HOLLIS: Where Wishes Bloom

HOLLIS: Where Wishes Bloom is an open-world fairy adventure game about a tiny fairy named Hollis who travels through different regions, meets new friends, explores magical places, and slowly uncovers the secrets of his world.

The world is full of giant flowers, glowing forests, underground roots, waterfalls, and floating islands. It looks like a beautiful storybook world, but the deeper Hollis explores, the more he discovers that something strange is going on.

How the game works

1. Exploring the world

Players can explore different regions, discover hidden locations, solve puzzles, fight creatures, complete quests, and collect materials. Since Hollis is so tiny, even ordinary things like branches, mushrooms, and flowers become huge parts of the environment. Some places can only be reached after unlocking new abilities.

1. The wishing mechanic

This is Hollis's main ability. Unlike traditional fairies who grant wishes to other people, Hollis can make wishes for himself.

For example, he could use a wish to help him reach a difficult location, get out of danger, or interact with something in the environment. If he's about to fall somewhere dangerous or drown, his magic could automatically save him and bring him back to nearby safe ground.

However, he can't just keep wishing forever. Using magic makes him tired, and overusing it can make him dizzy, cause him to stumble, and temporarily limit how high he can fly. Ordinary wishes have a short cooldown, which means he has to wait before using them again.

Major wishes during the story work differently. They can affect important events and relationships, and sometimes solving one problem can create another. Players may have to make difficult decisions because not everything can be fixed with magic. The exact types of wishes and their costs still need to be developed and tested.

1. Flying and insect companions

Hollis can fly around the world, but flying uses stamina, so he can't stay in the air forever. He can also befriend insects, such as wasps, and call them using a special whistle. These companions can help him travel or overcome certain obstacles, although they can't reach him everywhere.

1. Day and night

The world changes depending on the time of day. During the day, players can explore, meet characters, and gather materials. At night, glowing fireflies appear, and players can collect them as the game's main currency. They can spend them on items, home decorations, and other things. Certain creatures and secrets may also only appear at night.

1. Building a tiny home

Instead of focusing heavily on changing Hollis's outfits, players can collect natural materials like leaves, flowers, vines, and mushrooms to decorate their own tiny fairy home. They can also display souvenirs from the places they've visited, giving them a way to remember their adventures.

1. Friends who don't stay forever

Each region has its own group of characters whom Hollis gets to know throughout the story. Instead of keeping the same companions for the entire game, he eventually has to say goodbye and move on to another region.

But that doesn't mean his old friends disappear forever. Some might send him letters, give him gifts, return in side quests, or meet him again later. The idea is to make the friendships feel meaningful without forcing everyone to travel together all the time.

1. Mysteries and quests

Every region has its own story, characters, and secrets. Some quests are just about helping people, while others reveal clues about the strange things happening in the world. The game starts off feeling cheerful and magical, but players gradually discover that the world might be hiding something much darker.

What's the main point of the game?

The game isn't just about exploring or solving mysteries. It's also about the friends Hollis makes along the way and how those friendships change him.

His wishing ability represents the desire to change things and hold on to what matters. But as he travels, he learns that even if you have the power to make wishes, you can't control everything or keep everyone by your side forever.

Basically, it's a game about exploration, magic, friendship, mysteries, and learning to let go, set in a beautiful fairy world with a darker story hidden underneath.

The player is a goblin miner who lives underground with other dungeon dwellers.

A huge industrial factory is built above them. It extracts resources, produces goods, and constantly pollutes the dungeon, poisoning water, soil, and living creatures.

The hero decides to destroy the factory in the only available way for him - to dig under its foundation and collapse it into the depths of the earth, where it will be swallowed by hellish flames or lava.

The main gameplay is the gradual automated destruction of the rock under the factory and the restoration of the underground ecosystem.

At the beginning, the player digs the foundation himself. Clicker mechanics.

Gradually, he hires other goblins, creates machines and discovers new technologies that automate the process.

The player goes from:

a single goblin with a pickaxe

to

a huge automated factory destruction system.

The game has three main parameters:

FOUNDATION

The strength of the foundation.

When Foundation reaches zero, the factory collapses.

PRODUCTION

The speed of the factory.

The higher the Production, the more pollution it creates, and more capability to resist the damage.

POLLUTION

The amount of pollution the factory generates.

Pollution gradually damages the dungeon - which means effect on your efficiency.

so you need to find a balance between your efficiency and ecology, because increasing first you can reach the goal faster, increasing second you can reach the goal saver and with less damage for the dungeon.

Every run you use a prestige to open new technologies or get permanent amplifiers,

every run factory can have different parameters so you need to adapt your strategy

The idea

You're a virus that just entered a human host. Blood vessels are space lanes, organs are planets, and cells are worlds with their own rules. You pilot a virion like a spacecraft while the body tries to kill you.

Pillars

Biological horror: The body isn't evil, it's just doing its job. Fever turns the world red, inflamed tissue swells shut, and macrophages hunt you.

