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2012-07-13 20:49:04 » |
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I've been reading Peter Molydeux's twitter. It's great. All he does is tweet very odd design concepts, such as "A FPS where you control a soldier's shoe, however imagine if you play as a shoe that was left at home with your wife and children during war". It's quite hilarious, but some of them are completely doable. The Molyjam is where people actually implement these. Let's try to think of a few, and maybe we'll have a fun time! I'll go first: You play as a tree, and can only move at night when nobody is looking. You can also spontaneously catch fire, spreading to anything around you. Cheers!  |
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Cero
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Reply #1 - Posted
2012-07-13 20:59:06 » |
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I had this one:
You play as a dog, running around.
You cannot understand people, but you understand certain words you have memorized.
Also large portions of your navigation is based on smell and also more audio than visual.
To appeal mass market I suggest you're a police dog with training and real missions; but you can also goof off semi-open world like and do what a dog does in its free time.
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Reply #2 - Posted
2012-07-13 21:01:55 » |
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"An RPG where human interaction doesn't consist of a visible meter over everyone's heads causing them to spit out one of a half dozen stock phrases."
Wonder if that would hit a nerve?
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Mads
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Reply #3 - Posted
2012-07-13 21:04:46 » |
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"An RPG where human interaction doesn't consist of a visible meter over everyone's heads causing them to spit out one of a half dozen stock phrases."
Wonder if that would hit a nerve?
They could have 30 1/3's of sentinces, and then the game would combine them. That has to be a more interesting dialogue. "I have recently spit in a horse." |
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Reply #4 - Posted
2012-07-13 21:08:22 » |
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A mash-up of Doom and Farmville?
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Cero
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Reply #5 - Posted
2012-07-13 21:17:39 » |
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When we were young, we always dreamed about a FPS with an exact replica of our school to play it and kill zombies and stuff.
But shooting in a school in a video game... I guess that would be frowned upon.
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Reply #6 - Posted
2012-07-13 21:25:37 » |
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When we were young, we always dreamed about a FPS with an exact replica of our school to play it and kill zombies and stuff.
But shooting in a school in a video game... I guess that would be frowned upon.
Maybe if you played as z zombie. Or, the principal. |
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Reply #7 - Posted
2012-07-14 02:49:37 » |
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When we were young, we always dreamed about a FPS with an exact replica of our school to play it and kill zombies and stuff.
But shooting in a school in a video game... I guess that would be frowned upon.
Holy nut I had same thing too!  I also imagined about not only school but my living city, because I know where the police station, minimarket for can food, and place to settle. Zombie only thought, no witch, smoker, or nemesis  |
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Reply #8 - Posted
2012-07-14 03:14:56 » |
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A mash-up of Doom and Farmville?
Hahaha DoomVille  |
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Reply #9 - Posted
2012-07-14 04:20:25 » |
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When we were young, we always dreamed about a FPS with an exact replica of our school to play it and kill zombies and stuff.
But shooting in a school in a video game... I guess that would be frowned upon.
Holy nut I had same thing too! I also imagined about not only school but my living city, because I know where the police station, minimarket for can food, and place to settle. Zombie only thought, no witch, smoker, or nemesis I like these ideas. A game like Fallout where levels are generated by a zip code that you enter. Build the world in your vicinity by using Google Maps. GENIUS! |
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Reply #10 - Posted
2012-07-14 06:08:20 » |
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I've been reading Peter Molydeux's twitter. It's great.
All he does is tweet very odd design concepts, such as "A FPS where you control a soldier's shoe, however imagine if you play as a shoe that was left at home with your wife and children during war". Edit: ah: @petermoly deux (parody) is not to be confused with @pmoly neux (famous game designer). |
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Reply #11 - Posted
2012-07-14 06:28:57 » |
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I like these ideas. A game like Fallout where levels are generated by a zip code that you enter. Build the world in your vicinity by using Google Maps. GENIUS!
If you even build only your own living city, at least 90% of teenage citizen will play it  Seek pledgers like kickstarter, reward them by zombie with their face. |
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Reply #12 - Posted
2012-07-14 06:59:33 » |
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When we were young, we always dreamed about a FPS with an exact replica of our school to play it and kill zombies and stuff.
But shooting in a school in a video game... I guess that would be frowned upon.
I wanted the same thing, but I settled for making a map for Counter-Strike instead ^^ |
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Reply #13 - Posted
2012-07-14 09:45:59 » |
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A game where you pave the way for the protagonist, whom is completely ignorant of your help.
