Flocking
Posted on June 20, 2006
I’m using Flock to post this, so I feel like I have to pimp them out a little. Its a nice Firefox offshoot browser with a focus on those oh so trendy “Web 2.0″ (I DESPISE this term) features like blogging, social bookmarking and photo sharing. It can’t do EVERYTHING in terms of interfacing with this blog system, but it does the job pretty nicely considering this is the first public beta. And now….VIDEOGAMES!
A while back The Gamers Quarter did a little piece on outside the box game ideas (in issue 3). Apparently joystiq has found the designer of Stubbs the Zombie up to the same thing, and even coming up with some fairly similar ideas:
- Snow Day (game idea #9): An open-ended sandbox game from the perspective of a kid in a small town covered in a blanket of snow. You can make snow men, have snow fights, and (if you want to quest) help adults do various tasks for rewards. May we also recommend an online MMO portion alongside a crafted single-player adventure. And, if you decide to use more contemporary music (bad idea), consider Minus the Bear’s “Hooray” (good idea, and the lyrics are related to snow fights).
- Loup-Garou (game idea #15): Mild-mannered adventure game by day, maniacally-warped romp by night, Loup-Garou puts you in the role of a farmer who at sunset transforms into a werewolf. In your wolf form, you have limited control over your actions, and the entire world takes a visual transformation (humans become monsters, sheep into tasty treats). It’s up to you to prepare for the transformation each night (i.e. making sure you do the least amount of damage / do not get killed by the angry community).
Patrick Curry’s craziest game ideas – Joystiq
People just love those totally open sandbox games these days don’t they?
