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Games I'd like to play and/or make
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<em
>🎶 Suggested listening:
<a
href="https://exquisitecorp.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-slab"
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by ExquisiteCorp 🎶
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<img src="assets/document.png" alt="legal document" /> A game where you
have to fill out generated grants and artists statements with your
wildest ideas. Each form and RFP is different. But when you submit,
there is some chance your grant will be <em>accepted</em> (maybe it
depends on number of questions what your chances are?). Fireworks shoot
off when one of your grants is accepted and your score increases by one.
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<img
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alt="rolling up a car, replacing with a tree"
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A game where you are pushing a katamari ball and you roll up and remove
cars from the street. Eventually you are big enough to roll up
McMansions, police departments, prisons, corporations.
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<li>
<img src="assets/read.png" alt="person reading a book" />a videogame
where you read a book
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<img src="assets/penguin.png" alt="penguin" /> a videogame at the north
(south?) pole. Made up of generated pokey the penguin characters and
dialog and quests that don't need to be done.
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<img src="assets/monster.png" alt="monster" /> A roguelike where you
play a monster trying to kill the player. When you get killed you are
reincarnated as the next monster.
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<li>
<img src="assets/bridge.png" alt="bridge" /><del
>A twine game version of Passage.</del
>
<em>update: actually, never mind</em>
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<li>
<img src="assets/treehouse.png" alt="treehouse" /><del>
A 2d videogame where i am the main character and i live in a treehouse
with lots of cats</del
>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/nintendo.png" alt="nintendo system" />an actual
paperrad x corey arcangel homebrew nintendo game
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/bacteria.png" alt="bacteria" />a video game where you
play as slime mold
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<li>
<img src="assets/lightbulb.png" alt="lightbulb" /> a videogame where the
&quot;screen&quot; you are playing on is a strip of lightbulbs
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<img src="assets/chess.png" alt="poorly drawn pawn" /> a chess game that
slowly unfolds with input via a blood sugar monitor. If I keep my blood
sugar in check, my player (AI-controlled) is a bit &quot;smarter&quot;
and does better. As I'm spiking or dropping, my AI makes bad moves
against the opponent.
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<li>
<img src="assets/monome.png" alt="hardware music controller" />a
roguelike played on the Monome Teletype that produces musical output as
you battle and explore.
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/lattice.png" alt="lattice" />games that fit in the size
of a tweet. any language. <em><a href="#" onclick="alert('1 Ask two of your friends to play chess\n 2 Pick one pawn and draw a face on it. This pawn is your Pawn.\n 3 If your friend wants to move your Pawn, they ask you what your Pawn does. Your Pawn may take any legal move. Or it can refuse to move, and your friend can move any other piece.\n--by Sam M / sam-m.itch.io');">1 chess variant</a> 2. <a href="https://slashie.net/rogue280/" alt="rogue280v2">rogue280v2</a></em>
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<li>
<img src="assets/hut.png" alt="hut in mountains" />a text game where you
travel through rural parts of northern thailand, burma and laos that
includes music from tribes of the region
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/hole.png" alt="black hole spiral" />a 3d game where you are
a black hole that absorbs an entire IKEA
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/nose.png" alt="nose" />a videogame that you play with
your nose
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/challah.png" alt="challah bread" />i think it would be
cool to have a game played with a controller made out of bread. maybe
some kind of cooking game.
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<li>
<img src="assets/muscle.png" alt="making a muscle" />lots of
personalized remakes of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alrycItYV8&feature=emb_logo" alt="Muscle March gameplay on YouTube">Muscle March</a> (the GREATEST videogame of all
time)
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<li>
<img src="assets/cart.png" alt="mine cart" />a donkey kong country mine
cart level maker/generator
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/radio.png" alt="car radio" />make games where you can
play the radio and change stations. <em>e.g.<a href="https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Stations_in_GTA_V" alt="Grand Theft Auto radio stations">GTA V</a></em>
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<li>
<img src="assets/morse.png" alt="morse code key" />a choose your own
adventure played with morse code audio and a code keyer
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/bass.png" alt="bass musician" />a game like rock band
except that it's a jazz quartet playing a simple 1-4-5 blues progression
and you're playing keyboard accompaniment while NPCs take turns soloing.
you have a midi keyboard controller and nothing bad happens if you hit
off notes other than it may sound bad to you. it should have a bunch of
fake book songs to choose from, slow blues, and the sounds of glasses
clinking and clapping after solos.<em>e.g.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTwT89GOmU" alt="Jamey Aebersold Autumn Leaves no piano">1</a></em>
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<img src="assets/money.png" alt="briefcase with money inside" />a game
where you collect snipped out letters and then compose a ransom note. it
tells you who the ransom note should be written for.
