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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.
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.
i miss text based muds
more text less 3d
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.
Achaea is still going strong.
Sunless skies and sunless seas is great
Ridiculous physics is always fun.
Add a rolling (dodging) mechanic, even if it's not a fighting game.
There should be a mode where you can sale propane and propane accessories.
The narrator
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
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 survive if your HP don't reach 0 in the meantime, or even heal yourself. Also Luck (or Guts) as a stat, which can sometimes leave you at 1 HP no matter how overkill damage you just got.
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 really love when RPGs give unique dialog options based on non-dialog skills.
For example, if you are spec'd into a certain class of weapon you unlock dialog with a relevant vendor. Or if you have a high gambling skill, your character can talk about the finer points of gambling.
Taking this a step further, reactivity from having accomplished something requiring application of these skills allowing unique dialog.
This can all either be unique flavor dialog, dialog that gets the conversation to where it would have gone anyway, or dialog that opens up new quests or quest resolutions.
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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
A procedurally generated escape the city third person zombie shooter with several randomized unique quest lines that can be discovered by scouting the city. Each quest line leads to a different escape route. (Military has surrounded the city)
Zombies should be 28 day later, one touch and you are infected zombies.
Maybe add some basic crafting and possibly coop or pvpve elements. One escape should take only a couple hours. The randomness gives the replayability. (A bit rogue like)
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
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.
Big ships with realistic controls
Capitalism! in the modern area with a tad more complexity.
so many frogs
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 your game is
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.
Hack and slash where you start as a base class and then level up/evolve, Pokemon style into some super awesome final class (Paladin, Wizard, Rogue, etc)
Back in the old NES days, there was a game called Bionic Commando. The character has a bionic arm that is shot out like a grappling gun to aid in movement. That was bitchin' and unique.
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.