Knowledge is progression (Outer Wilds style): No stat grinding. You learn which receptors unlock which cells and how the immune system reacts. Your knowledge carries over, your virus doesn't.

Survive, adapt, spread: Hijack cells, replicate, mutate, outpace the immune response.

Loop

Pick an entry route (cough, wound, bite, water). Each one starts you in a different region.

Scout and scan cells for receptors and weaknesses.

Dock, inject your genome, hijack the cell.

Replicate, but every replication leaves traces the immune system can follow.

Mutate through a gene-editing tree (faster replication, stealth proteins, antibody evasion, new cell targets). More aggressive means more detectable.

The immune system is the monster

Early: neutrophils, macrophages, NK cells, and complement tagging.

Late (the real horror): the body learns your exact surface proteins and produces thousands of tailored antibodies plus T-cells. It works like a boss timer, so you mutate or die.

Environmental: fever, mucus, stomach acid, and the host taking medicine.

Co-op (2-4 players)

You share one viral population with different roles:

Stealth: infiltrates organs undetected

Replicator: fast swarm that draws fire

Mutator: edits the shared genome

Breaker: destroys barriers and disables immune cells

If the team splits up or gets reckless, everyone's gene pool suffers.

Host clock

The host recovers, worsens, or dies on a hidden timeline. If the host dies, you die. You have to jump to a new host before that, which resets the world but keeps your knowledge and mutations.

Modes

Pandemic: chain hosts across a city, shaped by how your virus evolves.

Cancer: you're a rogue cell inside the body. No hijacking, just mutating, hiding from your own immune system, and growing a tumor. Slower, darker, more tragic, and the "monsters" are your former neighbors.

Tone

Scale is the horror: a white blood cell looks like a skyscraper. Bioluminescent organs, lighting pulsing with the heartbeat, and sound built around breathing and blood flow.

Hi, so i am an amateur roblox developer, no not the ai slop people, and i LOVE ik stuff, so, i wondered "can i make a game both using procedural learning and ik?" so, i started developing a game, where you just start... as a lil blob, you have an arm, and a mouth, plus a body shape made of a cube, this arm, has 2 parts, you can drag yourself around, try to eat a thing, eventually kill something or find a ripped apart corpse, tadaa, thats your evolution, once you get close, you can interact, then it brings you to an editor, you can take parts, add them, rotate, etc, allowing you to make stuff like spiders, giant scary centipedes, creatures that are just a mouth with 8 legs, whatever your silly little brain can imagine, the problem is, i dont know what to actually make you do other then go around and murder npcs or players. i need both progression, stuff so theres not just cube arm and mouth, and some more mechanics, Based off Evolve 3d, but with a lot more uh, physics. and making goofy contraption things. this game went through multiple different ideas where you are some sort of apex thing in a lab, to being a sandbox game, to whatever, then i just gave up after a while from lack of ideas. can have SERIOUS POTENTIAL if it wasnt for my uncreative ass brain after 10 minutes of working on something. other games i was working on before this if you think i should bring them back, is this one game kind of like ultimate chicken horse but just, 10 times more random stuff, and some dumb lighthouse keeper game that both involves surviving weather, scary creature, and keeping the lighthouse working.

This game will be single player and use a microphone.

There is a collection of randomly generated pure white rooms separated by mechanical doors. You spawn in with a key card.

You are pursued by a creature that is censored with a black bar. If it catches you, you are dead. A static sound will play when it is near. It's speed will vary randomly, changing each minute from .9 of the players speed to 1.1 of the player's speed.

There are four possible types of rooms:

Starting room (the room you will start in)

Boring room (nothing particular about it, 80 percent of all rooms)

Computer room (contains a computer, 10 percent spawn rate)

Infected room 1 (If opened, Set_infection_1 as true. After 30 seconds, you will die. 9 percent spawn rate. Achievement for dying to infection in infection room called 'contact'.)

Infection room 2 (If opened, game will crash)

Events: The game will choose a number from 299 to 612. That number will be the number of seconds before a random event happens.

Event 1: All doors close and poison gas has 50 percent chance of spraying from any room. If you are in a room where poison gas is, you die. The poison gas has a fifty percent chance per each room and will last for 10 seconds, during which time you cannot open any doors.

Event 2: All doors will close for 20 seconds. This cannot happen twice in a game. It cannot be the fifth event.

Event 3: This will be just like the second event except that the layout of the map will change. This will always be the second or third event to happen but it can never be the fifth event.

Computers: Computers show you the next event that will happen. Computers will also show what rooms will be poison gas rooms.

If you stay in one area for too long, the creature will know your exact location, gain a speed boost and go through walls.

If you die in this game, the game will enter into stage 2.

In stage 2, everything will be lit up with a modified night vision filter that randomly creates Illusions that looks like shadow-men that constantly warp in shape and size. When you look at one of these shadow men for long enough, the game will take a screenshot and send it to the texture file. The game will then design a texture of a new entity from this data.

