
The protagonist's journey will take them through their memories, but it also goes out of their own mind and into the minds of others (or, at least, what they hope are the same subconscious illusions of other people stuck in the same situation) in an effort to wake them up and rescue them too. But how can they know who is real and who isn't? Along the way, the protagonist confronts their own repressed fears, memories and insecurities, given physical form, as they try to figure out the aspects of his/her life that she/he can't remember. Every time they pass through a memory, it raises more questions as they try to distinguish between the illusion and reality.
Enemies will also need to be confronted along the way, but not through violence so much as using intelligence, platforming and the broken rules of reality to deceive/avoid/kill them before they kill you. The world doesn't operate according to conventional rules, you see. Levels can suddenly and unexpectedly rearrange themselves, resulting in different configurations. Walls may be glitched, or gravity may abruptly invert half way through the level, leaving you on the ceiling. Even light or sound may not operate the way they do in the real world, in certain places.
The best way I could summarise this is Psychonauts crossed with Silent Hill crossed with Portal crossed with Abe's Oddysey/Abe's Exodus. I would just love to write a story driven game designed around the concept of sheer mindfuckery, that plays differently from pretty much anything out there on the market right now. Ideally, the game would also get under players' skins and really creep them out, making them wonder if something in the game is watching them, toying with them.
In Soviet Russia, game plays you?
(Long post is long. Sorry.)
The only problem is, someone else is out there. Some other intangible force seems to be controlling the unreal world in which they exist. Some other power is altering aspects of the world at will, in an effort to prevent their escape, giving the protagonist little to no control over their own mind. All the protagonist wants is answers, but, at times, it seems like there's no way of knowing if the clues they come across are hinting at the real story of how they ended up there, or just lies to placate them.
The protagonist's journey will take them through their memories, but it also goes out of their own mind and into the minds of others (or, at least, what they hope are the same subconscious illusions of other people stuck in the same situation) in an effort to wake them up and rescue them too. But how can they know who is real and who isn't? Along the way, the protagonist confronts their own repressed fears, memories and insecurities, given physical form, as they try to figure out the aspects of his/her life that she/he can't remember. Every time they pass through a memory, it raises more questions as they try to distinguish between the illusion and reality.
Enemies will also need to be confronted along the way, but not through violence so much as using intelligence, platforming and the broken rules of reality to deceive/avoid/kill them before they kill you. The world doesn't operate according to conventional rules, you see. Levels can suddenly and unexpectedly rearrange themselves, resulting in different configurations. Walls may be glitched, or gravity may abruptly invert half way through the level, leaving you on the ceiling. Even light or sound may not operate the way they do in the real world, in certain places.
The best way I could summarise this is Psychonauts crossed with Silent Hill crossed with Portal crossed with Abe's Oddysey/Abe's Exodus. I would just love to write a story driven game designed around the concept of sheer mindfuckery, that plays differently from pretty much anything out there on the market right now. Ideally, the game would also get under players' skins and really creep them out, making them wonder if something in the game is watching them, toying with them.
In Soviet Russia, game plays you?
(Long post is long. Sorry.)
I would make a survival horror that takes place after an eruption of the super-volcano at Yellowstone. Ash would be raining from the sky blocking out the sun for years and most of the wildlife is dead. I'd say that's a pretty good setting. And amidst this catastrophe any survivors of the eruption trying to escape the ash now have to face an awakened terror.
So, I heard some people from Ensemble and Bungie moved to Valve.YoBadMama said:
I guess you could say Valve...
*sunglasses*
...is gaining steam.
YYEEEAAAHHHH
Naughty Bear... except good.
Also, and something I've been waiting for, a much longer and developed Silent Hill 2 for modern consoles. About 25 hours of gameplay with elements of sandbox and traditional survival horror with less focus on action and more so on puzzles and story development.
Also, and something I've been waiting for, a much longer and developed Silent Hill 2 for modern consoles. About 25 hours of gameplay with elements of sandbox and traditional survival horror with less focus on action and more so on puzzles and story development.
*hides anti-threadbomb* Uhm, Mechajackson! DANCE!greenflash said:
Maybe Uzbekistan-d up and take a walk.