| Jul. 4th, 2007 @ 07:58 am Quick! Someone find me a publisher! |
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Current Mood:  creative
I had the best idea for a game this morning. Take your standard zombie game (a zombie infection becomes epidemic and takes over a town) and add to it parkour. You are an amateur free-runner. You're out training when the zombie epidemic hits. Your goal is to save your friends and family from the zombies. Your friends are free-runners too, so when you rescue them, they teach you new skills.
Most of the game is free-running, trying to avoid zombies while reaching your goal. But you can also use it offensively (spring off a wall and kick a zombie in the head), or defensively (run a particular course so that zombies chase you, instead of your friends). Later in the game you'd have a small amount of gunplay added to the mix as well. The point is to go against the old zombie gameplay of setting up a defensive position and shooting until they stop moving. In this game, you move quickly and ever-forward, and avoid combat wherever you can. The thrill of running headlong into danger, while avoiding it gracefully would certainly be a standout.
Your main enemies would be slow-moving, ever-hungry zombies. However, you could come up against killer zombie dogs (that are much, much faster), freakish lab experiments gone wrong, and mad scientists. Later in the game (perhaps after you've finished a sub-quest to notify the authorities of the predicament), the military roll in and try to quarantine the town. Unfortunately they consider everyone infected and so will be an obstacle to your later quests. Maybe add some sneaking gameplay so you may be able to sneak your way to a goal, but have to make a mad dash at the end to snatch the goal.
Along the way you improve your stats (fitness, endurance, strength) either by saving people (and learning skills), getting cool objects (a mad scientist has a laser that increases your strength) or by earning experience by doing particularly cool or graceful parkour runs.
The uniqueness of this game is its dynamic, creative gameplay in a action/horror setting. You can use many different parkour skills to accomplish a single goal, so how you combine them is up to you. One particular strategy might make it easy to get into a building, but attract lots of zombie attention, so getting out is much harder. Another strategy might involve harder stunts (leaping from rooftop to rooftop), but attract less attention.
I know this game is cool because I played it in my dream last night. But why wouldn't it be cool? It combines Prince of Persia and Resident Evil. If two best-selling games are good, then combining them must be even better :)
So who wants to make it for me? |
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