#the idea dump

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rare blaze
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I'm drawing a blank

wheat gate
rare blaze
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Ohhh yes yes this helps me remember, thanks

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Helps to see the image haha

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In what ways were you thinking about making QQ like Arrow Knights?

wheat gate
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very curious about that as well 👀

steel mountain
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QQ is like big levels with a moving camera, which has turned out to be quite onerous for level design.

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It would be more fun to just do single screens like in Arrow Knights. And I wonder if that would have more old school charm anyway.

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I could reconfigure most of my level one designs to fit the new format

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but idk. I'm torn. I kind of just want this project over lol đŸ˜č

wheat gate
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I would definitely say go with whatever's more fun

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maybe reworking into the one-screen rooms will be the spark you needed

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I don't remember did Arrow Knights have any where it was screen-to-screen but one room was made up of like... 4 screens, like the Oracles games used? If not that could be a good middle ground to expand into bigger levels while still keeping the spirit from AK

steel mountain
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It didn't, it was more arcade-style

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But yeah, I was thinking more like oracles, and having smaller camera-capable rooms.

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As it is now I'm just loading these massive maps, which give me brainblock to look at lol

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there's some really pretty work, but I think condensing them down will be good, and help me squash some of the less interesting moments I'm trying to improve.

steel mountain
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Idea: character says "listen up, dirt bags." to a room full of actual bags of dirt.

tame flax
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Double twist: they listen.

steel mountain
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But only in the direction of up

steel mountain
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Robot Ghandi

tame flax
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Mechatma Ghandi kitten_think

tame flax
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e-snails

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like egirls but they're cute snails that eat leaves and you can subscribe to them

soft summit
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soobed

rare blaze
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I'd subscribe so intensely

tame flax
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game about being The Horse (co-op)

rare blaze
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That's an awesome idea

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Immediately thought of co-op Octodad

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Which is one of my funniest gaming experiences ever

steel mountain
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Mom says I get to be the horsehead this time

thorny sun
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So there's like 2 people piloting the horse?

wheat gate
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yeah it's this^ but make it a game

tame flax
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exactly

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add physics and movement through unstable terrain to the mix and you're going to have an anger and comedy generator

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'push!!! PUSH!!! PUSH ME UP!!!!'

wheat gate
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especially if it's the kind of physics from party games like moving out and such. all sorts of fun chaos to come from that

wheat gate
tame flax
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the question of 'why don't they just leave the horse suit' is never answered

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unless it's the only safe mode of transportation in the game's world and lore

wheat gate
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who needs reasons and logics

tame flax
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super serious introduction cutscene

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pacific rim but make it horsies

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death stranding but goofie horse

rare blaze
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if I had ANY experience with 3D game dev, I'd want to make this immediatley

tame flax
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omg

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this could be 'horse mode' for Win City

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"Welcome to Hoof Haul. Our specialists get the job done"

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no wait, never mind

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this should be a well-designed challenge game to infuriate streamers and siblings

wheat gate
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this is the way

tame flax
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Detective novels based around insane names

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The poughkeepsie winnebago

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The schenectady pied-a-terre

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(I have an unread book called The Maltese Falcon and this is how i imagine the vibe)

tame flax
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The spokane speakeasy (pronounced spuh-keezy)

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Detective Noel Yarker is on the cases

steel mountain
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The Titcomb Limousine

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The Malthusian Gazpacho

wanton jacinth
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The A An

tame flax
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i think there's beans in this salad!

wanton jacinth
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RPG where you can shop online during battle and your items take a turn or two to ship

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money system functions more like a mana system

wheat gate
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đŸ€Ż

steel mountain
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Oh ship that's awesome haha

rare blaze
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That's a fantastic idea

wheat gate
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And like
 1 out of every 100 orders a unique rare courier shows up instead of the usual one

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or it’s its own character that you can upgrade or customize through the game

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It’s great because the whole shipping metaphor works regardless of what setting you have

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Scifi Drone? Cool.
Fantasy Fae? Cool.
An actual UPS driver? Cool.
The Postman from Zelda? Best!

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And I’m assuming you’re thinking you can still take your other actions while it’s shipping right?

wanton jacinth
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i think ordering would take an action

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but you can do stuff on the in-between turns

wheat gate
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Yeah that’s what I was talking about. Cool

steel mountain
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Weather affecting spells have a chance to delay shipments

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Would enemies also get courier deliveries?

