Let's pretend that you are the president of a game development company. If you were forced to make an original game, what would you make?
Personally, I would make a first-person open world horror game that takes place in a suburb of a big city (like Chicago).
Your character is an average guy, with little to no combat experience, but there is one thing that makes him different than most other survival horror characters. He has terrible eyesight and has to wear glasses. This would make for a relatively interesting gameplay mechanic, as if your character gets knocked over, his glasses could fall off and he could be impaired. When this happens, you have the choice of either looking for the glasses and risking getting killed by your opponent, or fighting the opponent and afterward looking for the glasses, but they may have been broken by the fight.
For story, I was thinking of (basically) the average horror story fare, aliens land in the town, government quarantines the area, that sort of thing. However, there is another group: zombie-like humans that only come out at night (while the aliens appear during the day). The two groups are very different, with the aliens being fast and having little health, while the zombies being slow and can take quite a bit of punishment. The player has to learn where to the two different groups hide out and each of their weaknesses.
However, your character is not the only person, especially at the beginning. At first, almost the entire town is still alive, but they are eventually cut down by the two different groups until there are only a handful of survivors. Although the survivors are the main aggressors against the two other groups, they are not the only ones fighting. The game would have a full day-night cycle, and at dawn and dusk, there will be pockets of fighting opening up between the two groups of enemies as one is waking up and the other is going to sleep.
The game would be relatively story driven, but with no cutscenes. All story elements would be viewed by the player if they want to, but there will be hints to the attentive players to see story events.
What are your ideas for an original game?
Personally, I would make a first-person open world horror game that takes place in a suburb of a big city (like Chicago).
Your character is an average guy, with little to no combat experience, but there is one thing that makes him different than most other survival horror characters. He has terrible eyesight and has to wear glasses. This would make for a relatively interesting gameplay mechanic, as if your character gets knocked over, his glasses could fall off and he could be impaired. When this happens, you have the choice of either looking for the glasses and risking getting killed by your opponent, or fighting the opponent and afterward looking for the glasses, but they may have been broken by the fight.
For story, I was thinking of (basically) the average horror story fare, aliens land in the town, government quarantines the area, that sort of thing. However, there is another group: zombie-like humans that only come out at night (while the aliens appear during the day). The two groups are very different, with the aliens being fast and having little health, while the zombies being slow and can take quite a bit of punishment. The player has to learn where to the two different groups hide out and each of their weaknesses.
However, your character is not the only person, especially at the beginning. At first, almost the entire town is still alive, but they are eventually cut down by the two different groups until there are only a handful of survivors. Although the survivors are the main aggressors against the two other groups, they are not the only ones fighting. The game would have a full day-night cycle, and at dawn and dusk, there will be pockets of fighting opening up between the two groups of enemies as one is waking up and the other is going to sleep.
The game would be relatively story driven, but with no cutscenes. All story elements would be viewed by the player if they want to, but there will be hints to the attentive players to see story events.
What are your ideas for an original game?