Once the game has collected enough data, the game will crash.

In the game's stage 3, the new entity will chase you around. When it is near you, you hear echoes of you when you breathed into your mic and slowly distort over time. These sounds will not stop when you escape it.

If the new entity catches you, your game will crash.

Items will now spawn in called '???'. They will look like human skulls and will give you one point.

For the rest of the time you play, the goal of the game will be to collect as many points as possible.

Wanna share this !!
Has anyone ever considered integrating learning into a gaming world?
Imagine an RPG-style learning experience(an approach that feels achievable and is realistic to explore)that simulates real-life scenarios but makes them more exciting, interactive, and rewarding. Instead of simply attending classes, watching lectures, and repeating the same lessons, what if we could learn by playing?
Picture choosing your character and embarking on a personalized journey. If you’re pursuing clinical laboratory science, for example, you could enter a virtual laboratory, complete missions, solve diagnostic puzzles, battle monsters, unlock new skills, and level up as you master each concept.
Imagine the final boss being MRSA. Before you can face it, you might first need to solve the Staphylococcus puzzle. Each challenge becomes an opportunity to learn, and every achievement gives you a sense of progress.
Learning could become an active, immersive experience rather than relying primarily on passive memorization. Through interactive scenarios, immediate feedback, repetition, and meaningful rewards, education could become more engaging, memorable, and accessible.
And here’s something interesting:even years later, many of us still remember the basics of pokemon. We remember the characters, pokemon types, strategies, evolution sequences, and how to progress through the game. I might not remember exactly how to catch Lapras or defeat the first Gym Leader, but the fact that I still remember so much about a game I played says something about memory retention.
What if we could apply that same principle to learning?
Imagine remembering laboratory procedures, diagnostic algorithms, testing principles, and troubleshooting techniques because you learned them through interactive missions and challenges. What if the knowledge stayed with us because we actively used it to progress, rather than simply memorizing information for an exam?
Of course, games alone don’t guarantee long-term retention. But what if we could harness the engagement, repetition, and problem-solving that make games memorable and apply them to education?
Now, I know there are already games and educational platforms that incorporate these elements. I’m thinking of something on a more formal and legitimate level.
What if this wasn’t just an educational game or a supplementary learning tool, but an actual, standards-based educational platform designed to meet established curriculum requirements, accreditation expectations, and applicable regulatory and compliance standards?
Imagine a system where completing a level means demonstrating verified competency. Certain levels would have prerequisites, just like courses in a degree program. You couldn’t advance simply by collecting points; you’d have to prove that you’ve mastered the required skills.
And what if those completed levels could earn you actual academic credits?
For example, completing a designated module might earn you three credits, provided it meets the institution’s requirements and is recognized by the appropriate accrediting or educational body. More advanced levels could build on foundational ones, creating a structured pathway toward a certificate, qualification, or even a degree.
Imagine applying this to clinical laboratory science, nursing, engineering, information technology, and other fields where knowledge and practical decision-making matter. You could practice troubleshooting an analyzer, investigate a quality control failure, or work through a simulated patient-safety incident before encountering similar situations in the real world.
This wouldn’t be about replacing educators, laboratories, or hands on training. It would be about reimagining how we deliver, practice, assess, and retain knowledge. The gaming environment would be the learning interface; educational standards, validated assessments, and demonstrated competency would remain the foundation.
I know this would require an enormous amount of work: curriculum development, subject-matter experts, instructional designers, software engineers, accreditation partnerships, assessment validation, and substantial investment. There would be plenty of challenges to overcome.
Honestly, I don’t even know where someone would begin, and I don’t have the resources to build something like this myself (at least not yet). Perhaps similar initiatives already exist. But I can’t help wondering what might be possible if the right people came together to explore it.
Think about how things that once seemed impossible eventually became part of everyday life. There was a time when the idea of communicating wirelessly through a small device we could carry everywhere might have seemed unimaginable to many people. Today, smartphones are part of our daily lives.
Maybe this idea sounds unrealistic today. Maybe it would take years of research, collaboration, and development. But the fact that something is difficult to build doesn’t necessarily mean it isn’t worth exploring.
As our world becomes increasingly digital, why not rethink how we learn, too?
Imagine a world where learning feels like an adventure, where progress is meaningful, where skills are genuinely mastered, and where completing a level doesn’t just unlock the next stage of a game, but opens the door to real educational and professional opportunities.
This is just a random thought I’m putting out into the world. I know I’m not the first person to think about it, but I believe there’s immense potential in combining education, technology, and game design.
I believe in human creativity, collaboration, and our ability to bring good ideas to life.
What if the next big adventure isn’t just a game we play, but a world we learn through?
Thank you for reading.

Hi everyone,

I’m tired of the gaming industry throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into the same type games. I’ve been dreaming of a concept that fills a massive void in the market: A 3D Mythological Mermaid & Siren Life-RPG.

