Things people should make for NG.

[Keez]

I always sit there and think about games that would be pretty epic on here.

Thing is, I'm a 13 year old girl who does photography and I ain't gonna get far on a 30 day trial thing Flash.
If I could make any flash or game I wanted to right now.

I would make...

A zombie escape kind of thing. Because, I love zombie games. They're all shooters though, I don't enjoy shooting things. ¬_¬ Maybe, I want it to be realistic for once. NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN!

Massive, I mean massive amounts of people think that everyone could get hold of a gun in a zombie apocalypse. NO, NO WE CAN'T.

So make a realistic game, where you have to walk around your house & find something to mush their faces in. Then a game where you can explore feelings and emotions of these people. Not just *bang crash* you're dead 'LOLOLO PWNED HAX 1337 PLOX'.

What thing would you come up with?

[Scarab]

Well that sounds like it could get an audience anyway. Some people might like to down that whole sort of sub-genre of game-making, but I'm sure there's plenty of room to be innovative. You yourself mention some issues with current games that could be addressed in your own idea. You may only be young and be primarily interested in something mostly unrelated, but why don't you try the trial and watch some
tutorials, if you haven't thought of it already.

As for myself, I will never have it in me to make a game in Flash. I'm just not familiar with the concepts that gamers enjoy the most. Any game with my name on it would most likely be very dull, on trainspotting or something. The technicalities aside, I'm stuck right there. Any other idea I'd have would probably be far too unrealistic. I'm aware that Flash has a huge range of oppurtunities, but I can't just say "the player does this, and then they get Internet bliss!" or something. I don't know, hopefully you understand me.

I'm very interested in getting a movie done. I'd never be able to draw and animate it all due to having a chronic terrible-art disorder since birth. I know next to nothing about animation technique. It's all in the theory for me, which as you might imagine is nice, but erm, yeah, you don't get much done. Otherwise, I'd write something. I'm never confident with my writing, but I've got a few ideas I think would work brilliantly as short films, in Flash or not. I'm not going to be specific (I know, I need to be afraid of theives stealing my great ideas, right?), but the one I've kept mostly in mind (and made a few attempts at typing up in Celtx) is in general, four short stories, revolving around the point that they are all inspired by something close to me... and close to you, too. :)

We'll see, cue Vincent Price-esque laugh.

Whether my ideas "should be made for NG" is probably a different matter though, so this post is outrageously off-topic.

At 11/2/09 02:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: The only thing I was able to read.

Sorry to be picky, and "serious", but why was that? I thought it was perfectly legible. Hardly the Queen's, but if that were important to my online experience, I'd just throw my laptop out of the window right now. You were also silly in not really saying much.

Sorry for picking you out, I just think I have a big enough head to tell everyone to be nice and how to post on the BBS!

[chainsawmurderer53]

A load of cool gadgets probably. Pirate name generator, make a space ship, stuff liek that.

[SteveGuzzi]

At 11/2/09 02:49 PM, Keez wrote: Thing is, I'm a 13 year old girl who does photography and I ain't gonna get far on a 30 day trial thing Flash.
If I could make any flash or game I wanted to right now.

I would make...

A zombie escape kind of thing. Because, I love zombie games. They're all shooters though, I don't enjoy shooting things. ¬_¬ Maybe, I want it to be realistic for once. NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN!

Yeah well... can you write? Create a sort of "choose your own adventure" tale... if the story and the possible routes you can take are entertaining and compelling-enough then I'm sure an animator and/or programmer would be willing to adapt your writing into a game of some sort. I mean, you can't just up and say "I HAVE AN IDEA, WANNA WORK ON IT?" without something to actually show and develop on.

If you want to write a zombie survival story, turn to page 53.

If you decide to ignore me and do nothing, turn to page 12.

[Scarab]

Actually, browsing my desk just now, I had an idea for something that someone, somewhere should get to making right now.

A Curb Your Enthusiasm game.

Or something similar. I'm aware that games where almost nothing but bad things happen to the player have been made before (examples, Get Lost and The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy text game), but I think there's room for more in this sector. Those who aren't familiar with the show, you get some wisecracking millionaire who's forced to do a few errands... and well, it goes on from there. There may or may not be a sequence where the character gets his own back on all that is wrong at the end of the level or not. As you can see I've not thought about this so much in a way of playability, but it would probably distract me for a few minutes, with pleasure.

The more adult material would be less violent, more sexually humourous, or angry for the sake of comedy. Fans of the show will probably get me here.

[SteveGuzzi]

At 11/2/09 03:22 PM, Scarab wrote: A Curb Your Enthusiasm game.

I dunno if anyone could do Larry David quite like Larry David does Larry David.

[Scarab]

At 11/2/09 03:27 PM, SteveGuzzi wrote: I dunno if anyone could do Larry David quite like Larry David does Larry David.

Oh yeah, too true. It wouldn't be a Curb Your Enthusiasm game in name, but I think you can take a lot of its premise and turn it into something that's enjoyable to play. You can change characters, like, erm, not having Larry David as the main character, and then change the surrounding cast accordingly. IN fact, you could even have cameo appearances from notable Newgrounders, just as a little bonus for site members, I don't know. That would work along one of the recurring narratives in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

With everything I said from before about being very limited in actually producing something for the site, that's the sort of game I'd like to make with someone. All of the examples in the "everything-hates-you" subgenre seem to involve death at every turn. Bringing in the dreaded realism, some part of the audience here, including myself I'll add, seem to have times where this sort of world is constructed... but we're not dying. This sort of thing allows us to laugh at ourselves a little, while being able to associate with it.

I'm thinking about this far too much now, haha.

[Falonefal]

At 11/2/09 03:05 PM, Scarab wrote:

At 11/2/09 02:50 PM, Falonefal wrote: The only thing I was able to read.

Sorry to be picky, and "serious", but why was that? I thought it was perfectly legible. Hardly the Queen's, but if that were important to my online experience, I'd just throw my laptop out of the window right now. You were also silly in not really saying much.

Sorry for picking you out, I just think I have a big enough head to tell everyone to be nice and how to post on the BBS!

First I read the post and thought it was foolish, so I made a foolish reply.
It's a foolish post because if you are going to make a game suggestion, make it detailed, and what she has written down, isn't detailed.
I will appreciate it if a version with more ideas and details would be posted by her.
Yes.

[InnerChild548]

Cool idea. Thank you for letting me use it.

[GiantDouche]

That reminds me of this thread.

[Keez]

Woah.

That wasn't expected. A) I'd be flash illiterate, so there is no point in even TRYING. I don't want to make flash, it would fail. B) Here's a more detail explanation of what I'd like to see in a game.

A new kind of creature made, not just like a zombie, maybe something a bit more dark and horrifying. Just think about how a normal day would start, don't drag that on but you could always start a game how you would go about your normal life. Or maybe just get a voice actor to explain what has happened, with a few still images of the mayhem starting.

Then go about trying to find a way of getting around these 'things' which have been thrown in your path WITHOUT using a gun or some kind of weapon that most people would never own. You're not going to walk down a street like 'AMG, a zombie lets pwnn it with my gun that I never owned'. No, just no.

Something obviously needs a story like. But I definatly like complex story lines! Such as, finding out puzzles. Because you're never going to get into a locked building by using the front door, are you? Nope! You definatly need some creativity into it.

Is that explained enough for you?

OH, and never end it with someone dying.

If you are, and it's a zombie game HOW ABOUT you make them turn into a zombie and controll them from there on?

God, that was fun to write. >_<

[ryanson209]

They should make Newgrounds a 3D virtual world.