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[Parsely]

An RPG-like game where you play as fire. You can extend yourself to surrounding tiles, at the expense of weakening the tiles you're extending from. Each tile has a set lifespan, so you have to expand towards flammable objects to keep the fire going, while not over-extending yourself. There's destructible terrain + gravity, not unlike Dwarf Fortress, and falling terrain can put out fires in a radius around the falling piece. I'm not really sure what the objective would be, but I think with some work this would be a pretty neat concept.

Objective would be consume everything. Thats how fires think right?

[Sirus]

An RPG-like game where you play as fire. You can extend yourself to surrounding tiles, at the expense of weakening the tiles you're extending from. Each tile has a set lifespan, so you have to expand towards flammable objects to keep the fire going, while not over-extending yourself. There's destructible terrain + gravity, not unlike Dwarf Fortress, and falling terrain can put out fires in a radius around the falling piece. I'm not really sure what the objective would be, but I think with some work this would be a pretty neat concept.

As a counterpoint, I'd like a tile-based TBS (think Advance Wars) where you fight fires. Your primary concerns would be containment and limiting the fire's spread, and like all TBSs everywhere you'd start small (little old lady set her toaster on fire! Go put it out!) and end big (fighting 1,000-acre forest fires).

[PanH]

It remembers me a flash game, where there is a blue liquid, the creeper, which destroy everything on his path (like water). And you build turrets, and stuff to keep it out.

[Parsely]

It remembers me a flash game, where there is a blue liquid, the creeper, which destroy everything on his path (like water). And you build turrets, and stuff to keep it out.

LOVE THAT GAME.

[Rez]

An RPG-like game where you play as fire. You can extend yourself to surrounding tiles, at the expense of weakening the tiles you're extending from.

LORD KANTI

[Mesa]

A roguelike in the same vein as Infection where you play as a pathogen/virus/medical nanobot in a human (or not) body, and your goal is to...
I don't know. Infect the guy or protect him from being infected?


A bad mockup I made in REXPaint. I know there should be more to it, but it should give you an idea.

Includes "random" events such as a piece of food coming through if you're in the stomach and the like.

[lemon10]

Antichamber physics combined with a FPS or a dungeon crawler.

[Squill]

Though, the original proposition was for a roguelike WWI game, not a shooter. I imagine roguelikes would be a good genre for the whole "Industrialized war, you are going to die most likely" atmosphere WWI had.

TBH, I would probably not play an urban/WWI roguelike as much as I would a fantasy/scifi one, just because it feels like, for the most part, there's not too much discovery with gameplay elements. A WWI game wouldn't tell a new story or create a new world for me to explore, it would just provide a different perspective on a story I've already heard.

[Parsely]

Though, the original proposition was for a roguelike WWI game, not a shooter. I imagine roguelikes would be a good genre for the whole "Industrialized war, you are going to die most likely" atmosphere WWI had.

TBH, I would probably not play an urban/WWI roguelike as much as I would a fantasy/scifi one, just because it feels like, for the most part, there's not too much discovery with gameplay elements. A WWI game wouldn't tell a new story or create a new world for me to explore, it would just provide a different perspective on a story I've already heard.

What if it wasn't historical, but just a game with trench warfare in it? Minus the deadlock.

[Tsuchigumo550]

A MOBA mecha game.

[Parsely]

A MOBA mecha game.

End of Nations might suit you. The (former?) members of Westwood are working on it, and they've even dragged Frank Klepacki along to make the soundtrack.

[Lightningfalcon]

A MOBA mecha game.

End of Nations might suit you. The (former?) members of Westwood are working on it, and they've even dragged Frank Klepacki along to make the soundtrack.

Frank Klepacki?  Westwood?  Going to be two years before I can actually play multiplayer, but this might be a game I need to try. 

[Parsely]

A MOBA mecha game.

End of Nations might suit you. The (former?) members of Westwood are working on it, and they've even dragged Frank Klepacki along to make the soundtrack.

Frank Klepacki?  Westwood?  Going to be two years before I can actually play multiplayer, but this might be a game I need to try.

They were originally going to make it an RTS, but they went dark for a while and when they resurfaced, they announced that they had scrapped that idea for reasons unknown. I'm just glad they didn't give up entirely after being decimated by EA.

[PTTG??]

Here's a cheesy one: Energy Tycoon De-Luxe

It's 1970 and oil prices are skyrocketing! Everybody needs energy, and you and your $10,000,000 seed money are going to provide it!

Everything from installing home solar grids to developing, deploying, and operating a network of CANDU nuclear reactors and superconducting supergrids- it's all available! Our team of energy experts has created the most accurate global energy grid simulator yet devised, including natural disasters, climate change, and speculation about potential future energy sources...

It would go up to 2050, complete with the option to enable speculative power sources like super-efficient solar or various types of fusion/fission. Climate change could even play a part in it.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Do you get to lobby governments that there's millions of years of coal left? Discredit and bribe climate scientists? Blanket the general population with propaganda?
Putting aside whether you believe in climate change/fossil fuel debate it would be extremely interesting and fun to play as a cartoony corporate villain trying to milk as much profit out of a finite resource and then skipping the country leaving no kind of infrastructure or future plans. A bit like the Tropico series but more emphasis on corporate smash and grab.

It could be anything from a the copyright industry to a mining monopoly. Live fast and die in the Caribbean.