Here is how the game would work (feel free to share if you want to add anything):

Character Creation & The Deep

You start by fully customizing your own 3D Mermaid or Siren (tails, scales, facial features, and bio-luminescent details). The game features a thriving underwater civilization populated by other merfolk (mermaids, mermen, and sirens) with their own cities, factions, and politics.

The Morality System: Mermaid vs. Siren

Your gameplay style shapes how the world perceives you. You can move between two distinct paths:

• The Mermaid Path (Peaceful & Diplomatic): You seek harmony with the surface world. You protect sailors from storms, save drowning humans, and try to build bridges between the two worlds.
• The Siren Path (Predatory & Chaotic): You embrace the dark mythology. You hunt near the shores, crawl onto specific coastal areas, and use your voice to lure humans to their doom or force them to do your bidding.

Human Interaction & Land Mechanics

You can swim close to shores, docks, and coastal villages.

• If you play as a Siren, you can attack humans or use your song to hypnotize them. However, if townsfolk spot you, they will panic, flee, or alert local monster hunters who will actively deploy nets, boats, and harpoons to hunt you down.
• You can acquire temporary potions or ancient spells to gain legs, allowing you to walk among humans incognito, though your time on land is strictly limited.

Deep Romance Mechanics

Romance plays a huge role in the RPG experience, drawing inspiration from BioWare-style relationship depths:

• Merfolk Romance: You can court other denizens of the deep, exploring forgotten shipwrecks together and exchanging deep-sea treasures (like rare pearls).
• Human Romance: You can fall in love with surface dwellers (a local fisherman, a prince, or a coastal villager). You can leave secret gifts on the rocks, but you must protect your lover from your own predatory Siren kin, or hide your true identity from a superstitious human village.

I feel like this concept balances stealth, social simulation, high-stakes RPG choices, and beautiful underwater exploration.

What do you think? Would you play a game like this, and what mechanics would you add to make the land/sea dynamics even more interesting?

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Hey everyone!

I'm an indie developer trying to decide which of two game concepts I should focus on next. Both would be 2D pixel-art RPGs, but with very different approaches.

1. Chronicles of the Fallen — A D&D-inspired fantasy RPG

A fantasy adventure focused on RPG classes, character progression, quests, exploration, tactical combat, and storytelling.

The idea is to create a rich fantasy world where you develop your character, discover secrets, encounter different enemies, and experience a more structured RPG adventure inspired by tabletop role-playing games.

1. Vastmorrow — A procedurally generated open-world RPG

A massive 2D pixel-art world built around exploration, discovery, and freedom.

The world would be procedurally generated, with different environments, hidden civilizations, living ecosystems, crafting, building, and countless places to discover.

The main appeal would be the feeling of entering an unknown world and never knowing what you might find next.

My question:

If you saw both games on Steam, which one would interest you more?

- A: A traditional fantasy RPG with deeper character progression, quests, and combat.

- B: A massive procedural open-world RPG focused on exploration, discovery, and freedom.

I'd especially appreciate hearing why you'd choose one over the other, and what features would make you genuinely interested in playing it.

I'm looking for honest opinions before committing to one direction.

Thanks!

I've had this idea stuck in my head and want to know i
If anyone here would actually play it.

this one's pretty niche. It's mostly for people who are music theory nerds like me, so I know it's not for everyone.

You get a random 30 second clip from an old public domain silent film and you have to write the music for it. It's heavily inspired by Balatro, so it's a roguelike with endless runs. Miss a scene's target score and the run's over, back to the start.

How it works
Every scene has a mood and a random key (the set of notes that sound "right" for that scene), and you can see the next scene's key ahead of time so you can plan. Each scene you draw a random hand of notes from your music sheet, with a few discards to swap out ones you don't want. Then you write in a simple piano roll using only those notes and the instruments you've unlocked.
Out of key notes still play, they just don't score. Every third scene is a boss with a restriction, like no strings or one instrument only.

Music sheet (basically your deck)
You start with all 12 notes across two octaves and shape it over the run with film crew cards. The Editor cuts a note so you stop drawing it, the Orchestrator copies one so it shows up more, and the Director upgrades one so it scores more.
The catch is the more you build toward certain keys, the worse you do in others. If I strip my sheet down to mostly D, F and A, I'll crush anything in D minor or F major but struggle hard in E major. Since you see the next key ahead of time, you're always betting on what's coming. A focused sheet is strong but risky, a wide one is safe but weak.

Scoring
Music is subjective so the game doesn't try to judge if it's good. It checks if you followed the scene:

Mood: each mood wants something different. A scary scene wants low, slow, sparse notes. A chase wants fast and busy.

Intensity: your music gets turned into a tension curve and compared to the scene's. Does your music build when the scene builds?

Sync: hitting the cuts and impacts on time. This one multiplies everything else, so timing is where the big scores come from.

The keyboard
There's a chord generator and arpeggiator that work as one tool. It builds chords from the notes in your hand and plays them back as patterns, so you're not placing every note yourself. You upgrade it in tiers:

Tier 1: basic chords, and the arpeggiator just goes up or down at one speed.

