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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SamLeeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Now that 24 hours have passed we have our winner!

A huge thanks to @frezik@midwest.social 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. :)

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

tetris around a cube where you need to keep up with 4 separate tetris games at once and create a line along the entire circumstance for it to disappear

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

A Steamboat Willie rhythm game where the animals make the music

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just going through old stacks of paper. Yesterday I found around 10 pages of precise game planning I planned (and never made) when I was 12. Use it :D (it's totally possible without a huge game studio and team).

first you need to share your pages

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

A game where you kill mobs of people and your power is demonstrated by transitioning into a girl and you start glowing. Think 2003 muave Gears of War but then as you spill blood, transition into a kind of Sailor Moon/Bayonetta kind of girl.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I love survival games. And often think about how unrealistic they are, zombies, apocalyptically, etc. But there are people in actual realistic survival situations everywhere. Someone remember "This war of mine"? Playing civilians in a Battlefield and just trying to not starve or get killed or freeze to death.

Something like this in a new manner, or why not a game with a homeless main character? The char can be in different mood, hungry, cold, ill, drug addicted, whatever.

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"red riding hood's grandma"

A hack and slash game, playing as the grandma beating up wolves with an umbrella or a cane.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In a time which measurement makes even the biggest of brains strain, humans have finally become an advanced civilization. With wave after wave of new and exciting diseases wiping out the once controlling older generation and lowering the population to sustainable levels.

Earth was back, BABY!

The whole is not perfect, to truly achieve world peace, and to be taken seriously by aliens if they're out there ignoring us, a secret sect of specialized time jumpers has begun the task of correcting historic follies and stopping specific threats that at one point in time created insurmountable damage to humanity.

Now the technology is fickle. Still in beta and the procedures can only be completed by specific humans. We've sent out best and worst. There was an 87.00047 rate of time redacted melting.

Imagine how long it takes to melt if you have your time redacted by the machine. So it requires a very unique person who is quite likely a product of inbreeding. Scientists have been trying to figure out the melting matrix, and so far successful "Librarians" have had abnormalities that are most commonly found in branchless family trees.

The job, is to go back and chronicle everything outlined in your directive packet. You'll have to find ways to stop some of histories worst people without killing them. Prevent catastrophic events, without alarming the public. Be light on your toes, good with your fists, and focused in the mind.

We know medically, this might be incredibly difficult. You can't get distracted by attractive cousins. No time for darts with the boys. The season finally of Pappas pig, forget about it. You're there to stop the worst of the worst and the world's largest disasters.

Or in rare cases, ensure that the disaster goes through. It's a tough job and the whole time, you and your fellow Librarians must constantly be recording and creating a record of your travels.

Ultimately, your information with create the Human Chronicle, and complete a book that will ultimately teach the world how to grow, and avoid the monsters that exist to create chaos and destroy humanity, one bit at a time.

TL;DR: Sweet, but stupid time traveller's going through time to secure a prosperous future for humanity. Use hilarious and out of the box thinking to stop bad guys, and ensure you're taking notes of the time and place you are sent to.

TL;DR pt2: if you didn't read it, you dodged a bullet.

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

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Other game devs on 196: me too, brother

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Game about watching grass grow in real time. Scoring would be how long you kept the game running. The Menu will show high scores of players who watched the longest.

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[–] licherally@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A game about a murderous pet rock that takes place in a quarry

[–] mcqtom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Do mods count?

For the longest time I've wanted a Left 4 Dead 2 mod where you play as your choice of the TF2 mercs.

I don't deny it would take some creativity to combine the game mechanics, and would definitely break the difficulty curve, but I don't care one bit. I think it would be delicious.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

maybe a multi-player strategy/management game. i really enjoyed playing frostpunk, but getting your friends into it proves difficult when there's no peer pressure :)

also being able to jump in and experience the various scout missions in 1st person would be insanely immersive.

maybe have one player managing the city or whatever it ends up being, and the other players are at different points in the city reporting progress, managing small teams and helping out.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Quiz race

Everytime you reach a checkpoint you get a mutiple choice question, if you answer it right till the next checkpoint you get a short boost and your car improves (higher max speed,better handling etc.)

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

HR simulator

[–] trinket@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boneraiser kinda did that already. But reverse a vampire surivor. You are the enemies. You create hordes of monsters (amount of kinda, maybe even some individual changes you can make per monstertype or just frankenstein them together). You can change their strategy in attacking and formation. And most importantly you the money you gather you can use to support and upgrade the heroes making them stronger and dropping more experience as a result. Oh, and then simply make it an MMORPG, thankies.

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a dark fantasy rpg with gameplay and graphics like ultrakill and ui (especially dialogue ui, without voice acting), modular armor and unique seeting like morrowind. No matter how you do the character creation you need to have a dnd dragonborn/tes argonian style lizard race cause I love them oh also spears :3 oh and skill checks like baldur's gate 3

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

In depth character customization with meaningful impact on the game. Kinda like CDDA

[–] Titou@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

why not an online/offline game ?

[–] tombruzzo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Fetch with your dog simulator.

A first person game where you throw a ball for an AI controlled dog. You get a score based on how well the dog can catch the ball, assessing things like distance, on the full, and whether the dog catches the ball in the air.

Areas are things like a backyard, a dog park, and wherever else. You could make one dog and add other breeds if you want to continue the project

I want a realistic down-to-earth ~~show~~ game that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots.

And, also, you should win things by ~~watching~~ playing.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

A game that is only perceivable through electric motors on your body

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