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"My Own Killer Game Idea", or "I think I've lost it completely"

Lubb · 2000-09-27T05:29:12

- Okay, here it is - What you need: you need the game CD itself, a laptop (you gotta have a laptop) -with a cellphone modem (a desktop PC will NOT work here), and a GPS receiver that can input its coordinates into the computer when called (all this stuff is available right now). You also need to live in an area with lots of players in the area or playing becomes impractical. - The game would be a standard tank-shoot-em-up. You move around, you shoot at enemies, last team standing wins. The angle is, that you''d actually have to get off your rear and get physically close to your target. You''d have a "radar" screen on your laptop that would detect all the other players in your game, identifying friendlies and enemies -but only for a certain range, -say, 30 miles. (That''s 30 real, actual miles, kids - we''re talking real-world miles here) You''d have to get within a mile or so to actually shoot at an opponent, and the closer you got, the more damage you''d do; the game would know where all the players were by the GPS feed sent over their laptops. Each side would have a "resupply" point that you''d have to begin the game from, which could be set to any (commonly accessible) GPS position, that you''d have to approach to get yourself more ammo or "repair damage" and whatever else during the game. Note that the resupply point wouldn''t have to be set particularly anywhere, as long as it''s well out of radar range of the opposing side, and commonly accessible. You could also "give" special weapons or "abilities" (a temporary stealth mode perhaps?) at certain points, anywhere you wanted. -The radar screen would also have "fog" or "clouds" roll across it randomly (but the same for everybody) so that you could "hide in the clouds" and not get seen on radar. The game would include chat support, so you''d have some way of maintaining strategy while you were hidden in the "clouds", because your enemies won''t be able to see you, but neither will your friends. - I also think it''d be pretty hard to cheat successfully by sending a false GPS feed. If your radar says an opponent is 500 yards north of you, and there''s no cars there, you''d know something was up. - - This would be total insanity, a complete riot: you''d likely get to meet your own teammates -IRL- at the starting/resupply point, and you''d have to actually get in yer car to cruise out to blow the other guys'' sh*t up. Of course, you''d have to play people in your area, and I suppose you''d have to have set limited game hours in case two members of opposite teams live just down the street from each other. You couldn''t have them sitting on their own couches, in their own living rooms, pounding on each other. Each player(gunner?) would probably want a driver because you''d want to be able to shoot on the move and really getting killed playing this thing wouldn''t be much fun at all. Getting glimpses of the people you''re actually playing would, I think, be rather interesting. - You could also have other variations on the same equipment setup, but this is the basic framework. It combines wasting vast tecnological and financial resources with potential physical danger, all for a paltry thrill. It can''t miss! - Lubb - -Note to Myself: get a laptop-

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Started by Lubb September 23, 2000 05:32 AM

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September 27, 2000 05:29 AM

- The problem with using a radio-based + decentralized system is that there''s no way to introduce artificial information into it. All the special effects of the proposed game - the radar clouds, the resupply points and the bonuses, require their positions to be fixed in true space, and the players'' positions to be detectable in true space, so that you can tell when a player''s position matches any of the former.
- Lubb

RPD=Role-Playing-Dialogue. It's not a game,it never was. Deal with it.

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