GAME IDEAS
brain dump / archive / maybe future projects
1 tag - rating of the idea
2 tag - genre of the game
3 tag - status of the idea
❤️ - personal fav
Two Why's
I abandoned this project as I didn't feel inspired enough for it to make it after I finish my current games. Also I don't know anything about RPG maker but I want to!
Themes:
Family/mental problems, bullying.
Synopsis:
The player is a Juvenile Liaison that investigates a teenage homi/suicide. The main character is pissed off with the system quickly closing and forgetting the case. They want to dig deeper and find the truth. Since they work in the criminal field, they can access the subjects' stuff, ask all their acquaintance, parents and other connected people
Characters:
Features:
Boy Next Door
Themes:
Stalking, serial killer
Synopsis:
The player is a woman that had to move to a remote place for work(or other much deeper reasons) in a midwest state. There's barely any houses here, not even mentioning people. They meet the residents: An elderly couple, a family with a small child. And then a guy in his late 20s bumps into the player on purpose and tries to make friends with them. Something's off about him.
Sometimes news about hitchhikers disappearing nearby pop up on the TV....
He found the player, will they end up on the news or survive?
Characters:
Features:
Next to You
I'm a bit confused cuz the game is dark and isn't for kids. But the main character is still in high school. They are in 10th or 11th grade. Yeah when I came up with it, i didn't think much, since the characters are my age. If I consider this idea, I have to think about it...
Themes:
Synopsis:
The player is a school student moving into a new school in Kazakhstan and getting seated with a weird guy named Ayan. On the recess, two of their classmates approach them to be friends, a loud class clown Andrey and his bestie Karina that is a caring, straight A student. The deskmate clearly doesn't like it, but he appears too shy or introverted to get closer to the player. He hides something. Something about him sickly obsessing with the main character and not wanting anyone to interact with them but him. The reasons for him, well are unjustifiable but still, he is mentally ill because of his traumatic childhood. His mother was a victim of a bride kidnapping resulting in him and the mother staying.(wip)
Characters: Ayan the deskmate, Andrey and Karina classmates
Features: I'd stylize it really cool :)
Th3rapy(Overpilled)
A story about a therapist helping 3 patients. Later I turned it into OverPilled, because at the start there was supposed to be 3 regular customers coming to the pharmacy: Viktor(yk ok), Elisa: a girl coming for prescripted drugs for depression and other mental illnesses. She's too quiet and that's why the player can't forget her, they somewhat want to know her, maybe they are similar in loneliness. And Ander, an eccentric guy that wants some too specific medicines that are prescripted, of course the main character can't give them(or can they?). He's obviously a addict and that's why MC can't forget him too. Also my sister made the fourth character - Lazarus, a sketchy man that buys suspicious stuff, he's actually a serial killer.
Drea(r)(m)y
I abandoned these ideas since I kind of made Afterthought out of them.
Synopsis:
1st initial idea:
The player is a man that somehow falls in a liminal backroom like area and then finds himself in a small town in the woods that is terrorized by Haniiiii. There’s different locations.
2nd idea:the man wakes up in the village's hospital and the nurse tells him that he got in a car crash on a highway nearby and they got him here, he doesn't remember anything so he investigates the village and asks ppl in there around, they get him a little apartment. In the end he realizes that everyone in here are dead, and he died in that car crash and its the afterlife/uh idk
Characters: The man, and all the afterthought chars are there.
My first ideas about them:
1) (Forest)is my old metalhead oc, his story is left as is lol. Mc can find him in the forest leaning on a tree or looking for something, he’ll tell some random lore about the old purple haired guy(I drew him in 2023) and that he had gone crazy and died bcs of warptsd. He’s friendly but not too much if you’re noisy or nosy. Also I don’t want him to be similar with Erik
2) (Apartment complex) A shut in with long greasy hair covering their face and only an eye can look at mc, he just opens the door with a chain so it’s opened slightly and Mc can annoy him. He’s a neighbor from the left
3) (Apartment complex) A middle aged couple neighbors always fighting and MC will knock on their doors to ask to be quiet. They’re angry af
Features: the textbox will be different and text and name tag will be at the left, the man’s expression(debatable) on the right. The choice menus will be on the right connected to the textbox so it’s not distracting.
