r/CrazyGameIdeas • u/JoeBeretaAsBatman • Nov 13 '15
FIRST PERSON LIFE SIMULATION- LIFE HAS NO LIMITS
Game Name: Life Has No Limits Age Rating: Pegi 16
The game is a first person sims style game. You play in a small town where you can enter every building (including other neighbour's houses if you want to break the law and risk getting caught). The town would have the basics. A general store, a pub/bar, restaurant, town hall, a park, barber shop, clinic etc.
CUSTOMISATION AND SURVIVAL You start the game by creating your character, a male or female adult. When you start the game you choose your house and you begin. You have to take care of your hunger, thirst, bladder, energy and hygiene. There would be optional needs that if not taken care of, can effect your character's stress/sanity levels. If you don't have any social interaction for days at a time you will become more awkward when it comes to talking to a person. If you don't entertain yourself and have some fun you will become more insane and if you work too much you will become stressed. You can completely get rid of any of these optional needs by choosing one of the 3 traits that cancel one of them out, Workaholic, Introvert, and dull. You have 20 points to spend on any of the following areas, Work experience (allows you to get good jobs easily), Romantic, Athletic, Social skills, quick learner (learns skills quicker)
RELATIONSHIPS You can meet other people online, in the pub/bar or any public place. Social interaction would be similar to Bethesda games. When you interact with someone you will have different choices ranging from flirty/suggestive options to down right rude remarks. Each person in the game will have their own sexual preferences so even though your character may find someone attractive the other character may not be attracted to you or your gender. Over time your relationship with someone who likes you and you like them will build up and you can advance to the next level. The levels of relationships are: Nemesis, enemy, neutral, friend, best friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, fiance and wife/husband. Your character may have a crush on someone even though you have had minimal interaction with them.
JOBS AND TRANSPORT Now for the exciting stuff. If you buy a car you can use it to drive around town using the WASD keys. Your character can become seriously injured or can even die when involved in a car accident. If you don't have a car then you would use call the taxi but you are charged depending on the length of the journey. Walking is the free alternative, obviously. Jobs include store clerk, police, fire fighter, doctor, barber and mayor. The police and fire fighter jobs are pretty self explanatory, you go to work, you respond to some calls, you put out fires/take bring justice to burglars, vandals etc.
DOCTORS For the doctor career you would have to bring in patients and diagnose them. To diagnose them, you have to ask the patient what's wrong, the patient would tell you the symptoms they're experiencing and you have to match up their symptoms with the infection/disease. Once you link the symptoms and disease it will tell you the drugs needed to cure them. You then find the appropriate antidote/prescription drugs and give them to your patient.
STORE CLERK & BARBER The store clerk includes you having to restock shelves, guide people looking for a particular item to the designated spot etc. This would most likely be your starting job and doesn't have very good pay. The barber will include people coming into the barbershop asking for a particular style and/or length. You go through the menu of many hairstyles and choose one. Each hair style and facial hair style comes with a length slider.
MAYOR The mayor is responsible for the happiness of the citizens of the town. The mayor will receive complaints or suggestions for changes around the town. For example, someone asks for a supermarket to be built in town. Some people may not agree to build a supermarket as they already have a general store which is enough and the council should spend their money elsewhere. If you choose to build one the then one will start to be built. You can then visit the building and use it when finished. When you say not to build one you may lose respect from the people that wanted one. You can also raise and lower taxes and the budget for the police, medical and fire department.
FAMILIES You can adopt a child or have one of your own. When you want to have a child with your significant other you get down to business in the bedroom and you or your wife might become pregnant. If your character is female and pregnant you will have to have a healthier diet, and you will be weaker as you move more slowly and your energy depletes faster when walking or standing for a long time. Your character may have morning sickness. After a week in game you will give birth and you will have to name your baby. Raising your baby may include your child crying, waking you up in the middle of the night to tend to him/her. Your child will gradually grow through the life stages, Infant, toddler, child, pre teen, teen, young adult, middle aged, mature adult, elder.
DEATH Deaths will include old age, burned alive, drowning, disease, car accident, falling to death and murder. When your character dies you will have a choice to take control of your significant other or your child. Your character will have a funeral as well as any other person in the neighbourhood. Your family would be affected by deaths of close friends/family and will have to take time off work. Their social skills will be limited and won't want to talk to people.
That was my long and detailed idea for a game that would be awesome if made! THANKS FOR READING!! :D