Monday, June 1, 2015

Game ideas I've had for a while

Here are some ideas for video/computer games that I've had floating around in my head for a while.

Modifications to Existing Games
  • Zone of the Enders (PlayStation 2; Xbox 360)
    I have a couple of ideas for this. The first is adding an option to toggle between first- and third-person views. The first-person view is already present for in-engine cutscenes, so it probably wouldn't take too much work to activate it for regular gameplay. Since most combat is done while locked-on, this wouldn't present any control challenges, either. The only issue would be that some of the particle effects might obscure the view.
    The second idea for this would be to add twin-stick compatibility. This would work very well for Zone of the Enders, using a control scheme similar to the Cyber Troopers Virtual-On series; pushing the flight sticks in the same direction to move in that direction, moving them opposite ways vertically to rotate, maybe adding a button for free-look, and having the player spread the sticks apart to ascend (and together to descend). The PlayStation Analog Joystick would be perfect for this, and has already been officially compatible with a few PS2 games; the Xbox 360 also has a (absurdly expensive) twin-stick controller for Virtual-On, made by Hori.
More to come (eventually...)

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