Adventure Game Ideas
It's interesting to think up/talk about some ideas for potential new adventure games. I was just watching Back to the Future tonight and thought it would make a great adventure game. Actually everything I watch nowadays I'm thinking in my head "I wonder if this'd make a good adventure game..."
Also, The Dead Zone (tv series). What a great show and what great potential for some interesting new adventure gameplay! I actually started a a Dead Zone project in AGS at one point but never continued very far. I still have it, though. I made some walking animation frames, a GUI, and title screen. I also programmed out a sequence where Johnny Smith touches things and gets visions off them.
What about you guys? You ever have a neat idea at one point that you thought would make a great adventure game? Even if it's original and not based on any existing movie/IP/whatever.
Also, The Dead Zone (tv series). What a great show and what great potential for some interesting new adventure gameplay! I actually started a a Dead Zone project in AGS at one point but never continued very far. I still have it, though. I made some walking animation frames, a GUI, and title screen. I also programmed out a sequence where Johnny Smith touches things and gets visions off them.
What about you guys? You ever have a neat idea at one point that you thought would make a great adventure game? Even if it's original and not based on any existing movie/IP/whatever.
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As far as original ideas, yeah I have more than one, and I'm actively trying to make one of them a reality. And it's even playable. Besides that one, I at one time had a playable full "day" set in a Lovecraft universe, but in the end I ended up throwing away all my work, thinking I could never draw or write well enough to finish it. Now I look back and could almost cry that I did such a stupid thing. I plan to retry making that game again after my current project is finished.
It involved Elvis and aliens and stuff.
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Sadly, my friend left the course before he could finish it.
YES! Lucasarts, give us a SCUMM-based Star Wars adventure game like you should have during the 90's.
But if I do make something, I'd rather it was something that did away with the Monkey Island influence and played with things a little. It's very amusing to think that the reasons they introduced the 3-trial structure were very SMI specific, but that game ended up being so influential that so many games afterwards adapted it (MI2 mostly excluded). I would honestly like for that to go. I sometimes find myself coming up with ideas, and I may actually make a small, amateurish, 5-room game this summer to test one of them. I'll likely fail, miserably, but who ever said the path to success wasn't paved with hilariously amateurish misfires?
C-3PO and R2-D2 Save the Galaxy™ coming soon from Telltale/Lucasarts
Since the 'droids never do much action-wise during the films, it might be interesting to have a puzzle adventure from their perspective during Luke and the gang's escapades. A behind the scenes look at the TRUE heroes who brought down the empire!
3PO solves the puzzles, R2 offers the snappy comebacks and doubles as an item storage bin for 3PO. Oh, and I guess he can zap stuff and access terminals too.
The Unsavory Empire Strikes Back!!
Yeah, those were my favorite Sam and Max strips.
I'll probably get eaten alive for this... but please! No more Star Wars! There are just too many! Other than the random Indy and MI remake, it's all Lucasarts make. They used to be the best as well... (Telltale have taken that postition now. Thank God.:p)
True, there have been A LOT of Star Wars-games recently but no real Star Wars adventure game. And I'd love to play a game that did not involve The Clone Wars or grossly overpowered Jedi’s (I'm looking at you Force Unleashed).
I actually like Jade Zealot suggestion about a Droids game centering about C-3P0 an R2-D2, preferably set sometime during or after the original trilogy. And hopefully starring Anthony Daniels. They did such a great Indy adventure game, why not Star Wars?
Actually, scratch this. I remember now. He used to call the hellknights from Doom pinkertons.
As for new ideas. I wouldn't mind seeing a Star Wars one that maybe focused primarily on puzzles and not my blaster is bigger than yours!
I wouldn't mind a revisit to the Discworld universe. I know 3 games where made but only 2 made it to America and both of which are out of print.
Maybe a Hellblazer John Constantine series. That might work, mysticism and fending off demons using what's in your pockets and your own charm.
I'm rambling though.
Backgrounds, sounds, and music would be easy, though (if blatantly copyright infringing, which the game would be anyway). Just take screenshots in-game and touch them up in Gimp or something.
Well, I want it to look more like The Dig, actually. And I guess it could be about another character, like Barney.
I seriously wish I could play those, never got to play the 2nd one more than 15 minutes 'cause my friend who I made rent it didn't like it, and it disappeared from the rental shop shortly after.