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I had an idea for a tactical rpg earlier but you're playing a matchmaker

wheat gate
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Oh please do say more

rare blaze
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@wanton jacinth can I put that in my game ideas list attributed to you? In case I ever get time to make games with friends haha

rare blaze
jade wagon
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Shopping rpg kind of sounds like an RPG of dota 2 or LoL, buying items and having the courier bring them. Attack the enemy’s courier to stop them from getting their boots in time lol

wanton jacinth
rare blaze
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do itttt

wanton jacinth
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i needed to set up virtualbox anyway, this is a good excuse

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continuing the trend of not using wine

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it's nice

steel mountain
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lmk if you need music

steel mountain
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I love games with no combat, or combat 'replaced'

jade wagon
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Also relevant is telefang, where you can phone a monster ally to come help you, and the turns till they show up depends on how far across the map they are

wanton jacinth
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true!

wanton jacinth
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i could just use wine but. i don't wanna

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nothing else on this machine uses wine

jade wagon
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Windows? I thought you could run it key-free forever now

wanton jacinth
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windows xp

jade wagon
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You just cant change the background color

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Ah

wanton jacinth
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i wanna mess with rpg maker 2003

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because i like it

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and i figured i don't need new versions of windows for that

jade wagon
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I tried to find my old xp key for my old laptop, I thought I saved it, but I guess its lost 😩

rare blaze
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I don't think I have it but I'll check my VS sub to see if it has extra XP keys lying around

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Probably tomorrow

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I assume not but it has software going back to like 2007 at least so who knows

wanton jacinth
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i'm just doing wine and i'll uninstall it if i get bored

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cuz tbh being this rigid with my setup is only good for creating annoyances

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ok, it runs fine but trying to open a test window set my display resolution to 320x240

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which is funny but it persisted after closing it

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...and after rebooting shinji

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i have to figure out how to fix this from the command line

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ok fixed

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that was horrible

tame flax
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Tiltin' Toddlers: the gameshow where my toddlers find it very funny to climb on the couch and drop backwards into the pillows

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How to win: everyone who watches is already a winner

rare blaze
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I approve

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ship the game

tame flax
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Hear me out here

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Little guy... normal hat...

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But he's pretty silly!!

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Just saying... it could work

wheat gate
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We agree! You’re gonna be receiving our full investment package

tame flax
wheat gate
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Maximum R.O.I.

rare blaze
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Oh this little guy is so silly

near lark
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Okay hear me out. Take the basic Tunic premise but emphasize it being an old untranslated game from insert language probably Japanese and then have the whole meta concept be about learning that language enough to figure out how to win the game.

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The entire game could be your character sitting at a desk with multiple language learning resources, the game manual and the game being played on the screen in front of them.

wheat gate
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Sounds like the perfect combo of Tunic and Chants of Sennaar

tame flax
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Very nice. Reminds me a little bit of Flower Sun and Rain, which i played on DS (originally a PS2 game)

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You have a briefcase you can plug anything in the world into, like people, locks

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You just have to figure out the correct number. And there's a hotel manual with very cryptic codes that leads to secret stuff

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This guy is the bellhop in that game, Edo McAlister

wheat gate
steel mountain
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That reminds me of the legendary Barry Bonds who was such an imposing figure at bat that he could statistically speaking go up to the plate, never swing the bat, and still score runs.

wheat gate
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That’s officially the main character now

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The Barry Bonds of Football

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omg

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đŸ€Ż

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Luigi is the Barry Bonds of Mario Party

steel mountain
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it was always waluigi for my friends and I haha

tame flax
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Anti-aging cream on a baby to learn more about what happens before we exist

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Anti-aging cream on a fresh corpse to learn more of the afterlife??

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Ethically dubious science...

steel mountain
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pro-aging cream to slowly murder someone

tame flax
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The CIA will probably contact you soon

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Swap out Putin's anti-aging cream for pro-aging and we can end one war

steel mountain
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oh oe signed up for contactless kidnapping during covid and never opted back in

thorny sun
tame flax
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Procedural cop drama but one cop accidentally went to clown college instead of cop college and still got hired as a detective

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Title: Grime & Funishment?

steel mountain
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Haw & Order

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unironically would watch this show

tame flax
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But this is such a good title

tame flax
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Haggisn't: the vegan alternative

tame flax
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Haggwas: haggis that has gone bad

steel mountain
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"Haggis or Haggisn't, there is no Haggtry."

wanton jacinth
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treating "the way" as an adjective

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this is the way -> yo, this this the way as hell

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this is hella the way

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that's the wayest

tame flax
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Action game item: "Box that says 'Ow!' when you drop it"

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If tossed enough times it becomes "Box that no longer says 'Ow!' when you drop it"

steel mountain
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The Box Who Cried "Ow!"

tame flax
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idea for like a sad dark souls-type in-world lore thing

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the sacrificed waterfall maiden. Had to sacrifice themselves for some kind of lore reason and then seaweed and stuff sprang from her remains?

rare blaze
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Oooh

tame flax
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Partirelacs: a travelling spa treatment service that can help up to 4 adventurers unwind and refresh

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Usually set up near entrances to Slime Forests and in dungeons near Boss Doors

thorny sun
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Laughable Neutral

tame flax
thorny sun
tame flax
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Someone who is such a goody two-shoes and narc that everyone hates them

tame flax
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Red Dead Redemption 3 but you ride a little donkey through the Andes and there's no crimes or combats

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just Pepe (the donkey)

near lark
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In another server we were talking about random, crappy attributes of shopping carts at the grocery store and it made me think of a roguelike game themed around being one of those employees who shops for the customer then brings it to their car.

rare blaze
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That's an awesome idea haha

jade wagon
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You’ve got to deal with picking substitutions for out of stock items too, and not upset the customer with jank, nor your manager by giving away larger sizes at low cost.

soft summit
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and maybe you'd have to weigh the benefits of displeasing the manager, but making the customer very happy by giving them something twice as big as they asked/paid for kitten_think

(speaking from experience as a customer lol. received a twice-as-big cake once)

jade wagon
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How far off do you think we are from companies paying for “preferred substitution” status so they can try to hook you on their product by sneaking it in as a “substitution”?

mighty ether
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ooo that's interesting. probably not far, if ordering groceries instead of shopping in person sticks around!

near lark
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I was imagining it would be a hyper capitalist setting where you have to go into debt in order to own your own cart and when your cart dies it's game over.

