Idea Repository

  • The story of the peddler of "Jack and the Beanstalk" ... enchanted beans for a cow, what'd he do with the cow? Enchant it! >_>; ... creates a long chain of enchanting things and trading them to someone who wants it. etc.
  • story on paper being told by multiple people. start with one, have "add person / subtract person" buttons
  • game based on human tics, e.g. something happens when someone sneezes
  • masks
  • dead fish aquarium
  • mocap skeleton
  • made-up/fictional languages
  • travelling levels of Hell
  • world with an inside and an outside... inhabitants unable to survive on the flipside world
  • chameleon game ... absorbing/taking on the properties of the environment around you (to solve puzzles?)
  • focus ... something blurry coming into clarity
  • world where color reflects the mood of an area
  • (not my idea, but...) hippie robot who goes back in time to stop wars from happening
  • interesting moral dilemmas
    • condemning one person for the sake of many
    • (not my idea, but...) little white lies
  • kites
  • Manipulate the landscape to achieve a certain goal, e.g. get a ball through a goal.
  • Destroy the world as fast (or as thoroughly) as you can! It's like GROW in reverse! DESTROY! Trigger global warming first so your hurricanes will hit harder. Awesome!
  • Chameleon shoot'em up which rips off of Ikaruga =)
  • Group dungeon-crawler ala cooperative Munchkin
  • Game of two factions where you start neutral and pick one side or the other
  • A game in which you cooperate with a team of other people to keep a world running smoothly
    • each different person controls a different Incarnation of Immortality, for example
  • a game about events that happen dependent on the weather
    • Persona 4, whose weather reports are always right
  • SimActor/Actress
    • no games about being an actor/actress...
    • improv actor/actress?
  • A population returning to a city they had to abandon because of (some natural disaster) and seeing what remains / what needs to be rebuilt
  • The tumbleweed cross country game

ZML Panorama Ideas

  • ZML News Anchors
  • stained glass windows

MUSE

  • You play Kyrie, a supernatural being known as a Muse. She belongs to the Mythic Union for Societal Enrichment (MUSE), an association devoted to the cause of fighting one of the most dangerous forces facing the modern world today: ennui.
  • Trained Muses are assigned a human being who is suffering from creative block, with the primary goal of inspiring them to their craft. The muse then works with the assignee’s life, either wrecking a particular aspect of it or creating something beautiful for them to experience. As a result, the assignee is hopefully inspired to write or draw about their experience, whereupon the Muse’s mission is considered complete.
  • Kyrie may choose to continue guiding the assignee into a different genre of inspiration... The more of a particular genre Kyrie inspires, the better she becomes at creating that sort of inspiration and she’ll eventually earn a title representing it. (i.e. Muse of Romance, Muse of Comedy, Muse of Tragedy, etc.)
  • more where that came from...

Zombie Hero

  • Post-apocalyptic Marvel Universe... all the superheroes have died and people are desperately trying to create one from the remnants of the old ones
  • Choose different parts of the old heroes in preparation for your next mission

Tactile Dome: The Video Game

  • A game with no visual feedback
  • Mark clapping his hands to navigate his way out of ZML and back in through the GIL entrance.

Project Runway: the board game

  • Modern Art influence
  • Players bid on pieces of clothing and have a "show" at the end
  • Making full sets generates more points, etc.

NPC network

  • talking to NPCs to track the movement of PCs

Elevator game with famous songs for muzak

  • stick figures in a building, seen from the side / i.e. cross section. each stick figure just has the main "attribute" of what distinguishes them from other people. Theme songs would do most of the work.
  • Darth Vader: red lightsaber, black body
  • Indiana Jones: whip or hat?, brown body
  • James Bond: bow tie, black body
  • Spiderman: red and blue stick figure
  • Dorothy / Wizard of Oz (yellow brick road): red shoes
  • Jack Sparrow: ??
  • E.T.: short and big red heart
  • Alex Trebek (Jeopardy): moustache and glasses
  • Homer or Bart: fat or spiky hair
  • Pink Panther ( :D ): tail, kitty ears, pink body

Voting game

  • wouldn't it be amazing if you could go into the voting booth on Election Day, see a list of the candidates, click on one to get a record of their life and their stance on issues (how they have voted on x, y, z)... i.e. getting to see the FACTS of their history?
  • counter this with another mode to see a list of candidates with partisan summaries and trying to make your decision based on that...

Sim Afterlife

  • Design and manage humanity’s final resting place(s) and affect the Earth’s fate by disposing mankind toward good or evil!
  • You are the Keeper of the Afterlife and as such are responsible for several different tasks, including designing punishments in Hell, rewards in Heaven, and determining where potentially questionable deceased souls deserve to go.
  • Souls are reincarnated after a given amount of time in Heaven and Hell and their time in their respective afterlife will determine what sort of next life they will choose to lead. In other words, an evil soul who was sent to Hell and suffered appropriately will be more likely disposed to doing good deeds in its next life. Over time, depending on the effectiveness of your afterlife punishments and rewards, humankind will slowly become disposed towards good or evil and Earth’s state will be reflected as such.
  • Also from time to time, you will be asked to determine the fate of specific souls that are likely to become extremely influential people to mankind. The handling of these souls is very important, as they will be instrumental in changing the course of Earth’s progression.
changed March 31, 2009