Hmm... Lately I have been getting REALLY weird and non-commercial game ideas which would be really fun to play still. We all know, that when we are creating the game, one thing makes our game boring... Money. Money guides us to create a game that can be sold for other people, and it''s kind of witch circle, you create "boring" games and people buy maybe buy that game and start complaining "why do you create so boring game, after all this is same old crap". Some times I''m just getting really weird ideas, for freeware game example. One idea is about creating game where you have to make THE BEST fireworks in town for newyears party :D You would have to get fireworks, set some attributes for every firework, etc. which angle do you shoot it and so on, and when the midnight comes, you HAVE TO shoot those rockets, and then public gives opinion about your work This is actually hard to create, but who cares, it''s fun idea ! Another idea is Arcade Hall simulation, where you have to buy arcade games, create working arcade hall with cool stuff, and so on. (again, problem is that there is no point playing it, so player should actually just play against the time... and try to get himself for 1 in top 10 - top 20 list) Have you had some really weird, but probaply fun idea that you would like to create, EVEN if you don''t have any idea how to create it ? Tell it :D

And ye, I forgot two old cool ideas, again simulations:

Paintball and Megazone / Lasertag / Laserzone / Ultrazone (names differ between countries & states).

Player would have to create Paintball or Megazone gaming area, and open it for the public. Then he would sell guns and so on for the players, and WATCH how this players play the game and so on. To add "something to do", player should create the hall manually, and add mazes and so on. The problem is "it''s just do-something-for-a-while" game, but it is FUN.

The problem with fun games seems to be, that fun games don''t have that long time to keep interest of player.

Ofcourse I had an idea about being a captain in Paintball game, which would be 2D-game from birdview, and simple shooter, but the problem is that there is another way to create this kind of ideas and it''s not the 2D, but 3D, a''la Team Fortress... Sad but true :.(

Some of your ideas sound absolutely awesome, its sort of like Roller Coaster Tycoon, they took a simple idea that everyone enjoys, and made a game out of it, its so fun and hard to put down. These kinds of games that you are talking about are the kind that would fall in a niche as something new and fun. I guarantee that if you were able to make any of these games and send them to the public, then you would definatly find your self with an audience that loves your style. As quirky as it sounds, that firework games sounds cool.

Yesterday at #gamedev:
"I play drums and guitar... and now after halfyear practising, little keyboards"
: "I play ...." .. ommy good, here we go again.

Dont take me wrong, when I tell that I can play many instruments atleast in basic level. After playing guitar & drums for 6 years, I started to understand how to make music, and even after I don''t know what I''m doing when I''m playing with keyboards, I have "the feel"

This just came to my mind when I was going to write reply, because here we have again "Paladin cannot do one thing at one time" problem

I have been involved for my main project, DUST, but I started creating this arcade hall simulation about a week ago, and I have pretty nice documentation already
Game isn''t that hard to create, because it doesn''t create / test any new technology or anything hard, but is more like point & click + math game... Well, math because it''s business and deals with numbers , like "profit" and so on
I''m going to create everything from graphics to code just as "sunday project", but if someone is interested after I have try-out version out, I would like to have some artist to recreate graphics

And game is going freeware with source code, I wanna be 3liT3

But hey, more ideas I''m interested about this kind of sunday-producing.

Originally I played "Arcade Business" called game, made by some finnish person with qbasic ( I think, it was exe, but it was just like Qbasic program) and it was REALLY simple, but I played it couple of weeks, even after it was really crappy
Then I started to create own version of Arcade Business with QBasic (this is maybe 3-4 years ago, when I didn''t know c++), and ofcourse that was my first or second game, and it collapsed right away ;D

Maybe I will have better luck this time

Doesn''t PC Gamer now run game design contests?

You might check in there for ideas... or submit your own... I think the grand prize is a week at ION storm as a tester.

Heh, one of those few contests where I *don''t* want the prize...



Mason McCuskey
Spin Studios - home of Quaternion, 2000 GDC Indie Games Fest Finalist!
www.spin-studios.com

I have always wanted to make a game that is about slugs taking over the world, and you have to go through mazes squirting the slugs with poison spray. It is a weird and stupid idea, but I think it is funny. If you die, you get turned into a slug, and you have to kill the human.

Lynck, I would definitely download a game like that! I always liked the idea of when you die, you join the enemy. But it''s harder and longer to program. but fun!

Ever since I worked at kroger sacking groceries ive always wanted to make a downhill shopping cart racing game

Heh, just recycling my old weird ideas...

Leisure Suit Larry 8 : Snowblow Job
(I assume that last one was 7 ? I cannot remember anymore

In this part, Larry goes for skiing resort after he for some REALLY WEIRD REASON wins ticket for five star skiing resort hotel ! It would be so cool enviroment for Larry games.

Well, more about skiing resort stuff... If some company is going to make *sigh*... again "the best and only cool snowboarding game" - amen, game, I would add virtual mountain system, which would work pretty much like in Housemarques Supreme Snowboarding (Boarderzone in US, BTW: BEST snowboarding game, absolutely), but it would add free riding at whatever part of mountain, maybe in middle of forests and so on, and player could go down, and then use the elevator to go back up
During the time at elevator, player could just watch landscape. Actually I suggested this for Housemarque, and they responded "Wou ! DAMN COOL IDEA ! We have to think about that !"... and ofcourse they didn''t put it into game

About simulations, Theme -series etc:
Theme School, would have lots of little things to do

Seriously I would like to create documents / plot for new old-fashion Indiana Jones (OFFICIAL) game, or game really similar to Indiana Jones, but it seems to be that we have no changes for seeing old fashion Scumm games anymore :.(

Here a coll sport game idea.

A Crosse game (i don''t know the english name)

Crosse as been inveinted by indians (from america).

Here the basic rules!

there is 2 teams
To scrore you must send the ball in the oposite team net.
You ccan''t touch the ball, you use a crosse. It is a staff with a small basket ont top of it.

But here the special rules!

If an oponents as the ball in his croos....you have the rigth to hit him with your crosse!
Pretty specials rules he!
Ouch!

sure you nned protection equipement!

Delisk