This is an idea I've had since the first Scribblenauts game was released: A community-driven version. The basic premise is identical to that of Scribblenauts: solving puzzle-based levels using just about anything you can think of by summoning items, NPCs, etc by writing the name down. For example, the objective is to get a star out of a tree. You could summon a lumberjack to cut the tree down, or a saw/chainsaw/axe/etc to cut it down yourself. Or you could summon a ladder to climb up into the tree. Or a jetpack, helicopter, wings... The possibilities are endless. The point of difference between Scribblenauts and my idea of Wikinauts is the social, community-driven aspect.
Speaking of different ways of experiencing music, JamLegend is shutting down. This makes me incredibly sad.
Does anyone even know about the Inception iPhone app? Movie tie-in apps and games are generally something to be wary of; once the hype from the movie wears off, they are cast aside as marketing shovelware. Inception was an awesome movie, but was not immune to this. There was an Inception world bending app that took pictures from your current location on google maps and overlaid them on the sky from a photo from the phone’s camera. It was gimmicky and didn’t work very well. Once the hype from the movie died down, it was deleted.
In our increasingly busy lives, we no longer have the luxury of time to sit in an armchair in front of the fire, reading the newspaper. Besides, the news is already a day old by then; we want to know what’s happening now. Enter Armchair, an app idea I just cooked up.
I love the retro stylings of the BIT.TRIP series. I wouldn’t call myself their biggest fan; I started playing the series with RUNNER, I haven’t finished any of the games and I haven’t even played FLUX. But I do love the series. One of the things I love the most is the control scheme for BEAT (and presumably FLUX). To a lot of people, twisting the Wiimote to control your paddle feels weird and unintuitive. But it’s an awesome replication of the old Atari paddle controller. The only thing better would be a real paddle controller.
This is an idea I’ve had in my head for a long time. I think it would be most suited to an anime series, but it’s just a story idea.
An idea that I’ve been kicking around for a little while now, that I know I’m probably never going to work on, is a Pokémon Real-Time Strategy game in the vein of Warcraft 2 (not 3).
The idea is, you train trainers in a manner similar to training units in most RTS games, then send them into forests, caves, grassy areas, etc to find and catch Pokémon to use in battle. A trainer will only be allowed 3 Pokémon in their party for simplicity’s sake, and because that’s the most number of Pokémon you can send into battle at once.
“Pro Tanto” – According to Wikipedia, it means “for so much”, or “something that has only been partially fulfilled”.
