I'm trying to make a game that will cause depression.Give ideas.
game about the world before 9/11
Introduce new gameplay concepts and then immediately abandon them to railroad the player into QTEs and walk 'n talk segments.
Just release a good game then release a modern moviegame triple A pile of shit
Game that starts intriguing but slowly falls apart in terms of story, gameplay, and graphics.
Vn with attractive girls and a very good story
>>730984405Create a "Get the True Ending" Steam achievement that's unattainable.
>>730984405Just apply to Quantic Dreams, I imagine they're always hiring.
>>730984405You are a therapist and have to listen inane narcissistic ramblings of women all day. Then you do some probono work for the local prison where you work with men with actual problems.
>>730984405Make a space exploration game similar to starfield
>>730984405you are everything wrong with the world and I hope everything bad in life happens to you and only you OP
>>730984515This. Take it from an OG Blizzdrone.
If you want a good feel-bad movie, watch When The Wind Blows.It leaves a nice unpleasant hole in your gut when you realize that this could happen to you.
so the plot is you play as the main guy and your girlfriend breaks up with you, one of your friends from high school dies of overdose, then your co-worker rapes you, and you quit your job because you don't want to be there around the guy who raped you, so now you're broke, and then your car breaks down on you, and the whole time this is happening there is a genocide taking place
>>730987331God noNot watching that
>>730984405anime girls kissing and cuddling me
>>730987331Nuclear war is literally never going to happen
>>730988075then make it happen
I've thought for a while the nastiest thing you could do as a game dev would be to make an unassuming Stardew-style game where after you marry your waifu of choice, your relationship gradually gets worse and worse with nothing you can do about it until she divorces you, takes your farm and kids, and basically bricks your file.To execute properly on this plan roll it out as part of a content update after people have already bought the game and played it for 50 hours.
>>730984405Make the best possible wish-fulfillment game that can possibly be made, then you have three options for hurting the player.>make the setting so bleak that the story feels like an exception that won't be able to last for long>add subtle implications that everything will go bad at some point without showing it>play is straight and just let the disconnection from the reality of the players cause the emotional harm to them
>>730984405you have to make a vulnerable character and always ask yourself "what is the worst thing i can put this character through"
>>730984405If you want to be depressed, just use 4chan. If you want to cause it in other people, have them use 4chan. Not depressed? Spend more time here. Problem solved. I spent my whole life here.
>>730984405always harm innocent characters and make the antagonists get the upper hand every time. that really kicks the brain in the right place.
>>730984405they already made no, i'm not human
>>730988376Why though? Just include it right off the bat, pretend it's a normal game mechanic but code it to be inevitable.
>>730984405Copy Lisa, change the genre.
>>730984405Silent Hill 4 did this on purpose
Through story it's easy. Just introduce likeable characters and murder them but give the player the idea that they could have saved them. Make sure to autosave so they can't try to savescum to find out it was impossible.
roguelike soulsbourne-lite, with loot boxes and light RPG elements.
>>730984405No need to make a game when you can just live it every single day of your entire life.
First you need to do a lot of thinking.
>>730984405A guy who has a loving family but comes home to find he has been replaced and it's like nobody knows who he is anymore.
>>730984405You just caused me depression by reminding me David Lynch is dead
>>730993270>replaced and it's like nobody knows who he is anymore.This and everyone around him is an indian.
>>730987331For me its Dear Zachary.
Don't be sad that it's over be glad the journey happened and work on your transcendental meditation.
Lots of genuine friend party characters, and at some point they all abandon or leave you>I don't find you interesting any more anon >Hanging out with you? Sorry I'm busy>I didn't like what you said anon, I can't look at you the same anymore
The game follows a group of people who were isolated to protect them from some horrible world-ending event. Build it up to be really tragic over the course of the game. Have them receive pictures of the world before the event to show how utopian it is. At the end of the game they get out into the real world and it just looks like our world.
