Brainstorming

ok i know some people don't like the discussions but some do, so if you don't just ignore this.

i'd love to have a brainstorming thread filled with exciting and different game ideas, hopefully it will work like this, i'll start a word and someone else makes a short description of a game with that word, they then choose another word and someone else continues. Hopefully some people will be inspired

Afro

A combination of BitmapData and curveTo() gradually grows out an intricate afro over the course of a few minutes.

Ripple

Ripple - a surfing game for boyant insects riding ripples in a pond, insects must dodge small human nets and goldfish

lava

your first click on the screen creates a ripple in water which begins a chain reaction eventually causing tidal wave, as the "ripple" get biggers, the view pans out until it covers the world. I'm not sure what the point would be, but it would sure look cool anyway.

Sound

EDIT: malee beat me to it...

Sound - A note is played and you have to alter a wave pattern to recreate the sound. (Ok thats kinda boring, but i couldnt think of anything else)

Umbrella

Umbrella - an evil mary poppins is reducing your towns population by by distributing floating umbrellas to everyone, your mission is to jump on everyones umbrella and keep them from floating away (platform game)

Lemon Juice

You are James Bond, but you have somehow been mistaken for a food channel tv host. Use various items within your cooking show to (like lemon juice) to fight your way to not-food-network. The game eventually escalates in a boss fight with Mario Batali.

Time

Time - you are 8 years old, and on a school trip to the Greatest Clock museum in the world, when suddenly a small leprechaun man taps you on the shoulder with his wand and makes you 1000 times smaller and places you inside the biggest, geariest clock on display. You have to make your way up to the top through the cogs and gears before it strikes 12. Features nice ragdoll physics.

Electricity

It's a Sonic game where you are a character that can use his ability to charge his body to a million watts for one second in order to do things like destroy enemies, propel himself in the air, magnetize steel, boil water, and charge (rechargable) batteries. He can also teleport by going through telephone lines.

Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan makes a return but due to an administrative errror gets affiliated with the wrong WWF, and now travels the world, protecting endangered species and beating the crap out of turds that do nasty things to animals.

Abstinence

Abstinence

Your cursor is an AA attendee, and you have to navigate him around the screen, weaving around incoming alcohol bottles.

Sewing

Sewing - You play the all powerful (insert your preferred creator of the universe diety here). The fabric of reality has frayed at the seams and you have to stitch it back together. Sew various historical timelines together to create different alternate realities. The happier you can make people by combining realities, the better you score.

Suicide

or, if that makes you uncomfortable,

Lava (was missed earlier)

Make your character die in awesome ways to score points, features rag-doll physics.

Virus

Virus - You wake up one morning to discover your house is infested with the t-virus, your family have gone and your starting to mutate into a zombie, during this mutation, you realise there is no hope left so you enjoy a can of 5 year old creamed corn, in doing so the mutation goes wrong and you are left as part zombie part human (a thinking zombie) you must wander the streets of your town in search of your zombie family and give them the creamed corn. However to stop the mutation from taking you over when you're more zombie you have to munch on humans, when you're more human you have to save humans. (resident evil style)

title: Corn Warrior

Yellow

you can give your games a title as well :)

tough one

the entire game is made of two colors, yellow and yellower
throughout the game you can do crazy things to the environment as if though it was partly solidified paint, including special abilites like, walk on yellow (variation of jesus's walking on water), yellow rebound, etc. EVERYTHING consists of yellow blobs

name: When the World Was Yellow

Eternal Fire

Eternal Fire - year 4000, Aliens have invaded earth, the only thing that stops them is fire, however after many years of war the aliens have adapted to the fire and it barely hurts them, the only answer is to find Eternal Fire, a traitor of the aliens speaks to the humans and tells them where to find the Eternal Fire, you captain a ship filled with many people set for the fire planet. As you arrive the aliens are waiting and you battle them to get the Eternal Fire (Starcraft style RTS)

title: Fire from a far

Punk

punk - you, work on peoples rides, in order to get them completely punked out. you must decide what your customer views as "punkish" and punk out there ride accordingly, as these customers recomend you, you will became better known, and you may have to fight with other corporations over possesion of the customers

title: Punk My Ride (like you didnt see that coming)

this next word will be random, (found a random word generator like that)

Merging

Merging - there is no more love in the world. You, being the creative scientist you are have to create a love potion by merging many different chemicals, bacteria and cells. You must act quickly or the world will be without love forever. If your potion sucks then everyone will hate each other instead. You advance by creating different strands of your potion, your departement tests these strands and gives you back data so you can continue your experiments. However you have limited test subjects so you'll need to be smart

title: Love juice

rain

Merging - an earthquake simulator. You view the world underground, shifting and slamming (and merging) tectonic plates. Destroy as many cities as you can, as quickly as possible by figuring out which plates pull on what fault lines and connect to which cities, set up chain combos and level whole continents.


damn too slow...

Rain - You're an ant. your family back home is starving. You've just found food and it's beginning to rain. As you make the long treck home, you'll have to be smart to run under the cover of leaves and rocks and safely get home. After time, the rain will start piling up and you'll have to start moving along higher ground.

torn

torn - you're a stealth spy sent on a mission to snipe Natalie Imbruglia before she has a chance to release her new album - a remixed version of the so-named hit single. You have to threaten and dispatch her family members in order to discover her hidden location somewhere on the planet.

retard

You only need the title - Special California Games. Mash the keyboard with your forehead... enough.

