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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

An urbanism focussed city builder where you start with an existing city in the current car-centric style, possibly including a couple of dozen kilometers around the city so rural problems are included as well and have to transform it, with realistic building project times, into one that is more walkable, has safe bike paths, good public transport,...

In particular I would also like it to take verticality in to account both for transport (people and bikes and trains have a harder time going up and down than cars, boats need locks,...) and for buildings (stores at the bottom of a building, residential above,...) and that accounts for the huge amounts of space car-centric cities waste on parking as well as the ongoing infrastructure costs for maintenance and replacements of all that infrastructure in sprawling cities.

Basically "Not Just Bikes" the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

A driving (either racing or GTA-style) game that generates the roads from real-world geospatial data/street view imagery similar to how Microsoft Flight Simulator does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NOTE: Someone probably has developed it, but I’m too poor to buy a decent computer.

I’ve been wanting the shittiest, most grindy military logistics game possible for a bit now. Like, “oh you didn’t upgrade your Sock factory? Fuck you now your platoon has trench foot” type Grindy.

I want to feel pain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rimworld is probably the closest thing to that right now. Watch your village starve as their clothes wear out and they get frostbite.

Or dwarf fortress if you want to get medieval

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Funny thing, I’m actually playing rimworld right now!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Social Anxiety Survival Horror. You're a guy at a friend's party trying to avoid conversations while putting in an appearance with your friend so they know you were here. You can deflect conversations with small talk you pick up by eavesdropping, but it won't work on drunk people, so you also need to run and hide. Your ex-partner eventually shows up and is hunting you down to have a frank conversation about your relationship, which is instant game over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You've just proposed the next indie game of the year

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good. Someone, please make this. And make it first person for the full effect.

Other ideas for people to pinch:

  • You can only use each snippet of small talk once before collecting it again, because you're afraid of repeating yourself.
  • The game is filled with collectibles, but they're all located on the floor, so you're more likely to find them if you're in character and looking at the floor the entire time.
  • To pause the game, you have to look at your phone while standing in a quiet area.
  • Your ex-partner has a lengthy list of grievances you can hear when they're hunting you. This includes "you always run away from me at parties".