A few game ideas

A totally REAL and true cake.

Now, I'm not natively good at creating games. I only know marginal Unity and I've never dabbled in anything outside that. But videogames are what got me INTO coding and programming so I wanna keep that spirit alive.

I haven't really created many games outside of Python and PyGame. I tried learning Unity a while back and that didn't really go anywhere. But I plan to reignite that candle and look into this in my 'free' time.

SECOND PERSON NARRATIVE GAMES:

I saw a Youtube video.

Nick points out how there's a big gap in the market for second-player narrative videogames. He also mentions how 'Driver: San Francisco' is a game from his childhood that dabbled into the design possibilities of having such a game structure. 

Now I don't normally play a whole lotta racing games (except for Forza Horizon, I still love you), but I LOVE games with gimmicks, so this one checks that box for me. This game allows you to switch bodies and control ANY NPC car at any point in the game. Pretty sweet gimmick if you ask me.

Pretty good racing game.

Coming back to the point, when you think about it, second-player narratives could work REALLY well with the horror genre. Just imagine playing a game where you have to run away from a monster or something but you have the perspective of the monster. So you're essentially trying to run away from yourself. This could lend itself really well to some mind-bending, trippy, psychological stuff.

There's also this game called Second Chance which I just found out about that does try to do something similar. I haven't played it yet, but I plan to try it out in the future.

CARTOON PHYSICS IN VIDEO GAMES:

This guy just CAN'T catch a break. 

This isn't anything that big. We've all seen cartoons where gravity doesn't function until you look down. What if someone made a Wile E. Coyote-esque game where all the cartoon physics apply, and you have to learn the rules and use them to your advantage to reach your end goal. 

Basically, I just want a weird game with unusual physics.

FIRST-PERSON 2D GAME:

Is it possible to create a 2D First-person game? 

Like 3D first-person games work because in the 3rd dimension, you're able to view an object from any side. But in the 2nd dimension, objects cannot be viewed from the front right?  So essentially, if you tried doing first-person in 2D, you would see nothing. 

I remember reading this fantastic book a while back, named ' Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions ' written by this guy named Edwin Abbott in the late 19th century.

It basically raised some really interesting questions about how beings of the second dimension would live and interact with each other if they DID exist. It tells the story of this Square, who is introduced to this new world with three dimensions and is completely baffled by it. He later gets thrown in prison for spreading falsehood when he tries telling others about the third dimension. The book also features some hierarchy systems and some social casteism, which only added to enriching the world of the second dimension with life. 

I got REALLY off-topic there. I brought up this book to explain how the first-person view in a 2D setting works in that world. The square describes that they are able to judge distances by the brightness and the brighter a thing is to them, the closer it is to them. They also judge the shape of each other based on the general view they get of each other in various positions.

He mentions how the common folk and peasants 'feel' each other to check each other's shape, whereas the noblemen judge each other's shape solely based on their appearance. There also exist some rules in their world to make it easier for them to judge shapes.

For example, the women are all lines in this world. The shapes are all men, and the women are all straight lines. The women are required to keep moving all the time because when they become stationary, it is impossible for other shapes to see them from the front. If you think about it, it makes sense.

Honestly, I don't want to spoil the book for you. If you find anything I just said intriguing or mildly interesting, I highly recommend that you check it out. Really good book.

Wow, this turned into an impromptu book review.

Well, that's all I have for now.