Game ideas

[tokumaru]

Like every triple A title for the last 10 years?

But in 2D!

[Dwedit]

Like every triple A title for the last 10 years?

Oh Snap!

[Sogona]

Like every triple A title for the last 10 years?

But in 2D!

And with absolutely no budget whatsoever.

[Drew Sebastino]

I had recently thought of a 3D shooter game where instead of taking damage, the goal of the game is to knock players off the stage in that every weapon will have a sizeable knockback, possibly even like an explosion to where if you hit the ground near the front of them, they will fly up at an angle. Damage probably wouldn't be accumulative like in Super Smash Bros, but you'd instead have to just hit people off the edge. The maps would have to be designed accordingly, incorporating holes and few corners to cower in so you won't be jammed there. You could do tricks with certain weapons, like if you wanted to jump really high, you could rocket jump but with no health loss. Additionally, if you hit a wall near you, you could slide sideways very quickly. Offcourse, I don't know how well this would work in theory and there's no way it'll ever be made, it's just something neat I came up with combining the "uniqueness" of something like Splatoon while incorporating more old-school fast paced fps action, having things like rocket jumping and having the stages be more arena like.

[dougeff]

3D shooter game

You're talking SNES, right? 3d on NES is not going to look too good.

[DRW]

I would say 3D on the NES looks decent:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlZI1OTSvY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=po69zgqyFWM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcOneF-dLfc

[Sogona]

I can't even begin to fathom how to build a ray-casting engine. How involved is it? I'm gonna go out on a short limb and guess that a lot of heavy trig is involved, but what else?

[calima]

I suck at ideas. I did have one, spurred by the compo topic.

Horror adventure game, somewhat in Maniac Mansion style. You wake up alone, in an abandoned space ship, and piece together clues while trying not to get killed. (shoot the limbs!!11)

Didn't quite decide yet if it was going to be a creepy walking simulator with no enemies, or Dead Space 2d. Maybe I need better ideas.

[dougeff]

I would say 3D on the NES looks decent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlZI1OTSvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po69zgqyFWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcOneF-dLfc

I guess we have different ideas of what is a 'decent' 3d game. I would describe them as slow and blocky.

[Drew Sebastino]

You're talking SNES, right? 3d on NES is not going to look too good.

I wasn't aware this had to be on the NES. I was thinking of hardware with actual 3D acceleration. I actually don't have any ideas for the SNES or for the M92 if I ever get there.

[tokumaru]

I can't even begin to fathom how to build a ray-casting engine. How involved is it? I'm gonna go out on a short limb and guess that a lot of heavy trig is involved, but what else?

The basic idea is to cast rays (one ray per screen column) from the player in a 2D map until they hit walls, and divide a constant by the length of the ray to find the height of the wall.

[Sik]

3d on NES is not going to look too good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBIOi00sEI

But yeah, completely different thing there. I suppose you could do something like Battlezone or X though.

[tokumaru]

I guess we have different ideas of what is a 'decent' 3d game. I would describe them as slow and blocky.

Because Wolfenstein 3D and the 3D sections from Jurassic Park on the SNES were incredibly smooth, right? I'll give you blocky (although I believe the NES can do a little better then what has been done so far), but speed in 3D environments certainly isn't something the SNES can brag about either.

[Drew Sebastino]

Is no one else even thinking about how limited the types of engines used in Wolfenstein 3D or the 3D segments in Jurassic Park are? It's not just a matter of graphical quality, from like the PS3 to PS4, but a matter of gameplay, and a lot of 3D games on the SNES or other 2D systems from the time just aren't possible. (Even vector graphics would probably prove to be too slow.)

[Dwedit]

Someone made a homebrew ROM that was an animation using the CHR-ROM of Super Mario Bros 1, showing several long minutes of glitched graphics among other things.