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Top Secret Amazingly Awesome Game Idea Revealed. Trollers Wanted.
yaisuah | 7:40 PM on 05.25.2008 24 comments


So, after getting multiple requests(seriously) for me to reveal my amazingly awesome game idea's that I claimed to have, I've decided to discuss at least one that I've been thinking about the most. I want to be clear I can program a bit, but I have no will to learn any more about programming itself, I'd rather spend my time playing video games then learning how to create one. I'd always imagined myself being more like a Miyamoto, Kojima or Jaffe, not the Carmack. I also have no real artistic ability to draw, so that limits me in that way as well. I am revealing this idea, only to shut those up that say I probably I don't even have one to begin with. This game will 99.9% for sure never be made by me, but feel free to leave your abuse. Read more and see the first screenshot after the jump!




Ok, I don't even know how to make a jump, but I always wanted to say that.

The name of the game is Pixel, it actually is probably most inspired by EVO and Destiny of an Emperor - two of the best RPG's of all time. It's also a bit like SPORE, in the sense that you start off as a single pixel and you gradually grow over time by defeating other pixels, but really EVO did that first like 10 years ago, so I'm counting that. The game would start out just like the picture shows, you are a single white pixel on a black screen.

This is where the game probably get's way too different for most people. Eventually another pixel would come on the screen and talk to you and then it fights you, when you beat it you absorb it's pixel, making you now Two pixels big. Thing is, each pixel you gain is considered a separate party member and has their own stats and abilities. Yes this is an rpg with very fast paced turned based jrpg combat. After you gain 10 pixels which would be fighting as 10 separate pixels all with a unique name(Influenced by the big parties in DoaE), you can combine them all into 1 decapixel, which combines each of their skills and abilities. You'll also be in complete control of how the sprite you make turns out from color to shape, but you'll never have more than 10 active party pixels at a time.

There would be a fun and simple story behind the game, and the levels would start to apear as you move around, along with other pixels to talk to and quests to do. The levels would also be evolving from simple atari like blocks into nes level, then to snes and then to the likes of Aquaria. the same thing with the music. The enemies would also evolve into full 16bit sprites and each enemy you kill is worth however many pixels it was made out of.

The main goal of the game would be to evolve into a Megapixel and save the world somehow. Thats 1 Million pixels. There's a lot more ideas I have for this game but this is all I'm willing to say for now, which is probably too much anyways. I know it probably sounds a lot worse than I envision it in my head, but if any major company want's to steal this idea, please do so I can sue the shit out of you.

Updated with a brand new battle engine screenshot from the first boss fight:



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bahss's Destructoid Blog
Fl0w much? That's what it sounds like in essence, but taken a step further. Maybe too far, but it sounds interesting. I'd say go for it.
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
Definitely NOT Dr. BOA, you think I was just arguing with myself for fun?
Yeah it is a bit like flow, I forgot about Flow, but it does go way beyond what flow does, and its not action and dreamy, its rpg and story and stuff, but with a whole new gameboard.
Tubatic's Destructoid Blog
Maybe he IS Dr. Boa?! Maybe this is part of the experiment? Is our cake the lie?!

Interesting idea. Does sound alot like Spore, which is taking this expanding world idea and making it much easier to swallow than your plan as you've described it.

It also sounds a lot like this shoot'em up game that RFGO mentioned during its Shmup episode, which already does the same thing (sans the consuming of pixels) only using historical shooters.

And hey, its kind of like Katamari Damacy too, isn't it? Starting small and adding on and on and on and on.

Cool idea though.
Lukich's Destructoid Blog
Its too vague, which I assume is intentional, to really comment on in depth, but its interesting.

