we all do this constantly

Maybe not necessarily ideas you'll NEVER make, but just ones you are not currently working on, for one reason or another

EDIT: elaborated for clarity

Text game where an NPC describes things to you, like the usual narrator in an IF game, but they are an actual character who does it because they know you can't see on your own

Pretty much Splatoon for PC

Maybe elemental theme instead of ink

old-style continuous dedicated servers instead of weird matchmaking. this is purely for ideological reasons and not to sidestep paying for the servers

3D parkour game in a dark, minimalistically neon-stylized city at night time. There is no real goal

a game exactly identical to transformers: war for cybertron and fall of cybetrton but the story is different

aka the only good transformers games

minecraft-like game with editable world, where each player shares the same seed and terrain changes are stored and synchronized over torrent-like protocol, made viewable to others like a dead minecraft server exploration, but you can't ever interact with anyone

a roguelite farming game where to venture into the ever changing dungeons you need to first farm the player characters you're going to send into the dungeon, setup a whole pipeline, if you run out of .... well slaves you need to farm them. Use fertilizers to get stronger characters to go deeper into the dungeon, that sort of thing. yeah.

On Mon May 26 05:06:39 2025, wanp said:

Text game where an NPC describes things to you, like the usual narrator in an IF game, but they are an actual character who does it because they know you can't see on your own

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Sounds like an Emily Short game. You played Galatea?

"farming" game where you tend crops and literally anything to help them transform into their "realized" form, after which you can enter them as a realm, themed around ontology attached to the source object/concept, going further and further into thinking in things (attach object oriented ontology somewhere between the lines)

On Mon May 26 15:11:43 2025, xananax said:

On Mon May 26 05:06:39 2025, wanp said:

Text game where an NPC describes things to you, like the usual narrator in an IF game, but they are an actual character who does it because they know you can't see on your own

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Sounds like an Emily Short game. You played Galatea?

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That's exactly what I had in mind, actually I would be surprised if this doesn't already exactly exist somewhere