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Random Game Design Generator

August 15th, 2006 (Visited 4115 times) Tags:

The scary thing is, a lot of the randomly generated games sound rather more creative than the stuff coming out today. An empire building game based on answering quiz questions, where you play a slowly growing arrow (presumably the cursor) that must build an empire big enough to rescue the princess? That kinda sounds interesting, actually.

GAME PITCH for Fool Cupid, a FPS game fused with a platformer mechanic. It features a rotoscoped Snake who fights and bounces through a impressionistic molecule and eventually wins by balancing domestic coefficients.

Someone should go make some of these just to see what comes out.

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Comments? My Random Game Design Generator got mention on Raph Koster’s excellent game design and theory blog. Check out Raph’s site and check out the generator. http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/08/15/random-game-design-generator/ http://iq212.com/blog2/random-game-design-generator/

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Yehuda Berlinger said on August 15th, 2006 at 10:43 am:
Great link, Raph. Also the poetry one.

Yehuda
Allen Sligar said on August 15th, 2006 at 11:37 am:
“GAME PITCH for Cleopatra Duke, a deduction game fused with a resource management mechanic. It features an iconic Farmer who attacks and swaps through an anthropomophized shopping mall and eventually wins by connecting the links.”

I dont like Malls, especially anthropomophized ones…

Nifty little random generator, I would suggest they work on thier logic trees though, take for example…Vader
Paul Donnelly said on August 15th, 2006 at 10:29 pm:
Heh; some of these do sound fun.

GAME PITCH for Tribune Lost, a maze game fused with a turn based mechanic. It features a cartoon Clown who races and races through a Gothic computer and eventually wins by memorizing the algorithms.

It sets my imaginitation whirling. I suppose you would be inside a giant mechanical computer which resembles a Gothic cathedral, and would need to navigate your way through its logic gates, deducing its programming. Maybe you would not need to be a clown. I’m not sure I have the energy to take on a project like that though!
Sean Hyde-Moyer said on August 18th, 2006 at 10:44 am:
Sounds a bit like a gizmo I put together called the Burroughsian Design-o-Tron .

“Game” meets “Pop Culture Reference” as “Area of Human Endeavor”:

-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meets T.E. Lawrence as Grand Guignol
-Enemy Nations meets The Last Jihad as Rugby
-Ms. Pac Man meets Rashomon as Biological Engineering
-Starwing meets 2001 as Situation Comedy

It can also launch Google searches for each of the terms. Total possible combinations currrently in the low billions.
Tess said on August 18th, 2006 at 11:33 am:
I really miss the days when you could make a game out of any kind of human challenge. Like wildcatting for oil. Nobody would make a game about that today. You can play 100 games with elven archers, race cars, football players, and radioactive mutants in them, but can you find a game about making a legal case, fighting government corruption, or running a political campaign? (We make movies about these things, don’t we?) How about a PvP Junkyard Wars game?
Michael Chui said on August 18th, 2006 at 1:10 pm:
There was this DOS game I was shown a few years back (the graphics suggest it’s a decade older than that) where you’re basically a college student making a life. I thought it was awesome. You were required to purchase food, increase happiness, get a better job, study for degrees, pay the rent… I mean, seriously. Who makes a game about that?

Does anyone know where I can get another copy? =P