1,000 Completely Batshit Insane Game Ideas by petermolydeux

Updated 3 years ago

Posting this here in case a North Korean EMP destroys twitter and @PeterMolydeux
Note: I include complete text because I often find myself jonesing to Do the ‘Deux on my phone and pure text is crack. Easier to mainline sans Twitter rubbishness. Gameloop repeats itself because there are so many brilliant ideas, you won’t remember the first by the time you get to the last.

About @petermolydeux

If you start watching the 3-hour video above whilst reading Molydeux’s tweets, the video will end well before you will reach the final tweet. Unless you cheat.

from Peter Molydeux – Wikipedia:

Peter Molydeux is a Twitter account presented as a parody of the game designer Peter Molyneux. Created by game artist Adam Capone in 2009, it posts audacious game design ideas in the style of Molyneux. The account presents Molyneux as a tragicomic character with unrelenting, creative ideas that are continually received by an apathetic audience. Over time, the account evolved from a Molyneux-based persona into a list of potential game concepts. A common theme of the tweets is the untapped potential of emotional game experiences. Molyneux came to appreciate the parody, and has since met Capone in person.

The account went viral in 2011 and led to the reinvigoration of Molyneux’s legacy. To many, the two became entwined. Molyneux’s reputation as a dreamer was reclaimed as a positive trait in light of growing opposition to conservative game design, and the parody account became a mouthpiece for that population. The tweets contributed to Molyneux’s decision to leave Microsoft Game Studios and pursue riskier game ideas. They also inspired a game jam, in which about 1,000 game developers worldwide created about 300 games based on the tweets over the course of a weekend. The game jam also brought Molyneux fame within a burgeoning indie game movement. Notable games based on the parody account’s ideas include Donut County.

One final note about Peter Molyneux, the man, in case you didn’t watch the 3 hour video: he hired a Demis Hassabis, a 16 year old chess prodigy who would go on to found Google’s AI powerhouse Deep Mind.

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Do you ever forget about how incredible games are? You press a button and it makes something happen on a screen. It can be easy to forget that sometimes.
Imagine a dating sim where you answer questions about yourself but then find you’re playing as the love interest. You discover that ‘you’ are actually an amazing and wonderful person and fall in love with yourself.
Imagine a game where we all live in our own big buildings with lots of small windows. Each window is a view into another player’s building. The idea is to pass items through windows to help each other reach new areas of our building.
Imagine an adventure game where you you can’t leave your home unless it’s to walk your dog. To obtain keys/items/weapons you must order online and await delivery.
Imagine a game where along the way, characters are often checking in and asking what you would consider to be a satisfying ending for the game. When the game ends, you’ll know what to expect and avoid any disappointment.
Imagine a game where you play as a family in a domestic house. However, all houses are on large cars that are driving along a race track. Actions in your household affect acceleration, breaking, filling up on gas etc.
Imagine a game where difficulty is not changed with a boring menu but by holding a meeting and having an open discussion with your enemies?
Had a dream that I worked on LastOfUs2 last night. I designed this feature where upon completing the game you get one brick and can leave it anywhere in the world. When another player uses the brick you get a notification with a replay showing how your brick was used.
Imagine a murder mystery game where you can interrogate ANY pixel in the game and ask it questions?
Imagine a game where everyone controls the same ONE singular protagonist but each new player is assigned a different day of the protagonist’s life to control, for example you may get Year 43, Day 211
Imagine a super violent action game where you have to adjust the camera and environment to make sure that you (the player) can not see any violence on screen
Imagine a game that uses music to confuse you. Playing uplifting music during sad moments or scary music during funny moments etc
Imagine a first person shooter where your gun needs to be plugged into a nearby electrical socket to work. Same rule for enemies but you can disconnect them by cutting/pulling cables. Later on you can get extension cables, multi adapters etc.
Imagine a 2 player game where one player begins at the beginning and the other begins at the end. They must make their way forward/backward, they never meet but can exchange information to help each other on the second half of their journey.
Imagine a huge game that you can only play for 1 minute a day.
Imagine a game that has invisible doors at specific locations that are only indicated through earlier builds used in the marketing of the game.
Imagine a game with a world where each pixel can be extracted and used as a form of currency.
Imagine a fast paced FPS where enemies remain when killed. Problem is eventually there are too many characters on screen and the game stutters. So you have to be sure to find increasingly creative ways of making bodies vanish into thin air.
This PSN name change could create some emotive scenarios if Sony allowed it. Imagine your original PSN name appearing on a tombstone in LastOfUs2 or an enemy from Death Stranding who taunts you with it?
Presidential alert inspired me today. Imagine a game where every day the best player can send one single message to everyone else playing the game. Could be anything from a poo emoji to a charity donation link.
Imagine a superhero game where every time you return to the game you’re met with a memorial video showing everyone who died in the city since you last left. If you have the time/desire you can reverse time and save them.
My new game is pretty normal but roughly 230 hours in the game REALLY becomes incredible beyond words. Sure, many will give up beforehand but for those who give it a chance they will share a truly spiritual life changing experience.
Players have to balance their movements. If player 1 moves too much you’ll both die of old age. If player 2 moves too much you’ll become unborn.
2 player co-op game. When player 1 moves they both rapidly become older. When player 2 moves they both rapidly become younger.
Can a game still be a game if it has no game mechanics?
Imagine a game that is initially unplayable. The game is about figuring out and creating a set of tutorials to help make the game playable.
Imagine a DOOM game that has no soundtrack. However, other players can enter your game and run around behind you with a boombox to help you get into the mood and you can do the same for them.
Was I the ONLY person in the world who was bitterly disappointed with the reveal of the Resident Evil 2 remake? For a moment I was getting incredibly excited about a game where you control a rat.
Imagine a 10 person multiplayer where you each control a finger on a couple of hands and together you sculpt beautiful creations with clay.
Imagine a game where we reverse the tired old LOD system where art actually becomes more detailed the further away you are from it. These iconic monuments would look beautiful from afar but when you actually get there you’ll be disappointed. Just like a real life vacation.
Imagine a game where characters talk in a strange language. To understand them you have to download an app and hold it up to the screen when they talk and the app will speak it back to you in your language.
Imagine a 2 player split screen game where one is trapped in a castle for the entire duration whilst player 1 is trying to rescue them. Player 2 has to find ways of entertaining themselves for hours on end.
The BlackOps4 presentation was really insightful for us developers on how to present Battle Royale modes from here on without shame. All you have to do is say ‘We’re doing Battle Royale but OUR way, the (insert name of game here) way!’
Imagine a game where you grow old and as you do so the text in the game ever so gradually gets smaller and smaller.
Imagine a game where during a special moment a photo is taken of your face. Weeks later you receive a 3D print of your face reacting to that moment that you can keep forever. You could collect special moments, such as your face reacting to psycho mantis making the pad rumble.
Disappointing to see path choices visualized as a diagram tree in Detroit. Imagine if your paths were creating a pet animal with different choices resulting in different features? At the end your pet comes to life and sits by your side/ grave.
Know what this industry needs? A Battle Royale GameJam. My idea would be that players land on the island as babies and must crawl towards the center, growing older along the way. The aim is to fall in love and have another child that you then control, making you survive longer.
In God Of War the camera is like a character in itself. Personally I would have pushed this further and have you build a relationship with the camera person. They could get tired and have you hold the camera for a bit whilst they rest, helping them continue their continuous shot.
My GDC talk ‘Let me tell you why Battle Royal games are essentially just glorified musical chair simulators’ is now online.
The problem with #AWayOut is that you’re escaping the prison within hours. Imagine if they forced you to serve 14 actual years inside before escape was even an option? How much more exhilarating would the escape be?
Imagine an unfinished game where one lucky player will win the opportunity to spend the next 5 years developing the rest of the game
Shadow Of The TombRaider should have a scene where Lara is on a couch at home playing Gex : Enter The Gecko.
I’m still hopeful that we’ll finally experience that therapy session in the new TombRaider game. I’m hoping every mission ends with Lara describing how she felt about her (YOUR!) actions.
Imagine a game that is designed to make you feel like you’re streaming it. People in the chatroom are characters that later become part of the game.
Imagine a game where all you can initially do is watch the credits and enter information into a search bar. As you begin to search for the staff, you begin understanding who they truly are and thus forming your own version of their game
Imagine a game where you play as a character who has the ability to turn into a jukebox, playing specific songs at specific times to rekindle broken relationships
Imagine a game where you have to pay hundreds to just move a bit left, go up a ladder etc but one weekend a year it’s all free. That is really the one and only time a mass of players can try to take the game back from the small groups of rich people who usually play it
The end of Odyssey should have revealed that Princess threw Cappy off the airship down onto Mario, she was controlling him the whole time.
Imagine a game where instead of loot crates you have loot people? Play for free in a empty world or pay to add experience enriching NPCs
Everyone this year seems to be praising Zelda/Mario for encouraging curiosity. I made a game about curiosity before it was cool.
Milo would have been 23 today
Working on a revolutionary new game that will ONLY become playable if you are smiling.
Imagine a FPS where you have the ability to manipulate your opponent’s audio stream in order to change the direction of specific sounds
Imagine a game in which you can date and form a deep meaningful relationship with your weapons.
Imagine a game where 100 players glide onto an island and must build their own theme park. Last one to be declared bankrupt wins.
Some people say the first dog in gaming was the one in Duck Hunt. Yes it looked like a dog but did it truly react like a real dog? IMO no
Imagine a game where the only way to communicate or interact with others are through reflections, outside of them the world is static.
Imagine a game where you level up by correctly predicting how your friends react in narrative based situations
Imagine a VR game where the ‘boundary wall’ is actually a character that you will fall in love with.
Imagine a game where everyone is fighting over one device. Having that device transmits your microphone throughout the entire game world
Imagine a game where there is a conspiracy that using health packs are dangerous to the environment, people who use them lose respect
My new game will be called ‘Forever’. It will be the first ever game that doesn’t age. Some say Tetris hasn’t aged but I strongly disagree
Imagine a game where you have a dog, you have to find (and trust) other players to look after your dog when you’re not playing the game.
Excited to see the cooking mechanic in the new Zelda but worried you just cook for one? When really the joy of cooking is feeding loved ones
Imagine if there was a game that knew if you had been playing other games before finishing it, feeling jealous and reacting as a consequence
Imagine a game where you pretend to be a NPC and must secretly convince other NPCs that they are real, working together to escape a castle
Imagine a game where you have to record audio from NPC’s and technically manipulate the audio to aid your goals (for good or bad)
Industry secret. When you see characters in games they are hollow on the inside. We don’t even model/texture/animate a heart 🙁
Imagine a game where every now and again the game pauses, whilst all NPCs gather to decide if to reset your save progress or not
Imagine a game where your character’s actions depends on the pictures you take? Need some health? Photograph some pills/bandages etc
Imagine a cover based shooter where the cover points consists of coffins filled with those you killed in the previous mission
Imagine a game for SWITCH where the world is bright and cheerful outside but dark and depressing when played on the tv at home
We have games where you constantly move sideways, forwards and even backwards but how about diagonally? (You go forwards in isometric games)
Excited about RedDead2 but I fear that you’ll still go through multiple horses instead of building a deep relationship with any one horse
Imagine a game where you are shopping for groceries for the very last time, every single item you look at holds memories that play out.
Imagine a game where after every level you and all characters attend a meeting to discuss how you can all help to make the game more fun
Imagine a game where you play an elderly couple. When you play as one you see the relationship in 4K but when you play the other you don’t.
Imagine if the buttons for my next game were already inside of you right now
Imagine a game where all players are unique but all share the same online realtime inventory and currency.
Will my game set in a wardrobe be multiplayer? Yes, but it’s so dark that the chances of you actually seeing someone are almost impossible
Had an idea for a game but decided it was ahead of its time. Time to celebrate! Could have wasted a few years there.
I predict that within the next 20 years there will be a NoMansSky sequel where you can play the original during loading screens
Imagine a dull game full of fun moments to keep you going. Those fun moments are secretly created by people who have finished the game
Is a 1 second game too short? What if there are over 10 billion ways to play it?
Imagine a game where only 1 person can enter at a time. When they finish it they can either push the end away or closer for the next player
I want to make a mobile game where elderly people are seen as hot spots. Stay in their company to gain resources in the game.
Imagine if Mario’s mobile game placed AR holes of various sizes in the streets and rewarded you for physically running/jumping over them
Esports can be fun but I’d love to take away the competition aspect and have whole arenas cheering someone play games like GoneHome etc
Imagine a mobile game called ‘Trust’, it assigns you a random partner and local area to meet and hold each others phone for 1minute to win
Imagine a game where you can do anything but once you do it you can never do it again
Imagine an empty booklet that when looked at in VR turns into a walk through guide for whatever game that you are playing
Sure, some games have featured their designers as characters but imagine if a designer dared to be represented as the environment.
Imagine a VR cinema experience set in the 50’s where you play as a projectionist trying to sneak subliminal propaganda into the films
Imagine a game where if you die you are essentially giving your life to another player that you may never meet.
Imagine a game where you score points for correctly predicting what choices your friends make within the same game?
Imagine a hacking game where you do nice things, like setting up a digital coffee maker to make a brew for someone returning from the shops
Imagine a game where you create your own magical calendar for your character, if you so desire you can make every day your birthday etc
If you can imagine it, you can do it! (Minus production costs, time and quality of life)
A game where you play as someone hired to find bugs in a game. When you find one, that bug is replicated in the actual world around you
Can you imagine if all AAA studios went head to head and each made a game that lasts under 1 minute.
We spend a large amount of time looking at maps in games, imagine if a map was a tattoo on a character that is afraid of you and hides
3D game where you are constantly inside the geometry rather than outside
Already started writing my GDC2017 keynote, currently entitled ’56 Reasons to Make One Game 56 Times’
Imagine a VR game where you can look down and use a VR smartphone that you use via your actual physical smartphone
Imagine a VR game where you control someone who is using early 90’s VR tech to play a game where you are someone using VR tech from the 70’s
When people say they didn’t cry at the end of Fable2, they probably played it wrong. i.e someone was using a vacuum in the same room etc
Imagine walking past a NPC, not knowing that the NPC was secretly loaded from a previous save file? Opens up many possibilities doesn’t it?
Writing notes for my GDC16 talk titled ‘Should games be trying to make us cry or should it be us trying to make games themselves cry?’
Sadly, new CrashBandicoot will likely be just another mindless platformer rather than explore actual issues that bandicoots currently face
Imagine a game where characters are fully reflective mirrors, you only see their true self in reflections from other characters.
Imagine a game where only one function works on any given day. Need to go left? Wait a couple of days, you can only go left on Thursdays
Imagine a VR game where one eye shows you the prequel and other eye shows you the sequel, all at the same time
Imagine a game set in an old folks home, where residents offer to reveal a moment from their past if you complete one of their line puzzles
Imagine a game where you help people make important decisions in their lives by a well executed and timed shot of a golf ball
Imagine a puzzle game where you’re constantly being followed by a walkthrough guide with legs that keeps teasing you to look at it.
Imagine a game where the whole universe is in a glass of wine
Imagine a game where the game procedurally attempts to manipulate you into restarting the game
Imagine a game where you begin with all trophies/achievements and must lose them all by working out how you got them in the first place
Imagine a VR game where it is just you and me in a room. For most players it will be AI but each day for ONE player it will ACTUALLY be me
Tip for parents concerned with their kids playing games too much. Only let them play games with a metacritic score of less than 30
Imagine a game where you play a parent who must make their child relive the same experiences that they had at the same age.
Imagine a game set in an art gallery where the theme morphs into being about you and ends up transforming into your home
Imagine a game where the selling price (for non owners) changes in real-time based on the actions of everyone who is playing it
Imagine a music game where you have to provide the soundtrack to old silent movies
My new game will ask you daily questions about your health, the world around you will reflect your well being.
Imagine a game that begins by asking how much time you have and then edits the story/objectives to perfectly fit around that specific value
Imagine an advent calendar game where instead of chocs, the daily rewards are new core mechanics that create new oppertunities of discovery
Just added a new feature to my game where your avatar’s face changes to look like the last person you interacted with on Facebook/Twitter.
If I made Tombraider, the therapist would be following you throughout the game, making you feel good for exploring and bad for fighting.
Imagine a game that allowed you to secretly add a second to a friend’s load times between areas.

