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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[–] craigers@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Developer skilled enough to make a prototype game in a week... Github account is only 3 weeks old

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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.

[–] 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

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

Minecraft clone but with furries and anime style

[–] 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

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

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

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

Other game devs on 196: me too, brother

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 3 points 10 months ago

potato

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

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

[–] 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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[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] 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.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

A platformer where the characters have powers based on every fetish ever. All of them.

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

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

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