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