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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Comment from a totally different person than OP(dont look at the name)

It should easier to get hit the more hp you have

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. Character creation

  2. A hairstyle option that is actually a toupee. If your character is hit / impacted / falls / etc, the toupee can sometimes fall off l. The character suffers a debuff until they pick it back up or buy a new one. It is not apparent during character creation that what the player is selecting is a toupee, and the mechanic is not explained in any way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  1. A character option that is literally a bear. Like literally a bear, masquerading as a human, and most NPCs are just going along with it
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I dont think i can make it not obvious the hair is fake considering that the main character is a biblically accurate angel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Since multiple people mentioned a story, does anyone have any idea about a story in any type of game i can steal?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The post says to add something, changing the game engine is not that. I also dont think i can do some of the other suggestions in a game engine that i have never heard of before

I will add everything else though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If anything at least make it GPL and ideally make Bill Gates the main villain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was already planningto make it open source and the game was missing a main villain

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know this is political so you might want to avoid it but I think the true main villain should be the capitalist class (it would be a cool twist if the entire game was apolitical and bam capitalism bad)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I am trying to avoid things like wars. I can add capitalism as the true main villain, but im not sure if that message will be obvious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Capitalism! in the modern area with a tad more complexity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

REAL CAR ACCIDENTS!! 🚘💥🚙

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.

Trigger warning of car accidents and general PTSD

If you get in a car accident, you end up in the ICU and can't get out of bed for weeks at the least. Once you get out, you have to complete physical therapy over months to get a portion of your mobility back. Once you are out of the hospital and no longer have the 24-hr support of sympathetic medical staff...

PTSD and grief! The person develops PTSD and has relevant triggers that uncontrollably illicit sympathetic nervous system activation (fight-or-flight). At first, it's only car stuff. A car back fires? Person zones out their environment, time slows down, and only nearby cars that are brightly glowing amd have the video quality sharpness set to max. Literally everything else is blurred and muffled out. The activation lasts for a while. When the person comes back, they're embarrassed. Slowly, they start cutting away people from their life as more stimuli begins to trigger the person and can't function in social settings without self-medicating. Eventually, they develop a drug problem just to make it through the day, while experiencing insomnia every night. But wait, there's more! There was a close friend with them in the car that died in the accident, so whenever they are reminded of said person, they fall into crying spell and can't function for a while as they wrestle with the guilt of feeling responsible for the loss. The insomnia and overwhelming loneliness ensures that they wake up with only half their health everyday.

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  1. I dont think it follows itch.io rules(i am also excluding comments if they dont follow the rules for comments under games if they were applied to posts)
  2. I have no idea how i would even begin adding this to a space shooter where you play as a biblically accurate angels and have to defeat astronaut zombies that came from the underworld while escaping a dying solar system
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
  1. Fair enough I suppose.

  2. Put the biblically accurate angels defeating astronaut zombies from the underworld while escaping a dying solar system...in space cars...duh......

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There should be a mode where you can sale propane and propane accessories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The main mode?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_hill_(game)

It's a surprisingly old video game with LARPing elements

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

so many frogs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I wanna see me some proper twitch fps gaming with hectic weapon juggle and movement based combat. Need dat 180 flick rail goodness

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