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All kinds of hazards around the store can mess you up

mighty ether
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It is the year 2034. Aldi carts now require $2500 coins

jade wagon
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It needs a picture of your cart in place of the Doom face, getting bloodier more mangled as you crash into stuff

round abyssBOT
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maybe it also gets bloodier? maybe it's a store that sells all kinds of blood, for vampires

jade wagon
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Oh right, vampires, it is a hyper capitalist setting after all

thorny sun
near lark
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who's gonna prototype my game

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MY game

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you willl get NO credit

wanton jacinth
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depends. is the game exactly like what we wanted to make anyway?

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and how much will you be paying?

near lark
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Paying?

wanton jacinth
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yeah, like, exposure. what's your follower count?

near lark
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So many

near lark
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I've had an idea for a board game based on the card matching mini-game from Mario 3 for a long time now. You know the one where you flip a card and then flip another and try to match them? I wnat to design a whole game around that concept but themed around paranormal exterminators like Ghost Busters.

rare blaze
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I'm intrigued!

near lark
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I need to summon up enough energy to develop a proof of concept to see if it's even fun

rare blaze
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I totally understand how hard it can be to summon up the energy haha

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But I'd be interested in seeing your progress

near lark
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Of course now that I'm thinking of it as a potential video game there's a lot more options lol

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Like it's easier to have the concept of a silly ghost with a bunch of doppelgangers but only one matches their exact outfit when you have programming instead of shuffling decks

jade wagon
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Here’s the first idea I had:
You’re trying to find the spooky ghosts. On your turn you flip over two tiles, and if they match, you keep them flipped and do the effect. If they dont match put them face down. The most important tiles are the ghost spotter cards. One of them says “the ghost is in this horizontal line” and the other says “the ghost is in this vertical line”. If you flip over both of those, you put a ghost figure on the board at the tile they intersect at. Now you’ve got to catch the ghost, and thats where some of those other tile types come up, they let you place ghost catchers on the board or stuff like that.

near lark
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That's interesting but for my concept I wanted to lean into the creature's themselves causing mischievous effects

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Like a poltergeist when uncovered might collect all the cards around itself and shuffle them then redistribute them onto the board in the empty spaces.

rare blaze
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Ooh I like both of these

mighty ether
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Ghost Memory

tame flax
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I want to make a game called Battlesnail

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Doesn't have to play like battleship, but due to snail paces could be like a strategic snail war game

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"Lettuce battle!" - tagline

tame flax
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Slugs can be faster but more vulnerable

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Different types of shell armor

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Dangerous tiles called 'salt of the earth'

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Healing bases called 'Lettuce Rest'

soft summit
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o:
i missed this snail idea
i want it

but i came here to post
euro board game about napkins

thorny sun
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Can you elaborate? Like it would be about setting the table for the more important guests?

soft summit
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i cannot elaborate

tame flax
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@thorny sun just the normal napkin festivities that we all do in europe everytime we eat dinner, all the time

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Shalmons doesn't know that we already have elaborate napkin rituals that everyone in europe shares

thorny sun
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Sometimes they take more time than the actual dinner

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thats where the "nap" after meals comes from, but originally it was during, because some people got tired mid the nap-kin rituals

tame flax
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in italy, the nap never comes and you hang out with your kin for an 8 hour dinner each evening

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i'm sure @midnight narwhal can confirm

midnight narwhal
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sorry for the late reply, I was still having dinner

wanton jacinth
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there are comedy movies and horror movies, and stand-up comedy, but no stand-up horror

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i suggest a new art form where someone goes up on stage and makes the audience deeply uncomfortable

rare blaze
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I feel like that's just bad stand-up comedians lol

wanton jacinth
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true

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but this would be intentional

rare blaze
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I've only seen one thing by him but I think Bo Burnham straddles the line between stand-up comedy and stand-up horror

wanton jacinth
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that's really fair actually kitten_think

tame flax
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The opposite of stand-up horror is Joe Pera - Slow and Steady, which even contains a dedicated 'sit-down soothing' section

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Joe Pera goes up on stage and makes the audience feel deeply comfy

rare blaze
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Thank you for reminding me to put him on my list

tame flax
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Couldn't miss an opportunity for Peraposting

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Joesting

rare blaze
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JoePerasting

round abyssBOT
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famous musician Joe Sting

it's lobsy! ↩

[Reply to:](#1123630198412300370 message) Joesting

mighty ether
soft summit
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i love the story i heard about someone unwisely bringing a date to a neil hamburger show

clearly without gauging whether or not they liked anti-comedy at all lol

tame flax
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"He's our star interrogator, we call him brunch. He breaks 'em fast and then goes out for lunch."

near lark
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Forgot if I dropped this one here but: Do The Thing, a game set in a big GTA sized sandbox map where a roulette appears at top of the screen and tells you what to do next.

