Game idea that bluesky liked

[shy_magpie]

I made a thread on Bluesky about a game idea a thread on Bluesky about a game idea that seems to be reasonably well liked and I want to play with it a bit more even if it's just an idea that would take a whole studio to actually pull off. I don't have the time or brain power to do this in a sensible manner so let's see how well dreamwidth handles me making a thread I edit throughout the day.

Comments

Replies with fun ideas

[shy_magpie]

Probably being paranoid but in the interest of not derailing to ask permission from everyone who replied while minimizing the foreseeable risks I will be linking to these replies but only summerizing their words, so you'd still have to be logged in to get anything that could be a personal detail

The Gardening game

[shy_magpie]

https://bsky.app/profile/cat-attack.bsky.social/post/3ld77iktw6s22

A suggestion it be paired with a realistic gardening game including zones and realistic threats like droughts & blights

https://bsky.app/profile/cat-attack.bsky.social/post/3ld77ikwsxk22

A description of the range of ease including advice & how you live: full time garden vs little time, number of kids & pets, mental/physical disability

My reply is in another post because I am trying to separate out the ideas

The family of games

[shy_magpie]

The gardening thread leads to the idea of a family of games, culminating in a city builder where the other games take place
My reply:
Very nice! Could have a whole family of games, maybe one of those cleaning games but it actually teaches you what not to mix? One where you go from dog walker to owning a pet hotel? Some the levels are the flip side of other games' levels like helping the mom with the dogs?

Their reply:
https://bsky.app/profile/cat-attack.bsky.social/post/3ld7b4pllas22

"Yes and"s me to suggest career simulators including education based like teaching in an underfunded school

Me: Probably impossible to program but part of me is going "but they were all fooled for a final game was made: a city builder where you can unlock buildings based on how you did in other games". A community garden w/ heirlooms is unlocked w/ a code from the garden game, etc. Playable w/out but more fun

https://bsky.app/profile/cat-attack.bsky.social/post/3ld7bycze2s22

They encourage me giving examples of well known games where decisions impact sequels

Nice, I don't want the "you can bring your gun from COD into Mario world" thing they tried to sell us with NFTs but it would be cute to have a green pet hotel with a doggie pool in my city bc that's what I made in the other game. Maybe a bonus to restaurant revenue if they can get heirloom tomatoes.

Two player mode & controls

[shy_magpie]

https://bsky.app/profile/crewgrrl.bsky.social/post/3ld77kbgdwk2p

Quote tweet of encouragement that mentions playing with children and controls

Me: Oh my god, reasonably priced cute controls sized for little hands! It would build in most of the things you'd need for adaptive tech and I bet you'd get a modder community cheerfully figuring out how to make movements more realistic.

I didn't want to spam their replies but this actually set off a bunch of thoughts in me about making the game accessible. Settings on time based vs turn based, controls that could be keyboard or wii like movement sensors or maybe something like a drawing tablet. The abilty to skip repetitive movement and turn off anything quick time