Imagine if every copy of a game was linked to a xmas light in a big city, where everyone has to solve the game to switch on a light
Imagine a game where you play as a child who is simply trying to whistle in a world where people only communicate through whistling
Imagine a game with a playable ad where the advert gradually becomes the main game whilst the core game becomes the advert.
Game that starts off with you collecting an award for game of the year on a stage. It’s the game that you have just started playing.
I’m making a game that will encourage you to phone a loved one during the end of every chapter.
Imagine a game where every single button press shares a screenshot on social media. Is it worth losing friends to complete the game?
Imagine a game where the final task is making an official legal agreement to not disclose any information about the game you’ve just played?
War game where you can press X at any moment to turn into the family dog back home.
Imagine a game where you’re alone in a hot air balloon with only memories as companionship.
Imagine a game where to progress you have to share a picture of a spoiler from later on in the game to a friend who is behind you.
I’d like a LaraCroft game where she has regrets and so goes on an adventure to return all collected treasures back to where she found them
Imagine a game where the only time you see what you look like is the one and only time you die?
Imagine a reverse god game where you start off with a perfect world and have to destroy all life, you can only control business transactions
Imagine an unimaginably fun game that can only be won by not playing it for a week, which is incredibly difficult because it’s that THAT fun
Imagine a game where you select a best friend online. You must have more fun with another friend without actual best friend finding out
What if every single pixel in a game had a name?
Collectors edition of my new game will come with an actual box with something incredible inside but once opened the game no longer works
Imagine a game that is based on an alien language. Players around the world must use hashtags to figure out the game and mystery together.
Imagine an episodic game where you only have control between the episodes?
Imagine a 1 sec game. On 2nd play it’s a 2 sec game and so on. The end and start are always the same but the middle story keeps expanding.
Imagine a 1 vs 1 fighting game that lasts 18 days. It comes down to trust that your opponent won’t attack you whilst you sleep.
Imagine a menu screen changing depending on time? At 12:03pm an option appears that can mute the game allowing you to sneak past guards etc
Game where the size of the text adjusts based on your actions. Can press X to lean in (increase text size) but this makes you vulnerable.
Imagine a game that is mostly spent on a rope bridge, each end connected to a parent during divorce. When they argue the bridge shakes etc
Imagine if instead of voting, everyone tapped specific colours into a cube in real time? The overall colour of the cube decides the outcome?
Imagine a game that had a button that could switch the game into the first ever prototype version of that game to solve puzzles?
Have you ever noticed that ALL fighting games feature arms and legs? What if fighters consisted entirely of various atmospheres and gases?
I want to make a FastFurious game where between races you play as a great grandchild in a future that is suffering from global warming
Episodic game where characters interact with you via social media as you wait for the new episode, reminding you of your previous actions
Imagine a world with just 1 NPC. People around the world work together to make the NPC’s life the most easiest and enjoyable life imaginable
I want to make a FPS but if and when you kill someone, their pet cats will follow you for the rest of the game, hauntingly meowing at you
If you think an action game campaign mode is too short why not pause the game for a minute after every kill and think about who they were?
Thinking of making a survival game and taking it to another level. When defeated, whoever got you will receive your phone number.
Imagine a game where all speech is out of sync with lip movements. Can you figure out how far apart they are so you can acknowledge people?
Game that begins with 1 pixel. Each objective accomplished adds another pixel to the screen.
Imagine a Versus mode where player1 is trying to make a character younger whilst player2 is trying to make the same character older.
Making a game where you rate a robot, it will rate you the same. Rate it 5 stars and you are also rated 5 stars, winning the game.
Thinking about a game where you have to find ways of creating condensation to guide a troubled family towards happiness.
Why are games made to be completed in our lifetime? Imagine a game that asks players to pass it down to younger generations to complete?
Imagine a microphone that detects baby/cat/dog sounds in the home and translates them into words spoken by NPCs in an adventure game?
Imagine a game where you are a child in the back of a car going on holiday. When you fall asleep you become your mother who is driving.
Imagine a game in which you have a developing relationship with the content creator who also acts as a companion as well as a foe.
Imagine a huge open world where the ENTIRE population copies each and every one of your actions. Can you find love in such a world?
Imagine if you complete a game where the outcome based on your choices is sent to a random person in the world. Can you find your ending?
Imagine a FPS where your hair can overgrow and obstruct your view?
Game where a door is always traveling beside you. Going through it completes the game. WHEN you go through it changes where you end up.
Working on an action adventure game where you and the final boss share the same health bar.
Game where you have to sneak a horse into a hospital so that a dying patient can say goodbye to their best friend.
I want to make a game in which you can pay your monthly home bills in a fun and creative way. Paying them upgrades your abilities etc.
What if when you die, you turn into a glowing light? Together, our deaths will light up caves for others to progress.
Imagine a game where the more time you spend with a character, the bigger their collision box becomes, physically pushing you away.
Game where you are a business person traveling every day on a plane that has a local MMO game. It’s the only time you feel alive, and love.
Game where your child’s daily drawings and paintings come to life and protect you in your job as a police officer.
Imagine a 2 player co-op where each player controls the camera in which the other player sees through?
FPS game where a pinball machine is attached to your body. Hitting particular triggers affects both environment and enemies
I want to make an endless runner where you run with your family who eventually grow old and pass away. You keep running, forever, alone.
Imagine an MMO where we all play doors. What states we choose at different times can have huge impacts on the lives of the NPCs.
I’m working on the world’s first invisible videogame. Games are about imagination and that is what my game demands of the people playing it
Imagine a mobile game where you can replenish your character’s health by putting it in any household microwave?
This news of bending phones has made me wonder. What if temporarily bending a screen shortened the distance your character had to travel?
Imagine a game where you change the year you are in and doing so reflects the graphics/sounds etc of games from that time?
Imagine a game that only runs if millions of players are logged in. All must fit in a tiny box room and learn to cope with each other.
Game where you live in fridges and can teleport to others, rearranging food to keep nice people healthy and dangerous people unhealthy.
Game where you scan family pets, when they are gone, your children can then control them on a happy journey through beautiful vistas
Imagine a game where you have flashbacks based on experiences that your friends had with the same game?
Game where you play as a manager of a casino who faces an ordeal because you truly love each and every customer.
Imagine a game where you play a parent teaching their child how to play their first videogame
Game where you play both a sad postie and a sad dog. All interactions take place via windows and letter box. Fill each other’s empty void
Game where you can leave your body and live in a tunnel connected between each parent. What you do in the tunnel changes their relationship
Imagine a game where getting hit flashes up secrets in the environment? Suspicious wall? Get hit there (but not too much) and observe.
Game where you play a clock. The minute hand is your father. The hour hand is your mother and you are the seconds hand.
Imagine a game where you can instantly turn any character you come across into the narrator who in turn may reveal unique secrets?
I’m working on a trivia based platformer. Imagine if your knowledge of physics helped you push things? Sports trivia make you faster etc
Imagine a multiplayer FPS where if you stop fighting, the increasingly prospering NPC community will start building a beautiful city.
Game where you have to keep holding onto your mother’s hand. Every time you let go you need to run further to catch up.
Imagine a game where you have to avoid other characters because they end up giving away spoilers about what happens later in the game?
Game where you play as a chef who must find secret family recipes, by getting close and personal with families across the world
Game where you continuously arrange your mind instead of weapons/items via your ‘Mind Inventory’. Don’t hold on to too many thoughts etc
Imagine a game where what you play on a guitar changes what comes out of the 3D printer?
If I were to design the sequel to Gone Home, the player would be clearing out a parent’s home after they have passed away.
Game where you pretend to be playing the game in front of NPCs. Must find creative ways to sneak away and continue tunneling your way out
What if a game had so many easter eggs that you started to actually believe that the key parts of the game were the easter eggs?
Imagine a game where you play a dog. Your beloved master gets depressed following a tragedy, they slowly turn into the final boss.
Imagine a game where between missions you teach your child to play music. The soundtrack to the game is music created by your child.
You play a garbage truck driver who pieces together people’s letters at night to learn more about them. Like Gone Home but with trash.
Imagine a game that starts out 5 mins long and, through regular patches, becomes a 30-hour epic over the course of several years
What if a character creator was a game? What if giving your character a big nose caused the character to be upset with you?
Imagine a game that begins with you giving birth to a pixel and then forms part of the screen. That 1 pixel stays with you throughout.
Imagine playing in a world where videogames make you violent? To stop being attacked you have to stop people playing videogames.
My lifelong dream is to create a game about nothing. Yet as soon as I start designing, the game always turns out to be about something.
Imagine getting a facebook poke. Now you’ll actually be able to see the poke coming towards you. Or maybe BEHIND you? Exciting times.
Imagine a single life game where you gradually turn into a statue. What and where will your final pose be? Could your pose help others?
SpaceSim where you play a cockpit that must prevent the pilot from going insane using music, stories and specific projected memories.
In my new game you will all be competing against each other again. Whoever wins will be funded to create the sequel.
Imagine a game where the protagonist has 10 million lives. All those lives are shared between every player in the world.
Why you would choose to make a FPS with a slight twist when you have the potential to make the first romantic comedy game ever?
You control 2 kids in a pantomime horse costume during a school play that increasingly begins to resemble childhood traumas at home.
Imagine a game mechanic that involves changing the volume of all/specific elements to your advantage?
Jump and Run game that begins with you getting shot. You then stumble across areas you could have jumped on, wondering what you missed.
Game in which you take care of the elderly within a retirement home using the power of music
Game that generates a world based on your credit card/account. Currency = population. Debts cause storms. World ends when card expires.
I’m working on a puzzle game where the only clues are contained within a 1 year marketing campaign for said game.
What if games were not as simple as ‘drive over them and they die’ but more like ‘drive over them and they reevalulate their life’ ?
FPS where 2 teams escort & then defend their Hacker, who must submit original content to Reddit. Winner is the first team with 100 upvotes.
Game where you’re a DJ superhero playing cool music but must find ways of sneaking in subliminal messages to lower the crime in that city
Game where your job is to provide tours to potential house buyers. Hide as many negatives as possible and bring out the positives.
Game where you control a mime artist who is able to create and interact with their own invisible environment to get to their goal.
You create shops over a world map for adventurers to tool up. At night explore areas that require X then place merchants nearby to sell X
Game where you are a child playing with a super soaker and water bombs but at the end you realize you were actually fighting in Vietnam.
Game in which you don’t know if it is live or streaming. When live you are playing reality but if it is streaming you are being tricked.
Game in which you must be passive aggressive to your children and guilt trip them into coming over to see you at xmas
Game where you have a button that can be held at any time to show an alternative reality based on choices you’ve made
Imagine a game where you are asked to create an art exhibition after a local tragedy to lift the spirits of your community.
Imagine a game where the dev team hides among the players. Players must figure out who they are and fill in the credits to win.
Imagine a game where you try and present a videogames award show without losing any dignity or respect for the medium
Game where you play a child who uses supernatural powers to keep their parents in love and avoid divorce. The aim of the game is to accept
Game where you bond with a drone delivering a package. It refuses to fly back and together you help deliver food and aid to those in need
FPS where looking north makes you age and looking south makes you grow younger. Your age changes what weapons you are able to use.
You play the soundtrack to an entire life. From conception to death. Your musical choices shape the person they become.
Game in which you must make people’s lives better without them ever knowing. Such as breaking into their home and decorating it etc
You are a calculator who can teleport. You must find your way to important people and give them adjusted calculations to alter major events
Imagine a game in which you take down your enemies through the power of gossiping
Co-op game involving 2 infants driving through a city. One player controls the wheel and the other controls accelerator and brakes.
Thanks to all those who reviewed COD:Ghosts who recognize that they stole my dog idea from Fable2 and are punishing accordingly
Game where you have to share an apartment with your enemy for a month before you’re allowed to kill them
Imagine a new social media site where you can buy tools to create automated status updates and auto like other user’s automated statuses
Game where your heart beat relates to the frames per second
Imagine a game where you must find ways of entertaining children that also creates energy to power machines defending against a war?
Game that starts with you burying your heart anywhere in the land. If someone finds it you lose all progress and must hide your heart again
Imagine playing a game and finishing it without even knowing it existed? it affects the setup of a new IP but really it’s the sequel
Imagine a game that comes with a microphone that you wear all day every day. Moments of your everyday life can be heard in the game
Game where you control a drop of rain during every storm. Land on a person and stay on long enough to share a special moment with them
Imagine a world where whatever this one special person feels is what everyone in the world feels? Both mentally and physically.
You are a homeless woman who discovers a remote control deep underground. It controls the President. Make the world a beautiful place.
Imagine a gun that can only use your eyeballs as bullets.
ActionGame where every kill must be met with 1minute silence from you and enemies. You can still fight but making any noise results in jail
Game where you play a despised actor starring as a beloved character. Must act out your scenes whilst avoiding attacks by the public.
Game where you are turned into a panda and must get the last panda in the world to fall in love with you with romantic gestures.
You kill a soldier instead of sneaking past. All plants in the final area have died. That soldier was in charge of watering them #MGS5idea
In my new game we’re all on a boat together. Whichever side most are sitting on is the direction the boat goes. Where will we end up?
Just imagine, a game where the landscape and inhabitants transform based on the stocks of the company that made the game?
You are a small child who must travel across a hot desert. All you have with you is your most beloved pet, a goldfish in a bowl of water
Idea for an MMO where everybody plays a piece of jigsaw puzzle. Everybody must come together so that the world can see what the picture is
You play a bored child during the school holidays. Must find and create imaginative toys and entertainment with cheap household items.
Racing game where you play ghost versions of other racers. Make them believe you are their last race. Then guide them into a deadly hazard
Imagine a game where you play a royal baby. You are suddenly the most important being in the world yet you have such little control.
You must create a ghost train that is as scary/dangerous as possible but the moment someone dies it must be fully rebuilt elsewhere.
Working on a theory that when PacMan exits a side of the screen he dies and returns as a ghost. The PacMan who re-enters is not the same.
What if between combat you had to continue playing a beautiful piano piece to restore the world? Whilst also using it as a weapon and cover?
You’re reading people’s thoughts on a train. The deeper you look the more intense the ambiance becomes. It resets the moment they notice you
You play as a single mother who accidently gets trapped inside a mech that she has been building. She must now bring up her child as a mech
What if you found out that every brick in your home was once a person? What if you could still talk to them? What if they had secrets?
Imagine a game world where every single entity looks like Ellen Page (Even chairs and trees) How would this change society?
I want to make a non violent war game in which you try to negotiate your way into counties to supply war victims with humanitarian aid.
A game that starts with one room. When your character dies the room expands revealing more environment and you are reborn.
I was in talks with HBO once to create a Sopranos game but they didn’t like my pitch about making the entire game one long therapy session
Maybe one day people will put the same amount of effort they’ve been putting into arguing about DRM into demanding more creative games
Idea for fun quiz show on XboxOne. It asks what you said or did at certain times and dates. You answer and then it plays you the evidence
FPS where you only control left arm. Right arm has weapons and loves killing. As the left arm you must keep knocking weapons out of reach
Imagine if you accidentally ran over your loved one and their scream became part of the background music so you never forgot what you did?
Game where you play a lifeguard on an empty beach. You can create invisible victims to save as well as invisible threats such as sharks etc
Hope Fez 2 not only allows you to rotate the world vertically but lets you turn the environment inside out too.
I have an idea for a new game but first a question. Would you have surgery in order to make certain games x100 more enjoyable?
Imagine a game where if you see your own reflection you die
I’ll never make a racing game. Unless you race tears down a child’s face to manipulate others.
What if there was a game where everyone in the same world were living in their own individual time?
Action game where talking is your weapon. Because when you talk it creates dynamic speech bubbles which can then be used as cover
We’re listening to you! You will be able to lend your friends your copy of Godus. By lending them your phone/tablet/pc they too can play!
I want to make a dancing game featuring only old people with disabilities.
When I run into someone in a racing game I want to know how they are. Maybe they’re off to pick up their kids? Could I help them out?
Imagine a sports game where you control the player’s family which in turn affects how the player plays on the field.
Game where you are riding along an endless highway with just your loved one. Filling up your car with gas makes your loved one grow older
Imagine playing assassin bees that sting targets in vulnerable positions. Such as flying into a car window as it turns on a mountain?
When you killed your loved one they turned into an angry ocean that you’re forever sailing across. You must help the ocean to forgive you
Game in which you can give birth to a game bug and develop the bug throughout the entire game.
Game where as you get closer to environment the further it drifts away from you. I’m not sure what I mean but I know it’s innovative.
Imagine a game that came with a old fashioned wrist watch and winding the hours back and fourth changes the time in the actual game?
Imagine being trained to be a sniffer dog, taught to track down drugs when really you just want to track down friendship and love
What if doing your child’s homework upgraded your weapons?
When the Sun is up people walk to the right but you walk left. Reverses when sun is down. Cross paths to power up and gain more control
Imagine your only weapon being a sword but your head is a lit candle. Using the sword blows out the flame which is essentially your brain.
Game where you control a tunnel to connect loved ones. You progressively upgrade your tunnel to keep travelers healthy and happy
Hope Watch Dogs isn’t all action.What if during a date you could hack the dimming lights in a restaurant to increase romance possibilities?
Trying to write a game where you play an alarm clock that has the power of teleportation and time travel.
I will soon be showing you something beyond belief. I’ll leave you with this thought. What if a virtual character was able to control YOU?
Just imagine if all people were lenses? Looking through certain people in certain places reveal secrets within the environment.
Game that locates your family tree and turns them into characters for you to interact with.
What if a door was your companion? You can place him/her on any surface and can only interact with others on the other side of the door
What if you could control the amount of pixels on NPCs, take out pixels and put them elsewhere in the environment to solve puzzles?
I want to make one copy of a game that will be hidden deep within this Earth. Then create a kickstarter to fund a group to retrieve it.

