Game Idea Guru
GAME IDEA GURU!
I made this tool to generate random game ideas: topic/theme, genre, mechanic, location/setting, and optional story plot.
Use 1 to 5 of the parameters to inspire a new game to try! If a Game Jam locks in a theme, mechanic, location, and whatnot, just use the other aspects to add to that idea. Experiment! And have fun!
HANDY LINKS
- Game genres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_genres
- Game mechanics: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Game_mechanics
Hope this helps you make cool new games!
If it does inspire your game, please include this in credits / source code:
"Inspired by ThatTomHall's Game Idea Guru "
Thanks!
(P.S. I will happy to expand any of the categories with new entries -- feel free to comment with new things to add!)
Comments
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Just having fun with it, I found some great themes for some game!
for the future of ourse, cause right now I am working on some project
Great!
This is a fun tool!
What do you think of adding a way to lock a category (would need ↑↓ arrows to select and o button to lock). I don’t know if there should be a max number of categories that are allowed to be locked :)
Additional idea: allow selecting the value manually, i.e. with ←→ arrows, but that seems less fun than discovering through chance.
(On a related note, would you mind adding your nice tool to Pico-8 BBS? Then I could even try to implement this myself and send a diff)
Thanks! And yeah good idea — sort of like keeping good cards in poker and drawing some more....
Sure! I thought it was on there? If not, will add. And I will try to update it after the holidays a bit. Might add Optional Protagonist category.
This is a gentle ping :)
Hey, will update this after I finish RNDGAME! :D :P
Yes! This is awesome. Great for game designers block!
Thanks!