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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SamLeeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Now that 24 hours have passed we have our winner!

A huge thanks to @frezik@midwest.social for suggesting this awesome idea!

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 2 years 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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[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

first you need to share your pages

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

"red riding hood's grandma"

A hack and slash game, playing as the grandma beating up wolves with an umbrella or a cane.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Minecraft clone but with furries and anime style

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Other game devs on 196: me too, brother

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] licherally@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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!

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

A game that is only perceivable through electric motors on your body

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Sonic Adventure 3. The game's plot is written entirely by a LLM trained exclusively on Sonic fan-fiction, and the art style can best be described as "live action furry", starring all of your favourite original characters from DeviantART.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

HR simulator

[–] mcqtom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Do mods count?

For the longest time I've wanted a Left 4 Dead 2 mod where you play as your choice of the TF2 mercs.

I don't deny it would take some creativity to combine the game mechanics, and would definitely break the difficulty curve, but I don't care one bit. I think it would be delicious.

[–] trinket@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Boneraiser kinda did that already. But reverse a vampire surivor. You are the enemies. You create hordes of monsters (amount of kinda, maybe even some individual changes you can make per monstertype or just frankenstein them together). You can change their strategy in attacking and formation. And most importantly you the money you gather you can use to support and upgrade the heroes making them stronger and dropping more experience as a result. Oh, and then simply make it an MMORPG, thankies.

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