New Game idea (please comment)
by Zachary Fyffe · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 03/09/2005 (6:35 pm) · 10 replies
I made a post last week about a rat running through a sewer game but i've been thinking about bout it and
Do u think a Game where your running through some ones house and you have to navagate your way around rooms where the humans of the home are trying to kill you.
and then could the torque engine support these giant humans commpared to your size like trying to kill you with butcher knifes and baseball bats(and whateva else would be in a house that they could kill you with)? Could you also make it to were after so far away from character things get blury(because rats in real life have bad vision) Edit* added think it would be cool if you could get your tail cut off and keep going without a tail and if you get through whole game with tail you get some knid of bonus lvl or game mode?
(I also think it would be more fun if it were a little cartoony instaed of all serous with little hidden jokes through out the game.) Edit* ignore this just leaving so you know what they were talkin about
If you read this please comment so i see if this idea would be worth following up on.
Post any inprovement ideas also.
Do u think a Game where your running through some ones house and you have to navagate your way around rooms where the humans of the home are trying to kill you.
and then could the torque engine support these giant humans commpared to your size like trying to kill you with butcher knifes and baseball bats(and whateva else would be in a house that they could kill you with)? Could you also make it to were after so far away from character things get blury(because rats in real life have bad vision) Edit* added think it would be cool if you could get your tail cut off and keep going without a tail and if you get through whole game with tail you get some knid of bonus lvl or game mode?
(I also think it would be more fun if it were a little cartoony instaed of all serous with little hidden jokes through out the game.) Edit* ignore this just leaving so you know what they were talkin about
If you read this please comment so i see if this idea would be worth following up on.
Post any inprovement ideas also.
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#2
iunno...that game idea sounds pretty scary to me >.<
03/09/2005 (6:41 pm)
......err....sounds pretty hard to go for cartoony...maybe not trying to kill you, but trying to.....tickle you?iunno...that game idea sounds pretty scary to me >.<
#3
for the most part the game wouldnt be to cartoony cause i want to be more real world then bright cartoon world
03/09/2005 (6:57 pm)
Srry bout the missunderstanding i meant the people to make the a little less detailed since they would be so bigfor the most part the game wouldnt be to cartoony cause i want to be more real world then bright cartoon world
#4
Also what is the goal for your rat at the end of the day? Is he trying to escape from a house before being killed? Just trying to reach his rat hole in the skirting board? Or looking for food? You could maybe maintain the whole house all the time and some rat tunnels between different parts of the house, and even different parts of rooms, and the people are quite intelligent and wait outside holes or try and block some up or leave traps and poison.
Sounds like a pretty interesting idea. I hope you can make it work. :)
03/10/2005 (1:44 am)
I think that if you keep this too real world then it will be hard to stop it becoming really boring, given the size of a normal house and the general abilities of a rat. It would probably be more interesting to have a rat with some more acrobatic abilities, and also really over exaggerated mouse traps and stuff like that. You could maybe make it more Tom and Jerry style. People may also have difficulty relating to a rat who is not cartoony or at least has some human traits.Also what is the goal for your rat at the end of the day? Is he trying to escape from a house before being killed? Just trying to reach his rat hole in the skirting board? Or looking for food? You could maybe maintain the whole house all the time and some rat tunnels between different parts of the house, and even different parts of rooms, and the people are quite intelligent and wait outside holes or try and block some up or leave traps and poison.
Sounds like a pretty interesting idea. I hope you can make it work. :)
#5
I also think it would be a good idea if he getts wet he looks different like less puffy with darker wet looking hair.
Keep bringing on the ideas!
03/12/2005 (5:38 pm)
Lets say hes trying to find the promise land (the Attic) and he goes through every room in the house on his way trying to find ways to get to the attic of a 2 story house. The game could start with him living in the back yard shed.I also think it would be a good idea if he getts wet he looks different like less puffy with darker wet looking hair.
Keep bringing on the ideas!
#6
03/15/2005 (2:09 pm)
Sounds a little bit like a game version of the movie "The People Under the Stairs". That's not necessarily a bad thing either. How cartoony are you thinking about making it? If it's real cartoony you might want to take a look at the game Cell Damage.
#7
03/15/2005 (2:46 pm)
I think you should make the odds twisted and the only way to survive is to fight back.
#8
03/15/2005 (6:05 pm)
Maybe 2 diff game modes sneak/dodge and then fight back
#9
How about making the owner of the house some sort of genetic scientist?...this way you could have the rat as an evolving character. I dunno, have a room in which there is some sort of _material_ that the rat can consume or something, giving it enhanced abilities, greater intelligence. (I hesitate to say radioactive material, becuz the whole "mutant" thing has been done to death.)
Or else the rat could be an escaped genetic experiment of the scientist's home lab. Maybe its enhanced abilities are temporary, so it has to keep 'refueling' on the doctor's formula.
Not sure what kind of 'special' abilities a rat can have, though. Naturally rats are very tough, adaptive; excellent smell and hearing, as well as employing echo location, since they're used to darkness and their vision is not that great.
It could even be a female with accelerated reproductive abilities--create an army of rats to conquer the house =)
But sabotage the house too much and the exterminators come for ya. An apartment complex would be even cooler.
Well, a couple ideas...
03/17/2005 (1:27 pm)
Not a bad concept. How about making the owner of the house some sort of genetic scientist?...this way you could have the rat as an evolving character. I dunno, have a room in which there is some sort of _material_ that the rat can consume or something, giving it enhanced abilities, greater intelligence. (I hesitate to say radioactive material, becuz the whole "mutant" thing has been done to death.)
Or else the rat could be an escaped genetic experiment of the scientist's home lab. Maybe its enhanced abilities are temporary, so it has to keep 'refueling' on the doctor's formula.
Not sure what kind of 'special' abilities a rat can have, though. Naturally rats are very tough, adaptive; excellent smell and hearing, as well as employing echo location, since they're used to darkness and their vision is not that great.
It could even be a female with accelerated reproductive abilities--create an army of rats to conquer the house =)
But sabotage the house too much and the exterminators come for ya. An apartment complex would be even cooler.
Well, a couple ideas...
#10
03/19/2005 (9:25 pm)
Thx i like the apartment concept idea 
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