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Wurb.com allows you to browse the IF archive by things like genre.
However, I was wondering if there was a more concise list of games by
concept. By that I mean games that start with a particularly unique premise.
Specifically, I'm interested in this as a way to allow me to choose
among ideas for games that I have. Given a choice between two cool ideas
I would rather make a game with the one cool idea that hasn't really
been done.
For instance, the top level of a grouping by concept would contain
things like:
- PC plays an inanimate object
- PC is insane
- PC is sensory impaired
- game world is based on a video game
- game world is entirely underwater
- PC is a baby
- PC is non-human
- game world has ridiculous laws of physics
- progression through most of game requires word play
Actually, some of those ideas probably wouldn't be in the top level of
the concept tree, but they'd be in the tree somewhere.
If no such list exists then I would be happy to take all the replies to
this message and compile the list myself.
The only danger with such a list would be that it might give away a cool
twist in a game where you don't learn the cool idea until later in the
game. So perhaps it might be important to have some games listed with
something indicating that looking at the title would spoil the game. Or,
perhaps this list would not need to actually point to any games. It
would just list all the concepts that have already been explored so that
future designers can try something else or perhaps try and explore an
idea further.
The list might also include concepts which have never been explored.
That would give other designers a set of possible ideas to work with
which have not been done yet.
Wurb.com allows you to browse the IF archive by things like genre.
However, I was wondering if there was a more concise list of games by
concept. By that I mean games that start with a particularly unique premise.
Specifically, I'm interested in this as a way to allow me to choose
among ideas for games that I have. Given a choice between two cool ideas
I would rather make a game with the one cool idea that hasn't really
been done.
For instance, the top level of a grouping by concept would contain
things like:
- PC plays an inanimate object
- PC is insane
- PC is sensory impaired
- game world is based on a video game
- game world is entirely underwater
- PC is a baby
- PC is non-human
- game world has ridiculous laws of physics
- progression through most of game requires word play
Actually, some of those ideas probably wouldn't be in the top level of
the concept tree, but they'd be in the tree somewhere.
If no such list exists then I would be happy to take all the replies to
this message and compile the list myself.
The only danger with such a list would be that it might give away a cool
twist in a game where you don't learn the cool idea until later in the
game. So perhaps it might be important to have some games listed with
something indicating that looking at the title would spoil the game. Or,
perhaps this list would not need to actually point to any games. It
would just list all the concepts that have already been explored so that
future designers can try something else or perhaps try and explore an
idea further.
The list might also include concepts which have never been explored.
That would give other designers a set of possible ideas to work with
which have not been done yet.
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