Random Game Design Generator
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Aug 152006
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. https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/08/15/random-game-design-generator/ http://iq212.com/blog2/random-game-design-generator/
Great link, Raph. Also the poetry one.
Yehuda
“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
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Heh; some of these do sound fun.
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!
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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.
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?
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