What is something you would like to see in a game?
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
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.
If anyone misses old school Quake 1 (first person shooter) in co-op mode, you can play it for free on this server, in your browser
https://www.netquake.io/multiplayer
Once you get used to the controls, the game turns out to be very well balanced.
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
i miss text based muds
They never left.
Mudlist (663 muds)
I feel that the genre kind of stagnated, though.
EDIT: Though only a handful of those support encrypted connections, which in practice probably doesn't matter that much, but annoys the hell out of me, given that in the period from when MUDs were in their heyday to today, almost everything online became encrypted.
I could sort of understand it if they were leveraging UDP or something, but they're normally just running on telnet. It should be possible to shove a connection through TLS. You can even tack it on with no codebase modifications using something like stunnel.
Achaea is still going strong.
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, but sounds like is what the parent poster was going for).
Ridiculous physics is always fun.
Add a rolling (dodging) mechanic, even if it's not a fighting game.
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 want the things I do and the decisions I make to actually matter to the story and not just like a good or bad choice shit either.
In terms of narrative: Pentiment is a good choice
In terms of consistent world (with your own internal narrative of what is happening): Kenshi is a good choice
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
I dont think i can make it not obvious the hair is fake considering that the main character is a biblically accurate angel
The narrator
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.
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)
The Dying Light or Dead Island series are kind of -ish in that field, though first-person.
Yes correct. I tried both and was annoyed that the zombies aren't deadly enough. Like "oh we have this serious virus but you can survive getting bitten multiple times"
With the idea I wanted less of a story (and let's be honest both games and their successors did not have good ones) and more of interesting escape attempts (find a drill and move underground, or dress up as someone from the military or idk get catapulted with a parachute)
There should be a mode where you can sale propane and propane accessories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_hill_(game)
It's a surprisingly old video game with LARPing elements
The main mode?
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.
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.
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
Space ships or ocean ships?
Dating sim for toxic fandom ships
Ocean
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
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.
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.
Also, there should be an option where the police come to you after your accident and take your details, only for you to be phoned by Ambulance Chasers the very next day.
Cat
Goes to Steam
Checks the "Cats" tag in search
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=17894&supportedlang=english&ndl=1
2,424 results match your search.
That seems like a very thoroughly-covered field.
A game where you can program spells with pseudo code.
I guess Core War is for you
Baba is You might fit this
Reverse Microtransactions
So megatransactions?
i think you accidentally just invented Roblox
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.
Capitalism! in the modern area with a tad more complexity.
so many frogs
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.
Aside from Super Metroid's more-limited use of the grappling beam, I'm sure that I've read about some games that did that in the interim.
kagis
Here's a list:
https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/rqi2i4/which_game_had_the_best_implementation_of_a/
What kind of game is it?
Something like escapists but more about actually living as a prisoner, rather then constantly working toward a breakout, would be kinda nifty.
With skills and such that you can build that somehow have some usefulness lol
Im not sure how to make a game about killing astronaut zombies from the underworld lead by bill gates and escaping from a dying solar system be about how its like living as a prisoner and not about escaping, but i will try
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"
"Avoid using shock images, "
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?
Comment from a totally different person than OP(dont look at the name)
It should easier to get hit the more hp you have
My favorite thing in games are vanity slots and fun collectable outfits/pieces!
FFXIV. Some people play the game just for the outfits. Super-frirndly community also.
Skibidi mode
Replace enemies with photorealistic chickens and chicken sounds
There's probably already a Skyrim mod for this.
I wanna see me some proper twitch fps gaming with hectic weapon juggle and movement based combat. Need dat 180 flick rail goodness
Since multiple people mentioned a story, does anyone have any idea about a story in any type of game i can steal?
Low stakes hangout quests with endearing side characters you thought would only get like a line or two in during the main mission at best.
Allow me to collect Vietnamese đồng.
