What's your favorite (indie or not) game?
What's your favorite game genre?
Is there something you would like to play, but won't bother making?
Three locations could be the whole game, not the abandoned tutorial :) A wizard's mind doesn't need 40 rooms; it needs one memory that hits differently on the way back.
I'd try one object that changes meaning across those three rooms: first a strange key, then a clue to who owned it, then the choice to keep or return it. Reuse the rooms after that reveal instead of building more.
That's the small-story problem behind P.S.Me, our personalized gift-game project: the person matters more than the size of the map. Your wizard premise sounds like it could work as a tiny finished story.
Ah, the wizard wasn't trapped in his memories. He was trapped in the codebase :)
I'd start with one reusable interaction rather than a whole new engine: an object has a name, one line of text, and a flag it sets. Then the same object can show a different line once that flag is set. Adding the next memory becomes writing a few lines instead of wiring another special case.
What were you building it in?
Then I'd keep the three rooms as plain JS data and have one function render whichever room you're in. Each object can carry its text and an optional flag name; keep the flags in one state object. That won't build the whole engine for you, but it keeps the next memory from needing its own special-case code. Small enough to try on one room before rewriting anything.
It's too hard for me to pick favourite. But I'll start with the one that never gets old for me which is Choice-Driven Visual Novels. I don't know the "official types" of games so I'll just give you examples. Games like Criminal Case or Carmen San Diego that has mini games but add to the story. Games like Farmville, I believe it's called Farm/City Management 😅 I also love Vector, Shadow Fight 2, and Trials Frontier (I don't like their newer editions though😅). I didn't even start on PlayStation games because that'd be endless 😂. And I'd definitely bother make any/all these types of games, no matter how hard and long it might be as long as I do it with my friend. 🤩
What about yours? 👀
Anything with a good story/story centered. But more or less my personal tier list is something like this.
1) FPS and TPS. Like CoD, Max Payne, Half Life, GTA, so on... (I also include horrors like RE and SH)
2) RPGs: The Witcher, Fallout 3 and after, Cyberpunk 2077, so on...
3) VN's and Graphics adventures. Like The longest journey (trilogy), The wolf among us and Telltale's The walking dead
4) Walking Sims not much, but i found some I liked like 'A second before us', 'What remains of Edith Finch' and 'The vanishing of Ethan carter'
Some of the indie games I like are from Warlines Studios, Revevoodoo ,and there is also the Cursed trilogy there are more games ad makers of course but i don't want to make a wall. :-)
Tough question. There are many obvious masterpieces or games that have impressed. Like Portal or Baba Is You. Some games would stand out, simply because you can play them again and again. But does that make them the favorite game?
So I would go with Eternal Darkness.
I have no favorite genre. I tend to like turn based a bit more than action games, but I do play action games too. Including things like Dark Souls.
What's your favorite (indie or not) game?
- Not indie: Amnesia
- Indie: Akash Path of the five
What's your favorite game genre?
- Visual novel with romance/horror or fantasy.
- Rpg too
Is there something you would like to play, but won't bother making?
- I like playing open-world games like Skyrim, but I don't have what it takes to make a game like that... Neither the time nor the coding knowledge D:
I really like this one game called Super 10 Pin. It was basically a what-if scenario if Acclaim, and the devs that made the old Turok games (Iguana Entertainment), made a bowling videogame for N64. Everything from the font, the twist on bowling, and the music feels ripped right out of an old N64 game by Acclaim. I love it. I enjoy bowling videogames, especially ones that make playful twists on the formula. Bowling Hills and Impossibowl are two others that are pretty fun twists on the normal Bowling formula. I think they're all worth a play.