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Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
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#282I wish someone would do (somehow) the 1980's Car Wars tabletop game, a computer version, multiplayer or not. I have tried many near misses, and a few real-time cars-with-guns games, but nothing really scratches that turn-based Car Wars itch for me. It will never happen because Steve Jackson Games is very protective of their IP, and even if they produced the game themselves, they have changed their original game beyond recognition, so the result would also fall short of the mark. And they'd charge about 3x what it would be worth.
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#283I'd like Stellar is 4X strategy but with the chance to drop into a Freelancer style dog fight to tip the scales on battles that could otherwise be predicted on a calculator. Bonus points if my friends can pilot over a lan, too.
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#284I just want a better UI for DF so I guess a game I wished existed would be a modern DF with better multi-processor support.
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#285[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…
There's a subplot from the show Solar Opposites (the show itself is just okay) where people who have been shrunk by alien children live in a segmented wall and form a society there - there's even mice.
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#286I'd like a simulation of the birth and growth of civilisation where I could change parameters and see what the different results would be.
Parameters would be things like the probability distribution of various characteristics such as aggression, intelligence, passivity, individuality and so on.
There would also be environmental factors for the planet, the availability of various resources etc.
I feel that war is the inevitable way that groups work out who is boss until we sort out some sort of world government and I worry that we never will because our nature doesn't allow it.
I know that such a simulation would be useless because of not being based on any accepted model but it would still be interesting to try.
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#287[Tactical Warfare]
You create a set of complex processes/tactical moves that is then simulated by computers to play against other players. This could be a small team in something like call of duty, where you choose your bots equipment, and decisions they would make for scouting/in combat/etc. Then the teams of bots play against other players bots to see who wins. You can then review footage of your bots against other teams to identify weaknesses and "re-program" them to try again. Leaderboard are how you see progress.
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#288I want Factorio with more interesting enemies and stuff I further expand. Played some popular mods but they don’t cut it.
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#289This post is brought to you by Epic Games looking what feature set to add to Fortnite next, so they eventually become Ready Player One to launch into any game with your already bought and infinitely expanding inventory of purchased skins.
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#290[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…
Makes me think of the Counter Strike map de_rats where you fought over the fridge, could hide in walls, use sponges as landing pads and iirc blow up the sink.