Lands on Fly The Kites? Well you better go find those kites and fly them. Eat The Shrooms? Get your butt to the forest and start foraging.

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I imagine there would be unlockable characters with special missions only they can complete

tame flax
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Worldle but everyday the word is just SQUID

rare blaze
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SquidWordle

tame flax
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Squirdle was already claimed by an adult entertainment company

thorny sun
tame flax
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Pungatory: 'procedural' show where someone constantly gets trapped in cliché joke scenarios and only released to the next level if he solves the punchline

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He keeps seeing flying saucers and the nightmare only ends when he brings it up to someone and they can say "saucer? I hardly know 'er!"

tame flax
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Leading a horse into a bar, etc

jade wagon
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A bunch of kids keep approaching you and telling you “I’m hungry” “I’m thirsty” “I’m tired”. It only stops when you tell them Hi Hungry, I’m Dad.

You’re interviewing at a bunch of bakeries, and it only ends when they ask you Why do you want to work here? And you answer, “I knead the dough”

wanton jacinth
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we say "hi X, i'm dad" all the time and have realized recently that if we have kids (which we and gf both want) we'll have to start saying "i'm mom" or something instead so we don't confuse them

thorny sun
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You see a worried person in an academic dress. You need to say: "what's the mater?"

thorny sun
tame flax
thorny sun
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Looool

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Get that horse a drink

tame flax
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Yes, but first the bartender has to say the magic words

wheat gate
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courtesy @thorny sun:
New arcade game:
“SNAKE (On a Plane)”

jade wagon
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Opinion: more games should have a “walking sim” mode that removes enemies/combat and just leaves a world for you to explore.

My girls are having the best time with my Link’s Awakening hack that strips out all enemies, adds more paths to connect screens, and plants treasure chests all over.

A BotW with no moblins or quests, and it’s all about finding koroks? I would never get my switch back lol

rare blaze
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I could totally do this for my games đŸ€”

thorny sun
tame flax
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Tourist Mode

tame flax
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Lobsy shounen manga/anime called One Killion. All of the enemies can get pretty high, but only our protagonist can get up to One Killion... but at what cost??

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(genuine question, because the show never fully establishes just what One Killion is. Is it higher than one million? How does it involve killing??)

rare blaze
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enemies can get pretty high

nice

jade wagon
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If you want to know the cost, just check the bill-ion

tame flax
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Sizes 2:

  • Smull
  • Mediam
  • Lorge
near lark
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Ya know all those D&D stories of players outsmarting DMs? Some kinda game about that.

rare blaze
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I like this one

wheat gate
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Is it still cheesing if it’s designed to be cheesed? đŸ€”

tame flax
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The Stanley Parable đŸ€”

jade wagon
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Idea for an Art game, it’s an NES-zelda-like dungeon — defeat enemies and solve puzzles to get keys and advance. But you’re also given a master key at the beginning that unlocks all doors. But you probably play as intended because it’s Fun.

Second dungeon, same deal. But this one is super obnoxious: brain-dead block puzzles that take forever to execute; turtle enemies that have long invulnerable periods and only poke their heads out for a short time. How long does it take before you start skipping rooms and relying on the master key?

wheat gate
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Dastardly

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Love this

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Additionally or maybe in conjunction with that, the same key or an extra master key that unlocks any chest, but has a hidden counter that tracks how often you use it, with diminishing returns on loot the higher the counter gets?

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Quality vs quantity type choice to go along with the convenience choice of the door key

jade wagon
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And at the end you see a global leaderboard, with your score being how few times you used the key. Is a public high score worth going back to play through the boring parts?

jade wagon
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I’ve got a new story idea; I think I want to actually write this one so I won’t spoil it yet. It's a story about love, missed connections, and coming of age, told through library book excerpts and the “Date Due” slips that accompany them.

It’s about a boy who discovers that a girl is checking out all the same books that he is, their book-bound friendship, and what happens when they grow apart.

wanton jacinth
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this is scarily similar to Whisper of the Heart

rare blaze
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a story of love, missed connections, and coming of age, told through stories two people are writing about love, missed connections, and comings of age, when the boy discovers the girl is writing a similar story that he is

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it's romance stories all the way down

jade wagon
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It’s been awhile since I saw Whisper of the Heart, I should watch that again. My story also shares a bit with Your Name, Kimi no Na Wa

tame flax
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Whisper of the Fart: a meet-cute happens because one of the characters lets out one of those really high, yet really loud farts in the middle of a library

tame flax
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Sorry, i don't have the proper 'mouth fart' range in the early morne 😔

near lark
wanton jacinth
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there are enough similar stories i think this may be a genre

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librarylikes

thorny sun
thorny sun
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I've looked up the jj abrams one, also a cool idea, but from what ive read his execution was kinda confusing.

