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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[–] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

An open world skyrim type of game but all of the dialog is generated by chatgpt

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

We need less AI not more

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[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months 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.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months 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

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months 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).

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

first you need to share your pages

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months 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.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Another one.

You're a soul reaper. You travel between bubbles that fall through Purgatory. These bubbles are the possible final moments of people's lives, and you can either help them or ignore them. In the end, you need a soul to get to the next Bubble, otherwise you have to brave Purgatory, an infinite black void full of gargantuan, terrifying spirits that consume the bubbles once someone dies.

It's an interesting concept that allows you to spin a lot of beautiful, small stories. Stories of hope, dreams, loss, terror, love.... Lots of freedom. But there needs to be a reason that you eventually start to explore Purgatory ....

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

"red riding hood's grandma"

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

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Pantheon"

Age of Empires, but you have no direct control. You're a god that different factions can pray to and you have to use your influence to gain more followers over your rival gods. You can do that through demanding conquest, sacrifices, hedonism, or many other ways!

I think it'd be fun!

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 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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[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 3 points 10 months ago
[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Other game devs on 196: me too, brother

You are a cute ghost who has to protect the family you're haunting

[–] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] licherally@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

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

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.

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] UnPassive@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Treasure hunting story driven action game with dinosaurs, zombies, and aliens

[–] trinket@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months 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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