Game ideas that you have but will never actually finish making ever

Interesting, never thought of doing it as a boardgamey thing. I'm actually working on a game in my spare time now that is a bit more feasible, since its more about the gameplay than the story. Granted life gets in the way, and motivation waxes and wanes. I haven't hit Repoman levels, where I ban myself and go all gung ho on it. I actually envy his passion and motivation.

My project could have been anime, book, light novel, manga, or serial. Alas even it is feasible I do not have the moxie to make it come true.

I'm sure 'boardgamey' is the feel that would result—the system for resolving dogfights when aircraft are co-hexed is pretty much exactly the air combat system a college pal and I came up with one afternoon for a Savage Worlds campaign we had planned (to salve our grief that Crimson Skies wasn't a thing anymore). A few months (or maybe a year now) ago, I coded up a little prototype to see how it would actually play out. I have to say, it's probably the best game system design I've ever done. It's simple enough to play on a table (or to have an AI play), and it's deep enough to provide skill-weighted but variable outcomes in such a way that I, an air combat aficionado, am satisfied with it.

Well, except for a few easy-ish ways to game the system that my friend and I purposefully didn't fix in the tabletop version because of our group's standing rule, "Don't be an idiot."

Does it count if it's actually half-done, but hasn't been worked on in forever?

I have a Touhou/Portal crossover VN I was making with my friend a while back (and we even got a playable demo out and everything), but we never got around to finishing the full game.

I had an idea for a VN otome game that arose from all the complaints about not being able to relate to the MCs of other games (and my inability to relate to the MC that people would rather have). But unfortunately I cannot draw so I haven't put much thought into it outside of character design and the "canon" route.

Otome Game Idea #521: "At Night My Chair Turns Into A Smug Possessive Pretty Boy"
When I was little, I used to have nightmares. I'd wake up crying in the middle of the night, but nobody ever heard me.
Somewhere along the line, I made myself an imaginary friend. At the stroke of midnight, he would magically appear right there in my room in a swirl of colorful wind. He would comfort me as I cried and he would listen to my problems. When I was done, I would hug him and he would hug me back. I would fall asleep in his embrace and wake up in bed again feeling all better.
As I grew older, I started sleeping better. I started sleeping soundly between midnight and sunrise, so of course I stopped seeing him. I was a little sad, but a little happy at the same time. But...
Tonight, I decided to pull an all-nighter for the first time to cram for my psychology test, and...
As it turns out, my imaginary friend was very, very real.
That's all I got before I went "Go to bed, Donmai. Go to bed."
It made sense in my head at one point, I swear! We've had this wooden chair since before I was born and I sit in it every day but my hair kind of gets caught in it a lot, especially when I'm just about to get up to answer the phone and that's really painful and (ramble ramble ramble)

Okay guys. I’m comfortable enough on this forum to risk saying something really controversial.

I apologize in advance if I offend anyone. If do offend you, please tell me what I said that offended you, so I can get a better understanding of what upsets people. Since, well, social activity is hard.

I have an idea for a Visual Novel. A weird one that may push some buttons.

Again, I am sorry if I stepped on any toes. I just thought it would be cool to have a game look at the real-world ramifications of some of the darker aspects of some VNs

To be perfectly honest, I would go into a game like that with very low expectations. But I would probably still play it out of curiosity. It would be really hard to do well, to neither be offensive nor sound like an after-school special, but as a survivor of abuse (although not rape), I find the idea intriguing.

I totally get that. That's why it's just an idea, I have no idea if I could do the concept justice.

My friend and I were just discussing how many games you end up accidentally saving the world, so he proposed that there should be one the opposite, It'd play like a standard RPG at first, you beat monsters and level up different skills. Turns out leveling up those skills was just the manifestation of you going to different classes (so you imagined it? or it was projected onto you somehow? maybe it's a new school system to keep students engaged). So in the end, you were just a normal (?) highschool student.

I read this first part and I thought.. what if instead of accidentally saving the world, you end up accidentally destroying it? I'm sure there must already be a game that plays with that concept, though...

I've had a lot of random game ideas. None of them ever made it past the thinking about it stage, though. I think some of you guys have really interesting ideas though. I had a thought of "What if all the people with ideas on broken forum made one big game with input from everyone?" Then I realized that it wouldn't be a game anymore; it would be a big ball of psycho. ^^;

I'm still working out a game idea about romancing aliens. Sadly I'm behind schedule, but I managed to sketch out all the romanceable characters.

Reminded of abandoned idea in the Glass Stilettos thread:

Not exactly this, but have a link to Type Connection.

Speaking of which, is anyone doing Nanoreno this year?

Guys... You know I have a lot of ideas that will never be finished and I wanted to tell you about them, but... I thought "Hey, I have written a little bit text for this game, I should show it to the BrokenForums too!" and then "Hmm, it's bad to show it as a plain text. I need to put it into the Ren'Py..." and then after putting some part of the text into the script I thought "Dang, this is no good without visual aspect! I need to draw backgrounds! Even sketchy background is okay since this is only for fun..." and then I've decided to finish my character sprites...
Because of you I'm going to finish this damned game.