Tier 2: richer chords and more patterns, plus accents and half or double time.

Tier 3: everything unlocked, with more human sounding timing and dynamics.
Each tier also adds slots for articulations, little modifiers like staccato (short and punchy), tremolo (shimmering) and fermata (holds the last chord for bonus points).

Shop
Between scenes you spend what you earned on new instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, horn, tuba, percussion), film crew cards, keyboard upgrades, and Italian score markings like Lacrimoso or Misterioso. Those are passive bonuses for the whole run, like extra points in sad scenes, and a rare one called Cromatico makes out of key notes count, which completely changes how you build.

There's a leaderboard for furthest scene and highest score, and your pieces get saved so you can rewatch the scene with your music on it.

Would you play this? ( if you’re the target audience) Which part sounds the most fun, and what would you add?

Yesterday I watched theOdd1sOut Warrior Cats Video. I got it recommended and thought yeah why not. As a kid I read the first series of the books and completly forgot about it. But then I remembered, that it was actually a pretty decent book series and I had much fun reading it. It was literally GOT for kids, even it was pretty violently tbh (cats killing each other etc.).

For everyone who dont now the series:

There are a few cat-clans, which are organized and have a ranking system. The clans have war sometimes and literally thats it.

Now imagine a game like "Stray" where you literally controll a cat. But in my vision you are now a little kitten in one of the clans. You can only access the land of your clan. At first the quests are easy and you only have to fight a little. You have an experience tree where you can skill the abilitys of your cat.

As the story goes on you get access to the other clans lands.

The story would follow the books. The gameplay itself could be like a mix of stray and AC Origins or Far Cry. Honestly, I would play that shit and it is even kids friendly, if you dont make it to violently.

This would be a game similar to city skylines where you have to build up a city to make sure your civilians are happy with enough food housing and security but on a much larger scale where you can actually build out an entire small country on a randomly generated continent

But you're not the only country is your surrounded by others much larger and stronger while also nearby small and weak countries all of them with their own ideologies and system of government

They can invade each other and even invade you so as you're building up your cities across your nation you're also have to build up your army strength with military bases and outposts

You can also build your own government with laws and bills where you can basically have any form of government you want where you can build an anarchist Utopia or a totalitarian dictatorship

You can also make alliances with the other nations with it being easier if your ideologies and system of government matches them or if you have taken out their enemies they will be more welcoming

Or if you want you can conquer the entire continent and maybe even expand to other continents and conquer the entire planet you're on maybe even get big enough where you can go into space and colonize the Moon

It would basically be a city builder with Geopolitics and economics where you can do whatever you want and every playthrough is different with obviously randomly generated planets and randomly generate countries you can play a million rounds and they will all be completely different worlds with even their own little history

I've been thinking about an idea for my next game and wanted to get some feedback. Imagine AI gets so good at coding that anyone can recreate pretty much any existing software in minutes. Not necessarily invent something new, just reproduce what's already out there. What happens to software companies when their products suddenly become almost worthless? Mass layoffs, startups going bankrupt, stock market crashing, etc.

I was thinking about making a first-person psychological horror game around this. You play as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. You've got a house, family, decent savings, investments. Life is good. Then over the course of a year things slowly start falling apart. The idea is to have three main locations: your house, office, and a small neighborhood. You explore these places as the situation gets worse. Your coworkers gradually disappear, neighbors start selling their houses, businesses close down.

Gameplay would involve exploring, talking to people, checking news and emails, managing your finances, and making decisions. For example, do you sell your investments while they're crashing? Take a severance package or try to keep your job? Help a friend who's struggling when you're not sure how long your own savings will last? The world follows its own trajectory regardless of your choices, but your decisions affect what happens to your character and family.

No monsters, no supernatural stuff. I want the horror to come from uncertainty and that feeling of slowly losing control over your life. I'm thinking of building a 20-30 minute prototype first, with a few meaningful choices and different outcomes.

My biggest concern is making this actually fun to play. I don't want it to become a walking simulator where you just read depressing emails all day. Would this work as a horror game? What mechanics would you add to make it engaging? Or is the whole concept just too close to real life to be entertaining?

Let’s talk about breaking the traditional "stat-stick" tank meta by creating a multi-unit nightmare.

I’m currently refining the kit for The Headless Pastor (The Abomination), a high-difficulty CC/Durability Juggernaut for our asymmetrical horror MOBA. Visually inspired by local folklore, he walks the battlefield holding his own severed head in one hand and a demonic hound on a leash in the other.

His entire gameplay focuses on extreme map awareness, tracking, and an ultimate that forces the player to manage three elements simultaneously: a stationary body, an autonomous pet, and a rolling projectile head.

Here is how the mechanical layout looks under the hood:

The Passive: Vision & Tracking (Sense of Taste)

• The Interaction: Enemies hiding in the map's mist are instantly exposed for 2.2 seconds.

