Game derulepment

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 primative 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.

100% science based Dragon MMO

Discord Moderator Simulator 2024

Baldurs Gate 4

Anglerfish dating simulator

Beekeeping simulator

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

A game where you are a mosquito and you have to bite people and fly around or a game like untitled goose game but you are a crab at the beach ruining peoples day

One thing I think is severely underutilized is acquisition of limited information as a game mechanic.

Like, having the information available to the player change depending on how they build a character or interact with the world. So like, rather than just having the player know what the health of enemies is, or know exactly where things are with a compass, or being able to pinpoint their location on the map.

I play a lot of strategy games and particularly in those I think having to manage how orders get to units and information on what they see getting from them to me would be really interesting as more of a focus.

Or like in management games the player often has perfect information on the state of the market or organization they’re running, what if like, you had to get that through Jerry from accounting? What if Jerry lied? What if having to figure out Jerry from accounting is under reporting something to skim off the top was a game mechanic?

As someone else said, untitled goose game but crab. Please write it in rust

Hitman-style game in an anime high school setting. I hear there's a vacancy.

I'm thinking an interface like papers please with some more expression and color.

You start as a hermit. Farmers and peasants come to you with problems and you craft spells, hexes and curses to cast on them. Sometimes you give them what they want, sometimes what they need and sometimes you throw a fireball. Maybe some rapid responses are required.

You gain a reputation and move from your shack into a town, and then into a castle where you become a court magician. Higher stakes, more options, more magic!

Get creative with how elements combine and have long lasting or delayed effects!

A simulator for callping customer support. The goal is to eventually talk to God, or the simulation creator, or whatever supreme being is responsible for this mess.

The game takes place entirely in your apartment. You're equipped with a phone book and a corded phone with a long cord. it's the 80s or 90s. You have to carry out various troubleshooting tasks that get more insane as you punch through layers of bureaucracy. You also have to manage your anger meter otherwise you risk cursing and the cs agent hangs up on you.

Days should progress kinda like persona 5, and there should be a time limit. The stakes should be comically low.

Save points involve getting callback numbers after you've got to a higher level of management.

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

The Legally Different Bethesda Game Creation Game

You are !Todd_Howard and have been tasked with making the best game ever. Allocate resources between the following points: Bug Fixing, Marketing, Writing, New Features, Re-re-re-releasing Skyrim, Shifting goals

Can your next masterpiece be the most successful _buggy feature-filled game ever?

As for a game I'd actually love to make/collaborate in making, a FOSS variant of Earth Defense Force 5. EXPLOSIONS! GIANT MONSTERS! OVERPOWERED WEAPONS! EXPLOSIONS! RAZING CITIES! ALIEN ROBOTS! BLEEDING ALIENS! MORE EXPLOSIONS!

You know, I'm something of a failed game developer myself.

The #1 thing I learned was: Set your sights low. Lower than you think you should have to. And then lower than that. And now take that and cut it in half. Got it? Okay, now, from that, figure out what you think you could get done in 2 weeks. And now imagine that you're 2 days in and someone told you you actually only have 1 week to finish completely. Pencils down, you can never work on this again. What would you focus on?

If the design is only fun if there are heaps and heaps of content, hyper-realistic art, epic soundtrack, and intricately-tuned parameters, you're pretty much doomed to fail. It has to be fun even with one basic level, placeholder art, some sfxr audio clips, and wildly unbalanced stats.

Third person or top down shooter but you push around a shopping card with all your weapon and ammunition.

You can only switch weapons at the cart but if it gets hit it explodes.
This creates a balancing act of having it near enough to run back for a different weapon or more ammo but not to near so it doesn't get looted of blown up. You obviously can't take it up ladders or into ventilation shafts, meaning you have to fight your way back to where you left it with limited resources.

I dunno if shitpost or not but I'd love to contribute to the soundtrack of this masterpiece 196 game!

A puzzle game with simple graphics where you are the reanimated corpse of some environmental activist who was killed by being thrown into a chemical vat and flushed to the river. The forest brings you back to life with the goal of eating billionaires bad people who live in their mansions equiped with bunkers and panic rooms.

Edit for additional thoughts: bonus levels could be something akin to Epstein Island or Davos. Would be nice if "the help" could also get in on the fun, like you crack the safe with their passports and in return they give you the passcode to the safe room.

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.

A game set in a world with no sun. You are in perpetual darkness. The only thing that provides light are special stones that occasionally jut up from the ground...but they don't last forever. You can either explore the darkness on your own, or with travellers like you that you come across, or you can set up a town around a large light providing crystal, and defend against the hulking, nightmarish horrors lurking just past the edge the light. In order to build you have to go out and hunt ever more powerful creatures and harvest their skin, flesh, and bone to make buildings, weapons, and equipment.

Youd have to include grappling/climbing mechanics similar to Shadows of the Collosus. The game needs to be permadeath. You can't savescum the boss fights in order to win. Fights need to be terrifying and intense....and when you win...the feeling would be indescribable.

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

Looking at that character; I'm thinking Cell-Shaded 3D Platforming with a spinning move like a helicopter.

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.

Tetris themed murder mystery

a traffic engineering game where you have to design different cities as efficiently as possible to allow traffic to flow smoothly to and from various points. different goals can be met for different stages, like: connect zone a to zone b with maximum flow possible, cut pollution in zone c while keeping flow above a certain threshold, make traffic take so long that eventually people will abandon their cars in the middle of the road and start walking to their destination have crashes exist, and cause congestion because of gawkers have a setting for the shittiness of the drivers

Whatever it may be, add mayonnaise.

Asimetric RTS, one player is controlling whole faction, and is fighting against faction consisting of characters controlled by other players.

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

A game where to play as a squirrel trying to cache food, and the whole time you have to avoid cars, hawks, and cats. Collect food, bury it, hide from rival who try to dig up your food and bury it elsewhere.

Be a scientist and try to convince people about climate change before disaster destroys the world!

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

An open world skyrim type of game but all of the dialog is generated by chatgpt