Genius ideas that would make us millionaires if we weren't so lazy.

[shadzar]

Best typo EVER.

If I didn't wake up to go, I would have laughed so hard i would have...you get the idea.

 

[wedgeski]

I'd put money on your "completely original idea" having already been thought of by about fifty development teams within 10 seconds of seeing how the Kinect worked.

The thing's only a couple of months old, give it time and I'm sure you'll see all this and more.

 

[thejc]

GameStop REALLY hates it when I drop by, because I inevitably ask for:

- Sweeney Todd for the Wii
- Pan Flute Hero
- A fishing game where I get play the fish and drown fishermen

My game for "big game hunting" where you get to choose your animal and then go get hunted by a man who has been set free in the wilderness with no equipment.

 

[thejc]

Last night some friends and I realized we all wished we had learned how to program, because we had a completely original idea for a video game so awesome that everyone would buy it and make it all rich. Since we're too lazy to do the work, though, maybe some of you could get cracking at it.

You know the Kinect? What it needs is a magic duel game. You'd cast spells with different gestures, and some basic spells would work like different sports.

Fireball? Draw back your arm and hurl it through the air like an American football.

Lightning bolt? Throw up one hand like you're tossing up a tennis ball, then swing your other arm to hurl the bolt like you're serving the ball.

Magic missile? Ultimate frisbee.

Or riff on Street Fighter. If you crouch, then step forward and stand up while punching, you'll fire a bolt of energy.

Now all the Kinect needs is some way to move around on your own, instead of standing still or moving on rails.



So please, somebody make that game. I want to play it. I'll buy it from you.

Anybody else have genius ideas that just require too much work?

I'm actually suprised they have not done this with Harry Potter. You could make it strictly a duel type game with hogwarts and other famous characters from that world. It would make a crap ton of green-backs.

 

[RangerWickett]

Zoo rampage. Grand Theft Auto meets your local zoo. You pick your animal, and your goal is to cause as much havoc as possible while making your way out of the city toward home. Be an elephant and just trash stuff, a cheetah so you can maul pets and outrun cars, a king cobra so you can go for precision assassinations, or a koala if you really want to handicap yourself.

 

[Firebeetle]

I don't want to make a video game. My million dollar idea is to make a film version of "Little Women" with an all-midget cast.

 

[TarionzCousin]

My idea is Kinect for dogs, as a communication device.

Or start with gorillas, like Koko.

Koko (born July 4, 1971, at San Francisco Zoo) is a Western Lowland Gorilla who, according to Francine 'Penny' Patterson, is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language,[1] and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English.[2] She has lived most of her life in Woodside, California, although a move to a sanctuary in Maui, Hawaii has been planned since the 1990s.[3]

 

[Lidgar]

I had this great idea 15 years ago of converting Angband into a game with awesome graphics named "Hell".

Stupid Blizzard.

 

[Stormonu]

My game for "big game hunting" where you get to choose your animal and then go get hunted by a man who has been set free in the wilderness with no equipment.

You mean like the game Deer Avenger?

<edit> never mind, I misread your post

 

[jmucchiello]

RW, have you ever played this game: Waving Hands It is basically the no-tech version of what you are looking for.

- Pan Flute Hero

I'm still waiting for Horn Section Hero or Swing Band. Just think of all the 50s saxophone solos you can't play on those music games (or E Street Band songs). Heck trumpets only have 3 buttons. And the slide trombone controller would be killer. After Swing Band came out, The Beatles Rock Band could be updated so I can finally play 2nd Trumpet on Got To Get You Into My Life.

Seriously, I'm surprised a vocoder type interface hasn't come along for those games. Can't play anything wildly popular from 1975 without a vocoder. Once you have a vocoder, making a generic woodwind instrument is easy.