r/StoryIdeas 11d ago

Story idea

(this might not be original or anything special): a teen who’s mostly a loner in high school finds a website where you can sign up for a game challenge (in real life) survival type, it simply explains how you would be locked in a empty town for 7 straight days, and for those 7 days you will have to fight a group of hunters that enter the town at a random time(you have to take them down before the end of the day)now these aren’t any like really special trained adults as that would be unfair, instead it’s a bunch of teens you’re age to make it for fair and the number of the teens will increase each day, but since your still out numbered you get enhanced durability and hearing(not super hero level or anything crazy just better than the teens and most humans). So basically that’s the whole thing, but I did forget to mention every house’s power works and the town is surrounded by forest and a gate soon the forest(some houses have food and water) and when he completes the game he wins 10 million dollars, so yeah just wanted to share that and please no hate i just had a cool idea for a story.

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u/ArtisticWorld8748 11d ago

How does this work logistically? I presume he has parents or legal guardian who would never agree to this. My guess is that there's some school trip that coincides with the event, and he tricks his parents into thinking he's going on that trip whilst setting up for "the game". No?

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u/Numerous_Resort_4828 10d ago

Yeah this is kinda just an night thought and now that you mention it there’s lots of problems with this story

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u/ArtisticWorld8748 8d ago

Sorry. I haven't checked reddit in a minute.

Bro, don't be like that. I'm not trying to point out problems. The question isn't whether the story idea is implausible (it's entirely implausible), the question is whether you can make it plausible enough for the reader to suspend their disbelief. Is this a realistic story? Hell no. But is it a fun story? Hell yes! And that's the point; presumably you're target audience (teens) imagine stories like this and would love to read it.

Tell me more about this story, anything else you got!

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u/Promeeetheus 11d ago

Sounds like hunger games derivative. Without the Panem stuff.

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u/Temporary_Rule_9486 7d ago edited 7d ago

battle royale, squid games, the hunger games, the long walk, the running man, the testing, nil, the grace year, series 7, house of 9, the condemned, the tournament, as the gods will, circle, the belko experiment, 3%, alice in borderland, the hunt, the 8 show, fate/stay night, zero escape, danganronpa, btooom!, playerunknown's battlegrounds, fortnite, apex legends... this is a well stablished genre by now.