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I want a very slow, casual game that takes days — running a train in the mid-1800's U.S.
Mostly I want to, from time to time, look over and see the scenery I am passing through, once in a while adjust the speed, stop and take on coal and water. Most of the time I want to ignore it and be doing other things.
SlowTV + Casual Gaming
- Player plays as either the emperor or the central gov
- Takes a faction mode: each faction may control a few positions in the gov and in military. Each may also control certain economic interests. Each faction has its own opinion for each matter so they may agree on one thing but disagree on another. Each faction also have children factions but they may switch loyalty if too much conflict of interests.
- Delay of information: information has speed and tech advance will increase the speed. But essentially it's difficulty for the central to directly control everything so they have to send officials. But there are complications: 1) Locals might want their own officials, 2) Official belong to certain faction and his appointment is usually a compromise
- Every policy moves through the land tree with a speed and may be blocked if the locals or governor dislikes it. As the Emperor or the central you need to find ways to move policies to as many places as possible.
I feel like this model represents the real world more or less and are far superior than even the most complicated strategy games. But it's very difficult to build.
A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…
[Borrowers: The Game] You live as tiny mouse-sized humans existing with regular humans who should never know your presence as you occupy the walls and spaces in their home. Every day you must hunt for food, which involves collecting gear to traverse spaces (paperclip + string = grappling hook and rope, matchstick = torch, plastic bag = parachute) to reach places where food is stored (i.e. the kitchen - defended by th…
In the existing game there's an escalation of your bullet spongy-ness to enemy level complexity, this naturally happens as you progress through the map. I would remove the bullet resistance and player levels and go with an almost totally real health experience and I'd try and blend more Hitman style recon elements into the game.
Like being able to drive around, or walk around plain close with no weapons to recon places, and have to talk with locals about the enemy in detail. I'd also preserve progress, if you free an area the enemy should become less of a presence and the freedom fighters should take charge.
For reference, 'Limbo' is the kind of game that fits the length of game I'm describing.