Stunts Unlimited
by Mikko Lang · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 08/17/2001 (9:38 am) · 3 replies
After watching too many Hong Kong action films this idea hit me: Stunts Unlimited.
The game goes like this: you own a small business with limited resources (money) and your job is to design and do stunts. Here's the catch: everytime you accept a job and design a stunt you must also perform it (= play it through). You can spend little money doing the stunt, gaining larger profits but perhaps this results in more dangerous stunt - if you fail the stunt and the stuntman you are playing gets injured or even killed you get more and more bad reputation. Bad reputation means it's harder to hire new stuntmen and get new jobs. The game is more exiting if you have to care for the well being of your stuntmen.
Stuntmen could have different kind of abilities, like this one is good at jumping & landing and that one is top notch driver. Hiring right men for right job would become vital.
Actual gameplay could go like this:
You see the set of the film you are going to do the stunt for. Next step is to buy the stunt equipment you are going to use (like wires, explosives (timed or set off manually), mattresses etc.). Then you place your equipment within given limits (easier for game creator & "place them within given limits so that they don't get caught on film").
Then comes the fun part.
Example 1 (easy): your task has been designing stunt where motorcycle rider jumps on top of moving train. After you are satisfied with your design you jump on the motorcycle and try to do the stunt! Don't mess it up too badly or your stuntman breaks his leg. Or his skull.
Simple driving controls & motorcycle physics are needed here.
Example 2 (difficult): you must design stunt where guy runs through burning room, jumps through window, lands on back of a moving truck, jumps on top of bad guys car, hangs on the roof of the car while it races through some heavy traffic.
First you set off your carefully placed pyrotechnics, then you run through the flames hoping your protective clothes are thick enough, then comes the jump - hopefully you calculated the timing right so that the guy doesn't hit pavement, simple jump next, some heavy duty hanging on and stunt is done.
Stunts could include jumps from high places, chaces, car chases, car & motorcycle tricks, fights, everything you see in movies!
Does this sound like I'm on to something or is this just load of bs?
The game goes like this: you own a small business with limited resources (money) and your job is to design and do stunts. Here's the catch: everytime you accept a job and design a stunt you must also perform it (= play it through). You can spend little money doing the stunt, gaining larger profits but perhaps this results in more dangerous stunt - if you fail the stunt and the stuntman you are playing gets injured or even killed you get more and more bad reputation. Bad reputation means it's harder to hire new stuntmen and get new jobs. The game is more exiting if you have to care for the well being of your stuntmen.
Stuntmen could have different kind of abilities, like this one is good at jumping & landing and that one is top notch driver. Hiring right men for right job would become vital.
Actual gameplay could go like this:
You see the set of the film you are going to do the stunt for. Next step is to buy the stunt equipment you are going to use (like wires, explosives (timed or set off manually), mattresses etc.). Then you place your equipment within given limits (easier for game creator & "place them within given limits so that they don't get caught on film").
Then comes the fun part.
Example 1 (easy): your task has been designing stunt where motorcycle rider jumps on top of moving train. After you are satisfied with your design you jump on the motorcycle and try to do the stunt! Don't mess it up too badly or your stuntman breaks his leg. Or his skull.
Simple driving controls & motorcycle physics are needed here.
Example 2 (difficult): you must design stunt where guy runs through burning room, jumps through window, lands on back of a moving truck, jumps on top of bad guys car, hangs on the roof of the car while it races through some heavy traffic.
First you set off your carefully placed pyrotechnics, then you run through the flames hoping your protective clothes are thick enough, then comes the jump - hopefully you calculated the timing right so that the guy doesn't hit pavement, simple jump next, some heavy duty hanging on and stunt is done.
Stunts could include jumps from high places, chaces, car chases, car & motorcycle tricks, fights, everything you see in movies!
Does this sound like I'm on to something or is this just load of bs?
Paul Robertson