A Hideo Kojima game jam. Make games based on Hideo Kojima himself, not his actual works. Games about him as a person, what you think he’s like in private, the idea of Hideo Kojima, etc.
A puzzle game about connecting the Pope’s internal organs so he doesn’t leak out: Pope Dream
A reverse-isekai story, where everyone in another world ends up in ours and one guy goes to the now empty one.
Sun Chip’s Challenge
Battle royale based on Smash TV
Cyberpunk spinoff/reboot of Castlevania
Dr. Pac-Man
Time Cubic Zirconia
Unholy Night Trap
Cannibal speed-eating competitions
FMV Undertail-like, with digitized graphics
Security guard theater
A Pokémon game set in the United States, in the midst of a national election, so you can Pokémon Go to the polls in the game
Neutral biotics
A Touhou game where the spell cards are the card designs from Windows 3.1 Solitaire
Make the latest AAA boxing game free to play on Boxing Day
Tide Pod-based cryptocurrency
A building where the entire floor has moving walkways, because why have them in just one random hallway and not even all of it?
But it’s a maze so you have to shift to the right lanes that go the direction you want to go.
Monster Hunter, but with the monsters replaced with people
New snack food, Poker Chips - Every bite’s a winner!™
Competitive data transferring, cURLing
Versions of “Surfin’ U.S.A.” for countries other than the U.S.A.
Showtunes for show trials
Vaping fluid that smells like actual shit, so you can be honest of what you think of the people around you
Chess Metroidvania
Les Miserables 2: More Miserables
Firewalls to protect against life hacks
Stand-up tragedy
Nick Barcade
eScorts
Soc media
Mike Tyson’s Punch & Judy
Laid-Back Camp, but for camping out at midnight releases
A game that ends with a scene of a castle collapsing in the distance as the hero looks on from a cliff, except there wasn’t a castle at any point in the game
A JRPG where the only way to earn money is to mine cryptocurrency
Photoshop, with the sound effects from Mario Paint
Rebrand Boxing Day as the Purge except you’re just allowed to box anyone you want wherever you want
Grindr 2: Grind Hardr
A reverse battle royal game, which starts with 2 players and ends with 100
Cory In The House Of The Dead
Steak and Shake Shake
Battletodds, a video game about Todd Rogers and his two closest confreres fighting to redeem Todd’s name.
None of the dances themselves were very different nor remarkable, but the names for the dances were quite notable:
“The Kentucky Fried Dance” “The Chicken Winner” “The Chicken Better” “The Duck Dance Deux” “The Chicken Butter” “NEXT Poultry Jiggg“ “The Chicken Banter” “Duo Duck Diner” “The Better Chicken Better” (got disqualified for violence) “The Chicken Bitter” “Pupeye the Parlor Dance” “The Chicken Doughnut”
I have never played a game that I didn’t see some level of value in. This includes “terrible” rip-offs. Each one of them has presented some type of different view of looking at a game. Even if you’re trying really hard to fit in, and make a game that everyone else is making, some little bit of your own touch is going to get through.
I’ve received quite a bit of inspiration by playing “bad” student games because somehow they always manage to present something new that I would not have thought of. Even if, on surface, they look “bad”. Even spectacular failure can be inspiring.
All this adds to the pool of creativity. A very bad game can inspire a good one.
Illustration of Mario and RoboCop for a yearly best video game award segment in Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazine. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Video Games and Computer Entertainment (US), Issue 2, 1989
Do you think RoboCop designed that RoboCop-shaped trophy himself?
Bugs Bunny could singlehandedly defeat Thanos by dressing up as a TSA agent and setting up a metal detector in the middle of the battlefield saying that all metal objects must be removed if you want to pass on through now stick around for my 2,000 word essay on just how effectively he would convince The Mad Titan to comply
“For shame, doc! Dontcha know we got other folks waiting?”
(Thanos looks behind him and sees dozens of Bugs Bunnies dressed as angry yelling travelers with huge bags of luggage. Thanos rubs his neck guiltily and begins sliding off the gauntlet)
