I want to make another videogame! Help me think of good ideas.
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benbrown said, (281 days ago)
Here is one idea:
You are a pixel skeleton. You start at the bottom of the map, the BOTTOM OF HELL. You then have to ascend out of hell by fighting baddies and working your way up the map.
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
ANOTHER VAGUE IDEA:
You navigate the player using the arrow keys on the keyboard like a normal game, but you can point the mouse at another part of the map and TELEPORT to the mouse location. Could be interesting!
dakotasmith said, (281 days ago)
@benbrown As you kill the baddies, their skeletons build the level up. Like breakout, only down. Breakdown: OUT OF HELL
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
OH that would be cool. Like ok:
You start in a big empty cave with a tiny hole in the top. There are bats flying everywhere. As you kill bats, they fall to the ground and pile up, and you can jump on them and try to reach the hole in the top. Once you go through the hole, you enter another room with a similar scenario.
THAT COULD BE COOL.
TWIGB¥ said, (281 days ago)
Bad Dudes sequel where Barack Obama is sent to save Blade and Striker!
"are you a bad enough president to save the dudes?"
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
Oh, a Super Pixel Obama game would be pretty awesome, and I already have some of the sprites.
TWIGB¥ said, (281 days ago)
serious answer: i like the mouse teleporting idea, make it a more puzzle based platformer
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
Yeah, I like the mouse teleporting idea too because it speaks to the medium - this is a Flash game in your browser, you've got a keyboard and a mouse to use.
I also am pretty excited about being able to change the map in-game. Like LodeRunner. I think there is a lot of potential there.
TWIGB¥ said, (281 days ago)
hmmm a fairly complex implementation of 2d mouse + keyboard has been my idea i've always wanted for the wii.
Have a fairly typical 2d top down scrolling shooter (W,A,S,D movement controls with space bar to shoot, it'll be natural for FPS guys to play it) and your right hand controls a mouse that can be used to simultaneously control a tractor beam type weapon. Click on power ups and they'll gradually come towards you, grab debris and place them in front of you as a shield, grab hold of quick enemies to keep them in their places, a quick flick across the screen can reflect bullets etc.
Ethan said, (281 days ago)
I like the bodies-of-enemies-piling-up-climb-out-the-hole-at-the-top-escape-hell idea. Place ledges strategically, so that enemybodies won't fall under them, and you can't shoot through them, so you'd have to strategically kill stuff to pile it up right to be able to jump high enough onto the platform. FUN.
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
Yeah, it could be fun! And the ascent out of hell makes for a pretty straight forward level design. The trick then becomes crafting interesting enough levels and challenges...
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
BUT COME ON, let's brainstorm some other ideas. That was just my first stab!
Jesse said, (281 days ago)
I can't even figure out how to play the sample games... so maybe some instructions would be rad.
as soon as I can get out of the underwater bit, and/or stop exploding when I run out of points, I'll think of ideas...
oh, but as a kid, I always wanted to do a Joust 2... sidescrolling adventure type. The underwater movement when you have to pump out bubbles to "swim" seems like it would work.
Centropomus said, (281 days ago)
You should make a facebook game, where to get out of hell you have to recruit more friends or pay money, and every time you climb up you push someone else down, so people have to recruit more friends or pay more money just to remain competitive.
Centropomus said, (281 days ago)
Heck, theme it on The Divine Comedy, and have people try to get to heaven. You could sell indulgences, among other things.
benbrown said, (281 days ago)
I think we're a bit stuck on this whole Hell thing now. heh.
What about squid? I want to make a squid game too!
benbrown said, (280 days ago)
Here is a very rough test of the concept of dead bad guys stacking up:
You can take either a well known fairy tale or some fantasy book. You can find lots of them at the book search engine http:pdf.rapid4me.com . You may think that what everybody needs is shooting but it is not everything. People would like to become their favourite games and to save the world, they want to see the goal, that would make them fight.
You can take either a well known fairy tale or some fantasy book. You can find lots of them at the book search engine http://pdf.rapid4me.com . You may think that what everybody needs is shooting but it is not everything. People would like to become their favourite games and to save the world, they want to see the goal, that would make them fight.
There is this new programming toolkit called Flixel that makes sidescrolling pixely games much easier to make. I want to make a game somewhere in between Super Mario and Megaman.
Here is Flixel:
http://flixel.org
And here is some work I did on a version where you can draw the map as you play:
http://xoxco.com/x/flixel/wope
But I need some good ideas to get my brain started on a proper game!