Hurtling through the Galaxy

Like the last post, this one is going to about looking for ideas for the essay topic: Why this work has not been converted into a videogame before and discuss.

[4:50 pm I've just realised some of these ideas are not actual "works", they are more concepts so you'll either need to find a source material(text/video) based around these concepts. I'll be changing some of these so they are based off actual texts or films.]

TV, Science Fiction and Oddballs:

• MacGuyver:
  I can't see why a game that uses MacGyverisms to solve problems, escape cells and kills bad guys hasn't been made. It could just be the mullet.


• The A-Team:
  Explosions, guns, escapes and Mr T.


• Mythbusters:
  Teaching kids or grownups, the hows and whys of the universe. You could make it into a learning game, give your player a problem, give them free run of some labs and see if they can busts some myths. Alternatively you could turn in into a trivia game to see how much stuff you know.


• The Action Hero's Handbook


• Phillip K Dick


• Snow Crash:
  Hacker/Sword Fighter/Secret Agent turned pizza delivery guy who's broke has discovers plot to destroy humanity. The story world features the Metaverse, a fictional virtual reality that was spawned from the Internet. It's been described as an MMO.


• Comic book heroes:
  Flash Gordon, Tom Strong or find a hero like Hungry Beast did.


• 2001: A Space Odyssey:
  If you were trapped in space with HAL, what would you do?
  Alternatively you could look at Moon. (Beware, die hard fans may stop you from killing the movies)


• Brainship series


• Culture Jamming:
  - Steal This Book
  - Flash Mobs (Improv Everywhere)
  - Anonymous
  - The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  - Scientology(insert appropriate level of sarcasm here).


• Alternate Sports *Concepts:
  - Roller Derby(Whip It)
  - Unicycle Hockey or Boxer Hockey
  - BASEketball
  - Dodgeball (links to international rule book in pdf form) or the movie
  - Speed Dating (I jest)


• Advergame *Concepts:
  If you don't mind capitalising on a current product or you like seeing where extreme commercialisation is headed, why not try making a game to help advertise a product or company?
  - Kids MMO where weapons use brand name candy as ammo. Sour Warhead anyone?
  - This, obviously copyright and the corporation may scare you off buy you know it would awesome if it where made.


• Internet Social Phenomena *Concepts:
  Why not see what you can come up with based around stuff like: Twitter, Facebook or even YouTube. Maybe you could use these sites as part of the plot or game mechanic.
  - A Private Investigator searching for missing people via Facebook
  - The FBI trailing drug consignments via coded Twitter messages
  - A wannabe trying to become popular via YouTube