Game Ideas!

[raines80]

I am going to have to dissagree almost completely. Of course you want feelings of joy in a game, but the issue with today's games is that those feelings are a dime a dozen. You should have to work for those feelings. You should feel hardship, hate, strife, greed, a whole other gambit of emotions before you show them joy. The joy will be multiplied 3 million times because of what they have had to go through to reach that point.

This isn't the pacman era anymore. Emotion is the next frontier and we can't even begin to approach this status in games unless we throw away our puppy dogs and lollipops and get into real human emotion. Certain people will say that it is the graphics that bring on the emotion. This can be true in some cases... combine a good graphic scene and a good audio track and it can pull at your heart strings a bit, but what if you felt like you knew the person in the scene.

Anyone here ever seen the Never Ending Story? The entire time the kid is over reacting to the story.. he pulls the covers over his head and yells at the book for half the movie, but we all bought into it... why?? Because of his relationship to the character. He felt like he knew the main character. He felt like he had been on the journey with him. He felt his pain at points.... We have the oppurtunity to create this experience now. And that experience isn't just joy.

[Harkins]

You should have to work for those feelings. You should feel hardship, hate, strife, greed, a whole other gambit of emotions before you show them joy. The joy will be multiplied 3 million times because of what they have had to go through to reach that point.

Check out the book 21st Century Game Design (I've plugged it a few other times in this forum if you search). This isn't an issue of right and wrong, it's a matter of personal taste. Some players only enjoy games that make them sweat, that kick their ass, that are as hard as possible because then the victory is all the sweeter. And there are a lot of great games made in that mold, and many more to be made. But it's not the only acceptable play style, and it's not even the most popular.

[raines80]

Check out the book 21st Century Game Design (I've plugged it a few other times in this forum if you search). This isn't an issue of right and wrong, it's a matter of personal taste. Some players only enjoy games that make them sweat, that kick their ass, that are as hard as possible because then the victory is all the sweeter. And there are a lot of great games made in that mold, and many more to be made. But it's not the only acceptable play style, and it's not even the most popular.

I agree that there will always be different styles of games, but right now game designers are looking for a way to make gamming more acceptable. Currently more people play video games then ever. Research points towards the game guitar hero for pushing gamming into the main stream, but it still doesn't hold a candle to movies.

Movies are the number one entertainment genre currently. They are followed by Vegas as a far second. Video games are still rated below books. This is crazy to me. How can a medium that offers interaction with the story be rated below mediums that force you to see the creators perspective and force you to follow what they see as the appropiate course of events?

I stand by my statement that emotion is the final frontier for gamming. Take a peak at this article on MSNBC   www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038606/     Emotion is the holy grail for the gamming industry. I think that article put what I was unable to convey into something a bit clearer.

The movie industry was still being out sold by books until talkies came about. Once the directors and writers were able to enhance the emotions on screen with words they were able to make the leap past books as the number one entertainment venue.

To sum up things... Life is just a series of events that cause emotion. Emotion is the only thing man has not been able to control. Emotion is a force so great that many empires have fallen because of it. Emotion is the seed that produces great things. The gamming industry is currently on a hill. The can go back down the way they came .... they can sit on the hill... or they can continue on their journy and keep moving towards the pinnacle of the adjacent mountain.

[princekool2]

How about a base ball management game like : www.quickhit.com

[tellmore]

Shoot me if someone can define properly a "good" game.

Every single game concept no matter what kind of game is it, has its own audience.

There is a demand for game genres that already exsist, and for those too that do not yet.
Can not define a good game, but can define a successful game.
IF you have a concept/idea, and manage to find the audience for it, then its a successful game.
EVEN if the concept is bad, and bleeding from many wounds.
OR, if the whole concept is just a copycat.
Even the newest FPS games are just copycats of Wolfeinstein (or if something in that genre exsisted before it) still they are popular.

HARD to come up with a unique concept, just keep in mind we are talking about MMOGs.
EVEN if you would have an exact copy of WoW, it would be different to the original, since the players would not be exactly the same. So, those who started WOW late, and think will never be able to climb the ladder to reach the top players who play for much longer time would not enjoy original WoW, but would enjoy Your copy.

//yepp, WOW is not browser based, but still You can apply this to any game that is MMO.