Daisy

Diasy -
You are a phsycopathic cow who used to give out milk. But that milk was soo good that the cows want it back. Go on a mission to get the milk and slaughter the humans! (sidescroller)
Title: The day the cows came.

Titanium

Titanium - I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to steal this for my game, it's perfect... It involves lots of metal things hitting each other. Can't tell you much more than that, but it will be a lot of fun. Thx tidenburg :)

Weevil

"We-evil zombies have risen from the earth and now we're coming for your brains!"
You play the lord of the undead who has to use his hordes of zombies to assasinate the leaders of all the rebel militia out there destroying your minions. Bonus points for every brain you get.

everfornever

everfornever

A simple negotiating (mostly) text game with a couple of great 3D graphics. You are a newbie flash developer who just woke up in a hostage situation and wants to get out as quick as possible 'cause he has a deadline for making his game (also a simple one, not an MMORPG). The terrorists ask a question and your task is to choose the right answer to proceede. The further you go, the closer your way out is. However, the game has a "glitch". The evil terrorists shuffle the sentences in random time intervals and they popup all over the screen on random positions so you really can never choose the right thing to say. Kind of a true newbie flash develper story.

Diapers

Diapers

The Family Strikes Back! You've had it with the late night raids. The toilet papering, the egging, the flaming bags of crap on the front door step. It's time for those teenagers to pay. You camp out in the garage with your week's supply of little Timmy's dirty diapers that you've saved for such an occasion, and when they show up, it's not only your right, it's your "doody" to let them have it.
:)

CHAIR

funny thread.
CHAIR
You must balance on a chair, leaning back on the back two legs for as long as possible. If you unbalance forward (back onto four legs) you get score based on how far back you leaned for how long. If you unbalance backwards, you crack your skull on the floor and it's game over. This is a fun game in the real world too!

Vector

Vector

you are walking down a dark gloomy forest road, when suddenly the trees start to shake. Out in distance rises a giant Tonypa, a one eyed monster wearing a lab coat, luckily you have a piece of paper and a pen. Tonypa starts to throw Vectors at you, you must write down equations to repel them. Score more by repelling them back to tony

Big Bang

big bang is a game which you have to get the biggest explosion. as the game progresses, you have more explosives and you need to time them right to make a great humongous explosion.. you need to buy fuel n stuff...........iono

Font Recognition

Quote:

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a giant Tonypa, a one eyed monster wearing a lab coat

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I don't think he'll appreciate you telling people online what he looks like mate.

Font recognition
Title: Barry Font 2: Recognition
The dud sequel to an amazing point-n-click action adventure game.
The game features the witty and charming Barry Font, ace detective, who due to unfortunate circumstances has become terribly unpopular. His mission, solve daring crimes to restore his status as the citys favourite crime fighting larikan.

Ding Dong

You're a lousy teenage punk on a mission to annoy the neighborhood. Run up to people's doors to hit their door bell and then run away or hide before they see you. The more times you hide from the same person in a row, the more points you get, but each time the home owner becomes more and more agitated and gets harder to hide from.

longitude

Longitude,

Post apocalyptic top-down bombing game. (using google maps)
Aliens have invaded and enslaved all humans, complete bombing missions using reconditioned ww2 aircraft to disable the alien motherships and free the human race from oppression.

Use traditional navigation tequniques and visual landmarks to locate and destroy targets.

Brandish

Quote:

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You're a lousy teenage punk on a mission to annoy the neighborhood. Run up to people's doors to hit their door bell and then run away or hide before they see you. The more times you hide from the same person in a row, the more points you get, but each time the home owner becomes more and more agitated and gets harder to hide from.

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Game idea?
You just described my teenage years is all.

Brandish
It's a dirty hentai game where the mission is to...

Jesus Christ, who chooses Brandish for a title? something else please.

...Whirl

Whirl

A top down fighting game in which the character (with his staff) is punnished for using his magic powers and cast into a hole between mountains that make a circle around him so he cannot leave. As the time passes the mountains get more and more closer and the enemies are jumping from the top of the mountains and running towards you. However, each time you kill an enemy he "feeds" your power, a Power Of Whirl, but the more you use it the harder it gets fed (the more enamies you have to kill to use the power again). The Power Of Whirl has a power to move mountains away from you. Intro voice by Pablo Francisco imitating Don LaFontaine saying:
How long can you last?Will you survive?The struggle for your existance beginns!!!
Imagine that. :D
Online highscore list included, of course.

Drug Addict

Drug Addict:

You are given a normal game, say, a platformer, but during the course of that game your character is given some drugs which make him go somewhat insane (think LCD...er...LSD) so now, you not only have to save the princess, you have to do it wondering if anything you're seeing as actually real or not.

slang

Slang:
It is a battle of words in this world. Fight off the uniform, dictionary words with your deliciously twisted ones. Picking up the debris of letters left behind allow you to form more words for your arsenal.

Title: When Words Collide

Lathe

Lathe

You must quickly tap the spacebar to keep a lump of clay moving while you simultaneously use your mouse to push in against the clay's side to form it into a pot (the curves it needs to fit into would be displayed by a dotted line)

Cheese