Since i already tried it with a smaller group of people and it went well, i am asking lemmy to give me an idea/feature/anything(that is not NSFW or against itch.io rules) that i will add to a game i will be making

I will try to add every single thing suggested here(even if only on a technicality)

Also, i had no idea how to title this post

    • Mellow
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      172 months ago

      Couch co-op is rare these days, but I would like to see more co-op in general. I used to have game nights on Friday night with friends on discord, but we just ran out of good games to play. Limiting factor being how many people can play at the same time. Most of the co-op games we have right now seem to be designed to make you miserable. You’re gonna fail, but how long can you last? I just want to have some fun with 2-6 friends without getting discouraged. One of the best ones we played was “Golf With Your Friends”. I don’t even like golf, but we all could play, no one had to sit out, and we had a blast until it got boring.

        • Mellow
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          I’ve got a few of their bundles we’ve played multiple times. Quiz night style games are awesome for a while, but we like to play a more action(?) style of games where you control your character and work together or go off on your own to progress the group.

          I thought last train outta worm town was awesome.

          • @[email protected]
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            BG3 multi-player was awesome. For a more casual game I really enjoy Pummel Party. I was cut off from playing the worm in last train out of wormtown because I was too good at playing the worm.

      • Nemo Wuming
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        12 months ago

        If anyone misses old school Quake 1 (first person shooter) in co-op mode, you can play it for free on this server, in your browser

        https://www.netquake.io/multiplayer

        Once you get used to the controls, the game turns out to be very well balanced.

  • Boozilla
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    172 months ago

    I’ve always wanted a sci fi themed game that plays like a Diablo style dungeon crawler. Sort of a cross between Duskers and Diablo, if that makes sense. You travel in a junky ship from space derelict to space derelict. You (and your party) explore these ghost ships looking for gear and upgrades for yourselves and your ship.

    The overall story would be some quest for artifacts and navigational data to help you open a warp gate and escape the dying star system. You’d have playable classes like space marine, psycher, technician, doctor, etc. NPCs could be a variety of monsters and zombie astronauts. There would also be environmental hazards and puzzles and such.

    Sorry, this is probably waaayyyy more than you were asking us for. Ignore me or cherry pick anything you like. =)

    • chingadera
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      this would be so fucking cool. if i trusted Blizzard to even make Diablo anymore I’d argue a StarCraft game that plays like an ARPG that would be too rad.

      If someone knows a game like this, please chime in.

      • Boozilla
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        22 months ago

        Thanks. I’ve wanted a Starcraft as ARPG type game for decades.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 months ago

    Cheat codes that are helpful in allowing people with not enough time to sit and grind things out or fuss with mods to play through the story while still interacting with the core mechanics.

  • @[email protected]
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    A procedurally generated escape the city third person zombie shooter with several randomized unique quest lines that can be discovered by scouting the city. Each quest line leads to a different escape route. (Military has surrounded the city)

    Zombies should be 28 day later, one touch and you are infected zombies.

    Maybe add some basic crafting and possibly coop or pvpve elements. One escape should take only a couple hours. The randomness gives the replayability. (A bit rogue like)

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes correct. I tried both and was annoyed that the zombies aren’t deadly enough. Like “oh we have this serious virus but you can survive getting bitten multiple times”

        With the idea I wanted less of a story (and let’s be honest both games and their successors did not have good ones) and more of interesting escape attempts (find a drill and move underground, or dress up as someone from the military or idk get catapulted with a parachute)

          • @[email protected]
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            I know all the games you have listed. I havent played them but I can tell that none have the features that I am looking for.

            Prohect Zomboid comes close in terms of environment but has a different gameplay approach.

  • Romkslrqusz
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    1. Character creation

    2. A hairstyle option that is actually a toupee. If your character is hit / impacted / falls / etc, the toupee can sometimes fall off l. The character suffers a debuff until they pick it back up or buy a new one. It is not apparent during character creation that what the player is selecting is a toupee, and the mechanic is not explained in any way.

    • @[email protected]
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      1. A character option that is literally a bear. Like literally a bear, masquerading as a human, and most NPCs are just going along with it
      • @[email protected]OP
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        Is it ok if its a bear in a biblically accurate angel costume? Another comment said that the main character should be a biblically accurate angel and it would be an objectively better costume

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I dont think i can make it not obvious the hair is fake considering that the main character is a biblically accurate angel

  • 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀
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    52 months ago

    A 3D rail shooter where you play as various ranks of biblically accurate angels shooting down demons.

  • @[email protected]
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    A bucket of dehydrated water, which you have to reconstitute by adding water, in order to put out an invisible fire. No idea what kind of game you’re making, could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.

    • Skua
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      could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.

      Maybe not as odd as you think, since the methanol fuel used in many motorsports series actually does burn invisibly

  • Bear
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    52 months ago

    Activate god mode and gain a small fraction of the power of the developer. You can edit the actual source, brick yourself, and quick reload from within the game. Show me the real errors with the file name and the line number.

  • SSTF
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    I really love when RPGs give unique dialog options based on non-dialog skills.

    For example, if you are spec’d into a certain class of weapon you unlock dialog with a relevant vendor. Or if you have a high gambling skill, your character can talk about the finer points of gambling.

    Taking this a step further, reactivity from having accomplished something requiring application of these skills allowing unique dialog.

    This can all either be unique flavor dialog, dialog that gets the conversation to where it would have gone anyway, or dialog that opens up new quests or quest resolutions.

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    Rolling HP like in Earthbound and Mother 3. You get a big hit - your HP does not decrease to the point immediately rather starts rolling down, even if you’ve got a mortal damage. This way you can still have time to finish the fight and survive if your HP don’t reach 0 in the meantime, or even heal yourself. Also Luck (or Guts) as a stat, which can sometimes leave you at 1 HP no matter how overkill damage you just got.