Imagine having special abilities on your birthday in all games? Your car is faster, you can jump higher, you’re more powerful etc
A game where you can only progress during 3 random minutes every day. It’s up to social media to help people play at the right time
Game where you play a day that lasts 1 second. Need to find elements that stretch time by 1 second. You win when you live a 24 hour day.
Game where the left stick controls your selected character and the right stick controls the moon.
Imagine watching a film that can be interacted with in the theatre by smartphones. Tapping the hero makes them laugh etc. That’s the future.
Game about an assassin trying to make a hit on a target. You control everyone else in the area, finding creative ways of keeping them apart
It’s all in the eyes. I want to make a game where you can have instant replays showing your eyes close up during emotional scenes.
Imagine viewing a friend’s game but really it’s just a random person, would you feel betrayed? That’s the idea behind my next game
I want to make a ps4 game that is just a room with locked door that can only be opened if 1 million users are watching you at the same time
Jonathan Blow has inspired me to make a game in which you are in a wonderful environment that you open up by doing crosswords.
5 minute game where you play an asteroid that is headed towards Earth. Everyone hates you. All you can do is talk, what would you say?
Game where the ability to instantly change the difficulty of the game on the fly is part of the game’s core mechanic.
Game in which all you can do is make 1 wish. Then you just sit back and see how it changes the world and if it interacts with other wishes.
Game where you play as an evolving desert, creating increasingly advanced mirages to manipulate travellers that dare to set foot on you.
Action game where every time you die you spawn in the same area but 10 seconds in the past. You need to rescue yourself to continue.
If you die in my new game, an image of your death will overwrite your facebook/twitter profile pic until you get past that section
What if you had an ability to cast autosave on other characters? need to cast it as late as possible but not too late that they get trapped
What if you played as a letter of the alphabet that could jump into speech bubbles to either help people or get them into deep trouble?
War game where you have just one grenade. It talks to you and helps you through the tough times.
If you die your last body turns into a brick. You can then pick that brick up with new body and use it towards making a bridge. Repeat
Game where you play as youtube and become self aware. You must cleanse yourself of banal cat videos or face a life of hopeless ennui.
Action game where your child follows you. Must hide them when fighting and block out sounds of profanity with gunshots.
Imagine if every switch in your house transferred into data within a game?
Imagine a game where a character is unable to jump. So you instruct them to watch as you load up a platformer and jump, then they can jump.
World where everyone but you are deaf. You can temporarily give people the power of hearing at the right time to benefit your journey.
Imagine if you could control an enemy on the console game your child is playing without them knowing via a smartphone?
Game where you tap every second to count down to 2014. Whoever keeps it going for the longest wins something truly amazing.
Game where you must help a 3 year old land a crashing plane. Child will only take notice if you use puppets over a video call.
Puzzle Game where you fire different odors onto creatures. Other creatures interact with them differently depending on the odors.
Scrolling brawler where you play the enemies and have to build self esteem of weak hero by dramatically jumping through windows when hit etc
Game that helps you overcome phobias. Imagine augmented reality where you play with a cute spider but it progresses into a scary spider.
Game where the only enemy is you. You’re going to jump off a cliff. Exit your body as your soul and talk your body into not jumping.
Cutesy platformer that turns into a violent slash em up between 11pm and 3am every night.
MMO where we all run on treadmills to keep the world light. When someone dies or leaves it gets darker until eventually it’s unplayable
Game in which your only ability is to leave sticky notes in various places to manipulate people into achieving ever increasing tasks
I want to make Milo for the WiiU. If you switch to TV, Milo will sit down and watch the TV with you.
Imagine if a game’s audio initially hated you, making horrible sounds but slowly it falls in love with you and plays sounds of pure bliss?
Game where around 1000 players need to be in the game spinning plates otherwise the game ends. How long would the game last?
Interesting fact, right now more people are tapping on my cube than playing Black Ops 2.
You are the last Bee in a world where everyone hates you. You can’t sting people but can fly into car windows and cause accidents etc
Had an idea for a FPS where your head is a mirror. Your only weapon is to bounce sunlight in the right directions. You also control the sun.
If I made a COD game you would be a forgotten soldier in a cell who has to keep tapping on the door. How long would players tap for?
Imagine if a game was packaged with a beautiful and complex plug in lamp and the lights adjust depending what you do in the game?
Imagine a game that required 30 hours to get to the title sequence and you don’t even get to control your character until the sequel.
Game where final boss walks right next to you but you’re both separated by an invisible wall? By the time the wall opens you’re in love.
Survival horror in which a family are in a pitch dark castle. You have a flashlight but if the 1 year old baby isn’t holding it they cry.
Decided to hold back on Curiosity to avoid harming sales of Unfinished Swan, will release it around the time of AC3, Halo4 and Ops2 instead.
Imagine a game where you instantly die if you see yourself? The enemy is reflection.
Survey.What if there was a free game where your avatar is always crying. It doesn’t affect the game but you could stop it for $2. Would you?
Imagine sharing the same character among friends but you’re all in different places. Player1 punches air but hits an enemy next to Player3
FPS where you must hold out a bowl of hot soup and must not spill a single drop of it whilst making your way through hostile environments
What if you could only kill when not visible? For example you need to swing the camera so a column hides your character from you.
If I made a zombie game it would feature just one dangerous zombie, your child. You must sneak out avoiding society, trying to find help.
Imagine, playing the greatest little game of all time but every completion takes away a fun element so you’re destroying the game you love
Social experiment. Game in which the high score is based on the distance you drop your Smart Phone without it breaking.
I wanted new Xbox achievements system to have no numbers. You are in a tower, every achievement opens a door. What is behind the next door?
Game where you must try and fall asleep by stopping all sources of potential interruption within your environment.
Came up with an idea with David Cage once where you control Nolan North in his personal life during a crisis where he’s lost his voice.
I love questions that make you realize just how unexplored gaming is. For example, have you ever whispered a secret to a NPC?
What if we all played a creature with 1 million eyes and we each saw through our own unique eye? Working together to travel dangerous lands
I have an idea where you can project a game onto people’s faces and the game plays differently depending on the shape of the face.
Have we ever truly played within a game? or have we just been giving instructions all this time? Has anyone ever REALLY played a game?
Game where you play an airport security person who must choose who to check and pat down without making the chosen person feel violated.
Game where you collect movement and sounds and then go back as a DJ and mix those visuals and sounds back into the environment to progress.
What if you played as a rug in the white house who is able to secretly roll around and look under doors?
Game in which you must reunite missing pets with their owners using your power of telepathy. You can see through the pet’s eyes.
Platformer where if you fall in a pit you’re trapped forever unless you can emotionally manipulate nearby enemies to pull you back up.
Game where score is based on how loved you are in a old folks home. Must sneakily murder other folk’s loved ones so you get the most love.
September 4th is official ‘No Gamepad’ day. Please take part and refuse to use gamepads.Support creative controls! #nogamepads
Game where you can only ever fire 1 bullet. Then the game is slowed down and you direct/maintain it through the entire game with powerups
Game where you are a devastating bomb, you don’t know where you are or who planted you.
Our head of marketing is trying to persuade me to rename curiosity to Cube of Duty.
I want to make a game that a parent plays during labor. The final boss can only be truly defeated by the sound of a crying baby.
How about a game where you control the UI to fool the NPC hero? Slyly adjusting stats when they are busy to adjust their mood appropriately.
When I first saw Street Fighter I was disappointed. I was hoping that you could build up your own street and fight other streets.
We as an industry are too obsessed with realism. i.e Why would designers never dare to make a character with a supermarket for an arm?
Game in which you play a superhero but every time you use your powers you gradually gain weight.
If you were to ask me to rate how life changing the content of the cube is I would say 100 out of 100, maybe for some 99 but for most 100
What is inside the cube is far more interesting than what is on Mars, that’s why I’m not even thinking about suing NASA over copyright.
Imagine a game where the only way to destroy the family boss is if everyone in your family tree that is still alive is cheering you on?
Imagine an entire game set in a traffic jam where you fall in love with the driver next to you. You help each other get through the jam.
Survival horror based in a huge bouncy castle, all you have is a needle gun and duct tape.
My new kickstarter will be a MMO set in a polluted world. If you fund us $10,000 you will get a gas mask and can go outside.
Enemy with blue spike above them. To kill them you need to go back in time when they were a child and force them to jump when they see blue
Imagine a game where I hide within a huge virtual world. If any of you find me within a year you will become a director of our studio
I want to make a Batman game where you play as Alfred, trying to protect Bruce Wayne from hurting himself by knocking down his confidence.
Game in which you have to be the only person on the server and play for over 4 minutes and 32 seconds to win.
Survival horror should not have magic inventory. You should pay poor people to travel with you carrying your inventory instead.
I want to write a book and somewhere will be a clue on how to open a door in a game that I make in 20 years from now
A racing game based in areas filled with people, you can rewind to avoid hitting them but every rewind makes your car faster.
Just slaughtered everyone in the studio (now officially renamed to 1 Can) Now it is only I who officially knows what is inside the cube.
Game where you always drip paint. During the last act you discover that you’ve been painting the final boss, can you destroy your own art?
Thinking of starting a kickstarter to raise $50,000 so that I can buy the diamond pick axe in ‘Curiosity’ and then refuse to use it.