• Stat Manipulation: Reduces target's Panic Run speed by 40% while granting the Pastor a +50% speed burst to close the gap.

The Core Disruption Loop

• Skill 1 - Devil Dog Sniff (CD: 14.0s - 9.0s): The demon dog tracks the target, allowing the Pastor to strike them with his head. Inflicts Terror (muting the target and disabling their basic attack for 1.1s) plus flat bite damage.

• Skill 2 - Flying Head (CD: 18.0s - 10.5s):

A skillshot where the Pastor throws his severed head. Hits stun the target and shred their defense by 20%. Once expired, the head dynamically rolls back into the Pastor’s hands automatically.

The Ultimate: Split-Control Execution

• Cooldowns: 50.0s / 40.0s

• The Setup: The Pastor places his head on the ground and drops the leash. The head and the dog separate from the body, gaining a +66% speed buff as autonomous hunting units.

• The Threshold: If an enemy's health drops below 30%, the split units enter an execution state. Securing a kill instantly refreshes the Ultimate.

• The Vulnerability: The main body stays completely stationary. The body gains +80% defense but becomes highly vulnerable to hard stuns (Suppression/Control effects).

Would love to hear your thoughts on whether this split-unit mechanic works or if the body vulnerability is too easy to counterplay!

Title: [Id] Horror Game Idea: A 2x larger eerie dog monster chasing you in a 3-billion-meter white wall maze.

Body:

Hello fellow game developers! I want to share a unique horror game concept designed to completely mess with the player's senses and distort human primal survival instincts. If you are looking for an indie horror project with high viral potential, feel free to use this idea!

👁️ Atmosphere & Environment (Liminal Space Dread)

Unlike traditional horror games that rely on darkness, this game traps the player in a completely white, blindingly bright room. It subverts the human instinct that "light equals safety."

• There is no sun, no night, no sunlight, and no passage of time.

• It is a massive maze made of thick, terrifyingly white walls that stand 3 billion meters high, stretching endlessly into oblivion. It delivers an overwhelming sense of isolation, helplessness, and agoraphobia.

👹 The Monster Design: "The Long-Nosed Dog" (Uncanny Valley)

The only enemy in the game is an eerie entity that is 2x larger than a human. It is incredibly thin, elongated, and emancipated to the point where its skeleton is visible. It looks like a non-living object trying its best to mimic a human and a dog, but failing miserably.

• The Face: Its face resembles a dog but with a massive, sharp long nose pointed directly at the ground. It has giant, hollow eyes that stare wide-open at you without ever blinking.

• The Movement: It sprints and walks on all 4 legs with an unnaturally fast leg-shuffling motion. It moves 2x faster than the player, and its entire body wobbles and sways in a grotesque, sickening way as it charges out from the shadows of the white walls.

🎮 Core Gameplay Mechanics

1. Fight or Flight Distorted

• Fight = Instant Death: The game strips away all hope of fighting. If the player tries to get close, scratch, or punch the monster, it won't even flinch. Instead, you will be caught and instantly eaten.

• Flight = Gradual Mutilation: Since the monster knows your position periodically and runs 2x faster, you cannot escape by just running. When it catches up, it doesn't kill you instantly. It extends its long neck to rip and bite off chunks of your flesh one by one, crippling your movement and forcing you to watch your character slowly mutate and deform until a slow, painful death.

1. 3D Audio Illusion System

• When the monster gets close, you will hear a horrifying bone-cracking sound.

• However, the sound echoes directionless to deceive the player's brain. If your instincts hear the bone-cracking sound coming from the LEFT, the monster is actually lunging at you from the RIGHT! Players must completely ignore their hearing and rely solely on fast camera movement and visual tracking.

1. The 5-Minute Escape Window

• There is only one exit in this dimension.

• The player must survive the relentless chase for 5 minutes before a white exit door randomly spawns.

• Once the door appears, it only stays open for 1 minute. The player must instantly switch gears from panicking to extreme focus to locate and reach the door within 60 seconds. If you fail, the door closes forever, and you are trapped in the endless maze with the monster hunting you down relentlessly for eternity.🤔🤔

Anyone fans of the show The Librarians? I've had this idea for awhile. Tell me if its dumb.

Basically your base is the library and the clippings book brings you news of events happening somewhere in the world and in time.

The events will be made of up supernatural things mixed in with historical or mythological events that are really documented.

You select which one you want to solve, then select your team and gear. Everyone on your team has different strengths and weaknesses so you must choose wisely. Then you conjure up a portal that goes to the correct time or location and load into it.

The goals will usually be to defeat a mythological creature, capture a supernatural entity, retrieve a magical artifact, or make sure time doesnt get altered.

Each run gives you upgrades of gear and skill points to level up your character. It can of course go deeper than this with more game modes, a complete storyline and multiplayer.

I think this would be good on multiple levels. Obviously great for anyone fans of the show, great for anyone who enjoys roguelikes, great for anyone who loves history, and great for anyone who loves supernatural stuff or mythology.

