THE GREATEST (OR POSSIBLY STUPIDEST) IDEAS OF 2017
- Pi-sided dice
- Water e-sports
- Karma meters for car horns: It decreases when another driver uses their horn on you, but increases when you use it yourself, assuming they’re valid uses.
- Pac-Land recreated entirely in material design
- A Double Dragon spinoff, AboboCop
- A bot that searches for social media posts where the author uses a censored swear word and uncensors it
- An HD remaster of the original Rogue
- A BlazBlue character based on The Blue Blazer
- Ironic lung
- A film about the unlikely friendship between the Better Business Bureau and the humans that surround them: The BBB Movie
- A reskin of an anime fighting game, with digitized graphics of cosplayers of each character
- MMO Tetris, with a million-block-wide well where thousands of players cooperate to get a single line clear. Or disrupt it, whichever. There is a huge reward for the people who contribute to a line clear so there’s incentive to actually do it, even though it would take a month or more if no one messes it up.
- Assless gloves
- Final Fight Warriors
- Contraceptive sponge cake
- A mechanical keyboard that makes the sound of a blocked hit in a fighting game
- Neural hairnets
- Final Fight puzzle game spinoff, Final Fightris
- A Marvel vs. Capcom spinoff that combines Marvel Super Hero Squad and Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
- Kidz Bop covers of WWE Themes
- Mom’s spaghetti code
- Japari Park map for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- A Hudson Soft vs. Sunsoft fighting game
- Bitcoins for referees to decide who kicks off first
- Touhou arrangement diss tracks
- An anime remake of The Trap Door, with the main characters replaced with anime maids
- A platform fighting game where the only form of combat is roshambo. Two characters run up and play rock-paper-scissors. The loser is launched back like a Power Ranger.
- A mobile version of the board game Sorry!, renamed Appologies
- Red Solo Cuphead
- The volume of any sound a program produces is muffled if its window isn’t on top, getting harder to hear the more windows are on top of it.
- JRPG where every single character’s gender is randomized every game. The plot doesn’t adjust itself to account for any disparities, and the player isn’t allowed to change them without starting a new game.
- Fingerless Hamburger Helper glove
- Friendly-sounding car horns
- Mad Libs with emojis
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but with Pokémon battles
- A boy band called Princes In Another Castle, just to really upset gamers who don’t pay real close attention