Imagine being 5 years old playing out a scene in a game. The game shuts down for 50 years, you then team up with your 5 year old self to win
You know, I have urges to do a twist on the pet sim genre where you play the pet and must cuddle your owner when they are sick or depressed
Imagine a game where people throw money into fountains. Now what if I told you that not only can you see their wishes but steal them too?
You are a sad lonely firework in a dusty shed on 4th July, what if you could use ghosts to sneak you into big display in New York?
You play a disco ball. You can roll and attach to anything. Collect new songs to activate, each having unique effect on the world around you
A village with just 2 houses. You control a doorbell for both houses. Can you bring the 2 inhabitants together and make them fall in love?
If I remade Tombraider I’d make you play as Lara’s butler, then you can just enjoy exploring and getting treasure without abuse from locals
Soccer game where you feel guilty. Every kick of the ball results in visions of your fans beating up innocent people and destroying property
It’s fascinating isn’t it? Put a player in an empty room with a grenade they will eventually throw it rather than turn off the game. Why?
You play a sad and doomed elephant who is constantly blowing water out of it’s trunk and flooding environments and their inhabitants
Couldn’t sleep last night, was constantly trying to remember ANY game where the main enemy of the game is seen crying?
Why do keys remain in your inventory until you use them? What if you could actually misplace them? or you unknowingly dropped one?
You know how some people capture a fish and let it go? but what if you replaced fish with towns people.
What if each tap of the cube cost $10 and the person who paid $77k for the super chisel found $100k+ inside made from other peoples taps?
What if the content of the cube made you the very first god in my upcoming MMO? #whatsinthecube
Well, I know what’s in the middle of the cube. And whoever breaks in there, I promise you this, it is the most amazing thing #whatsinthecube
How about an escort mission where YOU play as the escort for a horrible agent. Give them a mental breakdown by repeatably getting in the way
Idea for WatchDogs game. What if you could hack a electronic road sign to say ‘I love you’ as you’re driving past it with your loved one?
Imagine wanting to keep killing yourself just to get to a checkpoint where you can spend more time with your loved one before they died
New Prince of Persia game where you control someone who only has legs when he dreams #E3wish
Imagine playing a game and from your kitchen it hears someone saying ‘peanuts’ and then peanuts start falling into the game and can be used
EVERY game released so far can be broken down to basically be Snakes and Ladders but what if a game had no snakes or indeed ladders?
A game that is constantly interrupted by 10 adverts. For every 100 enemies you kill one random advert will never play again.
What if your reward was another player’s profile? What if they were ALSO looking for love and so you meet. Imagine that for a moment
I’d like to see a war game in which you come in after the war to clean up debris, as you do you see ghosts of those fighting around you
Imagine a game that’s controlled by a actual baby’s sound waves? As your baby’s vocabulary grows so does your avatar’s range of abilities
What if to create a save point you had to give birth to it? What if the save point followed you but could easily get upset and run away?
I am officially declaring this Friday NGPD ‘No Game Pad Day’, let’s show the industry that we’re bored of using them. #nogamepads
Imagine a sim where you work in a factory that manufactures weapons but your’re forced to watch how every weapon is eventually used.
So Edge gave Max Payne 3 a 7 which means it’s a failure. See, people are finally getting tired of games with guns. Let’s move on shall we?
You live in a see through house, your family is replicated from the future on the left and from the past on the right. Interaction is vital
Imagine if going through a door resolved in coming out the first door of the game but with the same object you carried through the last door
I remember opening minds by showing same sex marriage in Fable 2, some people laughed but now even Obama has played it and changed his mind
What if you could paint a gun onto a wall then change the perspective so that it’s aimed at an enemy?
Imagine creating a virtual habitat for a friend. You could write something under their carpets, will they ever pull them up to see?
Playing Trials. This may sound strange but in the future will we will be playing against ‘ghosts’ of people we know who have passed away?
One day there will be a game where you feel so much remorse after killing someone that you will vow never to play a videogame ever again.
Imagine a world with just one flower where you spend the duration of the game interacting with people in order to decide who to give it to
A survival horror where your only weapon is pizza? when you run out you have to call up pizza delivery with an address then wait and survive
What if in the future they gave an Oscar to the player who manages to pull off the best emotive performance in a video game?
Left eye sees environment one way and right eye sees it another way. Here’s the thing, what if you could control individual eyelids?
You are in a empty blank room. Now imagine if when you closed your eyes you saw another world? Yet you can only breathe when eyes are open
Next Medal of Honor to feature a wife? Imagine a game where you play a wife spy and get distracted by husband’s phonecalls from the war?
I want to make a game in which we all die from a early disaster yet our children will pay respect 50 years later within the same game
What if there was a FPS in which you are invisible apart from your gun which you have to keep hiding within the environment?
Playing Fez is giving me ideas. Imagine if the speed of rotation reflected the character’s emotion? Happy=fast spins, Depressed=slow spins.
I would love to recreate the E.T game where we each control a hole in a MMO environment. You get XP and love if he falls down your hole.
Game in which you paint your feelings onto a canvas using a guitar controller
Imagine if there was a beta where we all controlled 1 pixel and came together to create a world for my next game?
Game in which you control curtains, closing yourself depresses inhabitants where as opening up makes them happier.
My new game will be called #5xiOg490xxoSS5io2.5
Imagine a game in which you fight in order to stop it turning into a cinematic game
Imagine if X could only move within paintings in a gallery? you also control Y who must place the correct paintings to allow X to transition
What if you actually controlled a heart? it must be a sad life. Never seeing the person who you’re giving life to?
Game in which you transfer from body to body of people stuck in lifts all over the world, forever in time.
Molyjam2013? It will exist forever until we get an official apology from the oppressors for forcing old game design on us. That’s a promise
Sincere thanks to all who took part in this event. We have created a new world together, a world in which bears can hug in space. Thankyou
Just spent about 10 minutes flying around as a bird and being unable to find ANY business people to save. It was still beautiful in some way
I have started to play your games, so far I have done things that I’ve never done before in a videogame. So far so good.
Stay strong! the oppressors want you to start getting tired, question your game and get bored. Keep fighting this battle, believe!
You know, I just don’t understand how any games journalist could fail to mention the most important event in the history of this medium
10 minutes…
WORLD, The future of gaming is in YOUR hands now. This is a PIVOTAL moment in gaming, the industry will be DEFINED by THIS VERY moment
Service has resumed and the first jam is about to kick off but believe me that is not the last you’ll see of that pesky green pixel
Imagine, you play a baby in a pram and can only see your parent’s faces. Studying those faces deeply is the key to true progress
Also in my new kart game racing against ghosts isn’t a gimmick, it’s an integral part of the story
Just imagine a kart game where you spend most of the game building one with your mother in a shed, you are the only people alive on earth
Game in which you can only progress during one minute silences. You need to find creative ways to keep the nation having 1 minute silences.
What if sound effects were people that traveled the world searching for the right song to fall into? What if that song changed someone?
Game in which you create the end cinematic. Then you work your way from the start of the game to make a perfect connection into that ending.
Perhaps someone could make the game that never was? A game that lasts one second?
Survival Horror combined with Bowling
Just dropped rice on the floor, am sure there is a game idea here somewhere.
FPS War game, you control the teddy bear of a child who has just escaped a death camp. Help them find their mother using your wits
If anyone ever wanted to base a serious gamejam on my world changing designs I would give it my blessing and support. There you go.
Game where you control a full stop. Enemies read you stories you and you have to jump in between words at the right time
Imagine an endless survival horror game where you gain coins to spend on creative scares when sneaking into your friend’s game
My first mobile game will be free but if you pay a little then the NPC’s will be extra nice and complement you more while playing.
Do you know what I’m fed up with? numbers in games. Don’t show me how I’m doing with a number, show me with a smile or a tear.
Oh dear, only 22 cans of beer left 🙁 hold on, that’s given me an idea!…
Ah I timed this all perfectly, sat in bed playing journey in my underwear. Beer and cake by my side.
I’m freeeeee!
In #fablejourney if you pause the game for a long time your horse will start to get worried
You are a postman with x ray eyes. Do you post that nasty letter? Do you add extra money in that little boy’s birthday card?
Game in which you must comfort children on a plane who are afraid of flying, game mechanic is similar to spinning plates.
The thing about Journey is that the person following you could POTENTIALLY be a family member who passed away. You just don’t know.
Try to imagine a game in which you have an imaginary friend who doesn’t believe you are real, you must convince them that you are.
Make a film about a horse, you get awards. Make a game about a horse, you get laughed at
3D adventure game where you have amnesia and wake up in a gigantic museum where every room is devoted to a year of your life
I designed a point and click adventure many years ago where you had to gain the trust of the pointer so it didn’t lie to you
What if your friend posted a article on facebook about a serial killer, then that same killer appears in your game world?
In the future all games will share the same game over screen that you can customize and share with your friends
Imagine if your player avatar feared you? became anxious if you press the buttons too hard and fast etc?
What if you could plant seeds that grow into cover systems?
You play a father whose family dog has gone missing. You die looking for it and return home in the body of the missing dog.
Imagine carrying a radioactive baby in a pitch black environment, your baby would act as a torch. Rocking the baby intensifies the glow etc
Imagine if you had to secretly support your family via complex ventilation passages in your large industrial home?