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Reply #15 - Posted
2012-07-15 19:17:40 » |
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That philosophy is interesting, and not unlike our Molyneux friend. The main difference is that they admit they couldn't do a "proper" game, though.  I have another idea. How about a game, where there's lots of enemies and you're given the means to kill them easily. However, every time you do so, your means of slaughtering get's weaker. Will you avoid killing to such, or just tap faster? |
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Reply #16 - Posted
2012-07-16 09:42:48 » |
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A game where you pave the way for the protagonist, whom is completely ignorant of your help.
hmm, Sleepwalker and derived games comes to mind here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ-Ze2pdX9cAnd it also screams "Lemmings!" of course |
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Reply #17 - Posted
2012-07-16 13:37:08 » |
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Mobile RPG. Uses the geolocation on your phone. Quests can be assigned to actual physical locations . Quests can blend real and imaginary adventuring in some way - some kind of treasure hunt/clue solving using the actual environment.
Players can form groups literally with other players around them.
or something like that.
I guess that probably isn't original....
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Reply #18 - Posted
2012-07-16 14:11:06 » |
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A game about playing a game.
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Reply #19 - Posted
2012-07-16 14:17:43 » |
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A game about playing a game.
Meta. How about a game about stopping playing, and going outside. |
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Damocles
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Reply #20 - Posted
2012-07-16 14:21:36 » |
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Or like a "final destination" game. Your task is to please an MMO Addict gamer with new gamecontent and rewards until he collapses. |
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Reply #21 - Posted
2012-07-16 14:30:12 » |
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Higgs-Boson. You play an elementary particle and have to avoid detection by CERN-type people to prevent them blowing up the World. Also involves some time travel mechanic.
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Reply #22 - Posted
2012-07-16 14:55:36 » |
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Higgs-Boson. You play an elementary particle and have to avoid detection by CERN-type people to prevent them blowing up the World. Also involves some time travel mechanic.
Don't forget alternate dimensions, and universes.  |
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Reply #23 - Posted
2012-07-16 18:22:35 » |
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Mobile RPG. Uses the geolocation on your phone. Quests can be assigned to actual physical locations . Quests can blend real and imaginary adventuring in some way - some kind of treasure hunt/clue solving using the actual environment.
Players can form groups literally with other players around them.
or something like that.
I guess that probably isn't original....
Was it Orson Scott Card who wrote a novel around that concept? |
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Reply #24 - Posted
2012-07-16 21:53:48 » |
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That "Mobile RPG" stuff has been done quite a lot actually, to the point where it's a whole genre: Augmented Reality Game, or ARG for short.
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Cero
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Reply #25 - Posted
2012-07-16 22:32:01 » |
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You know what I liked: Doom RPG - did you guys play that ?
Was perfect mixture of a shooter and a turn-based mobile experience. Sadly Doom RPG 2 was only released on iOS...
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Reply #26 - Posted
2012-07-17 08:39:24 » |
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You know what I liked: Doom RPG - did you guys play that ?
Was perfect mixture of a shooter and a turn-based mobile experience. Sadly Doom RPG 2 was only released on iOS...
Nope. But is it anything similar to orcs & elves? Now that is a fun little game. |
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Mads
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Reply #27 - Posted
2012-07-17 12:52:17 » |
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You know what I liked: Doom RPG - did you guys play that ?
Was perfect mixture of a shooter and a turn-based mobile experience. Sadly Doom RPG 2 was only released on iOS...
I played something called Doom on an old phone. It ran using Java, and was also turn-based. Maybe it was that? Maybe it was just a remake for old phones |
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ReBirth
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Reply #28 - Posted
2012-07-17 13:43:54 » |
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That "Mobile RPG" stuff has been done quite a lot actually, to the point where it's a whole genre: Augmented Reality Game, or ARG for short.
One of examples: Paralel Kingdom. |
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Cero
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Reply #29 - Posted
2012-07-17 18:46:09 » |
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You know what I liked: Doom RPG - did you guys play that ?
Was perfect mixture of a shooter and a turn-based mobile experience. Sadly Doom RPG 2 was only released on iOS...
Nope. But is it anything similar to orcs & elves? Now that is a fun little game. Indeed similar. I played something called Doom on an old phone. It ran using Java, and was also turn-based. Maybe it was that? Maybe it was just a remake for old phones Yeah its a J2ME game actually. Before Android was here n stuff |
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