I think I want to make this game I dreamt

[Twunt]

If I'm playing a lot of games right before I go to bed I will often have video gamey dreams. Last night I had a game dream, and woke up feeling highly motivated to make the game real.

 

I dreamt that I was part of a small space colony on a planet where everyone was aware that they were video game characters. Everyone referred to themselves as NPCs, objects were called assetts, and there was a general understanding that everyone was living in a video game environment. Everyone was afraid because we knew an alien invasion was on it's way. A meeting was called and everyone was excited, because they were announcing that a space marine game was being hosted in our world, which would solve our alien problem. We were all happy until a guy walked onto the stage in the meeting hall and handed the announcer a piece of paper. His face dropped and he said "oh no... oh no!" He had been handed the achievement list for the game that we were to host. The achievements were things like "teabag ten dead innocent civilians" and "destroy fifty homes."

 

In the meeting we hatched a plan; we needed the marines to fight off the aliens, but we were terrified that our losses would be equally bad because they would be going after those achievements, so we started figuring out ways to use the achievements to manipulate the players' behavior to our advantage. Unfortunately (probably because my dreamy brain isn't as creative as it likes to think it is) I only remember a few of the things we did. I remember being crouched under a vehicle with a cardboard sign that looked like a dead person, and whenever I wanted a marine to crouch by the vehicle to avoid alien fire, I would slide out the cutout of a dead person so he would try to teabag it. Another thing we did was to very carefully lay out the random stupid collectibles (they were coffee flasks!!) in a manner that would herd the marines where we needed them the most.

 

One part that was funny, to me at least, was that the space marines all had gruff, angular faces but all they did was repeatedly yell homophobic slurs in Ike Broflovski's voice.

 

I think the puzzles would be a bitch to design, but I think this would be a great adventure game. I think the whole idea of video games commenting on video games is starting to run its course though. I think this idea might be a year too late.

[clyde]

You have funny dreams. I kinda like the idea of a game that is based on being a booster for other players who didn't read in between the lines of the codex.

It won't be long before someone makes a game where te twist is that the villian is the one who wrote the achievements and you've been doing their bidding THE WHOLE TIME and it was entirely optional. In the moment of shock and recognition, the villian looks at you and says "Gotta get those cheevos. Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha!!"

[Nachimir]

Please make this in some way. It doesn't have to be 3D to say the things it says. It'd totally work in RPG maker, Stencyl, etc.

[Problem Machine]

Gears of War meets Blazing Saddles! I don't even know how you could convert it into gameplay systems, but it's certainly a charming idea. Might also work as a comic or something.

[Dewar]

What's that term they use for the WiiU where the guy with the pad is playing a much different game than the folks with the controllers? It's not asynchronous...

 

Well anyway, it could make for a really interesting multiplayer game where one person controls the town and someone else controls the marines.

[BobbyBesar]

Asymmetric.