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definitely a genre worth exploring more

tame flax
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We call putting fuel in your car 'tanken', AKA 'tanking' and you do so at a 'tankstation'

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But i just realized that Tank Station sounds pretty cool and inspirational in english

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Like a train station but tanks stop there??? Are the tanks on rails??

near lark
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A game that pretends to be about buying books at a bookstore but that's just a lead in to the true gameplay of a QWOP style mini-game to remove the price tag sticker without leaving a bunch of gunk and residue on your book.

thorny sun
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A game where you need to go inside other games to progress. Like there's a itch page for a fake game studio and you play the main one, but later on you need to simultaneously open some old pong game and your character can travel to that window

near lark
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That's pretty neat but how?

tame flax
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By hanging onto the cursor

thorny sun
mighty ether
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^ got a Wreck-It Ralph situation on our hands

tame flax
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The Nutty Confessor: priest who forgives the craziest sins

tame flax
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Star Wars but on like Victorian London Planet

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"Ay guv'nor. Looks loik the victim's bin burned in half!"
"Star Lord help us... a laser sword."

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Jack the Cauterizer

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Wait, screw star wars. I'm making this my original IP thing. Victorian London With Weird Sci-Fi

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I regret to inform spacefam that i have accidentally reinvented Steampunk

rare blaze
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I'm still here for it

round abyssBOT
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what a rollercoaster

it's lobsy! ↩

[Reply to:](#1123630198412300370 message) I regret to inform spacefam that i have accidentally reinvented Steampunk

thorny sun
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Time for stonepunk, where it's futuristic cavemen

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Oh wait, that's just Flintstones

tame flax
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Oh wait

thorny sun
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Chimpunk

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Even earlier

rare blaze
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chipmunk

thorny sun
tame flax
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Planet of the Chipmunks?? I'm in

mighty ether
tame flax
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I really want to now

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Maybe an olden dutche settinge to change things up

wheat gate
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Yessss

rare blaze
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I would be so on board with space fantasy Victorian/olden Dutch

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Maybe if I ever do my SW rewrite project

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Oldutche

wheat gate
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Oldtch

tame flax
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We have a restaurant/bar here called Old Dutch. It serves Italian food??

rare blaze
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Old Dutch guys love Italian food

tame flax
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Me? I'm an Old Dutch guy

tame flax
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Instead of/additionally to colonialism we accidentally found a crashed spaceship and looted it for all it was worth

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That's how the Netherlands ended up with Vuurzwaerden, aka 'Fire Swords'

round abyssBOT
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in my dream, this was the plot of a classic sci-fi novel, but when i awoke i couldn't find any stories with this plot (several similar ones tho). i'm gonna leave it here

a boy finds that he can time travel and change the past. he does this to prevent several small bad things, but it leads to a very bad thing: his whole town falls victim to a disease. the only other survivor is the man who had brought the disease to the town unnoticed. in the original timeline, nobody caught it, but in the new timeline, it had more chances to spread. when you go back in time to prevent one bad thing, you have no idea how likely a worse bad thing was to happen. you get a "reroll" that could lead to a much worse outcome

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the basic plot here has been done a bunch of times, but i think what made this book so compelling to me in the dream was just how... creepy it was

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like, the kid keeps going through the same events and sometimes runs into this weird sick guy

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only for his meddling to kill everyone he knows, and for him to become the new weird sick guy

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one way i might develop this story if i were writing it is to make time travelers immune to the sickness while becoming carriers and retaining it through their time jumps, so it's a special "time traveler's sickness"

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this means there would actually be something especially bad about time travel, instead of just "what if it goes bad tho" which is an idea i don't really vibe with

tame flax
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Ah yes.... the Meddler's Pest

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Oh no wait, what we call 'de Pest' is called 'the Plague' in english

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Got my langs mixed up again

round abyssBOT
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pest is so cute tho

jade wagon
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Time Travel Horror, I dig it. The time traveller’s sickness is the right way to do it I think

round abyssBOT
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maybe the sickness is what grants him the time travel in the first place? like it evolved to very occasionally spare someone and provide them a superpower as a means of spreading itself

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maybe the more he travels back in time, the more the weird sick guy follows him around and tries to stop him

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so in addition to the town getting sicker, there's also this threatening presence

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but he doesn't know the guy is a time traveler too

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maybe the guy is him?

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in a last-ditch effort to save the town, he went all the way back to the beginning to stop himself, but that's where he got the sickness in the first place

tame flax
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An interesting thing to think about would be what links time travel and the virus

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Like it is a virus/parasite that not only infects cells in the host and spreads through the body, it also infects... "earlier states" of the cells?

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I once heard that teleportation would essentially be destroying your body and 'rebuilding' it at a different location

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Maybe time travel rebuilds your body by infecting 'past cells'? Your 'past self'?