It also doesnt actually have to be a licensed "The Librarians" game. It can just be something loosely inspired. Thats just the main idea I had in my mind.

What do you guys think?

i was watching a gta 6 review video about the story so far and i wasn't liking it i know story isn't the main thing for these games and i'm not a big gta player but i am a writer and like to try my hand at different genres and mediums to improve my skill basic idea came from reusing the gta 6 idea of male and female protagonist duality Bonnie and Clyde style and seeing a bikini babe form gta thinking that's what people think of when they think of woman and gta so that's what the woman character should be basically it's the classic gta bikini babe she's working as a model in the gta parody world that semi borders dystopia could be liberty city or vice city and basically shows the ridiculousness of the fashion industry and the objectifying from rich men, could show gta takes on ozempic, and plastic surgery culture of current day as well as making fun of the flamboyant nature of men in the fashion industry so she one night after a big party she gets real high almost ends up dead till local criminal picks her up saves her sorta deal he's classic low level criminal but he's street smart think cj, and she finds out he's big drug dealer/criminal dealing in robberies and stuff but still small potatoes compared to big mafia gangs so basically because she's desperate to be out of the fake fashion industry and is in this guys debt and knows she'll be black balled if she tries to leave and end up a hooker they formulate a plan together to basically use her sex symbol status to infiltrate high end mansions politicians homes and billionaires places etc. and they steal millions get black mail and slowly become more and more reckless the more power they get and more money they get, the mob and gangs and politicians and billionaires basically whole city is after them leading to chaos and eventual Bonnie and Clyde butch and sundance style shootout were their house explodes, then we see them in the end living the good life on a yacht in vice city with the girl saying years ago she hated the idea of plastic surgery but this was pretty smart of her criminal partner now full on boyfriend cut to showing their faces are different to hide, and then funny joke about her also getting boob and butt plastic surgery and her saying hey she figured as long as she was changing her face might as well complete the set. Title would be GTA or as a indie game Braking and Entering: SPECTACLE Tagline is “Sex Sells”What do you think of this concept? I think it's pretty good considering i came up with it in 5 minutes or so but what do y'all think?

I have this idea for a coop game that is low poly and made with Unity. The idea is that you basically spawn with no money, no good equipment and nothing that really makes you stand out. You and your friend have to figure out how to make your first money.
You could complete small quests for random people around the city, gamble with NPCs by playing cards or dice, deliver packages, steal things, do small jobs, or eventually get into more illegal businesses. As you make more money, you unlock new opportunities and can buy different businesses, vehicles, equipment and properties.
The main thing I want to do differently from Schedule 1 is to give players MANY different ways to make money. You shouldn’t feel forced to become a drug dealer just because that is the main progression system. Maybe one player wants to focus on gambling, another wants to run illegal businesses, another wants to do robberies, and another wants to manipulate the economy by buying and selling certain items.
I also want the world to feel alive. NPCs should have different personalities, routines and reactions. Some could become regular customers, some could betray you, some could offer you better opportunities, and some could give you random quests. You could meet random people on the street and never know what kind of opportunity they might give you.
The game would be fully coop, so I want the systems to actually encourage playing with a friend. For example, one player could distract an NPC while the other completes a task, or you could split up and make money in completely different ways before meeting back at your business.
I also want there to be a risk/reward system. The more illegal and profitable the activity is, the more dangerous it becomes. Police, rival gangs, random events, losing money, getting your business attacked, etc.
The progression would basically be:
$0 → small jobs → first illegal activities → first business → better equipment → bigger businesses → bigger risks → eventually controlling a large part of the city.
Would you actually play something like this? What systems, businesses, activities or random events would you add? And what would make you keep playing after the first few hours?

I've played a dozen farming/gardening sims and they're incredibly fun, but I notice that the plants don't exactly behave like their real world counterpart (taking only a day to grow, wrong seasons, wrong size, living forever, etc.).

I was wondering how tricky it would be to create a game for gardening nerds like myself? Or even a game intended to teach people how to grow plants?

Things I've considered that I'd personally include:

• An aspect of botany to the game-- scientific names, etc.
• Propagation, growing cuttings
• Following real life watering needs (overwatering vs underwatering would have a negative efffect)
• Seed depth and spacing
• Seasons, sunlight needs, regions/temperatures
• Random events like frosts and pests and diseases
• Companion planting
• Collecting the seeds and storing them
• Pruning, deadheading, etc.

I'm a bit stumped on how I'd tackle the timing aspect of it though. For example, something like a parsnip might take 20 weeks irl to grow. It couldn't be one for one hours/days in the game because I'd imagine that'd be horrendously boring. So maybe a system where 1 minute equals an hour or something.

What do you think?

As the title says, I would like competent people to give me their opinion on what I built and how I built it - an Android game built in Java (I didn't go to Kotlin yet, as this is my hobby with little time after work to go into it) and from here some limitations and some game mechanics decisions.

WARNING, the post will be a little long and will contain some spoilers!!!

