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Now that 24 hours have passed we have our winner!

A huge thanks to @frezik for suggesting this awesome idea!

A survival crafting game where the tech tree goes backwards. You start in a prepper hole with working water filtration, food sources, etc, and everything is nice. Then something breaks and maybe you fix it. Something else breaks and maybe you fix that. Three things break at once, and at least one of them is going to stay broken. Have to do something more primitive and time consuming.

Eventually, enough things break that it’s no longer sustainable and you die. Game ranks you based on how long you last.

I would also like to thank every person in the comments for making their wonderful suggestions! I've read through every single one of them and all of them are really good!

You can view the game's code at https://github.com/SamLeeway/project-196, which is currently empty at the time of writing this, but every day from now I will contribute code there.

The game currently does not have any name other than "Project 196", so I will probably host a poll when we have at least something playable.

When the game would be playable? Making games ain't easy so it's pretty hard to estimate. I would say in around a week or so I should have a rough prototype if things go right.

Update

Didn't really have much time to work on this this week, so my week estimate is going out of the window. I will not estimate anymore. But I am still working on things, so game will happen. :)

chocosoldier ,

Pukemon, a Pokemon-style game with a Garbage Pail Kids aesthetic

germanatlas ,
@germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Baldurs Gate 4

Aussiemandeus ,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

This has to be the answer.

Caitlyynn ,
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With expanded Soundtrack

snugglesthefalse ,

I think we're asking for a bit much here...

SamLeeway OP ,
@SamLeeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

These boots have seen everything

Ozy ,
@Ozy@lemmy.world avatar

Better not be trapped

DrQuickbeam ,

I'm thinking an RPG Maker style game. You play as Morpheus, the god of dreams. Each level is a different person's dream. When you arrive the dream is a nightmare fueled by past experiences and internal feelings. You have to journey through the dreamscape and find these factors and resolve them to heal the psyche of the dreamer and turn the nightmare into a good dream.

An example would be a dream where the dreamer is delivering a presentation in front of a classroom naked while the other kids and teacher make fun of them. As that scene plays out, you walk around the school and discover little tidbits about the dreamer. Some of these tidbits are external factors that led to the dream, like memories of people making the dreamer embarrassed for being themselves. You could resolve these by fighting and defeating them in the form of nightmare creatures. And some of the tidbits will be internal factors, like feelings of insecurity and defense mechanisms like reinforcing ideas, that give power to the twisted logic of the dream. These, you have to heal by pointing out the flawed logic and encouraging the dreamer to accept themselves. Once you do everything, you go back to the classroom and find the dreamer giving a TED talk to an enraptured and admiring crowd.

dwindling7373 ,

That's "Psychonauts".

casmael ,

Fucking really?

Osa-Eris-Xero512 ,

Yep

androogee ,

... Not that I'd mind another psychonauts

casmael ,

Okay this one sounds sick

Pooptimist , (edited )

Have you played the Conkers Bad Fur day multiplayer back on the n64? There is this mode called beach, where you play defenseless squirrels that have to make it over the border, which is guarded by nazi teddy bears. They have bazookas, snipers and turrets. All the squirrels have is their mobility.

So you run while there's stuff exploding and shots fired over your heads and around you while you run for your life and it was the most fun I had in a multiplayer game ever.

i've always dreamt of a similar game, or a mod for this game with more players and maps.

But imagine, a game where one team has only their agility and parkour skills to make it somewhere, while the other team tries to kill them.

So either you go the silly route with the squirrels and simple controls, or you could make a game with deep parkour gameplay and evasion moves and the like, but the rules and the goal would be the same.

EDIT: one detail that I forgot but is of great importance: the opposing team (nazi teddy bears) are pretty stationary and can just move up on their wall. They can't go down to the map where the squirrels run for their life

RattusInox ,

So escaping from East Berlin over the Berlin Wall, but… fun?

Pooptimist ,

Exactly!

