Consolidated Thread of Game Ideas For Authors

I’d like to do a murder mystery in a D&D type world - with a twist. It’s set in the equivalent of the 21st century, with things like mages using computer spell checkers (pun intended) to proofread their spells before printing them to scrolls, Elfs armed with sniper rifles, and stuff like that. Yes, like Shadowrun without the cyberpunk.

A game set in when the big volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. The ending could be the MC dead or alive wahoo. That all. I can’t think to add more. Just that it sounds cools. The title can be anything really, I think Pompeii is already used a lot?

My Ally.
You an engineer are trapped in a colony sized space station hijacked by neiborhing military forces. But little by little you realize you’re being helped by an AI with an unhealthy fixation with you.
Dun dun duuuuuuuunnnnn

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A disembodied presence that follows you everywhere and guides you through events?

Sounds like the PLAYER!

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Exactly!
It’s be super surreal an a Lil creepy to boot.

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Phobia
“With great fear comes great power”

A phenomena where children with phobias gain powers related to their greatest fear making the children unstable and destructive when their fear is stimulated.
Ex. hydrophobia = water bending (A child with this caused a tsunami that killed millions including her/him.)

You are a 13 year old child with sciophobia (fear of shadows), this fear caused the death of your parents when you were 9 and ever since then your home became a research facility on an island where the government puts children like you.

There are only ten of you there because only a small population of children are affected, and that some die before the government got to them.

All ten of you undergo test where you have to face your fears head on with the hope that you can overcome the fear and be able to use your power safely.

The government has some shady motive though since they are planning to use you as tools to gain dominion over other nations.

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This is so good. Would love to play that wip

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I don’t know if this is a good idea or not but Here We Gooo!!! (filled with gore, death and kinda have sexual content? … No children under 16 are allowed to read this … I always wanted to say this even though I know no one will listen to it XD)

(I have no name for it but it was kind of a dream I had and I mixed some of my imagination with it :P)

You are a 13 years old kid who, one night, had a dream of being in the center of the city where everything was decayed and the ground was made from the living heads of humans, at the end of the road was a big golden human looking creature who calls you the chosen one, you will believe it is a good thing or be suspicious, chosen for what?

And after 3 years the being appears at the center of the city you live in and claims to be god, and he is calling the chosen one to sacrifice themselves and he will make the world a better place, no crime, rape, sexism, racism, disease etc
You can either accept or decline
If you decline, you will have to face all the harassment, bullying and threats that will come from every human who believe that being(you won’t know if it’s the real god or something else) the only catch is that you have to sacrifice yourself willingly
People will try to bribe you into sacrificing yourself, some will offer to buy you from your parents, some will attack you and your friends

If you choose to not sacrifice yourself and not change your mind until the ending chapter
The apocalypse will happen, people will turn into monstrous cannibals over the time and big number of newborn children are zombie-like creatures that eat their mothers from the
Inside, by the end, you are the only survivor of the apocalypse since the creatures will ignore you

It’s some sort of traumatizing experience where you will witness the death of everyone you love and watch humanity eat itself slowly >:3
I’ve been writing this on paper to freak out my friends and family but I’m not the greatest writer XD

P.S: I am too twisted and creep for my own good …

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Wow, that was a twisted dream XD
Even mines are not this creepy :grin:

I would be interested on what you’ve written so far, if you want to share.

Well … It’s one of those things that I want to read/play rather than write

And I wrote 5 pages of a 16x22.5 cms notebook in French!

And it’s not something that I want to remember XD
Got that dream after hearing about a metal band called “Cannibal Corpse” (don’t check them out XD) and googling their album covers

I think this would suit a book more than an interactive one

Well, I’m French too, so it won’t bother me^^
Just wanted to check it, so maybe it would give me idea for my own horror game :smiley:

Sometimes I got dreams too which give me ideas for stories, but I almost never write them down.

So a metal band creeped you out, right ? I really won’t search for them, then :grin:

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I actually like alot of metal bands (as long as I can understand what they say XP)

But this one … The covers are brutal and filled with gore and nudity, you can check the cover but I don’t enjoy growly music

P.S: can’t find the notebook XD

Let’s go on a PM, then ?
This way it would be simpler^^

Don’t have time for that, sorry (lots of studying XD)

Oh, sorry then^^
Tell me when you found it again XD

What about an apocalypse game that isn’t about zombies!
Although I love Zombie Exodus I think that a survival post apocalyptic game that does not revolve around zombies would be pretty cool; I thought maybe like an economic downfall or a threat that is realer than the dead coming back.

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A game that’s sort of based on The Martian, where you are stuck on a planet all by yourself.

And you have a sole NPC contacting you via radio. The less you talk, the more your insanity increases?

Maybe you just think that someone was talking to you, but you were insane the whole time (plot twist)

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I hope I have not reached this post too late as I wish to add an idea to the list.

I work in programing and I don’t have much time for writing and since my main writer is going through medical treatments we can’t keep the story up. If anyone wants to wish him luck his user is @ShadowBroker He will thank it as soon as he wakes up.

Above all this, here is the deal.

One Last Run.

A couple of strangers to one another, but meet up in this very forum. (Even though we change the name so we avoid some copy rights) This couple wish to write a “book” whose main theme would be the untouchable romance between two souls that meet in different places and times.

Why this story is a good idea? Because of the main focus we give it… not only this two will write the story of an unfair life whose duty is to separate them. But also because there are events happening outside game inside the game, such as the MC male or female finds themselves in a very stressful situation that would always destroy this relationship. Puzzles, luck and willpower will be needed to pass this situations as you are threatened, hated, push to the limit and more only to avoid you from do what you always wanted to.

A romantic dark story. Where both sides suffer different illness or are separated by the world’s wide. Separated by war, by different sides of the barrel of a gun or the edge of a sword if we go backwards.

It is also twisted as the MC would start thinking if it is really worthy of try? All this willpower you start to use and commit yourself to do something outstanding, yet, is it worthy?

This is the idea so far, thank you for your time.