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Or the 'virus' is the particles that hold the timeline together

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if the time travel is a standard "your past consciousness and memories get replaced with your present ones" then the virus could be embedded in those somehow?

tame flax
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And whenever you cross the treshold you come into contact with them

round abyssBOT
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i kinda like the idea of the virus infecting your memories, that could lead to fun horror things

tame flax
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Or by disturbing the timeline, parts come loose

tame flax
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Memory loss because there's pupated 'pillars in particular parts

thorny sun
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its kinda feels like purgatory, being in this state of repeatedly failing at something

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Not related, but it reminded me of a book idea i had thats kinda fantasy. What if having powers wasn't worth it? Like there are people that have powers, but in return these people are of very poor health or disabled. Like someone has mild telekinesis (they can move small objects), but their legs are paralysed.

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or like someone can turn invisible, but is also blind

rare blaze
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He's been careening and tumbling around like this for twenty minutes straight

jade wagon
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You might not have the right equipment yet to get through this area then

rare blaze
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Yeah I'm not sure how to beat this guy

thorny sun
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Looks fun. I don't think it negates all damage from running into things, but it looks pretty effective sofar

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Cartoon boxes are really fun. One time we made a big fort with them with dad. Like the whole room was filled, it was crazy

rare blaze
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Seriously the best use of boxes. I'm not convinced we should be buying toys in general when kids are way happier with the boxes they come in lol

round abyssBOT
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just like cats lol

tame flax
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Human Hair Dragon: vengeful spirit borne of all the combined human hairs and soap residue etc that washes down drains over the years

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Only remedy is plunger

rare blaze
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Truly the vilest of creatures

tame flax
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game genre: WPS - Worst Person Shooter. You've got a gun and you have to shoot the worst person

rare blaze
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wurst person shooter. you are a wurst person. you must shoot.

jade wagon
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Wurst person shouter.
“I shout, you shout, we all shout for brats and kraut!”

tame flax
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Und you schtand at your little marktplatz in Bavaria to sell your little wĂŒrstschen. I like the way this is headed

thorny sun
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Is there a book that doesn't follow just one character? I once had this idea of writing a book that just kinda meanders from character to character. The main character enters the elevator and then the viewpoint switches to the other person.

rare blaze
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There are lots, though I'm not aware of any that experiment with perspective in that way intentionally. A lot of new writers will do what's called "head hopping", jumping from one character to another within a scene in a confusing way. But there are also other perspectives, such as "third person omniscient"--it's sort of fallen out of favor now, used to be more popular. A recent-ish series that uses it is Inda, which can be difficult to follow at first haha

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But I'd say it used to be the main mode of storytelling

thorny sun
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Basically a short story where every scene is jumping into another that's loosely connected to previous one by proximity or object, but they aren't related through story. Kind of if you were a ghost changing every 5 minutes who you follow

rare blaze
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I could definitely see it

mighty ether
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I think a lot of the novels I read growing up were third person ominiscient. One scene would be following main character A, another scene would follow main character B, another would follow the villain, and another would talk about a thing that happened to a side character. (Many movies and TV shows do this as well.) The key is to tie those all together into a single story.

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A story where it intentionally jumps to the next character when they collide could be interesting. First person... serial?

jade wagon
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Didn’t Michael Crichton do that 3rd person omniscient thing? It’s been ages since I read them, but I was pretty sure Jurassic Park at least switched POVs fairly frequently

rare blaze
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It's been about 20 years since I've read it hehe

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Lord of the Rings is for sure, Narnia mostly follows one character at a time but is still third person omniscient

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There's always The Fifth Season, which has first person, third person, and.... ✹ Second Person ✹

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I didn't finish that one, too depressing

mighty ether
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I think Wuchta might have actually been talking about using first person perspective but changing characters at various points. That might be tough to pull off but could be interesting. I think the most common form of that might be in epistolary novels (ones that pretend to be a series of letters).

rare blaze
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Oh yeah I agree, that's what I was imagining too

thorny sun
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And that was mandatory

tame flax
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Game of Thrones switches perspectives/character per chapter i think

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The books

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A Song of Ice and Fire

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A thong of lice and wire

thorny sun
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That's one heck of a recommendation, with my pace im gonna finish reading it in 10 years. Which might be a good thing, maybe the books will be finished by then

thorny sun
tame flax
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can't be nice to be so full of lice

mighty ether
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I don't think I've read many epistolary novels either. I think it was a popular early format, at least for English-language novels. I don't see it much anymore. I think Dracula is an example, but I haven't read it.

thorny sun
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In the book Dracula is like:
"Dear Carol,
I've heard you're throwing a birthday party and I noticed I'm not on the guest list. I always thought we were pretty friendly with each other at work so... Can we talk about it, are we cool?"

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"And it's not about the invite. I really don't care. But like we're gonna run into eachother eventually, so I wanted to spare you the nervous turnarounds that Jerry already does."

rare blaze
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I would read that without hesitation lol

thorny sun
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Just realised something. You know these videos where someone dramatically reads like a comment thread? That's the same text formatting as a written Shakespeare play

mighty ether
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This remark makes me think of Flame War Theater, a series a comedy group did acting out ridiculous forum arguments they found, in costume, as if they were Shakespearean plays.

