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Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

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Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

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Post by shpx »

Games, and media in general, that respect the theory of relativity.

All we have had so far is Europa Universalis with a space skin. Nothing can ever travel faster than light, that's how the world actually works. Children of a Dead Earth was in the direction of what I want but I got bored quickly because it's orbital dynamics puzzles.

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

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Post by mcnnowak »

A VR game where you take a snapshot or ghost of yourself performing some movement or throwing an item, which then repeats itself in the world. Then you can make more snapshots and string them together to create a Factorio-like game which uses the snapshot of those movements to assemble products.

E.g., ghost 1: pick up ore, throw ore -> ghost 2: catch ore, crush ore, throw crushed ore -> ghost 3: put ore into furnace -> ghost 4: pick up metal bar, throw metal bar, etc..

Then the player is running around building interactable buildings with produced resources and that oh so satisfying factory spaghetti starts forming.

Re: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

I don't know if it's a game exactly but I would love a VR app that's part horror thriller, part psychological exposure treatment that either helps you get over certain anxieties (e.g. get ready to give a talk in VR in your drawers or fall from a tall building) or helps with aversion therapy in an engaging way (e.g. my weakness is chocolate, maybe a horror game that incorporates sweets in some way where they're repeatedly poisoning you and making you lose XP or something).
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