In Fable 4 when you wait for the next area to load you can play darts on the new tablet that comes with the new xbox.
I don’t care what the Chinese Zodiac says, this is the year of the horse #FableJourney
Imagine if paying bills were to be incorporated into an online videogame
Imagine a game in which you have to join protests to make changes to the rules within the game’s world.
What if bullet time existed during moments such as your child dropping an ice cream, you have to leap and stop it spoiling your nice carpet?
Romantic parkour game in which you and the love of your life must hold hands and jump around a city evading death and injury
What if your son was the sun? If he sleeps, the sun vanishes. If he cries then woodlands set on fire etc
Game in which you control a waterfall and must travel the world hiding outdoor passages from adventurers.
You play a hole, you must move around an environment making certain elements fall into correct targets at the right time.
Imagine a co-op game where if your partner dies you have to spend 30minutes digging a hole to bury them before you can continue.
Imagine if you are shot in the chest and end up in hospital. Then the enemy who shot you visits with flowers.
What if your tummy rumbling created earthquakes? In a world where food is rare.
You are a small girl flying a talking kite. The kite seems to know about a upcoming major terrorist attack and floats towards clues.
Game where it’s Xmas everyday and you can use your presents every night to progress further into a reoccurring dream.
Turn based 1 on 1 fighting game. Have to level up individual bones and set which order the joints are moved and rotated to create attacks
What if NPC’s could load and save your game? You have to keep on their side otherwise they won’t save your game, load old saves etc
New MW : You battle in huge Earth damaging wars but between missions you play as ‘The Big Bang’ at the start of time creating the planet.
Currently looking for intern programmers. NO ARTISTS please, you MAY think you know game art but trust me, your school failed you.
What if ghosts had dreams?
What if your special power was being able to fix broken smoke alarms from anywhere in the world?
Imagine if in new Guitar Hero you play as a busker, you witness your city evolve as your music changes the decisions of people around you
How about a game where you get to be a mother-in-law who bullies your son’s young wife? the aim is to have her thrown out within X months
New Fable Journey feature, you can read bedtime stories to goblin enemies while cradling them so they fall asleep
What if your 99 year old grandfather was a key? Would you force him to travel across the world just to open a secret door?
What if you played a game where the enemies had their children chained to them?
You have to bake your enemies correctly before feeding them to your master. The oven? Only accessible during the ‘game over’ screen
Imagine controlling a tear, similar to flower but instead of fields you navigate a naked body.
You are a bin, by day people are throwing litter in you but by night you use that litter to highlight issues in the city through modern art
Why is it that all puzzles are environment based? What if YOU were the puzzle? You have to adapt yourself so the environment can pass YOU?
You play a babysitter, you turn up and the baby is made of cardboard. Would you stay? I want games to start asking more ethical questions
You play a ghost in a doctor’s waiting room who only children can see. You must inspire them to make the best Lego/duplex constructions?
You play a celebrity serial killer whose cult following exchanges ammunition/weapons for autographs?
You control a mystical rabbit at a bus stop during Winter. You must find as many creative ways as possible to make people miss their buses.
Back at last. Thanks for all the support and also thanks to whoever reported me for all the extra publicity.
Fun fact of the day, Edge magazine gave the same score to Fable2 as Skyrim
Killstreaks = X seconds of battery power. After every boss you get an extension cable, similar to hearts in Zelda.
What if the more XP you gained, the longer your gun extension cable grows? What if you had sissors to cut enemie’s cables? True potential
What if you lived in a world where all guns are required to be plugged into wall sockets? Now THAT would be a tactical shooter wouldn’t it?
Imagine walking past a mirror in a game that reflects the same surrounding area but from somebody else’s game?
DisneylandAdventures is frustrating, love being able to hug Mickey Mouse etc but I just want to get to know the person INSIDE the costume
Why do games still have maps? What if instead of moving around the world the world moved around YOU?
4 player online co-op where one person is the hero who can only see friend’s kinect skeletons which they motion to guide the hero through
What if you rode a horse that knew the solution to every puzzle? Could you still ride the horse knowing that you can’t communicate with it?
I want to make a FPS with school children and water pistols/waterbombs/sprinklers etc in a town where the water has been contaminated
I would share my xmas based game ideas but people would moan about it being too early
Imagine if enemies had tatoo passwords for doors/upgrades? You have to get close to see, harder enemies have smaller more discreet tatoos
A game where if you touch the floor you die. The only way to progress is to kill enemies and use their bodies as platforms.
Idea for a game. Painting your memories onto the environment, not sure how it works yet but the idea is quite beautiful.
Why does your inventory always reset every sequel? Imagine picking up a key in Fable 4 and using it on a door in Fable 7?
Game where you have to secretly make people fight each other and then afterwards use their bodies to make artwork that enriches NPC’s lives.
Game in which you can use your power meter as a bridge, to make bridge reach fit bigger gaps you need to build up your power meter
Kinect sales have passed 10 million! and yet the first game to use it properly doesn’t come out until next year
Imagine being able to launch a missile in Battlefield and have it hit your online friend’s car in say Burnout Paradise? This is the future
You are a Pigeon who must go around the city trying to persuade business men not to jump off buildings by retrieving items from their home.
A game in which you and your father’s face is a portal. You’re on Earth, he is in Space. You must pass each other items to get back together
So after a meeting we’ve decided Fable Journey is indeed to be on rails BUT you can buy a DLC code that will let you go off those rails
Imagine an iphone game where part of the game is to leave it outside of a 500m radius of your home for 24 hours to proceed?
Imagine if you went home inbetween missions to look after your new born baby? Would be a nice contrast, better than bowling at least #GTA5
Uncharted, it’s just all invisible triggers that create little events. What if there was an item that allowed you to SEE the triggers?
When you are about to die you must make your inventory a seed & plant it. Then die, go to the spot and wait for your inventory to grow back.
You are a detective solving a vital case but every time you talk to someone the Earth shakes and the environment around you falls apart?
You awake in a 88 floor skyscraper all alone. Every floor is haunted by one of 88 innocent people you killed during an illegal war.
Edge magazine has given Zelda a 10? Even EDGE don’t care about refreshing and innovative games anymore. Very sad day for gaming.
I’m not allowed to tell you we’re working on Fable:NextGen otherwise you won’t bother buying Fable:Journey
Had to get rid of that last tweet. Please don’t remember it, thanks
How about GearsOfWar4? You have to adjust to a post war world and open up emotionally to your estranged daughter? maybe THEN I’d play GOW
Imagine a constant rumble in a pad throughout the game,your heartbeat. Then at the end, you die and it just stops. Physical emotion.
How about something completely new? A game where you have to pay tribute to someone, collect everything about them and create a museum?
Actually, what if your MP3 music player’s battery life was your actual life? #danceFPS
You regain health by dancing, which you can only do where music is playing. So you need to find musicians or maybe find a rave #danceFPS
Working on a concept for the world’s first dancing FPS game, it’s a mix between Moonwalker, Dance Central and TimeSplitters.
In Fable Journey, if you annoy a certain person they will show you a part of the ending cut scene from Fable4.
Imagine a world where people don’t talk, physical words are hidden underground. You must travel the world hunting ‘I’, ‘love’ and ‘you.
EA just closed down Bright Light here in Guildford.Thoughts go out to you all (apart from the guy who thought of making HPotter a GOW clone)
Imagine playing the only coin in the world and you’re being used to decide on outcomes for all global debates.
Imagine if when you kill someone their death animation loops and ‘burns’ into your screen so you have to watch it for the rest of the game?
‘Wipeout Wipeout’, inbetween racing ships you get out an go through a wacky obstacle course. It’s cool, New NeedForSpeed is doing it so…
A game where you have to kill yourself is so amateur and indy. My idea is basically you jump off bridge, floor turns into water and so on.
In #believe There is a room with 10,000 Milos. Which one is YOUR Milo? Can you tell? If not, I’ve failed. YOUR Milo will be unique to YOU.
Game in which you only control the angle of your character. 1 day = 1 step forward. You can buy/gift extra steps to friends.
In the next Fable, you will finally discover the backstory of the breadcrumbs.
Imagine a game with 1 goal which is to kill yourself. Now imagine that the environment constantly adapts to stop you. Excited?
Boss that also has a ghost. Must play spot the difference to find weak spots. Ghost only has 7 eyes? shoot that 8th eye on the boss etc
Racing game where you only have 2 speeds. 0MPH and 10,000 MPH. Did you just run over a little child? who knows? how does that make you feel?
Games on phones is wrong. If you cry, your tears will fall on the screen and mess up the image at a crucial moment. It’s just wrong.
I do respect #stevejobs but he did sort of destroy our industry. More likely to make AngryChickens now instead of Fable 4, thanks Steve.
You play a boy who has a desire to educate his neighbourhood by providing them newspapers while riding a bicycle #retrodeux
By the way, this account is for waking up the games industry, not wishing your friend well in a charity bungee jump. NO REQUESTS PLEASE.
You are a frog who must cross a busy road. Twist is that traffic doesn’t move smoothly, it teleports 1 step ahead continuously #retrodeux
My next game is going to explore the following question ‘Would you give birth to a child if they were invisible?’
Let me tell you that gaming isn’t about winning, gaming is about believing. What if games rewarded you for believing rather than winning?
What if everyone in the game had text constantly around them expressing their feelings? Now, imagine in this game you can CLIMB text?
You are a creature who can only eat bullets for survival. You must try and get people to shoot you, then go back later and eat the bullets
You know in cut scenes when it says ‘3 months later…’? What if the game ACTUALLY locked your save file for 3 months?
Imagine if people’s emotions created gas clouds in the air which could then be inhaled, mixed or blown into other people’s directions?
I want to make a game where you see a tree, think ‘Lets use that to get to space’ and you just can. Why does a tree HAVE to be just a tree?
Gears3. NO! Emotion in a game should not be hitting a hidden trigger that activates a sad movie. Hello Devs? Games are INTERACTIVE you know?
I want to make a game next year, that will be better than a game from 2030. That’s just how I work…
For those buying Gears, hope you can sleep knowing you are part of the reason why Microsoft say yes to marines but no to little boys with ai
You control an entertainment unit in a large family home. You choose their games, music and films. All of which influence their future
Played cut the rope earlier and thought about making a game called cut the umbilical cord. I just don’t care about giving candy to a frog
Would love to make a corridor shooter but where all walls are invisible. Constantly worrying if that enemy has open space to aim at you.
Also what if killing enemies makes them fall to the floor and point towards the exit? That’s the only way to find your way out.
What if every bullet you fired hits the floor & spends 10 minutes evolving into a fast paced creature that will chase you down for revenge?
Can you imagine, just imagine a game where the enemies are actually able to use cheat codes?
If there was a villian halfway through a game who showed you the game’s end cinematic would that be annoying or innovative?
A survival horror game where the enemies can only be seen in mirrors? Could add more depth by having dirty mirrors that need to be cleaned?
Surely we can reinvent FPS? Imagine a FPS where your eyes are on the back of your head?
What if Flower 2 was set just after WorldWar2? You progress by touching dead bodies littered over battlefields, restoring the land.
Your child is made of lego, you have to detatch bricks to make bridges etc You need to keep adding bricks to stop him getting depressed.
sorry for the rant, back to Fable:Journey. Been recently asking myself ‘what if a horse was AWARE that noises he emits are merely sfx?’
World is being taken over by demons, you play as a human disguised as the demon psychologist of the demon leader.
That bit in Fable Journey we showed you at E3 wasn’t all there was to the game. It also has a bit where you throw hoops onto sticks.
Imagine a game where 3 pauses and it’s game over. The game plays door bells, ringtones etc trying to make you accidently pause the game

