THE GREATEST (OR POSSIBLY STUPIDEST) IDEAS OF 2018


  • A Hideo Kojima game jam. Make games based on Hideo Kojima himself, not his actual works. Games about him as a person, what you think he’s like in private, the idea of Hideo Kojima, etc.
  • A puzzle game about connecting the Pope’s internal organs so he doesn’t leak out: Pope Dream
  • A reverse-isekai story, where everyone in another world ends up in ours and one guy goes to the now empty one.
  • Sun Chip’s Challenge
  • Battle royale based on Smash TV
  • Cyberpunk spinoff/reboot of Castlevania
  • Dr. Pac-Man
  • Time Cubic Zirconia
  • Unholy Night Trap
  • Cannibal speed-eating competitions
  • FMV Underfail-like, with digitized graphics
  • Security guard theater
  • A Pokémon game set in the United States, in the midst of a national election, so you can Pokémon Go to the polls in the game
  • Neutral biotics
  • A Touhou game where the spell cards are the card designs from Windows 3.1 Solitaire
  • Make the latest AAA boxing game free to play on Boxing Day
  • Tide Pod-based cryptocurrency
  • A building where the entire floor has moving walkways, because why have them in just one random hallway and not even all of it? But it’s a maze so you have to shift to the right lanes that go the direction you want to go.
  • Monster Hunter, but with the monsters replaced with people
  • New snack food, Poker Chips - Every bite’s a winner!™
  • Competitive data transferring, cURLing
  • Versions of “Surfin’ U.S.A.” for countries other than the U.S.A.
  • Showtunes for show trials
  • Vaping fluid that smells like actual shit, so you can be honest of what you think of the people around you
  • Chess Metroidvania
  • Les Miserables 2: More Miserables
  • Firewalls to protect against life hacks
  • Stand-up tragedy
  • Nick Barcade
  • eScorts
  • Soc media
  • Mike Tyson’s Punch & Judy
  • Laid-Back Camp, but for camping out at midnight releases
  • A game that ends with a scene of a castle collapsing in the distance as the hero looks on from a cliff, except there wasn’t a castle at any point in the game
  • A JRPG where the only way to earn money is to mine cryptocurrency
  • Photoshop, with the sound effects from Mario Paint
  • Rebrand Boxing Day as the Purge except you’re just allowed to box anyone you want wherever you want
  • Grindr 2: Grind Hardr
  • A reverse battle royal game, which starts with 2 players and ends with 100
  • Cory In The House Of The Dead
  • Steak and Shake Shake
  • Battletodds, a video game about Todd Rogers and his two closest confreres fighting to redeem Todd’s name.