# Some WIP Ideas (and Interest Checks) **URL:** \ **Category:** Works In Progress\ **Created:** [June 17, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668 "2017-06-17T02:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DUNGEON\_MASTER](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/dungeon_master/32/56675_2.png) [@DUNGEON\_MASTER](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/DUNGEON_MASTER)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/21 "2017-06-18T21:04:27Z")
OK not too dark but I would like a fair share of mystery and thriller in it ---
**Author:** ![Writing\_Fever](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/writing_fever/32/269728_2.png) [@Writing\_Fever](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Writing_Fever)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/22 "2017-06-18T21:25:35Z")
Welcome! I know that feeling of being a lurker, haha. I actually can’t remember seeing the artificial intelligence idea being mentioned a lot in the forums, but I may just be mistaking. I think this would be a good idea to develop, especially because it seems like it has the most potential for out-of-the-box ideas to me. Good luck, whatever you choose! (: ---
**Author:** ![AmericanShakespeare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/americanshakespeare/32/84342_2.png) [@AmericanShakespeare](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/AmericanShakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/23 "2017-06-19T11:53:22Z")
Yeah I guess extreme brutality would be a bit too much but a little brutal like @Shawn_Patrick_Reed’s Monsters and dark Mystery of @MahatmaDagon’s Highlands Deep Waters would make a nice combo but well you’re the writer, and I don’t know how do you guys come up with such AWESOME ideas so do as your​ creativity tells I’m sure it’ll be cool 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![Lenant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/48db29/32.png) [@Lenant](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lenant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/24 "2017-06-19T22:18:17Z")
There seems to be a close call between the first idea and second. I have a plan to resolve this, and will probably make a very short demo for each, and see what you guys like best. And I am proceeding with combining the second and third idea, to make things more interesting, and more developed. ---
**Author:** ![freelance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/freelance/32/130806_2.png) [@freelance](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/freelance)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/25 "2017-06-19T23:03:11Z")
I really like 1, 4, and 5, but 5 in particular because I think there’s a lot of potential there. Zombie horror is a classic genre or sub-genre of its own, but why not put an extra twist on it? Here’s what I’m thinking: it’s either an alternate reality to this one where it’s the same time but technology’s more advanced, or it’s a few years into the future. Humanity’s made it to the point where we’ve begun to implement tablet and smartphone technology into human biology (a bit like Heroes Rise), but since this is so new, there are no doubt bugs that need to be fixed. But maybe whoever was head of testing was too impatient to listen to those who said the tech was still too buggy to start human trials, so they tested the tech on themselves. Obviously, something went wrong, and this person became Patient #0. And/or the people who invested the most cash into this technology were the first guinea pigs. In either case I imagine the virus to develop slowly, so whoever has it “mutates” in a place where they can pass on the virus to whoever is so unfortunate as to run into them. And because of this particularly unique virus’s origins, the zombies that are made from it have abilities of some kind, perhaps having to do with technology? Or, maybe this is in a future where this technology has been developed overtime, all the bugs fixed, and we’ve evolved to the point where it’s a part of our biology now (again, like Heroes Rise). BUT some mad tech genius developed a virus with the intent of making these zombies, and that’s how it’s spread. Perhaps the MC is immune to it for some reason, but they’re not the only one (as in this immunity it incredibly rare and maybe a handful of immune people are out there). So the MC’s goal is to find whoever’s responsible for the outbreak and take them down (and along the way they’ll run into like 1-3 other immunes that can help). I’m thinking the core of this technology is somewhere other than the brain, so the MC has to kill them some other way. ---
**Author:** ![ExcaliburV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/excaliburv/32/76261_2.png) [@ExcaliburV](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/ExcaliburV)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/26 "2017-06-19T23:17:54Z")
While I like most of the ideas on this list, I have to toss my vote in with idea 4. I’ve always been interested in a HG or CoG that feels like a game of Xcom- am I the only one? Probably not. However, I do still think option 1 is a good one, and It’s something I was considering toying around with at some point. 5 is also something I would read, but I’m a little less enthusiastic about it; I’m sure it could be good, but zombie apocalypse stories are getting a little overdone to me. As for 2 and 3… Eh. They sound like decent ideas, but not my kind of thing. That’s my thoughts on this. 😀 PS @freelance: Oh, wow… Making a zombie virus more like a computer virus instead of an actual viral infection? That’s… Definitely an intriguing concept. Props to you for having that kind of creativity. ---