They haven't done it in a while, so that's a free idea for the dump.

rare blaze
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New idiom just dropped

"Tickled by my own nose hairs"

Roughly equivalent to "hoisted by my own petard"

thorny sun
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nose hairs are one of the most annoying things. I'm not sure, but one time my nose hairs got a tangled with my mustache

jade wagon
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Excerpt from the stage play “Nostril and Upper Lip”:
Two hairholds, both alike in dignity, / On fair Wuchta, where we lay our scene

jade wagon
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I couldn’t tell if that was funny or if I was just tickling my own nose hairs

tame flax
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Honking your own schnozz

mighty ether
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Tooting your own horn

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Saddened by your own trombone noises

thorny sun
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facepalming your own forehead

wanton jacinth
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conversationy game based on autistic "scripting": sentences come to you automatically and take up space in your inventory, and the only way to get rid of them is to say them to someone. but not every sentence works in every conversation, so if you have some sentence about dinosaurs you have to find someone to talk about dinosaurs with

tame flax
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Each character you talk to has all kinds of hidden modifiers and likes and dislikes that are never explicitly communicated to you so you have to just sort of trust that you are following the rules that no one is explaining to you

wanton jacinth
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if you get into an argument then a ton of thoughts about it will come to you later

mighty ether
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oh that part happens to everyone
but this kind of game always sounds neat. although i haven't played depression quest or tourette quest; maybe i should

wanton jacinth
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\ i didn't know there was a tourette quest :o that sounds like this but faster-paced

mighty ether
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I saw he originally did it as a real-time Zelda-like but decided that didn't work and redid it for a roguelike gamejam.

near lark
round abyssBOT
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it is fun to be autistic

near lark
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Reminds me of Beacon Pines

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The character could be a parrot.

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Listen the subtext of this being a game about awareness isn't lost on me but it still sounds like a fun idea.

tame flax
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in case any designers are looking to start a business: "Food And Restaurant Theming" acronyms to FART

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"Strong FART makes for good eating" company slogan

tame flax
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Somehow, a magical orb of destruction got stuck in a slab of meat i was seasoning. It has posessed the meat and is slowly crawling towards the altar of oblivion. I'll have to get there first if i want to save the world. The only way to get out of this is to (title card appears) Beat My Meat

near lark
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Was thinking about how to modernize light gun games and it got me thinking about a light gun peripheral that communicates directly with the game allowing for stuff like switching between gun attachments that would change how it works in game.

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Also ignoring how insanely expensive it would be I just think the idea of a game coming with a unique light gun designed specifically for it is neat.

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Now I'm imagining an occult themed game with a working revolver reload mechanism. You actually gotta pop that bad boy out and press each of six buttons in the chamber to reload it.

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What if you had an ammo belt with buttons you press to choose different types of ammo that are better against specific enemies?

I kinda love that idea. Like you have a couple different monsters on screen, pop out the chamber and then have to choose which bullets to put in and remember so that you can use them on the correct enemies.

tame flax
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Or a twistable neck on the gun, live morphing it to a different type of weapon

jade wagon
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Horror seems like the right genre for “fiddliness of ammo” as a mechanic. You too can be that nervous guy who drops his ammo as the killer closes in

tame flax
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This makes me think of 'horror ammo' where you load your gun with live bugs and the entity hit start glitching out

thorny sun
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There's a game endoparasitic where you have to manually load each bullet in your gun

near lark
near lark
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Are there any rpgs with a slot machine based battle system?

tame flax
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Dokapon? đŸ€”

round abyssBOT
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not dokapon, at least going from what i've played

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i think it's somewhat common for rpgs have characters with slot machine based attacks. Tifa has one in FF7

near lark
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Yeah after playing the slot machine in Blue Prince it just got me thinking about an RPG where you're just trying to manipulate a slot machine to attack, defend, etc.

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I'm a big fan of building entire games around a core concept like that I guess

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Also @rare blaze I feel like we've riffed about a language learning game where it's about decoding the language of an old SNES game?

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Sorry thoughts getting clogged up, letting them out

mighty ether
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Have you seen the video on Bass Reeves Can't Die?

near lark
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Nope what's that?

mighty ether
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https://youtu.be/69Ukg2BqIk0?si=oDQCHXcnLWPXMoMW

It's a bit long, but it's about the development of an indie game based on a historical black lawman and also the oblivion dialogue wheel. (The company involved is the same one behind El Paso: Elsewhere, I Am Your Beast, Clickolding, and An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs.)

YouTube
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visit https://www.rog.gg/CES2025 to check out cool and awesome technology and such

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speaking of games built around a random mechanic

near lark
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@mighty ether Did you link that specific time stamp on purpose? Just making sure

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i think it would end up very similar in concept to Dicey Dungeons kitten_think

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near lark
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I don't like that game and I don't know why.