SamLeeway OP ,
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lmao

KpntAutismus ,

berlin: become wessi

PrivateNoob ,
@PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz avatar

Neko Arc Miku <3

ThePyroPython ,

Please make a spiritual successor to Crimson Skies.

The arcadey air combat, the alternative history air piracy setting, and the gloriously over-the-top voice acting and scripting.

After spending many hours of my childhood playing that game it would make my soul sing to play something like that again.

babydriver ,

Detective game where you have to find plausible explenations for paranormal events

mindbleach ,

Like a Men In Black cover-up team, or more of a completely inept skeptic? Assuming the aliens and ghosts and such are real.

babydriver ,

I was thinking something in the cover-up team direction

TheDoozer ,

A fighting game (like Street Fighter) but it's all young children, in various schoolyards around the world.

Pooptimist ,

Or Bully 2!

MudMan ,
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Meh, still a better greenlight process than most major publishers.

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@lemmy.world avatar

Develop a game about game developing, but make this one good unlike all the others

rtxn ,

I think that game is called Godot - unless you're hardcore, then I recommend GCC.

Deestan ,

Career management game where you first create a character (gender, skin color, body type etc).

Then you select game difficulty via a slider. The slider affects visibly how many of your peers have different skin color, gender and body type than you, and invisibly how much you are rewarded for success and how much you are punished for mistakes.

mindbleach ,

South Park already did this.

Nikki ,
@Nikki@lemmy.world avatar

hatsune miku 3rd person doom inspired beat em up (with funky mode)

Jiggle_Physics ,

you gonna give the poor dev the money to license the hatsune miku IP?

rtxn ,

legally distinct twintail anime idol 3rd person doom inspired beat em up (with funky mode)

Jiggle_Physics ,

You could do that and use the hatsune voice. from what I have read the voice is usable, even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit hatsune as the performer. Using the name and image is a different ball game though.

Anafabula ,
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The Hatsune Miku character design is freely available under Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial, 3.0 Unported” (“CC BY-NC”).

SamLeeway OP ,
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Oooh I like this idea a lot!

KpntAutismus ,

with a celery stick as the crucible

ErKaf ,

Discord Moderator Simulator 2024

vox , (edited )
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

discord moderator horror game.
you must moderate a discord channel while sth tries to break into your house, and also you need to go to the fridge to eat regularly

FQQD ,
@FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz avatar

would play

SamLeeway OP ,
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Holy shit this is an amazing idea

Wutchilli ,

The questions is, what stereotype of Discord Mod can you Play?

Papercrane ,

A 3d rpg and the story should be a nobles life that has to get to know his country because his father said so. Then you can decide if you wanna help your underlings or make their lives suffer. The timeframe is up to you

skygirl ,

100% science based Dragon MMO

TheDoozer ,

So, like, some Jurassic Park/How To Train Your Dragon/WoW Dragonflight mashup type of thing?

mossy_ ,

it's an old meme from reddit. Some designer said she had been working on a "science-based dragon MMO" for two years, and the progress she had was not promising

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/p1ssv/dear_internet_im_a_26_year_old_lady_whos_been/?rdt=56992

SamLeeway OP ,
@SamLeeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Coding an MMO would kill me 💀

SamLeeway OP ,
@SamLeeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Especially the one with scientifically accurate dragon breeding

rtxn ,

I'm willing to bet there are herpetology enthusiasts that got into the field because they were interested in how dragons would breed. A game like this would be the apex of their lives.

ICastFist ,
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Pretty sure it'd just be an IRC chatroom with no dragons, that's 100% science based :D

Unless you count komodo dragons...

barsoap ,

GRR Martin does scientifically accurate dragons: No six-limbed nonsense, they have two legs and two wings. That's generally good world-building advise, things can be different from the reality we know but you have to have rules, there's got to be patterns, don't just throw shit at the wall. If you absolutely want to have six-limbed dragons you better also have centaurs and other six-limbed creatures, there's six-limbed gods, etc.

NOPper ,

This is honestly the only answer.

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