Awesome New Ideas

[nulluser]

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[Radiant]

I think a cool game idea would be some young wimpy loser who wants to be pirate. Because you know, pirates are t3h awesmoe! But of course he has to pass some trials first...

[m0ds]

A little more thought into "why" wouldn't go amiss, why a Lost game? What do you think would make it a good point & click? How would it be made? What special or new features would it include? Please post a little more or this thread will be locked, as we get these posts all too frequently. Plus, a Lost adventure game has been suggested many times...!

[nulluser]

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[m0ds]

Sorry dude, you're not thinking this through. I'm sending it to the furnace.

[Akatosh]

Oooh, adventures about TV series! We urgently need this!

[m0ds]

Oooh, parodies! We urgently need those, too!!

[Akatosh]

Oooh, sarcastic posts about the ideas of other people! We need more of these now!

( . I'm better than you.  )

[jetxl]

Wouldn't be cool to play a game where you can walk around and kill stuff? I'd play that game.

[vict0r]

Yeah... And it could be from a first person view! That would be soo... cool!  And awesome!

[m0ds]

Who needs to play when 3D maze screensaver will do all the walking for you?

The only serious suggestion I can give at this time is a Crystal Maze point & click. That would be amazing. Timed puzzles galore though!

[Akatosh]

Oh, oh, and with bullet time and, like, screen blur effects! And HDR and AAS and CIA and Lens Flare!!!!1!1(one)

[esper]

Well, let me help the kid out by posting a serious suggestion for a game idea.

I've been looking for a game like this for a very long time, but no one seems to want to make it. I would really, really like to play a game where you are a young captain being offered the command of your first starship. You would get to select and outfit your vessel and hire your crew, then investigate a never-before charted galaxy. The entire game would be from the first-person perspective of the captain, and instead of controlling the ship, you would control the crew by giving them orders. You could chart the galaxy, be given military or science missions, take a shuttle or a fighter out and pilot it through the galaxy, or "beam" down to a planet to explore or deal with some Star-Trekkian away team mission.

It would be doubly cool if it could be multiplayer, with each player being in command of a different ship.

I found out a couple years ago about a game called "Battlecruiser Millenium," and it's successor "Universal Combat." Such a good idea wasted by such a moronic game creator...

[Akatosh]

Well, there already is Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment. Nearly the game you described, without selecting the vessel, hiring the crew and mapping the galaxy. In near future, there will be that game named Mech Gladiators by Dan, which will also feature ship stuff. No idea if that game'll be a success or how big the ship part will be or whether Dan will screw it up, though.

[esper]

::waves fist at sky:: DAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

[Akatosh]

Let's just hope he has a good health insurance if the game ends up as screw-up.

But anyway, to get back to topic, if you're looking for game ideas, here's a good spot to start:

http://www.gpwiki.org/index.php/Game_Ideas

(the same wiki also features an article on how to work as a lone developer, you should read it).

[Radiant]

Well, let me help the kid out by posting a serious suggestion for a game idea.

Er, well, sorry, but that sounds quite a lot like Elite to me. Famous indie/lo-budget game, got two sequels, even.

[ManicMatt]

I bet the real lost game will suck. Even if the makers of the king kong game are making it, I can't help but feel it will suck monkey balls.

And Radiant, did Elite have a crew? Out of ship experiences? Wasn't Elite just a space trading/shooting game???

[Sam.]

JUNK

[monkey0506]

it will suck monkey balls

I'm not sure why everyone is obsessed with my genitalia.