[CartoonKev]

I'd think empire-builder city sims still have a lot of potential. Sim City has come and gone, but their biggest problem seemed to be "game company sequel-itis".

[Chris]

Shoot me if someone can define properly a "good" game.

Every single game concept no matter what kind of game is it, has its own audience.

I have one game that has exactly *one* active player He is playing it for *months* all alone and is posting in the forum desperate posts for others to join... Each game, no matter how terribly crappy, is the best one for at least one person on this planet.
But saying that the best game is a game that has the most players does not sound right too...

I would say, a good game is a game that can attract enough players for it to survive and stay online in a long run.

[dbest]

I have one game that has exactly *one* active player He is playing it for *months* all alone and is posting in the forum desperate posts for others to join...

would that happen to be *you*?

[Chris]

I have one game that has exactly *one* active player He is playing it for *months* all alone and is posting in the forum desperate posts for others to join...

would that happen to be *you*?

... Who would play his own game!? This is sick idea

[tellmore]

well... i play my own game.
but did not even post a link for it, I might just keep it for my self:)
too good for other to play with, LOL!

[blendmonster]

I have an idea that I've never seen or heard of before. It is a world hub kind of thing that all different other games can connect to. This would create endless worlds of different games coming together. You can start off in one world and end up roaming around in another world on a different server, but keep all your information for your character. This might not even be possible but it is a thought. I am a newbie just trying to learn all I can and bring new ideas to the table.

[shoespeak]

I have an idea that I've never seen or heard of before. It is a world hub kind of thing that all different other games can connect to. This would create endless worlds of different games coming together. You can start off in one world and end up roaming around in another world on a different server, but keep all your information for your character. This might not even be possible but it is a thought. I am a newbie just trying to learn all I can and bring new ideas to the table.

This is a pretty interesting idea I have thought about...main thing I see it offering now is free forums for clans in external games. This way you are really providing a benefit for many different players and games.  One problem tho...I don't really see how you can make it into a game. Maybe you could just make some sort of achievement-based meta game. Somehow track players performance on all of the games they register, and give them some type of reward.

Hmmm now that I think about it, I may have actually seen this idea in action...

[Shrapnel]

Here are a few games I'd like to create or see made.

Dominion:  A typical RPG game in where you have a class and can go adventure in a virtual world, but you can also claim land in this virtual world and build a stronghold and raise an army or if you want, you can set up your own shop in a town and build and sell equipment to other players.  Equipment can be anything from food, clothing or other basic items to weapons and armor or even magical items, spellbooks, or even spells.

WarTek:  An MMORGP persistent browser version of BattleTech.  You explore the world, encounter, and fight others in a battle mech.

Battle Trek:  A persistent browser version of Star Trek online, but with more features.  You'd be able to manipulate more of the ships systems and do more things with the non-combat systems of your ship (transporters, sensors, life support, even holodecks).  There would be the capability to beam down to planets and you could even claim or fight over planets in the name of your chosen faction.

The last two games would be different from their copyrighted versions in whatever way would keep them free of copyright infringement.

[tokyoinflames1]

Dominion:  A typical RPG game in where you have a class and can go adventure in a virtual world, but you can also claim land in this virtual world and build a stronghold and raise an army or if you want, you can set up your own shop in a town and build and sell equipment to other players.  Equipment can be anything from food, clothing or other basic items to weapons and armor or even magical items, spellbooks, or even spells.

This sounds like a great idea, could you elaborate on it more perhaps, or even make a real in-depth outline so that it can be made?

[snw]

and what about :
you have a corporation which creates software and ur fighting aganist other software coporations , u will create a REAL software that must work and sell it on the game auction  , you can buy hackers make bad things to another corporation

[pixlepix]

I saw a similar game. Essentially, you program a java robots to do your work. aiwars.org

[Aslan21]

HI im new to programing web games . i have a idea for a stratagy browser based game (based on stargate )

im looking for help in building the game all help would be accepted

[pirategaspard]

I saw a similar game. Essentially, you program a java robots to do your work. aiwars.org

I love the idea of a game where to play it you must learn an actual real-world skill. I've been brainstorming on how to incorporate real-world learning into my next game, so its great to see an example of this. I think there's a lot of unrealized potential for game-based education.