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/parachute.png" alt="parachute" />a remake of the mac
plus <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheDuaneBlehmCollection" alt="Stuntcopter emulated on Internet Archive">helicopter drop game</a>. needs some good music.
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<li>
<img src="assets/food.png" alt="food" />a game that asks you to list 15
or 20 ingredients from your kitchen at the beginning, and when you
finally win or lose it, it produces a recipe for you
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/tombstone.png" alt="tombstone" />a game based on Caves
of Qud style graveyards. All you do is walk around explore the
tombstones and epitaphs.
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/station.png" alt="radio station with antenna" />a
shared online radio station you can DJ with your friends
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/questions.png" alt="question bubbles" />write a text
adventure game based on the box art of the <a href="https://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/mastermind.jpg" alt="Mastermind box art">original Mastermind</a> game.
(okay, you can have a version of the original game played within the
text game as well).
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/writing.png" alt="writing at a desk" />a series of
<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/172995/the-oulipo-groups-generative-word-games/" alt="Oulipo">oulipo</a> text games
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/dungeon.png" alt="dungeon" />Dungeon Painter. whatever
that is.
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/form.png" alt="computer fillable form" />a game that
can be played and experienced in google forms. <em>update: <a href="http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/timetossed/" alt="time tossed on Google Forms">timetossed</a> by Porpentine</em>
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<li>
<img src="assets/vape.png" alt="vaping device" />a game for that fancy
ipod-like vape that comes with the game Simon. do they still have that?
can you hack the firmware?
<em
><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAt7wfiNOdE">update</a></em
>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/run.png" alt="running leg and shoe" />an interactive
audio-based exercise game that you play maybe on a phone, like the
zombies run game but the story is interesting
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/home.png" alt="2 story home" />a game where you draw
all the rooms from your childhood home. you can add yourself as a
playable character if you want. <em>update: <a href="https://notapipe.itch.io/232henley" alt='232henley on itch.io'>232henley</a></em>
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<li>
<img src="assets/leg.png" alt="prosthetic leg" />a game where robotic
legs can try on many different silly shoes and you get to see how it
affects their walk
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/caterpillar.png" alt="caterpillar" />Qwoperpillar - a
qwop-like but with 20 legs
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<li>
<img
src="assets/mushroom.png"
alt="mario land blocks and mushroom"
/>Mario Teaches Cooking
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/pizza.png" alt="pizza restaurant" />Felicia's Pizza
(where i worked in high school) made in the Hotline Miami <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=966323230" alt="Hotline Miami level editor tutorial">level editor</a>. <em>example: nilson's <a href='https://nilson.itch.io/barista-statement' alt='Barista Statement'>Barista Statement</a></em>
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<img src="assets/morris.png" alt="9 men's morris board" />9 men's morris
played live (not turn-based) by 2 teams. Games will probably last just a
<a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/226382/The_very_good_reasons_for_Bennett_Foddys_mad_Speed_Chess.php" alt="article on speed chess">few seconds</a>?
</li>
<li>
<img
src="assets/chess_pieces.png"
alt="chess pieces and a hand on a piece"
/>a chess RPG/ttrpg. <em>update: 1. <a href="https://twitter.com/alex_yoder/status/615587014944145408" alt="tiny-twitch">tiny-twitch</a>, 2. <a href="https://guillaumejentey.itch.io/chess-rpg" alt="CHESSrpg">CHESSrpg</a>, 3.<a href="#" onclick="alert('1 Ask two of your friends to play chess\n 2 Pick one pawn and draw a face on it. This pawn is your Pawn.\n 3 If your friend wants to move your Pawn, they ask you what your Pawn does. Your Pawn may take any legal move. Or it can refuse to move, and your friend can move any other piece.\n--by Sam M / sam-m.itch.io');">a mini tweet-size one</a>, 4. <a href="https://www.quaxio.com/bootloader_retro_game_tweet/" alt="nibbles">nibbles</a></em>
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<img
src="assets/sleep.png"
alt="a sleeping crescent moon in nightcap"
/>a game you play by going to sleep. when you wake up you look to see
how well your character did, read about their adventure, qquests,
treasure gained, monsters fought, etc. Your character has greater chance
of success and riches based on getting closest to adequate amount of
sleep.
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/tamagotchi.png" alt="tamagotchi" />a Tamagotchi based
on my exercising. <em>e.g. 1. <a href="https://wokamon.com/"> alt="Wokamon">wokamon</a></em>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/needles.png" alt="needles and pins" />more games where
you assemble scrap quilt parts. <em>e.g. 1. <a href="https://notapipe.itch.io/quiltfolk" alt="Quiltfolk">Quiltfolk</a></em>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/joker.png" alt="joker character" />write back stories
for all the characters in the boring Spades game I have on my iPad.
What's their story? How did they come to be playing this game?