The story is about a girl, named Reese, who ran away from home. She just finished a school so she doesn't know anything about working, but she needs to find one because, you know, money. After some time she bumps into a mysterious woman on the road. Woman scolds her and goes away, and Reese finds a peace of paper that fell from woman's pocket. Well, since the woman is not here Reese reads this paper and - hey! - it's a job ad! Rich people are looking for a maid! And they offer a place to stay, everyday meal and etc. - perfect job for an inexperienced girl without anything! So, Reese goes there but the owner refuses to give her a job. Reese insist, and the owner says that she can stay only as a pet dog to chase her away. But to his surprise Reese agrees. So that's how her story as a maid pet dog begins. But here's one more problem - her Master and two other residents of the castle are vampires.

Very original, I knooow /sarcasm. But I started this game when there was a Twilight boom. I wanted to show how to make a vampire romance in right way. Goddammit, vampires are a dangerous creatures who burn under the sun not glitter! And they can suck all your blood! Bah!

Here are sprites. I drew them 2-3 years ago, so they're wonky but still look fine. I think.

I hope I'll finish it.

Aaand this idea of mine is already used http://vndb.org/v4680
Dang, I need to do things faster >:

Sorry for doubleposting again. I'm going to post my ideas here since now, because doubleposting is bad and I don't know will I finish these ideas or not.

After going on an otome binge last night, I came up with the concept for some sort of politics otome game. XD
Like, you're a new MP or civil servant or some such thing, and the party you choose determines who you can get with

I would but I always find myself stumped in terms of plot. Giant monster owl horror novel doesn't work without plot and my attempts to make an educational novel only work in my mind if I have an illustrator and wasn't lazy.

I would pay good money to play all of these games if I had any money and these games were real.

Except for the baby eating one Jason McCullough came up with. That one is where I draw the line.

WOO I'm a winner!

I am seriously tempted to try to make this a thing. Horrifying Pokémon As A SRPG type deal with a "kids' show" artstyle.

I mean, this is me we're talking about here, so odds are I wouldn't get anywhere because I'd be too busy redoing everything 20 times until it satisfied my neuroses, but still

The problem is that I'm not sure it wouldn't result in jail time

I cannot even begin to say how sad I am that the "romancing subjects" otome game idea seems to have died.

I have multiple ideas for games.
And all of them have at least SOMETHING to do with Vocaloid songs.

I have some more ideas based on Vocaloid songs, but all of them kind of have the same problems.

It's mostly a question of delegating who writes what and we still need to finalize character traits and inter-character relationships and route plotlines and the 3P/PvP endings and that project is massive and we were all crazy for thinking it was a good idea but really, yeah, I'm sad it died too.

Although really, I think it's just hibernating for now.

I got another idea:
Mega Pandora Hearts Dating Sim!
You'll be able to date anyone (even people that are SUPPOSED to be dead) and anything (even Chains, Emily & Janta-kun)!

This is what happens when I play a Pandora Hearts game on my tablet while reading this thread on my laptop.
It's all your fault, people.

I'd love to make an otome game where you can end up in a polyamorous relationship, and not have the game wag its finger at you and go OH YOU HORRIBLE WOMAN for it. Either that, or a post-apocalyptic otome game, because I don't think anyone's really done that before.

Alas, with the way I draw, the sprites would be stick figures.

Would still play that.

Calvinandhobbes
I'd play that, because it seems interesting...
And that way, the sprites would surely be unique.

Eta: So I was thinking about Vocaloid songs & I got 2 wonderful ideas.

So this isn't a "game that I'll never finish making", but it is a game I'm making (with the help of some Tumblr peeps + our very own Nekochi)!

Snow White and the Seven Thugs, an otome game that's like the bastard lovechild of Snow White and Grand Theft Auto. Follow its development here on Brokenforum or on my blog!

A VN about owning cats. Your goal? Stay alive. Basically, you would be in a house with some cats. You could choose what to do, and then things would happen, like all VNs. But these things would be things that involve cats. Examples:
Option 1: I choose to sleep.
Reaction: The cats crawl all over you, kneading your back, dealing 1 point of damage.

Option 2: I choose to use the restroom.
Reaction: The cats follow you in and hit your legs, doing 1 point of damage.

Option 3: I choose to feed the cats.
Reaction: The cats follow you, yelling and hitting you, dealing 1 point of damage.

Option 4: I choose to know my place and cuddle the cats.
Reaction: They crawl on your lap, pinning your there with loving purrs and snuggles. You starve to death.

Yep. I'm weird.

Inspired by the power of Skype conversation, I made a spinoff social group forum to get comments or possibly crit on game ideas which are slightly more in-depth - located here, if anyone would be interested. :)

I just started this but I already know I'm never going to finish it:
Randomized murder mystery game. Victims, culprits, and characters are randomized at the beginning of the game. Already made it so 14 out of 24 possible characters are shown per playthrough, but writing is the hardest part. Anyone has the potential to be a survivor so everyone has to be equally developed. Also, can't draw if my life depended on it. Whoopsie.

Personally I know I'll never make it but I wish I could make a survival horror staring a troodon in the post apocalyptic world after the meteor hit. That or a dinosaur MMO. Using similar mechanics to "Be The Dinosaur".

Thanks to this forum, I started getting ideas for otomes. The one I like best in my head involves romancing the anthropomorphic personifications of various book genres.

I want to make an otome game where you can date all Eevee evolutions. They are all colour-coded bishounen (yeah, even the new Sylveon; not sure how I'm gonna make it a dude). You are Eevee, the girl of the reverse harem.

:D

Sylveon could be a cross-dressing, LARPing, adorkable, nerd bishie. Given the fact that fairy is super effective against dragon and all that jazz.

Or he could be super-stylish and high-class: The ribbons on its body translate to bow-ties.