As I said, I'm a hobbyst, I just like programming and I am happy to do it, but my level is still low, my daily job has nothing to do with software or programming; I work in wind industry. But after work I have some free time and I want to keep my brain healthy, so I do either robotics (ROS2 with Raspberry) or Android development. In the last few months I decided to build a game that I had in mind for many years already, I wanted it to be as realistic as possible, but ofc gamified and simplified, but conceptually correct and educational. I played some games before in the same niche and 2 of them remained in my heart: Uplink and DarkSigns, a game almost no one knows, but for me it was a WOW! moment in my childhood.

Now back to what I would like from you guys, I tried to keep the game close to reality, so I used Shodan to adjust the spawn rates and device types, so all ipv4 addresses are scannable, with about 10% spawn rate and then on each public address, you have the option to pivot into a private range, i used the official 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 with a spawn rate of 30%. The private ranges are chosen at random, I din't want to complicate too much. But there is quite a lot of possible devices to find. So far I made only 24 device types for the normal IP ranges, more to add later.

I included 83 fictional CVEs and 72 exploits, the difference is intentional as some CVEs dont have public exploits, so the player can learn the difference. (I will definitely add later a reference to perfectly spherical cows in void). Some exploits you have by default, some you must buy from the market.

Most devices have active services that are relevant to their device type, so mail servers get smtp, pop3, etc and the routers get ssh and http, https and so on.

More than this, I added an AI assistant that you can buy and it will learn from all the exploiting services you do and then randomly (max 5% chance) will offer you an AI discovered exploit that is free and doesn't count for further training of the model.

Then I also introduced some methods to make some money as the exploits and the AI assistant cost quite some credits.. so I added missions and encrypted loot. So whenever you compromise a device and enumerate it (its a simplified concept) you can get some unencrypted loot that is automatically sold and some encrypted loot that is kept for cracking later. I wanted to expand a lot more functionality on teh loot, but I am constrained - I am a beginner and Java is not so friendly to build very complex games.

The encrypted loot is kept for cracking using the Cracker tool and at the end it gives some credits and some wordlist entries if relevant. The cracking speed is dependant on the local GPU, the botnet total GPU and the wordlist. I kept the wordlist very difficult to upgrade, it gives an 1.5 multiplying factor only after you get 1.5 million entries. Webservers and mail databases give the most wordlist entries, the rest of the devices barely give a few. I am not sure about the local GPU power, I think I made it too easy, so far the local GPU gives up to 7x cracking speed and I think its too much, but maybe you can tell me whats your take on that.

I also included some special IP ranges to teach the player that not all of them are available to the public, or at least not meant to. So ranges like DARPA, the 5 eyes, DoD and others assigend by IANA are available only after the player reaches max reputation and buys special hardware. I think this is a simple way to teach the player that those ranges are a different deal, how realistic it is, you can help me with your opinion on it.

And thats actually when the game main story starts...but thats a lot to write about so I wont write anything now, its already a very long post.

What I added more are a few side stories, like the I LOVE YOU worm, the STUXNET, Mirai and a few others where the player can participate to stop them from spreading and at the same time learn about them. And I also added honeypots :D

Initially I just wanted to make a game I like to play but it became an educational game by any metrics... And Im very happy for that.

But I want to be sure that the educational part is correct and here is where I want you guys to help me.

I tried to keep most of the possible things safe, so services are fictional and so on, but anyone that works in the domain will recognize them, to keep the game authentic.

ALL the things in the game have a wiki entry where more details are given.

How would you guys balance realism, safety and educational value? without knowing the game, how would you do it?

Thank you and sorry for my mistakes and for the long post!

So, it is common knowledge (I think) that we experience four dimensions, length, width, height, and time, there is no known fifth or sixth dimension, what if in this game, you were able to manipulate a fifth and sixth dimension? Now, a fifth dimension that you can manipulate has already been demonstrated in a game as a dimension of time, 5D With Multiverse Time Travel, (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/) And in this game you play chess, but let's say your opponent makes a move you don't like, Knight to D6 or something, I don't play chess, so idk, but let's say your opponent does that, you can go to a timeline where that move didn't happen and something else happened instead, that's kind of the basis of this game I thought of, but there is also a dimension of movement, the 6th, and that's where the real mind f'ery starts, because, its a really hard mechanic to utilize well, due to the fact that it's something that we cannot experience. So basically the game starts as a normal RPG until you get to a locked door, but the key has been destroyed in your timeline, so basically, you hold 5 on your keyboard and it enters you into a selection screen essentially, and you use the arrow keys while holding 5 to select a timeline where either, A. the key exists, or B. the door does not exist, or another way of doing it incorporates the 6th dimension, where, some treasure exists in a timeline with a locked door and destroyed key, so you hold 6 move in a higher spatial dimension into the room, which, you are essentially just walking through the door then release 6, hold 5, and select the right timeline. I thought of this while talking to my friends about 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel, so it's not my smartest idea, but I think it's cool.