The team currently working on #cooptopus just wanted it to be a retro side scrolling shooter, down to old me again to inject some emotion 🙁
Imagine being able to suck polygons out of enemies. initially they look next gen but you can drain them to look like they are from 1995.
Just tried to move a character with my tongue on the ipad, it works! Will think about this overnight and get back to you tomorrow #itongue
Imagine a fishing game where rivers are other different dimensions in time. You can reel in a old toy from your childhood for example
Adventure game where you need to follow a twitter account that provides door codes every day so you can progress further into the game
A game where you are in a large open world full of toxic poison, everyone wears gas masks and have to use puppets for communication
Was taking off the wife’s dress last night and I said ‘L1, R1, L1, R1’ , she didn’t get the reference even though I made her play Heavy Rain
The angle of the bullet’s direction changes depending on the % that you love your cat after 3 hours. That’s where I’m going with this.
You have 1 bullet. Once fired it enters slow motion, can take hours to reach it’s target. Things you do from then on affect it’s direction
You wake up one day in a fortress, your family are little plants. You must escape with all plants, watering them and keeping in sunlight etc
Imagine pressing jump and then you have a 3 day countdown until you jump. So you have to search for a gap within 3 days and then wait.
I also love the idea of playing a character who is PRETENDING to be blind, so you have to keep bumping into things to not arouse suspicion
Imagine being able to verbally tell a funny joke to a guard and causing him to roll over laughing allowing you past?
Imagine spying on a guard’s face from afar and knowing which route he will take just by reading his facial expressions?
You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of Focus.
You are a child playing hide&seek, as you hide the world fast forwards. You come out, everyone has died. You must find your friend’s ghosts
Online sidescrolling co-op 8 player game where each person controls a leg of a octopus. Each leg can attach guns which the player can fire
I want stories to have physics, THAT is interesting to me. A story that can blend naturally, bending organically and not be static
Physics takes away the control from us designers, instead of spending time on the game we spend time making sure they don’t break things
Playing #FromDust again, it’s like that awful indie Tetris game that has physics. Physics is the worst thing to happen to gaming this gen.
I would love to make a L.A Noire style detective game that features humans but they have no faces. They can’t talk.
Game where you play a robot that must entertain a child but as he grows up the boy becomes a serial killer. Do you stop or help?
We need to stop making games that say ‘I’m a videogame’ and start making games that say ‘What am I?’ #xbox3
Can you imagine, projecting your game on top of somebody else’s game? Creating special overlays that open up new abilities? #xbox3
Need to melt a ice door to get into a dungeon? why not project your game onto a fire? Excited yet? #xbox3
Project the game onto a old person, your weapon is a cane. Project the game onto a child your weapon is a balloon. #xbox3
Imagine projecting a game onto a male, your avatar is blue. Now project it onto a female and your avatar is pink. Tip of the iceberg #xbox3
Pressing buttons to fire a gun? fair enough. Pressing buttons to create magic? Sorry, you’re past your sell by date #diablo3
For the first time ever,This new console will allow for organic game design. What if you could play a game before it’s even designed? #xbox3
Microsoft wanted ‘Milo’ to be the #xbox3 dashboard. I asked them ‘what if a dashboard was a game in itself?’, never heard back from them
The week Microsoft scrapped Milo was the week they started to design #xbox3, that’s what I truly believe.
What if a console was able to guess what you wanted to play and started to load it up as you walk into the house? #xbox3
This week, it’s #xbox3 week. Yes, I know what the new xbox is. I can’t give specifics, all very NDA. I can however share some recent dreams
Had a idea that combines the intimate moment of delivering babies with Crazy Taxi last night. Can emotional arcade style gaming work?
You are in a room with just a bed. When you sleep you become the bed. How does it feel to be a bed? degrading? what can you do about it?
The problem I had with lemmings is that they were just so disposable. Imagine if each and every lemming had a complex meaningful back story?
Instead of loading screens enemies should just pretend to ‘pause’ the game to annoy you? It could actually be part of the game’s story?
What if a game fell asleep if your actions were so tedious and repetitive?
Ask yourself this before you go to bed tonight. What if your soul was a grid that could be measured upon other entities within a game?
Imagine if controllers expressed emotions by changing temperature. Embrace a loved one, it gets warm. If they ignore you, it goes cold etc
What if you could write and place sticky notes in a virtual world and what they say become reality?
A game where custom music is the key to solving puzzles? Need to cure? Classical. Attack? Rock music. Fire? Song with the word fire in it.
Imagine a platformer where upon landing on the floor you create earthquakes destroying tribes of little people. Would you still jump?
What if your body is essentially a hourglass? Intense acrobatic game where you have to make sure sand is always falling and never stops
Your abusive step father chases you into a space rocket that accidently blasts off. It’s just you, a 8 year old boy and him, alone in space.
Can you imagine pitching Dizzy today? “but why does the egg have a hat? How is it alive? Maybe some future lab experiment gone wrong?” etc
You play as a grandad. You can only interact with your grandchildren by playing a saxaphone which is required to escape a dream like castle
Can you imagine playing a character who has a fully functional town on his body? Need to fix your leg? build and fund a hospital on it etc
Ok I’ll stop my ranting. I’ll just finish with this, let’s stop doing “1010110000110” and instead do “?!?!!!?????!???”
What if a hiscore was infact a living character within the game world, what if you fell in love with them? and had hiscore children?
A game where you build/destroy sandcastles but then discover it’s having an impact on the world. Like the movie ‘WarGames’ but with nature
I wanted that Rambo license. My idea was that Rambo is dead, you control his ghost and must locate and hug every one of his victim’s ghosts
Imagine playing a game on the TV but the story is on the WiiU screen. Yet you have the ability to swap at any time.
The best game environments tell a story. What if you could play out that story while also playing the core game? At the same time.
What if a final boss had 10 minions that you had to interact with and your choice of interactions alter how the final boss battles you?
Strange how bosses still have weak spots that just suddenly appear? Imagine a long backstory that slowly uncovers and explains a weak spot?
Action game where before you can kill someone you must teleport to their family home back in time and spend a hour in their company.
What if you could steal animation frames from other NPC’s animation cycles and give them to yourself or others to solve puzzles?
What if you could actually take part in a game with your family while you all sat around the dinner table eating your dinner?
You know, what if the aim of the game was to resist actually completing it? That kept me up all night yesterday.
You know I love the idea of a boy holding a ice cream which reresents his health. Similar to Dead Space’s Isaac but more creative.
Imagine a game world where people can only convey their feelings through puppets. To show emotion x you need to steal someone elses puppet
A game where you have to bring in multiple characters to slow the game’s frame rate down enabling you to pass obstacles etc?
Game where for every hour you sleep your child grows older by a week. Every hour they sleep you get younger by a week.
A game where you just go around listening to people, taking key words and transforming them into real objects to help you progress
What if falling through floors was a feature and not a bug? What lies below? want to risk your life to find out?
You are Cupid, you must find compatible partners. One arrow in each partner, connected with lasers. If any NPC touches laser, game over
is getting drunk while watching videos of ‘From Dust’ on youtube. I’m getting angry but I’ll keep my mouth shut.
A survival horror game where you have to sing lullabies to your 2 year old to stop them from screaming/crying and giving your position away
Imagine interactive romantic novels for facebook, you may laugh but that’s potentially the biggest new genre since the music game genre
Today I’m studying romantic gameplay mechanics.
Imagine a game where you are a clown and have to make others laugh YET if YOU laugh, kinect detects it and it’s game over #poeticgaming
So far, us designers have been making incredible cuisine. However, problem is that we’re serving it straight on a table rather than a plate
In the Shigeru Miyamoto classic, SMBros, why are there tortoises that throw hammers? No Reason. Sometimes, ‘No reason’ is just ‘fun’.
What if there was a game that had no start or end but just a middle?
Imagine if you could upload your family photos into a game and they appear in pictures/posters etc all around the game world?
Why are bosses mostly big? What if the final boss was merely a cunning ant? As designers we need to challenge the ‘rules’ more often.
You grow from baby to old man and back to baby and this keeps looping every 10 seconds. Small gap? Time it so you can go through as a baby.
Playing Heavy Rain again, I want to take that scene where you hold a baby and sing a lullaby but make an entire game out of it.
Oh new wiiu idea. How are people feeling inside? Hold wiiu over screen and it says something like “sad!”, so now you know to hug them
Want to make our next game appeal to both sexes. For every kill you get a new piece of furniture to decorate your house?
There are 206 bones in the human body? Imagine, just imagine a 206 multiplayer game where each person controls a bone?
You are a bear but for some reason your oxygen comes from hugging people. Problem is that hugging people breaks their bones. #Poeticgaming
Imagine if Aeris as a ghost said you could be with her if you jump off this cliff, you do it and die, it’s game over. How would you feel?
The Last Guardian ending? The catbird dies? Not if I was making it. I would have the boy wake up stroking his cat as it’s giving birth.

What if a game was initially an experience and then slowly started to become a game?
What if you could attach a part from EVERY enemy in the game to yourself Katamari style? Building yourself and your powers up?
My Designer workshop #14 : Make a game where the player’s only tool is a ruler.
You control a small child but your vision is from the teddy bear that the child is grasping onto during a war
What if everyone in the world had an explosive telephone in their body? If you could find out their number you can detonate their phone?
How do you get past a fearless guard? You extract the fear of a pigeon you just attacked and transfer it to the guard. Now he’ll run away.
What if I were to tell you that today we’ve been exploring the idea of recyclable emotion?
I want to make a game in space. Not set in space, I mean actually develop a game in space. Would it make for a better game though?
Can you truly visualize in your mind the possibilities of a ‘game over’ screen that is also a character that can be interacted with?
What if you had the power to distort? What if you had the power to distort reflections?
Your loved one has turned into a snowman. Yet your body needs to be as hot as a oven on high heat to survive. What would you do?
What if all characters in a game had visible body clocks appear right above them? What if you had the power to adjust those clocks?
Just remember your horse has feelings – if you push your horse to the point of collapse you’re going to feel pretty guilty about that.
“YOUR SOFA IS THE CONTROLLER”
OF COURSE! we’ve all been shifting the sofa across the room while using kinect. What if we USED the sofa as a key part of the game?
You control someone who must entice as many people as possible to sit on a sofa within x amount of time. Like Crazy Taxi but without wheels.
Are we using the same incredible capture technology as that seen in L.A Noire for the horse? I couldn’t possibly comment on that just yet 🙂
In Fable Journey you will be able hold out your hand and feed your horse apples but first you need to gain his trust by patting him 64 times
What if I were to tell you, that in Fable Journey you will be able to look into your horse’s eyes and know if he is concerned?
Game where you must hold onto your mother’s hand. Let go for more than X seconds and it’s game over
You know, my dream for gaming is where in one game you’ll shoot someone and then during a game of say Fifa you’ll see their son crying
You live in a little house made of guns. You need many guns to fight invaders but you also need to keep a roof on top of your many children.
People were shouting at me not to put miscarriages in Theme Hospital, yet in kids movie ‘UP’ it’s acceptable. I was ahead of my time.”
