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
The narrator
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.
A 3D rail shooter where you play as various ranks of biblically accurate angels shooting down demons.
2 minutes and i already regret my decisions
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.
so many frogs
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.
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?
Add a rolling (dodging) mechanic, even if it’s not a fighting game.
A game where you can program spells with pseudo code.
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Character creation
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A hairstyle option that is actually a toupee. If your character is hit / impacted / falls / etc, the toupee can sometimes fall off l. The character suffers a debuff until they pick it back up or buy a new one. It is not apparent during character creation that what the player is selecting is a toupee, and the mechanic is not explained in any way.
- A character option that is literally a bear. Like literally a bear, masquerading as a human, and most NPCs are just going along with it
Is it ok if its a bear in a biblically accurate angel costume? Another comment said that the main character should be a biblically accurate angel and it would be an objectively better costume
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I’ve always wanted a sci fi themed game that plays like a Diablo style dungeon crawler. Sort of a cross between Duskers and Diablo, if that makes sense. You travel in a junky ship from space derelict to space derelict. You (and your party) explore these ghost ships looking for gear and upgrades for yourselves and your ship.
The overall story would be some quest for artifacts and navigational data to help you open a warp gate and escape the dying star system. You’d have playable classes like space marine, psycher, technician, doctor, etc. NPCs could be a variety of monsters and zombie astronauts. There would also be environmental hazards and puzzles and such.
Sorry, this is probably waaayyyy more than you were asking us for. Ignore me or cherry pick anything you like. =)
this would be so fucking cool. if i trusted Blizzard to even make Diablo anymore I’d argue a StarCraft game that plays like an ARPG that would be too rad.
If someone knows a game like this, please chime in.
Thanks. I’ve wanted a Starcraft as ARPG type game for decades.
A bucket of dehydrated water, which you have to reconstitute by adding water, in order to put out an invisible fire. No idea what kind of game you’re making, could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.
could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.
Maybe not as odd as you think, since the methanol fuel used in many motorsports series actually does burn invisibly
i miss text based muds
more text less 3d
Achaea is still going strong.
i miss text based muds
They never left.
Mudlist (663 muds)
I feel that the genre kind of stagnated, though.
Can I counter this request by asking for more 3D?
I also want more text though, esspecially if that text is also 3D.
You’re a monster.
I thought we saw the original Lucifer, but this is him in another dimension.
Sunless skies and sunless seas is great
They have a fair bit of text to read, and a unique writing style that a lot of folks like, but I’d have a hard time calling them MUDs.
They’re single-player games, which is kinda fundamentally at odds with being a multi-user dungeon.
I could maybe see a game that plays like a single-player MUD working for some people, but they also don’t really have a world with characters and such roaming around, other than the monsters that are within a certain distances of you. And while they don’t have 3d, they’re a 2d graphical game; you don’t interact with them via a text-based interface (which isn’t a hard requirement of MUDs, sounds like is what the parent poster was going for).
Big ships with realistic controls
Space ships or ocean ships?
Dating sim for toxic fandom ships
Cheat codes that are helpful in allowing people with not enough time to sit and grind things out or fuss with mods to play through the story while still interacting with the core mechanics.
up, up, down down, left, right, left, right, B, A
b,b,y,x,a,lt,lt,down,up is a san andreas harrier jet if i remember correctly.