None Knew
I want this to be as unromantisized as possible
Themes:
uh no it will be too spoilery
Warning: stalking
Synopsis:
The player is playing as a customizable character(check features) and they just finished 2 year old community college and came to their home town, they live with their older sister Ayesha and her boyfriend Ethan. After logging of the laptop they go to sleep. The next day (check features) after exploring their room after a 2 year old absence they go downstairs to feed the cat.
Here I need to develop the story further to end it properly. Spoilers ↓
What's actually the catch? Why "none knew"? Well, I have to tell how did Ayesha and Ethan end up together? Since his job is a network engineer, they two met when Ayesha called a communications company for WI-FI installation when they were 19. He showed up and she found him cute and decided to treat him to some cookies she made that day. She disappeared in the kitchen while he installed the router on the second floor. But! His target was installiing cameras around the house, especially in the MC's room. For the whole time he had plans on them and started dating Ayesha as a cover to get closer with them. He stalked tham and has countless pictures of them on his laptop(plays a role). The MC is oblivious, but something has to let them know that everything is wrong and he's an imposter and a freak. What will happen next???
Characters: Main character(approximate age 20+, they are younger than Ayesha), other things are customizable at the start of the game.
Ayesha, the main character's older sister. She's 23 and they aren't doing very well financially after their parents died(that's why MC studied only 2 years i a community college), she had to grow up and give up her dreams of higher education, she works as (wip).
Ethan, sister's boyfriend. He's 23 like her and working as a network technician(he had a CCNA and has started working since he was 18). The MC and him had always been in a good relationship with him and enjoy hanging out together, Ayesha finds it cute.
Sam, the main character's best friend, they are happy with the main character returning.
Features: At the start of the game MC opens up their laptop(i want it to be functional and realistic) and logs in somewhere official (dorm daze ahh) to have basic information like name and pronouns, then they play a dress up game (they have to make themselves) and that's how the game knows how does the main character look like throughout the game(important).
They can explore their room and click on: the photo wall near their bed(they see the photos with the sister and her boyfriend and their cat (that's when the character's appearance plays a role for immersion)), the bed(well it's the bed), the table with the laptop. Fuck this kind of sounds like Date with Death room, whatever.
The roommate
Heavily inspired from the pic below
Themes:
Possesiveness
Synopsis:
Mc becomes homeless after getting an eviction notice because they can’t pay or something for their moms house they live in and because they’re not in a good relationship mom kicks them out to rent this room with someone who can pay. Mc goes on craigslist or whatever site stumbles upon only available room with very weird rules. I screenshotted the inspiration on my ipad. If they move with him he will be untrustworthy and a bit creepy and grumpy. Then he'll become possessive of mc for some reason. Like telling them that they can’t lock their room and even the bathroom. The mc doesn’t know what to do. He'll become very weird depending on choices, sometimes MC will get feelings like someone watching them sleep
Characters: The main character, their mother and the weird guy
Features: i lowkey want this game to be cinematic for immersion and atmosphere.
That's what Life is
I don't know anything about 3d games so it's just a kinf of concept
Synopsis:
A very dark 3d game set in a poor CIS city about the characters: 1) a policeman that has to see the worst of his city, respond to abuse/crashes and robberies and show up. One of the missions would be: his office is pretty understaffed so he went on a report of a foul smell in one of the apartments nearby alone. Arriving, he started to smell it and it was putrid, but not enough for him to throw up. He rang the doorbell, knocked on the door but there was no response. He had to break the door open and the smell was too much to bear and he vomited on the floor. WORK IN PROGRESS CUZ I WANT TO SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Characters: The policeman, the detective woman
Features: dark and gloomy
Euthanasia
I came up with this weird edgy game in early 2023
Themes:
Synopsis:
Main character wakes up in his apartment (wip)
Characters: The main character, hallucination of his friend, his mother.
Features: Low poly and grainy
Unfamily
Themes:
domestic abuse
Synopsis:
Main character is a boy that finds himself in a middle of a road and starts to wander around, slowly remembering his life.
Characters: The main character, his parents and sister.
Features:Pixel