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

Ah ADHD: the only way I can hold myself accountable and do something is if random people on the Internet holds me accountable

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

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

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!

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?

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

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.