I mean, how long you got? almost all of my ideas are photography based so like...

a simple one is that I'd like something that exists at the intersection of Dead Rising, Fatal Frame, and a 6DOF shooter. trapped in a place, you're reporting on it, but also the easiest way to deal with enemies is the flash on your camera sending them scurrying off. the flash leads to worse photos though so you're kinda balancing the whole situation out

the next one I'd like is the one I'm working on periodically, where it's basically Qix mixed with a traditional Touhou game. instead of shots, you're trying to enclose enemies and the (mid)boss in lines so that you can take pictures of them. the more enclosed an enemy or boss is, the more damage you do to them. you can also enclose bullets which will clear them from the screen and contribute to your health. also, if the boss touches the enclosing lines before you fully enclose them, the lines break and you take damage

I understand that this really doesn't line up perfectly with the concept of the spell card system, but I'm more interested in making the game fun and interesting first

can I answer "world of warcraft" to both of these? no?? I can't??? what the fuck!!!!

love to hate is easy. it's unfortunately a very destructive love and I get really mad by the time I'm done, but I was a fucking GROUND FLOOR HATER of bioshock infinite. all those people who were like "wow the opinion of bioshock infinite sure turned negative over the past few years" don't get it. first of all, I hated that game DAY ONE but also peoples opinions on it started to shift fast the further in they got because media literacy isn't entirely dead, just mostly dead

as for a game I hate to love?

red dead redemption 2. I love that game so much. I adore it. I've put over 1000 hours into the singleplayer alone. it has some of the most dogshit controls I've ever dealt with in a game I wouldn't outright call bad, rockstar's mission design is still fundamentally incompatible with open world design, a bunch of that game is just outright cut content, it has some really weird issues with the Irish that sure seem to be in GTA and RDR1 as well, but I love it still

but god, what a piece of shit

okay so there's a few, but the big one I want is genuinely a game I've wanted the opportunity to make FOREVER

I didn't mean for that to be a reference to the series but

I want to make the fifth mainline Duke Nukem game. Duke V Duke, where Duke Nukem is plucked out of time on September 10th, 2001 and sent to the far future of 2021, where Duke made good on his promise to run for president at the end of Duke Nukem Forever and is now serving his third term as the despotic leader of a crumbling America. a group of rebels, figuring that the only person who could possibly stop Duke is Duke himself, grabbed a version of him from a time when he was still considered something of a hero and icon, but hadn't become jaded and ruined like he was by Forever

basic grunt enemies are these T-800 versions of Duke, black leather jacket, sunglasses, because all Duke can ever really create are pastiches because he's not exactly creative, not even in the future. he basically just tells everyone around him what he wants and has them do all the work for him. every so often you'll get bigger enemies, a bit more flavour, but everything is all Duke throwing his glory days at Past Duke and him having to deal with that shit

I'd like it to be kinda very lightly im-sim like, where you're given a lot of paths to take per-level, all based around the idea that Duke Nukem as a series has really leaned a lot towards environmental interactivity since 3D and I think that's something that should be explored more. you don't have a massive arsenal at your disposal but there should be plenty of stuff in the environment to use to fight with. Duke probably loves the second amenedment so you can get guns easily, but you'll get more use out of blowing up a canister of shrinker ammo to shrink an entire sphere around them into a tiny spot, stuff like that

and I don't really want to change Duke as a character dramatically, but I do want this game to sort of bring him in line with the way a lot of people treat him now, especially through Gianna Matragiano clips, where he's a sort of crude but supportive meathead. he could start as the old version of Duke but the game would gradually make him into that version of himself. by the end of it, he'd have to kill his future self and then go back in time as a slightly new version of himself, and that could dovetail nicely into the Duke Nukem Forever Restoration Project, which would be made the canon version of Forever

also they'd fuck up sending him back so he'd show up on September 12th and that's why he didn't stop 9/11