Now that 24 hours have passed we have our winner!
A huge thanks to @[email protected] for suggesting this awesome idea!
A survival crafting game where the tech tree goes backwards. You start in a prepper hole with working water filtration, food sources, etc, and everything is nice. Then something breaks and maybe you fix it. Something else breaks and maybe you fix that. Three things break at once, and at least one of them is going to stay broken. Have to do something more primitive and time consuming.
Eventually, enough things break that it’s no longer sustainable and you die. Game ranks you based on how long you last.
I would also like to thank every person in the comments for making their wonderful suggestions! I've read through every single one of them and all of them are really good!
You can view the game's code at https://github.com/SamLeeway/project-196, which is currently empty at the time of writing this, but every day from now I will contribute code there.
The game currently does not have any name other than "Project 196", so I will probably host a poll when we have at least something playable.
When the game would be playable? Making games ain't easy so it's pretty hard to estimate. I would say in around a week or so I should have a rough prototype if things go right.
Update
Didn't really have much time to work on this this week, so my week estimate is going out of the window. I will not estimate anymore. But I am still working on things, so game will happen. :)
Have you played the Conkers Bad Fur day multiplayer back on the n64? There is this mode called beach, where you play defenseless squirrels that have to make it over the border, which is guarded by nazi teddy bears. They have bazookas, snipers and turrets. All the squirrels have is their mobility.
So you run while there's stuff exploding and shots fired over your heads and around you while you run for your life and it was the most fun I had in a multiplayer game ever.
i've always dreamt of a similar game, or a mod for this game with more players and maps.
But imagine, a game where one team has only their agility and parkour skills to make it somewhere, while the other team tries to kill them.
So either you go the silly route with the squirrels and simple controls, or you could make a game with deep parkour gameplay and evasion moves and the like, but the rules and the goal would be the same.
EDIT: one detail that I forgot but is of great importance: the opposing team (nazi teddy bears) are pretty stationary and can just move up on their wall. They can't go down to the map where the squirrels run for their life
So escaping from East Berlin over the Berlin Wall, but… fun?
lmao