I'd be curious how the battles would take place and how you'd manage controlling all the different "pixels." That and how you'd transition from the black screen into environments and all of a sudden story and quests and stuff without it being a harsh change.
Electro Lemon's Destructoid Blog
The jigg is up i am wiisucks
niacin's Destructoid Blog
it also reminds me of cubivore a bit. Would be interesting to see how you make a plot work with this game mechanic.
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
Please, I am really the opposite of Dr Boa in every way. Do not believe for a second he has this sort of good game idea, he has NOTHING but dreams of money in his head. I'm gonna update with some more "screenshots" real soon. The transition would be very gradual like first a wall then another and it just gets more and more complex, never a harsh transition.
CreamyGoodness7's Destructoid Blog
The idea sounds really cool. the only thing I'd change is have something a little more expressive than pixels for the characters as they continue to grow but other than that I'd play it.
Tubatic's Destructoid Blog
That's an awful lot of Chinese names for a band of pixels

. . . Jim Sterling?
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
Not Jim... The original picture is in the pics thing, I just spent too much time on the rest and didn't bother changing all them names. Thats Destiny of an Emperor! And that pic was a TOTAL joke and would no way represent what I would want the fights to really be like. The pixels would grow into little guys, they'd get very expressive, they'd only be single pixels for the first few levels.
Skribble's Destructoid Blog
Sounds like a cool idea.

Would you be able to make groups of decapixels? As well as having multiple decapixels and single pixels?

It's a pretty interesting idea, and seems to be a fusion of a ton of other games in to one. I would definitely play it if it were a real game.
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
Yeah definitely every 10 deca pixels would make a hecto, then 10 of those a kilo and then since theres not a techincal prefix for the two levels between kilo and mega, just make something up like Biga- and Supa-. And at the end all ten SupaPixels would combine like the Voltron into the MegaPixel and fight the end boss, which definitely wouldn't be MegaBoa. Thanks for all the support everyone!
Dr. Boa's Destructoid Blog
If nothing else, at least I inspired you to get your game idea off the ground.

So I continue to encourage you to follow along. Because even if I fail, perhaps you will succeed.

You may be jumping ahead a few chapters in my story and trying to expose what I'm up to, but I hope you give people a chance to enjoy the story as it unfolds.
-PL-'s Destructoid Blog
I read "pixel" and thought "OMG INSTANT 10 FROM REV!", but then I read further and saw that it involves gameplay and story, so nevermind.
Tubatic's Destructoid Blog
"yes, he's started one. Good feedback too by the look of it."
"No, none of them suspect a thing."
"Yes, I never thought it'd go this far myself. But I'm sure the attention will no doubt fuel his endeavors"
"I'll continue to monitor their progress. I assure you, everything will go as according to plan . . .

. . . Mr. President!"
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
Well to be clear to any of the Yaysayers out there, I have no intentions of doing anything more with this game unless directly offered to be severely helped with making it. This blog post is as close to off the ground as it's going to get if left solely up to me, so succeeding isn't even an option.

And whoever claimed I was jumping ahead chapters and exposing stories, WTF are you on?
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
Tubatic, you really got some consipiracy theories going on here, I'm either Solidarity Snake(the fourth clone to bring them all together) or you still think me and that troll on my blog are somehow in league??
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, this is definitely interesting. What would be super is if this is the idea that Boa ends up using.
Tubatic's Destructoid Blog
*He* claimed you were jumping ahead. :D

Well Yai, I guess you're on to something? Maybe the good Doctor is planning to reveal he's come to, infact, dupe the whole community and use us as his magical cashcow? Or maybe he's just not ready to explain his illogical jump to RPG after his talk of small games?

How mysterious . . .
Tubatic's Destructoid Blog
Everyone's a suspect.

Hell, i could be Dr. Boa at this point. I was the one that urged you to start a blog . . .
Scary Womanizing Pig Mask's Destructoid Blog
@Tubatic
Maybe Dr. Boa isn't one person, but an entire think tank of game developers, all of them Destrcutoid members, sort of like those people who think that Shakespere was actually a group of authors (he wasn't)
Surf314's Destructoid Blog
I honestly came here to see if it was more troll vomit, but honestly I think it is an awesome idea if it is what I'm thinking it is. Does the world itself evolve as you progress? Because that would be so awesome, it'd be like playing through videogame history. The game itself evolving from the beginning of gaming to today! That is assuming I'm thinking you are talking about what I think you are talking about.

*wheels turning*

I still want to solve crimes with nothing but a six shooter and my intuition...maybe I should start my own post.
yaisuah's Destructoid Blog
You hit the nail Surf, the game will be like at least playing through jrpg type game history. And you definitely should make a post, it always makes you feel good when people say its a great idea and stuff.


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