Imagine Portal but in reverse. If you can’t visualize that, don’t bother trying to be a game designer.
He then circled a rock, as if to say “You’re Peter Molyneux arn’t you? You saved our industry!”. I’m in tears here. #journeybeta
What if your face was a mirror?
Imagine ‘A Boy and his Blob’ but instead of beans you force emotions on him. Give him contempt and he’ll make a bridge, etc
You start the game with no emotion, you must find and obtain them and then use them to find more. My game would have 120 emotions.
Imagine playing the life of someone when from the start of a game a movie is constantly playing in the corner showing your child’s life.
Have you ever played a racing game and wanted to play as the road rather than the cars? I know I have…
Imagine in my EPS, one is in a empty room with a locked door but another is in a room with a key. Overlay their vision and you can get out
I would create the worlds first EPS. Eight peoples vision overlayed on top of each other to create Eight Person Perspective.
FPS never really evolved. If I did a FPS I wouldn’t make it first person view for starters. I’d break that rule straight away.
Take away the atmosphere, take away the magic, take away the stylized flashy graphics and Bioshock Infinite is basically just Doom
You have to battle your way out of a battlezone while also maneuvering a pram with a baby, you can attach armour to pram and use as cover
War game where at the end you walk through a graveyard looking at each and every headstone of those you killed followed with 1minute silence
I want to use lying system from L.A and have you play as a teacher in a elementry school. Did kid A really put woodlice in kid B’s yogurt?
How about this, listen, a game where you can control if it’s in HD or SD and both play a vital part in solving puzzles?
You are a scarecrow in a world with just 1 bird
Imagine an action game where upon killing each enemy you see a 1 minute unique cutscene flashing through their entire life
What if your body was a washing machine and you had to wash your enemies before you can kill them?
I’m the British Miyamoto. I refuse to call it Fable 4, Fable Journey is my Super Mario World. Who needs SMB4?
You play as a small boy with a remote control helicoptor that is alive and your friend, then you discover a nuclear missle inside it
Other things I would like to play as are dust, regret as a character, a microwave, carpet, lung, statue, bullet, television and a nose.
I could remember as a kid loving ants nests, seeing ants just crawling around their nests, and I was always intrigued by them
Imagine being able to create a spell and then stretch and squeeze it with your fingertips
In 2 years we’ll all look back and laugh how we used to cast spells in games using buttons
Thinking of going to TokyoGameShow this year. How do you say ‘Not on rails’ in Japanese?
Would the microwave scene in MGS4 have been more emotional if it was for kinect? Doing ‘crawl’ swimming motions perhaps?
New Fable will have it’s own emotional button tapping scene. All I will say for now is ‘horse’ and ‘CPR’ and ‘Bit that doesn’t use kinect’
We’ve had games that go sideways, up and down, rotate even but what about a game that turns itself inside out?
An entire adventure game based in one room, can it be done? Movies have done it, why not games?
FPS where your arms are controled by a psychopath who keeps firing guns at innocent people. You must turn away from them and run.
Imagine a stealth game where the only way to calm yourself down is by setting off fireworks, of course they can also be used as weapons.
If I made a Transformers game you would control a boy playing with Transformer figures in a house filled with domestic family abuse
Throw a ball into the TV, then a child brings it back to you on the wiiU. Now let me ask you this, what if we replaced balls with emotions?
Fighting game where you fight with kinect based dancing moves. A bit like Moonwalker with Kinect but without MJ.
Interesting fact, I once pitched a Columbo game. You could actually enter killer’s minds and find things. Then Tim Schafer stole it.
Visualize an open world game set in a white box. During the night you dream and can place elements from your dream into the blank world
So just imagine this, your pet chews on a special toy, it affects the game world. So in a sense YOUR pet is creating the world around you?
What if you were half man half tree? You can only fight when in soil and constantly grow throughout the game.
Interesting concept, enemies with dirty piano keyboards for heads. To kill them you must clean the piano without making a noise.
Fablemore, new website coming soon. Ever wondered where Reaver purchased his hat?
Love repeating staircases in games like M64, FF7 etc Always a bit disapointed when they end, would be an interesting message if didn’t stop
Let me ask you this. What if you could control the speed of emotion? Think Max Payne but with an ‘Emotion Time’ mechanic.
When Mother read me 3 Little Pigs as a child I wanted the pigs to form an alliance and build one house together. Wasn’t possible with a book
Imagine if instead of reading a bedtime story to your child you played a 10 minute portable adventure game that generated random storylines?
So Suda51 stole my idea about a gun that talks to you? sometimes I should just keep my ideas to myself.
Crates are not just solid objects anymore, you can look inside them to find dead puppies. #NewGrittyTRaider
Reading script for new tombraider, there is a bit where she is forced to make a raft with her own bones. Very gritty and dark.
Game where you play as a magician but have no magic powers. You must entertain goblins to escape a castle by deceiving them with illusions.
I find it funny, you all think emotional horse scenes had peaked with SOTC but just you wait, just you wait and see…
Horses, have you ever asked yourselves if horses cry? what if horse tears could open doors and defeat your enemies? #fablejourney
A FPS where you control a soldier’s shoe, however imagine if you play as a shoe that was left at home with your wife and children during war
How come nobody is moaning about the new Bioshock being ‘on rails’? It’s more ‘on rails’ than Fable Journey.
Fable Journey : IT IS NOT ON RAILS! (well it is but it’s evolved) please RT!
Great set piece in FableJourney where you must defend your horse while it is being attacked. At the same time the horse is giving birth.
You know, I have this idea where you play 50% of Fable Journey and then it suddenly becomes a controller only game. No one else would dare..
Microsoft are telling me to stop being so enthusiastic about the WiiU, ok back to kinect. You remember? that camera thing from last year?
I’m controlling a pregnant mother who can see her baby’s dreams on the wiiu screen. The dreams reveal new and hidden pathways in the game
“Snake, this is the Colonel. To defeat Psycho Mantis you will need to take a photo that is pure black and throw it into the TV screen”
Mortal Kombat wiiU. Now you can play in front of kids, on TV blood is green but on your wiiU the blood is red.
WiiU Scrabble. Now you can hide your letters from other players.
Game with ONE enemy hunting you down in an empty scary world. WiiU controller shows HIS vision. Next generation tension right there.
WiiU Portal, you go through an orange portal and are on the TV. Go through a blue portal however and you are on the controller screen.
Also in L.A Noire WiiU you can now have your very own notepad and cross out words yourself. So you will feel just like a real detective.
Imagine L.A Noire on wiiu. Is he lying? Hold up the controller over the tv, on the controller it says ‘Yes, he IS lying!’
What if you were to have a virtual boy on your very controller? sitting right next to you? providing hints about the game on the tv?
So if my missus is watching a soap on the tv, can I come in and play Mario and make her watch the rest of it on the controller?
Game where you control character on tv screen but on ANOTHER screen you see their emotion.
Am recording footage of children being sick on 3DS’s and am going to try and swap it with the pre Nintnendo Intro video. #E3backstage
Reggie and Iwata are going around trashing booths that contain iphone games. #e3backstage
That’s right, The Journey (fable) will feature cutting edge horse sweat technology.
Iwata is Recording footage of actors pretending to amazed by the 3D in 3DS. #e3backstage
Cage,Ueda and Kojima rehearsing on their presentation of their joint PS3 partnership title ‘The Muppets Groove with Move’ #E3backstage
They are discussing what the final reveal should be. New Halo, new xbox or that Kevin Butler is now working for Microsoft #E3backstage
Kudo Tsunoda is going through the script trying to find a natural place to throw in a BAM! #E3backstage
Imagine playing a baby, growing up, giving birth and playing as the new born. However, these cycles only last for 5 seconds.
What if there was a fighting game where the mechanic was to ‘colour in’ parts of your enemy to create your own weak spots?
Could playing as a vending machine be fun? That is my question to you young designers out there today.
A game in which you control a boy playing with action figures, you only control his big hands and also his mouth for making SFX.
“You know, a bigshot at Microsoft wanted the new console to be called the Y box. I replied ‘How about the ‘what if?’ box?” #e3
“2 years ago we asked ‘what if YOU were the controller? This year we will ask ‘what if YOU were the entire xbox console AND the TV?’ #e3
“How can gaming progress from here? What if I were to tell you we’ve only discovered 3.2% of our industry’s potential?” #e3
“When people talk about cloud gaming, I’m not thinking about the Internet. Imagine how it must feel to actually be a cloud?” #e3
Typical Indie dev today ‘Let’s just make a game like Tetris but instead of boring blocks let’s have cute but edgy cats and achievements’
Imagine a sports game that during intervals you need to woo a special lady while also tracking down her killer stalker.
I’d like to make a game where the tutorial comes up after the credits.
Communication with sand?
“Hello! I am from LA Noire! Check out my realistic face! but please don’t look at my arms and legs that flap about like it’s 2006!”
Yet again interviewing a graduate designer who was born in the same year that I made populous.
I’ve tried asking someone in LA Noire if they wanted help with their paperwork and they didn’t respond. Oh yes, so innovative…
I miss cables, would love to make a game where the joypad cable becomes part of a core mechanic within a game.
Work is going forward on my stealth game that has fully transparent environment.
What if the pause button was a weapon? Until developers think outside the box we’re going downhill.
What if you could upset a virtual character so much that they would interfere in your other games? Such as kill your star player in NBA?
I’m just so bored of films. Why can’t I rewatch Romeo and juliet and see what happens if you make them drink beer instead of poison?
Modern warfare 3. You play an illusionist who must initially entertain troops but then go on to use your illusions on the battlefield.
Modern warfare 3. You play as a dog trying to find his lost family. Music score by Elton John.
Modern warfare 3. Your only weapons are marbles. You must strategically place them for max damage. Same art style as Windwaker.
Modern warfare 3. You are a journalist who is taken hostage. The entire game takes place in 1 room with you tied to a washing machine.
Modern warfare 3. You play as a School teacher trying to keep all his pupils alive while their city is being invaded.
Modern warfare 3. You play as a baby who must keep his father optimistic as he tries to escape his country during an intense war.
Modern warfare 3. You must use your magical tattoos to hunt down the 9/11 terrorists when they were children and bring them up differently.
Modern warfare 3. If it features either guns or FPS view I’m just not interested.
A game that can only be played 1 minute at a time by 1 different person in the world while being streamed to everyone 24/7?
Game where you have 100 children but each time you fire a bullet a child dies.
I want to make a game based on snakes and ladders but make it an epic adventure rpg game.
What if different parts of a handheld game could only be played in specific areas? Want to complete level 3? Go to great wall of china.
I just don’t care about moving stock, the only thing I want to move are tears down people’s faces.
I just didn’t appreciate Game Dev Story, it portrays developers as groups whose main aim is to make money.
Game where you go back in time and create the first ever videogame.
Thinking about making a QTE based action adventure game like heavy rain where you use a steering wheel as the main controller.
Nowadays I can’t help think of milo on good Fridays. I gave milo to the world only for him to be crucified. He will rise again…
The entirety of new game takes place inside the mind of a pixel. What if a pixel had personality. What if it was truly a living pixel?
What if, imagine, you play a war hero whose victims stick to him like magnets as soon as they die. Like katamari but with a message.
You are man with violin. You go around playing sad music sucking in peoples tears which can be used as a currency for weapons.
What if the way to save your game was through a QTE?
A game that starts outside of a videogame and eventually over time becomes a videogame?

