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A Few Game Ideas

Stella Brando

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BLOOD ON THE ICE

10,000 BC: Conan, Gilgamesh, Samson, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, a time-travelling Terminator and their pet sabre-tooth tiger battle mammoth-riding Neanderthals for control of a mysterious black monolith - all to the tune of Anvil of Crom.
Transport: An now-extinct 2-ton wombat with a pouch full of black lotus.




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AN ASSOCIATION OF INCREDIBLE PERSONAGES

1880: In this highly original, public-domain adventure, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, the Man With No Name, explorer Richard Burton, Jack the Ripper and Jules Verne seek a powerful African artifact for Queen Victoria.
Transport: They relax in the luxury compartment of Dr. Emmet Brown’s steam-punk flying train. The second compartment holds a full orchestra playing Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. The third compartment is full of opium.




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A VOYAGE TO REMEMBER

1912: Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers decide to take a break from driving and flying with a nice ocean cruise. But their peace is interrupted by wild fiestas held by the Three Amigos, the Wild Bunch, Pancho Villa and John Marston.
Transport: All the laudanum they can carry. And a brass band. On the Titanic.




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A BRUNCH TO FORGET

1922: Jay Gatsby, Lords Greystoke and Flashheart, Count Nosferatu and Al Capone are astounded when their high-class luncheon is not interrupted by Tentacled Monstrosities From Beyond. There is some strange growth on the foie gras, however.
Transport: A Model T. Ford with jazz playing on a grammophone and a chest full of boot-leg liquor.




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A WHEEL IS FOREVER: A CAR, INFINITY TIMES FOUR


1970: James Bond, John Lennon, Neil Armstrong, Bruce Lee and the Zodiac Killer look for meaning on dusty desert back roads during the Nixon administration.
Transport: A white Dodge Challenger with Led Zeppelin blasting on the 8-track, Rosemary’s devil-spawn in the baby seat, and a suitcase personally supplied by Hunter S. Thompson in the trunk.




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THE UNFILMABLES

1985: John 'Commando' Matrix, John Rambo, John McClane and Jack Burton take on a Florida drug kingpin.
Transport: They all squeeze into a two-seater white Ferrari Testarossa with new wave music playing on the stereo and 20 kg of pure Val Verdean blow in the trunk.




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DO YOU FEEL CYBER, PUNK?

2025: Another Terminator, Robocop, Max Rockatansky and Snake Plissken hunt down replicants in dystopian L.A.
Transport: High-performance red motor-bikes covered with bumper stickers from long-dead companies. The glove compartments are full of nuke. John Carpenter is towed behind on a hoverboard, providing the soundtrack on his synthesiser.




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X-WINGS & THINGS

2200: ET, an Ewok, a face-hugger egg, a body-snatcher plant, and a very suspicious husky go where no man has gone before.
Transport: An X-Wing with a cock-pit full of spice and HAL humming Duel of the Fates.
 
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Butter

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I trust Beamdog will properly credit you when they make these into games.
 

Funposter

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you obviously had a lot of time to think about whether or not you should post this, but you still went ahead with it anyway
 

Alex

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10,000 B.C
Conan, Aragorn, Gilgamesh, Samson, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, a time-travelling Terminator and their pet sabre-tooth tiger battle mammoth-riding Neanderthals for control of a mysterious black monolith, all to the tune of Anvil of Crom.
Transport: An now-extinct 2-ton wombat with a pouch full of black lotus.

1880
Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, the Man With No Name, explorer Richard Burton, Jack the Ripper and Jules Verne seek a powerful artifact in the heart of Africa for Queen Victoria.
Transport: They relax in the luxury compartment of Dr. Emmet Brown’s steam-punk flying train. The second compartment holds a full orchestra playing Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. The third compartment is full of opium.

1912
Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers decide to take a break from driving and flying with a nice ocean cruise. But their peace is interrupted by wild parties held by the Three Amigos, the Wild Bunch, Pancho Villa and John Marston.
Transport: All the laudanum they can carry. And a brass band. On the Titanic.

1922
Gatsby, Lords Greystoke and Flashheart, Count Nosferatu and Al Capone are disappointed when their high-class luncheon is not interrupted by tentacled monstrosities from beyond.
Transport: A Model T. Ford with jazz playing on a grammophone and a chest full of boot-leg liquor.

1970
James Bond, John Lennon, Neil Armstrong, Bruce Lee and the Zodiac Killer look for meaning on dusty desert back roads during the Nixon administration.
Transport: A white Dodge Challenger with Led Zeppelin blasting on the 8-track, Rosemary’s devil-spawn in the baby seat, and a suitcase personally supplied by Hunter S. Thompson in the trunk.

1985
Major ‘Dutch’ Schaeffer, Rambo, Ash Williams and Jack Burton take on a Florida drug kingpin.
Transport: They all squeeze into a two-seater white Ferrari Testarossa with new wave music playing on the stereo and 20 kg of pure Val Verdean blow in the trunk.

2025
Another Terminator, Robocop, Max Rockatansky and Snake Plissken hunt down replicants in dystopian L.A.
Transport: High-performance red motor-bikes covered with bumper stickers from long-dead companies. The glove compartments are full of nuke. John Carpenter is towed behind on a hoverboard, providing the soundtrack on his synthesiser.

2200
ET, an Ewok, a face-hugger egg, a body-snatcher plant, and a very suspicious husky go where no man has gone before.
Transport: An X-Wing with a cock-pit full of spice and HAL humming Duel of the Fates.

Ok, that is a very good high concept. Now, what kind of game system are we talking about here?
 

Alex

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What are you talking about, it is beautiful! I think we are still missing some stuff, actually, like looking for Atlantis inside a bio-engineered squid sub-marine with a few protagonists from H. P. Lovecraft's tales or going into the Iron Mole from At the Earth's Core but ending up in Lemuria instead of Pellucidar.
 

Stella Brando

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The Terminator is a direct sequel to Police Academy.

If you watch Diamonds are Forever, Vanishing Point and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you'll see they're all set in the same universe. The evil gay couples are how outsiders see Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.

I can tell you more when you are ready.
 

HarveyBirdman

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A first-person view Stalin_Brando looks himself over after shaving in front of yet another dirty truckstop mirror. He's lookin' good, just like these game ideas. Your viewpoint detaches to third person and then pans out, passing through the ceiling to show a bird's eye view of the truck stop, which is located in a desert.
You continue to ascend, and as the truck stop shrinks into a black speck, the desert expands into an overwhelming umber sheet. Higher you climb until your vision encompasses the whole monochromatic planet. You know intuitively that everything on that planet is dead, except for Stalin_Brando.
Bulbous fingertips creep into your peripherals, and your vision shakes; it appears you were watching from a camera, and your cameraman is moving you around. As you rotate towards the sun a blinding flash sears your retinas, and suddenly all goes dark.
After several minutes, soft grey shapes begin to form. You are unsure if your brain is filling in the darkness with its own figments, or if by some miracle your sight has been restored. The image of a rectangle mystifies and enthralls you, and as you focus on its presence, you ascertain that it is emitting a faint blue glow. You shut your eyes tightly and colors dance in your mind's eye.
Upon reopening your eyes, this computer screen greets you like an old friend. Your bulbous fingertips rest gently upon the keyboard, and you remember that your name is Stalin_Brando. You were never anywhere but right here all along. How silly of you to forget.
Transport: DMT
 
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Unwanted

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Austist simulator. You write the equivalents of OP in the game 24/7.
 

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