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It feels like a game I would enjoy.

mighty ether
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nope didn't even realize i was linking a timestamp

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apparently when i copied the link from my youtube search, it was at wherever it thought i had last been. o_O

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I enjoyed Dicey Dungeons but only played for a couple hours. I wanted to like it more, but I just find it hard to get good at roguelites. Same problem I had with Slay the Spire. So I think I beat the first section and then kinda fell off it.

near lark
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I had a dream where I kept insisting a fun game would be a cartoony simulation game where you're a god and you have to pick and choose what prayers to answer and then see the cascading effects of it

thorny sun
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so its like a bruce almighty game

thorny sun
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There's a mildly similar game to this idea, where you're a king that makes decisions on certain things

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And some tend to backfire, because for example an old lady was a witch or something

tame flax
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It was called 'mayor decisions'

thorny sun
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That's a good pun expo specimen

mighty ether
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@soft summit and I just had the idea for a B movie where AI is hunting people, but only conventionally attractive women because that's what it was trained on, and it can't tell all the others are human.

tame flax
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That's pretty cool

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Special appearance by the beloved Side Demons from ThisPersonDoesNotExist

mighty ether
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Fighting game where you can't move because you have a cat sleeping on your legs

thorny sun
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you take extra damage if it wakes up, cause it scratches you

tame flax
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Title: The Catlapnap Chronicles

mighty ether
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Character reincarnates as whatever killed them last time

rare blaze
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Absolutely yes

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You wanna die to stuff with specific abilities even though it sets you back

mighty ether
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But is this the hero's or the villain's ability?

tame flax
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A cursed hero

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So you can be more cool villains during the game

tame flax
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Although... if you're a villain it could be more about infiltrating society

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Though people constantly dying might raise some alarms

tame flax
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Ever heard of the game Stacking?

mighty ether
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Oh I was thinking an anime, but videogame makes Daniel's comment also suddenly make more sense
Haven't heard of stacking though

rare blaze
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Oh lol, I guess games are on my mind more than anime

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game where you have a big heavy sword, and as a special move you can throw it, which isn't very effective but you move really fast when you're not carrying it

tame flax
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but damned if i can remember the title

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i've been looking around but can't find it, damn

mighty ether
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feels like a risk of rain character move

thorny sun
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What if the sword gets stuck in a shield? Would the enemy also be very slow or unable to move?

mighty ether
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Time loop movie where someone keeps going back in time to train their younger self, feedback looping into unstoppability

tame flax
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I've had a similar idea, someone who travels back and becomes their own guardian, teaching them everything they learned from... themselves

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How many split timelines would it create if you changed even one word of what you teach yourself

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Idea: sci fi movie with realistic AI assistants as they function IRL. Iron Man gets absolute dogshit intel from his computer and dies in the first act

rare blaze
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it's litrpg, if you've ever heard of that... which is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine

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actually no I'm not feeling guilty for enjoying it

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but we won't call it high literature

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I need to actually read Mother of Learning though, that's one I haven't picked up yet

mighty ether
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I think Harry Potter and the Natural 20 is the closest thing to a litrpg I've read? Or possibly the DM of the Rings and most of Darths & Droids, but those are webcomics.

rare blaze
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I miss Darths & Droids

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Cradle is litrpg but doesn't actually have stats--it's SUPER fun

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first book is pretty meh but it's like reading an anime

mighty ether
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Darths & Droids is still going, isn't it?

rare blaze
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oh idk

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I fell off it

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I miss what it was, is all lol

mighty ether
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ah yeah i didn't get very far into the sequels
i did enjoy their running gag where every X episodes they added another layer to the recursion where they do a comic in a different setting

rare blaze
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haha yeah

near lark
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I think my mind has been circling this idea for awhile and just now articulated it: An adventure game (I'm imagining a 2D Zelda like) where there's a bunch of conflicting lore and legends about the various creatures, cultures and even the Big Bad that you have to uncover, parse, test in the field and reevaluate as you go.

Just sort of imagine if in LTTP everyone has an opinion about where things are and how to defeat Ganon and you gotta figure out what really works.

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I guess this would count as a metroidbrainia

rare blaze
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Yeah I'm down for this

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Sounds cool

wanton jacinth
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simon's quest is like this and i like it but it's widely hated

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"npcs lie to you" is the saying

near lark
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Yeah well this game would telegraph what is happening more than an NES game would

wanton jacinth
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it wouldn't take a lot to telegraph

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like all you need is one bit of text somewhere that's like "rumors abound; not everyone is correct"

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if you can fit npcs at all you can fit that

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it's more just a regrettable choice on the simon's quest team's part

thorny sun
tame flax
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Zombie Harry Potter AU called 'Happy Rotter'

tame flax
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Vampire Hunting AU where you all.are living in the United Stakes

tame flax
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What if: a time limit but it's a Tim Limit

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Can't have a field of Tims happening

wheat gate
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two schools of thought here:

  1. the limit is 0, there are to be 0 Tims happening at any point
  2. or
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mighty ether
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Indie game where you have to find an obscure item in a Walmart equivalent without using an app or asking an associate

jade wagon
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Halfway through they reorganize the whole store layout for no good reason

near lark
thorny sun