My ideas for horror FPS game

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Idea for computer game .. your classic horror first person shooter (like doom 3). However after you've played a few levels of fairly normal stuff, things start to go really wierd in the ultimate scary way for the player.
Some of the absolutely unique things this horror shooting game does

1) Level 5, after you've done the normal game stuff for a while -- You enter a room with a small, scary looking girl typing at a typewriter. When you look at the type-writer she is actually typing your, personal, orbituary. The thing is, you didn't tell the game any information about yourself -- but the girl looks at you (earily directly at you) and says something in a creepy voice like 'I'm reading your mind - this is beyond a game - you are now in hell'. She's writing about your actual name, not your 'profile'.. the school you went to, your hobbies, the date on the orbituary states today as the day-of-death. Whoa scary stuff - the game knows about you yet you didn't tell it! HOW IT WORKS: It has, when installing, searched your PC for .doc, .rtf and .txt files looking for what it thinks is a CV (resumae) -- then taken all the details from this CV if found and used them in this bit of the game. If it can't find a CV, it finds a letter that you have written to find your full, real name (and address if at the top of the letter). But the player doesn't know this .. he just thinks 'JEES - SHE KNOWS WHERE I LIVE! ARGH!'

2) Level 6 - The game inexplicitly crashes back to desktop. You're a little annoyed .. but decide to do something else on the PC. Your 'out of the game now'. However .. on double clicking the new icon on your desktop (whatever it is) the hard disk starts wurring to load whatever it is -- but it doesn't load -- through the speakers you start hearing - real quiet at first, this freaky choir singing gently 'You're going to die .. you're going to die'. This gets louder and louder until mind-blowingly loud then suddenly with a bang the desktop goes black, then the dingy surroundings of the horror shooter fade back into the screen. Cut-scene .. the nightmare creature from hell says in a bone-chilling voice 'there is no escape'. Viewer is freaked! He thought he was no longer in the game! AARRGH PANIC! (HOW IT WORKED -- Game 'screen grabbed' the desktop at install -- the game never actually crashed it just faked it).

3) Game raids the hard disk for images stored in standard user-folders. Using simple picture recognition it picks out certain images which it decides are of people. On level 7 the player walks into a cut scene with the evil monster boss screaming at the monsters, ordering 'Escape this game .. go find these people and destroy them' while actually pointing at those pictures of your wedding, your girlfriend, your friends on holiday together!! AARGH AGAIN!! Monsters leave through a side-door on the screen vowing your friends (or whoever you had images of) destruction!

Naturally the game does not ALTER any of the data is has grabbed. This could only be done for 1 game before people knew the tricks .. but it would scare people a lot as the game went to the next dimension!

4) This one may be taking it a bit far .. if connected to the internet the game emails the company your home phone number (taken from CV or where-ever on your harddisk it can find what looks like your home number). Level 10 -- The ultimate nightmare. Enter the lair of the diaboloical demon .. electricity flying out from huge .. spikes .. screaming as he writhes around on some infernal machine .. 'I'm going to get free of this game .. it's too late for you gamer .. I'm going to become your horror'. Suddenly screen goes completely black. Absolute silence. The PC seems dead. Then, suddenly a few seconds later, your home phone starts to ring. You cautiously approach -- pick up the phone. An eerie Voice chillingly just says down the line 'I'm free of the game, now you get hunted' and hangs up. Game quits (end of game) -- and you have a nervous breakdown!! (This is - of course - just a recorded message from the game company which did the equivelent of a Microsoft messenger message to them saying 'He's ready to recieve the 'end of game' phone call').


Instant brown pants time -- and a game you'll never forget!

Or pile'a cack list of ideas?

You decide!!
 
How about instead of searching your hard drive for a CV, facebook integration?

You could integrate your fb account while installing the game, which would ideally take seconds.

Starcraft 2 already integrates with facebook
 
Eames said:
How about instead of searching your hard drive for a CV, facebook integration?

You could integrate your fb account while installing the game, which would ideally take seconds.

Starcraft 2 already integrates with facebook
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Fantastic yes.

I posted the OP to a friend and he wrote back saying:

1) the girl calls you your wife's name. Your (her)obituary states that you (she) died last year cos you haven't set your PC time properly.

2) Like it, nice, unless the screen grab really does crash your PC, and means you have to do that level again.

3) various photos of compromising positioned ladies appear in front of you, just as a cup of coffee is placed on your desk by your curious wife. She wonders why the game is asking you to kill them.

4) Your ISP tech support gets an interesting call from the game company, which is worth the + on it's own.

!!
 
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Hmmmmmmmm...

Anyway - does bring up an interesting point - any program could ridiculously easily find my CV and mine some juicy data! Maybe I should call it something other than CV and encrypt/password it?
 
Cool dynamic ideas.. But need a much more solid way of retrieving data. Linking to facebook is one possibility. (I don't have my CV on my computer, my brother's happens to be though) And on facebook people use nick names etc. Plus, text speach is pretty rubbish for names etc.

Think of a way to inbed personal data into the game whilst remaining a mystery to the player. The desktop crash is a good idea. And pretty simple to work with. Although any interaction isn't very possible. Just when you try and move the mouse, maybe it throws an error up and remains as the screen shot should be.

Nice immersion.
 
I think it's a good idea, but there would have to be some sort of disclamer on the front saying it would use your FB data which may give it away abit. Probably you should have written to a games designer first or something, I don't know how intellectual property works but surely they can just read this and steal your ideas?!
 
dekez said:
I think it's a good idea, but there would have to be some sort of disclamer on the front saying it would use your FB data which may give it away abit. Probably you should have written to a games designer first or something, I don't know how intellectual property works but surely they can just read this and steal your ideas?!
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Any idea that is told to more than 3 people before protecting is officially 'pubilc domain'. Learnt that whilst on the dragons den!! :)
 
There's a Metal Gear Solid game on Gamecube where some psychic enemy proves how super his powers are, by (the game reading your saved games) saying things like, 'You've been playing Super Mario Sunshine - haven't you?'.

The same developers made Eternal Darkness, which had a lot of that 'breaking through the fourth wall' stuff. The game would 'crash' or the TV volume control would seem to change by itself. It never actually said 'You're going to die' though!
 
There was a game that did this, or something like it, several years ago. It was a sort of horror/adventure game, and you were asked to put your email and contact details in just to register the game when installing (or so you thought). But you'd start getting emails and calls from people in the game, written as if they were real, helping or hindering your attempts to solve the mystery. Pretty clever stuff.

EDIT: haha, check my post at the end of the original thread... I have a good memory :D
 
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ive got a better idea, instead of the creature from hell saying, theres no escape in the cutscene, its a huge 6ft 7 african american man covered in body oil with his nob out.
 
markweatherill said:
There's a Metal Gear Solid game on Gamecube where some psychic enemy proves how super his powers are, by (the game reading your saved games) saying things like, 'You've been playing Super Mario Sunshine - haven't you?'.

The same developers made Eternal Darkness, which had a lot of that 'breaking through the fourth wall' stuff. The game would 'crash' or the TV volume control would seem to change by itself. It never actually said 'You're going to die' though!
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Eternal Darkness was probably the best horror game I've ever played.

But the idea of a bit of software taking my photos? No, not a fan.
 
After uttering those threats and just before formatting your hard drive, the game could post all your logins including passwords to facebook.

And it would send all porn pictures found on your PC to your nearest and dearest, as e-cards of course.

And, on top of that, it would send a resignation e-mail (strongly worded) to your employer, and a detailed account of any tax evasions to the tax office.

It might even frame you for a burglary or two.

Now that WOULD be fun! :D
 
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