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Ideas for quick games to design
clockworkjoe:
So, I've worked on Ruin a lot but it's nowhere near done. That's fine, it's a long term project. However, I want to make games and I have 3 ideas I could start on after I finish up Boiling Point. What would you guys be most interested in?
1. Players are trapped in a shared TV universe powered by the emotions of the audience in reality. As an audience member you are aware of tropes and have your own emotions, so you can generate trope effects. However, those eat away at your free will. Lose all your free will and you become trapped as a TV character forever. A gumshoe system reskin, where emotions are investigative skills, sanity becomes free will, and so forth. You ultimately want to escape to reality, although some believe you can become a god by straddling the world of the audience and the world of the screen.
2. A down and dirty mashup of horror/investigative games with the spirit of dungeon crawling games. You fight cults and investigate monsters, not to save the world, but to get rich and gain powerful magic items. Characters are extremely vulnerable so roll a stack of ninjas and professors. Metagame knowledge can be passed on to new characters by writing journals.
3. A card game version of Killsplosion - build up combos to blow up or outshoot your rivals to get the mcguffin and look more badass doing it.
Review Cultist:
I'm always intrigued by the concepts suggested with the 1st idea. The whole media meta reality and fiction mixes with reality kind of subject (the kind of thing you'd see in say, a certain recent infomercial satire and the like).
That and I'm curious to see this take on gumshoe.
My vote's idea #1.
trinite:
Ideas #1 and #3 sound super cool.
For #1: In addition to Too Many Cooks, there are other potential sources of inspiration you could look into. What comes to my
mind is a particular episode of Supernatural where the characters get stuck in a bunch of TV shows: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1511910/
There's also this old John Ritter movie, which I haven't seen: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105466/
Oh, hey, I found the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bs2icpiR1s
#3 sounds like a really cool game idea too. I don't have much insight about card games, but I like to play them.
Tadanori Oyama:
Absolutely behind idea #2. Playing slimy self-centered adventures is the best.
D6xD6 - Chris:
#3 gets my vote. A deckbuilder - style game with badass/style points is an instant win
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