**Author:** ![Lenant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/48db29/32.png) [@Lenant](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lenant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/27 "2017-06-19T23:29:09Z")
@freelance @ExcaliburV Interesting ideas! That actually got be to open the poll again. I’ll definitely be thinking about this. Even if I do make one game and not another, I’ll get these ideas done before moving to something else. Not that I see myself making 3-5 games, but we’ll see where it takes us. I’m dabbling with demos right now. My main focus is the more popular ones, of course, but I might just write some side-projects with the other ideas if I feel creative. ---
**Author:** ![ExcaliburV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/excaliburv/32/76261_2.png) [@ExcaliburV](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/ExcaliburV)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/28 "2017-06-19T23:33:42Z")
Of course, don’t swamp yourself or anything. Sorry if I added my two cents a little too late here, since you already had the poll closed. But yeah, like I said, IMO all of these ideas are good, even if some of them aren’t really for me. I don’t think you can take an actual misstep when it comes to which ones you decide to do. ---
**Author:** ![freelance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/freelance/32/130806_2.png) [@freelance](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/freelance)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/29 "2017-06-19T23:46:05Z")
Thanks! I kind of just… made it up on the spot. Because what you said is what I was thinking, that zombie stuff is way overdone these days, or at least done the same way, under similar circumstances. That’s why Zombie Exodus and ZE:SH are two of my favorite games, because the player has so much control over their abilities and especially where they live, which has a huge effect on gameplay. Don’t get me wrong, I love that game and the zombie genre in general, but it’s time something different were done with it. I’m also inspired by stuff like the premise of iZombie: coherent zombies with personalities and morality complexes and everything humans have, except they eat brains. So with this idea it kind of combines all these different theories that people come up with about what the future will be like and how the world or human race might end: you’ve got another technological golden age where the tech has become a part of us, but someone decides to use that to benefit themselves, or restart civilization, or even sow chaos for the sake of chaos? Anyway, that makes a combination of zombie apocalypse and the singularity, in a way: technology turning on humanity. There could even be a cure, of some kind: rewriting the code and fixing the virus? (I know absolutely nothing about code but there’s gotta be a better way than just killing all these robo-zombies, right?) ---
**Author:** ![ExcaliburV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/excaliburv/32/76261_2.png) [@ExcaliburV](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/ExcaliburV)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/30 "2017-06-19T23:50:52Z")
> [@freelance](#): > > (I know absolutely nothing about code but there’s gotta be a better way than just killing all these robo-zombies, right?) Yeah, theoretically speaking, it would be possible to purge the code that causes the virus, or maybe counter it with another code, so that would be an interesting idea. > [@freelance](#): > > I kind of just… made it up on the spot. If that was you just making something on the spot, I need to take your improv classes. I usually need at least a month or two of deliberation before I come up with an idea that good. ---
**Author:** ![freelance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/freelance/32/130806_2.png) [@freelance](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/freelance)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/31 "2017-06-19T23:57:47Z")
> [@ExcaliburV](#): > > If that was you just making something on the spot, I need to take your improv classes. I usually need at least a month or two of deliberation before I come up with an idea that good. Haha that’s very sweet, but I’ve never taken an improv class or anything, I just tend to have a lot of ideas but lack the energy to make them into tangible stories. ---
**Author:** ![Lenant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/48db29/32.png) [@Lenant](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Lenant)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/32 "2017-06-20T00:33:08Z")
I’ve taken coding classes before, and I’ve dabbled with ChoiceScript before, but this is going to be my first “official” game, so if I do something that big I’ll probably put it for later or a side project. Doesn’t make it any less interesting, though. You can basically code anything you want, but with ChoiceScript complicated variables and statements need to be very specific, so I can’t even imagine how long it took to write ZE and ZE:SH. I give those games a good score, mostly because of the sheer amount of effort that must have gone into them, too. The standards for these have been raised significantly because of it, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/original/3X/e/f/efe1497a762edecdb6d569a1c4abee87508bf002.png) [@system](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/some-wip-ideas-and-interest-checks/27668/33 "2017-07-11T00:33:14Z")
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