Since i already tried it with a smaller group of people and it went well, i am asking lemmy to give me an idea/feature/anything(that is not NSFW or against itch.io rules) that i will add to a game i will be making
I will try to add every single thing suggested here(even if only on a technicality)
Also, i had no idea how to title this post
In a space game, more consistency with application of artificial gravity tech. If all floors can pull you to them “because science” then a realistic consequence would be regular use of walls / ceilings as walking space for more efficient spaceship layouts. It could add an interesting dimension (pun intended) to exploration / combat etc depending on what you’re game is
A game where you can program spells with pseudo code.
License the game under the GPL, the game itself is a boomer shooter (using the GZDoom engine ofc) where you kill proprietary software executives and other anti-libre demons to free Linus Torvalds from the grasp of Bill Gates.
The post says to add something, changing the game engine is not that. I also dont think i can do some of the other suggestions in a game engine that i have never heard of before
I will add everything else though
If anything at least make it GPL and ideally make Bill Gates the main villain
I was already planningto make it open source and the game was missing a main villain
I know this is political so you might want to avoid it but I think the true main villain should be the capitalist class (it would be a cool twist if the entire game was apolitical and bam capitalism bad)
I am trying to avoid things like wars. I can add capitalism as the true main villain, but im not sure if that message will be obvious
Capitalism! in the modern area with a tad more complexity.
Ridiculous physics is always fun.
Activate god mode and gain a small fraction of the power of the developer. You can edit the actual source, brick yourself, and quick reload from within the game. Show me the real errors with the file name and the line number.
REAL CAR ACCIDENTS!! 🚘💥🚙
Often times, games underplay the medical and psychological impacts of traumatic events, so we unconsciously think that we would generally be fine if we were to experience a car accident.
Trigger warning of car accidents and general PTSD
If you get in a car accident, you end up in the ICU and can’t get out of bed for weeks at the least. Once you get out, you have to complete physical therapy over months to get a portion of your mobility back. Once you are out of the hospital and no longer have the 24-hr support of sympathetic medical staff…
PTSD and grief! The person develops PTSD and has relevant triggers that uncontrollably illicit sympathetic nervous system activation (fight-or-flight). At first, it’s only car stuff. A car back fires? Person zones out their environment, time slows down, and only nearby cars that are brightly glowing amd have the video quality sharpness set to max. Literally everything else is blurred and muffled out. The activation lasts for a while. When the person comes back, they’re embarrassed. Slowly, they start cutting away people from their life as more stimuli begins to trigger the person and can’t function in social settings without self-medicating. Eventually, they develop a drug problem just to make it through the day, while experiencing insomnia every night. But wait, there’s more! There was a close friend with them in the car that died in the accident, so whenever they are reminded of said person, they fall into crying spell and can’t function for a while as they wrestle with the guilt of feeling responsible for the loss. The insomnia and overwhelming loneliness ensures that they wake up with only half their health everyday.
While morbid af, I think it would help advocate for victims of trauma and loss. Also, it might encourage to people think before they behave in ways that are too risky when driving.
- I dont think it follows itch.io rules(i am also excluding comments if they dont follow the rules for comments under games if they were applied to posts)
- I have no idea how i would even begin adding this to a space shooter where you play as a biblically accurate angels and have to defeat astronaut zombies that came from the underworld while escaping a dying solar system
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Fair enough I suppose.
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Put the biblically accurate angels defeating astronaut zombies from the underworld while escaping a dying solar system…in space cars…duh…
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Also, there should be an option where the police come to you after your accident and take your details, only for you to be phoned by Ambulance Chasers the very next day.
I want the things I do and the decisions I make to actually matter to the story and not just like a good or bad choice shit either.
There should be a mode where you can sale propane and propane accessories.
I want to run over, climb into my X-wing, power it up, and fly out of the hangar into the ongoing battle. I want a fully simulated astromech droid too, with its own mind and memories.
The narrator
Want your game to pop? Include a very loosely hidden secret mode where you can choose to have MC replaced with genocidal Israeli politician Ben gvir. Have enemies be replaced by only women and children and include soundbites of Israeli politicians calling them human animals and that all the killed population are Hamas. Unironically I think this would explode sales.
That is against itch.io rules i think
“Adult content must be labeled”
- eh. This is violence. And its under a separate mode.
"Avoid using shock images, "
- they acknowledge this one is subjective.
There are other games re politics. E.g., https://sunbirdstudio.itch.io/bibirun https://suraimuquest.itch.io/os-inimigos-do-brasil https://goldenrodstudios.itch.io/political-apocalypse https://escortthepresident.itch.io/game
I think there’s a line you can toe and have it be acceptable. Worse case - just remove it after it lists if itch objects?
Rolling HP like in Earthbound and Mother 3. You get a big hit - your HP does not decrease to the point immediately rather starts rolling down, even if you’ve got a mortal damage. This way you can still have time to finish the fight and survice if your HP don’t reach 0 in the meantime. Also Luck as a stat, which can sometimes leave you at 1 HP no matter how overkill damage you just got.
so many frogs
Couch co-op.
Couch co-op is rare these days, but I would like to see more co-op in general. I used to have game nights on Friday night with friends on discord, but we just ran out of good games to play. Limiting factor being how many people can play at the same time. Most of the co-op games we have right now seem to be designed to make you miserable. You’re gonna fail, but how long can you last? I just want to have some fun with 2-6 friends without getting discouraged. One of the best ones we played was “Golf With Your Friends”. I don’t even like golf, but we all could play, no one had to sit out, and we had a blast until it got boring.
You ever play the Jackbox games? That’s our go to when we have more than a few people.
I’ve got a few of their bundles we’ve played multiple times. Quiz night style games are awesome for a while, but we like to play a more action(?) style of games where you control your character and work together or go off on your own to progress the group.
I thought last train outta worm town was awesome.
BG3 multi-player was awesome. For a more casual game I really enjoy Pummel Party. I was cut off from playing the worm in last train out of wormtown because I was too good at playing the worm.
