Well I would like to make a game with my engine and the main feature I would like to use is rag dolls. Any ideas?

Rag doll physics or rag doll like, Little Big Planet?

Reminds me of a flash game in which you used the mouse to grab a stickman and throw him drop stairs. You scored points based on how the fall was. Basing a game around physics, though, is normally a hard task, especially for longer games. The flash game I mentioned only had one staircase, a stickman, and a leaderboard / reset stickman button.

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Original post by CodaKiller Well I would like to make a game with my engine and the main feature I would like to use is rag dolls. Any ideas?

Game based on necrophilia?

A puppetry fighting game, where you control strings over your guy and he moves. Enemy dudes are also rag dolls with strings, and you can 'cut' a string once a while, and the limb will become limp.

It should have bombs, whatever it is. Ragdolls are almost always an aesthetic feature in a game, just a good excuse to see dead bodies tumble convincingly off a rooftop. I love the ragdolls in the new Red Faction game, because knocking down a fortified building with a piece of industrial equipment causes enemy soldiers to tumble out of the wreckage, which is very funny to me.

I'd recommend something at least marginally violent for that reason.

How about a variant on Defender, which involves a lot of humanoids getting lifted up and then dropped, or a Rampage-type game where little dudes are falling out of windows or getting grabbed by monsters?

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Your Rag Doll Game design could be what ever you choose and feel how it will play out for others in your storyline.

Will these rag dolls be humanoid or animal?
How about both?

Will the rag dolls use self defense techniques?
Will they use some sort of weaponry for attack or defense?

How many characters for the rag dolls will there be?

Who or what will they fight against?

Will be a rescue operation?

Will it be a survival horror?

Will it be an action adventure?

Will it be a driving simulator?

Will it be a plane simulator?

Will it be a first person shooter?

Will it be a fighting game like you commented on.

Real Time Strategy?

What will the area and locations be and look like?

How many levels will it have if the game turns out to be a puzzle game?

Will it be a third person hunting game?

Will it be a over the top view game?

Will it be a sci-fi game?

i could see a few good options here for your ideas. All you need to do is come up with a story, ideas of your characters profiles, land art if any? Monsters if any, npc in the game if any. Weapons, items, armor, transportation, accessories if any of these will become part of the game. These concepts may look like role playing game ideas and suggesstions but you can use them in other ways that walking around in a rts, mmo, rpg, etc

Hope these ideas get yur mind flowing with new ideas and suggestions for your RAG DOLL GAME.

HAVE FUN.
See you in the future in the gaming world.

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Original post by CodaKiller Well I would like to make a game with my engine and the main feature I would like to use is rag dolls. Any ideas?

A 3D game with cannon firing Octopus (octopi) insteand of cannon balls.

Interesting effects if the tentacles/segments have separate collission effects on various terrain features/objects (bouncing/tearing/splatting/fluid effects??)

Allow the player to manipulate twist on the launch beside the usual up/down/side- to-side traversals.

I've yet to see a good pillow fighting simulation... how about that?