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/logo.png" alt="LOGO language example movement" />a
LOGO-like where you can control the character in a roguelike game only
by issuing instruction code. you have to write your own movement and
action and combat functions and use them when you're not hungry.
<em
>update: this is actually how most kids' &quot;learn to program&quot;
environments
<a href="https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/"
>are made now</a
></em
>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/level.png" alt="level" />a simple grid-based level
editor. You can click to place enemies, power ups, potions, weapons and
add the player. click to try the level, and a button to export or share. <em>e.g. <a href="https://www.puzzlescript.net/editor.html" alt="Puzzlescript">Puzzlescript</a></em>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/talmud.png" alt="Talmud pages" />more games that are
based on or use the Talmud
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/eyes.png" alt="spy person" />a really crappy trippy
weird reimplementation of <a href="https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Where_In_The_USA_Is_Carmen_Sandiego" alt="Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego">Carmen Sandiego<a>
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/claw.png" alt="claw machine game" />a really crappy
digital CLAW machine game where the prizes are generated and if you
successfully grab one it gets added to your inventory and displayed on
the desktop
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/chalkboard.png" alt="drawing on a chalkboard" />an
adventure game (collaborative or solo) played on a chalkboard,
whiteboard or post-it notes. <em>e.g. <a href="https://lazerwalker.itch.io/tubin-down-a-river" alt="Tubin' Down a River by Em Lazerwalker">Tubin' Down A River</a></em>
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<li>
<img src="assets/basketball.png" alt="basketball hoop" />a drawing app
where there is an occasional sound affect playing from the original NBA
Jam as you draw. (&quot;Perfect!&quot;, &quot;He's on
fire!&quot;,&quot;Is it the shoes?!&quot;)
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<li>
<img src="assets/porridge.png" alt="bowl of porridge" />10,000 bowls of
oatmeal, the game.
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<li>
<img src="assets/village.png" alt="village" />a game where you design or
select a simple flag, motto, food, drink, flower favored in each village
and then see how civilization plays out and cultures combine and
influence each other
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/books.png" alt="stack of books" />a game where you
collect and read library books. there should be a large number of books
(from project gutenberg?) and nooks to read in. actually, maybe the
virtual nook should drop away and the while the character reads the book
on the screen you should mostly just have the ebook available for you to
read in your own real nook somewheres
</li>
<li>
<img src="assets/donkey.png" alt="donkey" /> a command line text-game
where you wander between different villages with a donkey. You are
trying to buy <del>silks</del> textiles. Like <a href="https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/" alt="Dopewars">Dopewars?</a> When you are
successful, you return home to a feast. High chance of failure.
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<img src="assets/kudzu.png" alt="kudzu icon" /> a hand drawn black and
white (charcoal? pencil?) and scanned in assets. You are wandering
around a bombed-out post-apocalyptic landscape, but plants are taking
back over (kudzu?). There are old broken bits of technology, like old
keyboards and ethernet cables that you can find occasionally. At some
point you find a gameboy and turn it on. It still works and you can play
little games on it.
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<img src="assets/viking.png" alt="viking helmet" />what if the mechanics
of the NES <a href="https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23609765/the-lost-vikings-and-how-we-learned-to-love-multiplayer-puzzles" alt="Lost Vikings">space vikings</a> game had gone on to become a canon genre of
games and there were clones and variations of it available on every
platform?
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<img src="assets/plant.png" alt="plant" />no more plant simulation
games. get actual plants. jeez.
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<img src="assets/kitten.png" alt="kitten" />more games like <a href="http://www.robotfindskitten.org/" alt="Robot finds kitten">robot finds</a>
kitten
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<img src="assets/can.png" alt="can" />root beer as possible inventory
item
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<img src="assets/rain.png" alt="rain" />3d open world game but it's
raining a ton, like Seattle
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<img src="assets/console.png" alt="console commands" />text game but in
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona" alt="Toki Pona on Wikipedia">toki pona</a>
</li>
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<img src="assets/tentacle.png" alt="tentacle" />a LOGO-like where the
player issues the normal commands to move around and turn but also can
augment and add arms, legs, other appendages like <a href="https://cavesofqud.gamepedia.com/Motorized_treads" alt="Tank treads augmentation on Caves of Qud">tank treads</a> and
strange abilities
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<p>
<em>Games I'd Like to Play and/or Make</em> was made for
<a href="https://itch.io/jam/list-jam" alt="ListJam on itch.io"
>List Jam</a
>
2021 by Lee Tusman. It is
<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#Postcardware"
alt="Postcardware on Wikipedia"
>postcardware</a
>. If you make a game or play a game based on this list, send me a
postcard or <a href="https://leetusman.com/">email</a>.
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<em><a href="credits.txt" alt="credits document">Credits</a></em>
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