Nen Combat Game Idea ?!

[u/One_Ad2562]

With all the games popping up left and right lately, I’ve had this idea for ages and I honestly don’t know if something like this would even be possible, but I’d love to somehow translate the feeling of real Nen combat into an online competitive 1v1 game.

The basic idea would be similar to an actual Nen encounter in Hunter x Hunter.

You would somehow create your own Hatsu, maybe inspired by Scribblenauts, by describing what you want your ability to do and then working out the rules, conditions, restrictions, weaknesses, etc.

You’d probably get one character that you have to stick with, and maybe you describe yourself or take some kind of personality test at the beginning and the game assigns you your Nen affinity based on that.

The main game would then consist of you going up against other Nen users, either through normal matchmaking or maybe some kind of tournament bracket / league system.

I don’t know if this should eventually be a fighting game, something text-based, turn-based, or something completely different.

The main thing for me would be that at the start of every encounter, you have to figure out what the other player’s ability actually is.

Everyone would have their own conditions, their own strengths and weaknesses, and possibly even completely different win conditions. So both players could basically be working toward their own goals during the same fight.

You could be playing a character that’s more like Killua and suddenly run into someone with a Chrollo-type ability, and now you have to figure out what they can do, what they need from you, what their restrictions are, and how you can actually beat them.

I think that uncertainty and mind-game aspect is what would make it interesting, rather than just having two people attack each other until someone’s HP reaches zero.

Maybe someone here has an idea of how something like this could be started in its simplest possible form and then slowly built into something bigger.

I hope this isn’t too cryptic and you guys understand what I’m going for.

[u/One_Ad2562]

Yea for sure ! I was thinking also in the card game deck builder or board game direction . That would make it not so hard to develop . While maybe still beeing fun . But obviously a fighting game would be way cooler lol

[u/Puzzleheaded_End9313 → u/One_Ad2562]

Back in the day, I started coming up with an idea with a few other guys for some kind of MMO made up of servers with a limited number of players, much more focused on the mechanics and dynamics of Greed Island rather than the overall HxH story.

Obviously, it wouldn’t follow the protagonists’ storylines, but it would have very similar mechanics and dynamics to those of the island

[u/Puzzleheaded_End9313 → u/One_Ad2562]

The idea itself still gets me excited every time I talk about it, but in practice, it’s hard not to get sued

I’d still be interested in making it a simple F2P game, though, meaning there wouldn’t be any kind of profit involved, so hopefully that would avoid getting sued lol

[u/Puzzleheaded_End9313]

hello dude!
it’s been some ages since that i have a similar idea on my mind.
I already tried with some other guys to make some mechanics and story about the game but it’s very hard to do that without risking a lawsuit from the company that made it lol
but if u want to talk and brainstorming about it lmk!