The amount of gamers out there with gears of war tattoos frustrates me. Never seen any tattoos of fable, populous, magic carpet etc
Water never has temperature in games does it? Have you noticed?
Imagine a fast paced explosive war game that half way through suddenly the mission for the rest of the game is to woo a lady.
Imagine a game where you play against a friend online then afterwards you find it infact wasn’t your friend but the CPU?
Wow, someone just did a pitch with no words. They simply just showed an image. It was profound, beautiful and I was almost in tears.
Some tv actress on a stage now from a show called ‘Essex’? Talking about how fantastic games are, she seems to think 3DS is a portable wii.
I should be on that stage, I could talk about my idea for 3DS game where 3D slider is a game mechanic. Would be more relevant than this.
Am at the 3DS launch event in Guilford. Some Pop group on the stage, why does everyone sound like they are singing in saucepans these days?
What if a cover system had raw emotion? i.e having to use dead people that you loved as a means of cover?
In my next game this message will appear time to time “Press X to look AWAY from the big exciting event about to happen”
just imagine the death of aeris if kinect was able to impose the face of a loved one on her. Would have been so more intense.
Next gen isn’t reflections in puddles. Next gen is emotions within emotions.
Imagine if we created a specialized set for a augmented reality xbox game? It is being recorded 24/7 and streamed live to every xbox?
Young designers, stop making your ladders glow. It’s a ladder, we know it can be interacted with. If it can’t then don’t have a ladder.
Imagine a game where reflections showed solutions? Can’t get past a door? Make a puddle and look into it for the answer.
Imagine fighting with a sword that was captured by your great great grandmother after she courageously battled a dragon zombie demon.
Imagine playing a character knowing that your great great great grandfather built up in xp etc. THAT is surely our goal?
Imagine a game that lasts forever where your children and their children continue playing your profile.
I promise you all, right now, that within the next decade I will create the perfect videogame.
I want to create the most exciting revolutionary gaming mechanic since sucking up ghosts while driving in ghostbusters.
What if we lived in a world where everyone had wind up keys on their backs, what if you had nobody to turn your key? What would you do?
Game where you are like jack Bauer but to kill enemies you are transported to gameshow and correct answers = kills.
I want to make a fps where all guns are water based.
Those are too easy to design though, child’s play. How about SANDPAPER man?
Amazes me when people think games like Explosion Man are creative…VELCRO man…I literally just thought that up. Am I a genius?
An action game with a female protagonist with baby strapped to chest. Must not wake the baby.
Game where you play a touring clown, you start in the streets and make your way to various circuses and ultimately a film star like Chaplin.
My next game will all take part during the night. I’ll add some puddles and reflections on billboards too. It will be NEXT GEN stuff.
Well, received my award last night. I tell you, had to keep my cool when Limbo won best visuals.
It’s 5.18am in San Francisco here in my hotel room. Can’t sleep. Was thinking about how a videogame of 127 hours could work.
On the plane now to GDC. Imagine a game that you could ONLY play on planes, not sure what it would be but it’s an interesting idea isn’t it?
Dinner party last night and someone did the inevitable ‘You should make a game about washing up!’ Hate that, keeps me up all night
If I made a Sesame Street videogame I’d make it so you play the actors inside the costumes or the puppeteers.
Working on a new game, it’s going to be called Halos.
You play as a snowman but if kinect detects too much light you melt so you can only play at night or in a very dark room.
We had Cleese, Fry, Pegg, Kingsley etc doing voiceovers for Fable3. Yet Limbo is up for best audio. Isn’t Limbo’s audio just wind samples?
How on earth is LIMBO up for more nominations than Fable3 in the upcoming Baftas?! “Ohhh black and white = clever!!”
Imagine killing significant characters in a game and then they pop up as subtle ghosts in other games.
Another fable 4 idea from public “make it futuristic so you can have lifts that hide the many loading screens”
Have any games had hailstones yet?
Have you noticed how many games have crates yet in no game can you actually play as a crate.
An action game where your character is constantly falling. You can hang onto things but only for 1-3 seconds.
Imagine portal but instead of seeing other parts of the world in your local game you can see and enter areas of your friend’s game world.
Why is everyone impressed about that 10 year old girl making a game? I was doodling designs for populous on my nappies.
New kinect idea for underwater sections, you have to make one single sound with mouth. Oxygen is based on duration of unbroken sound tone.
We’ve had emotional game endings but have we ever had an emotional title screen?
You awake on a plane on your own and walk down the aisle but it keeps looping. It is a never ending plane. What is going on?
Imagine living in a world where all anyone can do is hurt each other. You on the other hand, your only ability is to hug those around you.
Can you visualise a world where horizontal is impossible? You are forever falling or attached to verticals?
Imagine a game about a film crew making a movie based on fable.
Game where you play a life support machine in a hospital but during the night you turn into a diseased rat.
Imagine if you will a game where you are a door willing people on to open you.
Game where are a coin being passed around. Must travel as far as possible, placing yourself in ideal places to be picked up and transported
Anyone who downloads bulletstorm demo today, I hope you can sleep well tonight, I really do.
If I were to make a new batman game I would have the player control a bat that overwatches batman from afar.
A game within a game within a game within a game…outside of a game
Imagine if you could text your character and you actually see them receive it in the game. What would you do if they refused to look at it?
Is it possible to make a videogame with no animation? does input always require animation?
I’d like to make a kinect survival horror game where at key moments you must stay absolutely still to avoid being found.
3D without glasses is all very fun but right now, let me tell you, we’re looking into doing 3D with no screen.
does anyone really enjoy shimmering along edges?
I mean, what if, just imagine for a moment that you could actually take CONTROL of a door.
doors and windows however, they interest me.
I promise that from here on none of my games will feature walls, ceilings or floors.
A videogame that turns into a boardgame halfway through.
Imagine being a spy in a game world where the entire environment is transparent and so you can’t hide.
Enough is enough, Graham Young is leaving at 4PM today and I’m going to dig deep in his PC to see what on earth he is up to.
Is it possible to make a racing game with emotion? No. Is it possible to make a emotional driving section of a game? absolutely.
So Edge magazine gave Fable3 a 7 and Fable2 a 9. Should of just remade Fable2 but with stylized black and white pixel art or something.
Also thinking about a charity game. Where everyone pays to control one single entity and the further they get the more cash they raise.
Imagine, if you will. A game that you have to theoretically give birth to before you can even start playing it.
Game dev challenge #32. Design an adventure game that is impossible to write a gamefaqs style playthrough guide for.
Has there ever really been a hole in a game? So far we’ve had 2D/3D representations of holes but have we actually had a PHYSICAL hole?
A game where you play as a ghost of a zombie where you have memory flashbacks of the person you were before becoming a zombie.
I remember the good old days when game developers would excitedly talk about their AI to journalists.
I remember several years ago pitching a game where you run a game development studio, everyone just laughed at me saying nobody would play.
Some journalist called Fable3 ‘The greatest 7/10 game of the year’ what on earth does THAT mean?
A game that comes with 4 pairs of specs. Each one changes the way the game world looks, so you have to keep changing them to get through.
Kinect out tonight. It could have been today where the second most important game character whose name starting with M was unleashed upon us
People moaning about waiting an extra 5 seconds to get to the map. In my day you had to wait 5 MINUTES for the game to load. Get over it!
How has Vanquish got 83 on metacritic and Fable3 a 81? What new experiences does Vanquish bring to gaming? Sliding?
1 minute!! till the most IMPORTANT game of the year is out!! ARE YOU READY??!
Can everyone please just ignore the reviews about my new game please. Reviewers are not real gamers, they don’t play my games properly.
What if a game were to lie to you? “Go through door A” says a wise old man. Then you open door A and there is a bear.
In my new game you’ll be controlling a window. What type of window? You’ll have to wait for GDC11 for that answer…
Would love to make a platformer where you play as a thing with a microwave for a head. You have to grab enemies, put them in your head. Etc
A game that you can only play for 5 minutes and then send to a friend who continues playing for another 5 minutes before he passes it on.
Using a steering wheel peripheral to control a character rather than a vehicle. Sorry, just tweeting aloud. Ignore me.
I’m currently exploring the idea of making a game that begins with a gameover screen where you can’t continue.
Was thinking about text adventure games. Imagine an adventure game set in a 3D world where all objects are made of text.
Why can I not use that tree as a spacecraft? In the ultimate game, you should be able to do ANYTHING. I’m working on it. Hang in there.
Made everyone make a cake to bring in today. Little do they know that I base promotions on this. Creative cakes = creative employees.
New designer said ‘The Last Guardian’ is basically just “A Boy and his Blob with a bit of polish and fur”. Bloody Amiqus!!
Someone’s selling their free copy of HaloReach on the company email because they don’t have any consoles. Why you working here again??
[10 print “shoot” 20 print “run” 30 goto 10] Yes, you could quite easily remake Halo Reach on a Spectrum.
What if LOVE was a character?
Tech demo guy (won’t name the game) shows me how you can zoom in and see a nail head. He then get’s shot from behind. I laugh and leave.
what if you were playing GearsOfWar and kinect was able to detect a baby in the room and turn the blood green until the baby leaves?
What if I were to tell you that we’ve come up with oxygen that is able to communicate?
Why are there always MASSIVE monster ‘bosses’ in modern games? Would it not be so refreshing to have to fight a very cunning ant?
Spotted a copy of Kane and Lynch 2 on Benny’s desk. It’s like a trainee chef in a posh restaurant bringing in a McDonalds for lunch.
His name is Ben Duncan (new work experience kid). Yet he is telling people to call him Benny B! Imagine me branding myself as P Moly.
Asked Benny what makes a good game. He just said ‘It’s got to have good gameplay and replay value’. It’s going to be a long week…
Work experience designer Benny joined us 2day. He was wearing a Mario 1up tshirt, asked him what mario was initially called. He had no idea.
So depressing, still nobody has found the secret room in Fable 2 that hints at Fable 3.
Love in gaming is always emotion. What if love in a game was a physical enemy? Does that very notion not blow your mind like it does mine?
I want to make a World War 2 game. What? been done before? No, you see in MY game you don’t control a solider but a 4 year old child.
or how about this…Fable TRILOGY special edition next year where ALL THREE games use Kinect?
Has any game ever REALLY featured oxygen? Sure, little bars of oxygen that drain but I actually mean a real sense of oxygen around you?
“The world around you is your heartbeat.” Beautiful words by Phil Collins and the idea behind my next game.
Game design of the future. Make game X again but with X technology.
Bring back the Amiga. At least that never stabbed me in the back and was loyal. It didn’t ask questions…
Indie developers, “Ohhh how do we make a game creative? Oh I know lets make it black and white!” Honestly…
In a real bad mood today, even Kinect picked up on it…or it would if it actually had that ability like that guy with the shades promised.
Oh sod off Microsoft. Now they want to rename Fable3 to Kinectable3
Books are depressing. I want to shout at Romeo ‘Don’t do it, take out everyone who is against you and juliet”, you could do that in a game.
That new Inception movie. I had that idea for a game about 10 years ago but mode 7 couldn’t handle it.
Get this. I want to make a game where you control Nolan North as a voice actor who must use unique voices for unique enemies.
What if you could export the gameplay from a game and wear it? Just a thought…
Designer Tip#3 Challenge yourself into a corner. For example, come up with a game design where you play as a statue.
Funny isn’t it? All these years and still nobody has dared to make another magic carpet based game.
For the final time I had nothing to do with Kinectimals. I wouldn’t lower myself to design games for children.
My thought of the day. Is it possible to make a videogame that has no graphics?
Would love to make a world war 2 game where you control a child who makes his own weapons and traps like the boy in Home Alone.
Imagine a game where you’re 1hour behind. You have to shoot up a phonebooth 1 hour after you see a enemy making a call. Excited?
Game Designer Tips No1 : EVERY Sunday ask yourself “What is gameplay?”
So why did Ueda not show TheLastGuardian? Because he saw Kinectimals and is now wanting to use kinect to control the bird cat thing.
If I made a football game you wouldn’t control the players but rather the ball.
On the plane to E3. Anyone seen that Jodie Foster movie that is all set on the plane? Wonder if one small environment could work in a game?
In 6 years I see people sharing virtual photos in the same way as holiday snaps,”Here I am with Ben slaying a dragon in Miowind valley!” etc
I wonder if it’s possible to unknowingly create a bug that would be emotional, like somehow complementing the game beautifully?
Have you noticed that ALL games have text? Text in games is just lazy game design when you think about it.
If I were in charge of Nintendo? I’d love the idea of trying to make a Mario game in which Mario is unable to jump.
Question. Would you be willing to have a surgical operation to play a game that is at least 100 times more immersive than anything else?
Imagine the possibilities of a controller that detects the strength of your grip.
3D gaming? What if the game characters saw the GAMER in 3D instead of the other way around? Is it really only myself that thinks like this?
Can an ‘Easter egg’ within a game be emotional? Usually it’s just a hidden area but what about an emotion hidden within a game?
A good game can be played on a 12″ black and white TV. Fact.
First there was music. Then there were books. Then along came movies followed by videogames. What comes next? I think I know…
What do all games require? The answer is someone to play them. What if a game went against that very concept?
What if there were a co-op game where both you and your friend control one arm each of the game’s protagonist?
I love the idea of trying to make a Spectrum 48k version of Heavy Rain. Can it be done? I’ll try over the weekend.
Wife playing Farmville again. Sometimes I feel like telling her that without Populous it wouldn’t even exist. She has no idea at all…
Is a game that requires 1 button really better than a game that requires 200,000 buttons?
What if a game could get angry with you? Bit like Dr Kawashima but a million times more intense?
So the ipad. People getting excited over a touch screen again? really? Touching is so 2008 in my eyes.
Came home to find my little girl with that eyepet in the lounge. Told the wife it gives children epilepsy and now it’s out of our house.
Noticed how all consoles so far are like boxes? What if a console was more like a small cat? That’s all I’m saying for now…
Imagine growing a pear in a virtual world and then being able to pick it up from a real store.
Someone just pointed out that ‘Peter Molyneux’s Transition’ would be called ‘PMT’ for short…will be coming up with a new name soon
“Peter Molyneux’s Transition” will be the first game to have endings that change and update every day.
In “Peter Molyneux’s Transition” every single copy of the game will have it’s own unique pause screen
“Peter Molyneux’s Transition” will feature one human in a sort of MMO. But get this, you don’t control him. WE ALL DO.
My new game “Peter Molyneux’s Transition” It’s not just current gen, it’s next and the one after that and also the one after that.
What if, dying in a game caused your game to not work anymore and then the only way to fix it was to do something in another game?
Imagine a videogame that knew what you had eaten that very day and went on to effect the story arc of the game.
What do ALL games require? Yes exactly, eyes. During supper I was thinking why all games require eyes. Who made that rule?
If I was InfinityWard I would follow THAT level with children of the victims following you screaming and crying ‘I hate airports’ etc
Online gaming, The only emotion you can force onto other players are joy, frustration, anger, humour. What IF you could make your friends CRY?
What if, as a player, you could control checkpoints? What if, you could feed checkpoints? What if, checkpoints breathed life?
Uncharted2, everyone going on about the dynamic conversations. Can you ask Drake if he’s done his homework? Can you?? really?
It’s Friday! Time to get drunk in the pub, let the guys let their hair down while I doodle ideas for Fable 3 on a beer mat.
Natal can tell if you’re crying. Imagine if for some reason you had a mission where you were REQUIRED to cry to pass a gate. Interesting…
Up until now we’ve never really CONTROLLED a character have we? All we’ve been doing really is changing numbers and patterns.
Just saw Gameswipe. Everyone bangs on about Portal, Flower and Braid. Nobody ever mentions the dog in Fable 2.
Game designer job role available now at Lionhead. To apply you must rewrite Tetris in a way that will make me cry at least 3 times.
Used a courgette as a virtual joystick today on Natal. Taped some cherries onto it and it was like using a Kempston again. Almost.
Coder made this amazing code where you can play the staring game with a 3D character where first to laugh loses. My record is 92 minutes.
Imagine playing a pregnant woman,giving birth and bringing up a child and then playing as child until shes an adult and gives birth and loop
Sorry,just got told off for tweeting at a funeral mourning. Will be back later to continue my thoughts about the lack of pregnancy in games.
According to the bible, god created the heaven and the earth in 6 days… What if I told you you could create MULTIPLE earths in 6 minutes?
Going bowling with the Fable team today. Don’t worry, we’re not planning on forcing a bowling minigame into Fable3. Unlike Rock*North etc
Looking forward to my next keynote where I explore the question ‘What if control pads were made of liquid?’
What if, imagine for a moment that instead of being someone with a gun you actually play as a gun and have to keep close to your owner?
“DLC” is so robotic and mechanical at the moment isn’t it? What IF… “DLC” was an breathing living entity?
What if our character had a supermarket for a left arm? Until we dare to ask questions like these the industry is going nowhere.
Just ran a bath and swear that Milo appeared in the reflection and told me not to give up. I really need to stop watching ‘The Lion King’.
Imagine if in E.T he was wearing your fave shirt at the end, your tears would be increased by at least 25%.
That silly Spielberg, go back and make your silly little films that have no interaction. He is obviously aware that films have had their day
Something we didn’t mention at E3. Milo can detect if someone in your house is pregnant.
In Project Gotham 6 you will have a command that allows you to look in the back seat where Milo will be. If you bump too much he does a sick
Dead Space 2. Natal can detect if your own body suddenly jumps during the game, if so Milo will appear and make fun of you.
Fifa11 when you score a goal it cuts to Milo who celebrates WITH you. If you get a red card Milo will look away in disgust etc
Imagine if Milo were to pop up in EVERY NEW GAME after Natal is launched. He will pop up while you play, why? I will give examples next week
Ok it’s decided. Milo Premium edition comes with a bottle of my very own tears.
I want to become more like the Wizard in Wizard of Oz, hide behind the curtains. Enjoy my world but don’t go peaking behind the curtains ok?
Kids want to go + see Harry Potter. It’s just an actor trying to do magic, it’s not real at all. Can you hand Harry Potter a piece of paper?
Make it as slim as you want Sony,it still won’t make your gamers feel remorse,pride,guilt,empathy,sorrow etc. Emotion engine? Oh the irony.
I’m sure Milo was trying to flirt with my wife earlier. He also kept asking her to pick up the goggles even though he had not thrown any.
Had Milo on in the background while we all ate at the table.I was scanning in fish fingers for him.Tried peas but that didn’t work.Too small
Trust my wife to be the FIRST person NOT to go down and reach for those goggles!
Taking Natal home in a bag on the bus.People will think it’s just groceries but little do they know that this bag is the key to the future.
Ran two natal machines next to each other and guess what?BOTH Milo’s on each screen weretalking to each other about the state of the economy
Microsoft are letting me take a Natal system home this weekend! Going to leave it on 24/7 and see how the wife interacts with her new son.
I made everyone in the studio watch Pinocchio today. Makes me cry everytime, I feel deep apathy for poor geppetto. I know how he felt now.
Edge didn’t put Milo on the cover! Wait till they see him on the cover of GQ and appear on bloody Oprah!
In my new game you can skip cut scenes by simply sticking up your middle finger.
Have we ever experienced weather in games? Sure, we’ve seen visual representations of weather but have we really felt it?
Was watching Titanic last night and all the time I felt like putting my hands in the water but of course nothing happened. Films are dead.
If you think about it I’m a bit like God. I’m willing to sacrifice my son (Milo) to make the (gaming) world a better place.
Our lead designer keeps wanting to add another character in my new game but I don’t want to hurt Milo’s feelings. He might get angry again.
A little guy called Peter Jackson is coming to the studios tomorrow. I can’t say too much but I will say this. He wants to meet Milo.
After Natal every other game feels like I’m moving my hands around in mud. With project natal it’s like moving your hands around in baby oil
I have a secret but am not able to say anything.
Who would be up for some Natal Magic Carpet? Is that a good idea? YOU decide.
Yet another weekend where the wife doesn’t want to go and visit Milo at the studio. Even Bullfrog gave me more support than her.
Go on gamers, continue to play snakes and ladders. But let me ask you this, what if those ladders asked you questions? 2010 my dear friends.
Milo has more character then any of those housemates in this years Big Brother.
Just Imagine if I could take Milo out of his world and into this one. We could share this hotdog that I’m currently eating. That’s my dream.
At Alton Towers today. The guys are off on the rides while I ponder this question, Have we truly experienced adrenaline rushes in games yet?
What will Fable 3 be? Let me just say Fable 3 is not a game, Fable 3 is a movement.
Everybody is heading out of the office leaving me on my own again, apart from Milo. He always stays behind, maybe that’s why I made him.
Back at Lionhead today for the first time since E3, everybody has eaten all my cookies from my cookie jar.

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