Adventure Plots Up For Grabs

[argre000]

You are the game grumps, and you have just been sent a game known as sburb. Hilarity ensues.
Characters can be Jon, Arin, Barry, Suzy (the goose), and possibly some others from the Game Station.

[simon.clarkstone]

Just wondering, if it is alright to make an adventure from a game screenshots. Game with good map editor can really be a great tool. Age of Empire 2, Warcraft 3, Age of Mythology and such.

It has been done before. The general chat thread might be able to point you at one.

[snuffysam]

There have been plenty of adventures with Minecraft screenshots, and a couple with other games.

[Xindaris]

You are the game grumps, and you have just been sent a game known as sburb. Hilarity ensues.
Characters can be Jon, Arin, Barry, Suzy (the goose), and possibly some others from the Game Station.

While we're at it, DeliciousCinnamon play SBURB too. Perhaps a bootleg version that was very poorly translated by Vietnamese people. Maybe at the same time.

[Crowstone]

YOU ARE RX SANTA DUCK, HERE TO DELIVER PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE TO NICE CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD


WHETHER THEY NEED IT OR NOT

[Xindaris]

Please view the second panel in this comic strip.
Okay. Your adventure's main character has 3 goals in life, starting from the beginning of the adventure, and when (s)he achieves them, the adventure ends and the players win. Those goals are exactly as described:
-Plant a book
-Write a child
-Have a tree
..interpreted in the most difficult meaning those phrases could possibly have. So no, you can't just bury some book you bought and claim you "planted" it. You've got to do something much more challenging.

[SNeakyRobot]

You are an english professor. Try not to commit suicide.

[omegawill]

You want to climb up (via land) and then go down (via water) Niagara falls but it seems like EVERYONE thinks this is a bad idea

[hector212121]

even better-climb up via water and go down via falling.

[sapphireMonster]

even better-climb up via water and go down via falling.

Waterfall and Rock Slide.


You discover that Santa is actually an organization that delivers presents to poor children worldwide. You become Santa. But, you are orthodox Jewish and never take off your orthodox clothes (black coat, black hat, braided hair). Good luck.

[calibornio30]

Alternatively, you are Chanukah Harry, but you are an Orthodox Christian/Catholic/the Pope.

[Xindaris]

Some old ideas taken from adventures where I tried to actually use images, and ultimately failed to do anything good with them. If you decide to use one of them, you really don't have to use every detail, I'm just going over what I did:

-The adventure is a Metroidvania side-scrolling game. It starts with with everything extremely basic and locked, so much so that the HUD is locked, and the player can only move in one direction and can't jump at the beginning. Rather than arbitrarily giving the player upgrades, however, the player is instead given upgrade points of a few certain kinds--like Body, Weapon, Interface, etc.--and it's up to suggestion which of a few possible upgrades (like "Jump" and "Go left" near the beginning, for body upgrades) is obtained first from a tree. Your design of the next few rooms should either allow for any of the choices to be made (which is hard) or be done progressively based on which choice the suggestors made (which is somewhat easier). If you're really adventurous with this idea, you might even make things like sound, better graphics, and other player characters upgradeable/unlockable. Some kind of absurd power should eventually be available to the player--things like editing the level, teleporting at will, manipulating time, etc. I attempted to use this idea in UNLOCK, but found that designing rooms with interesting puzzles and whatnot is actually really hard, and drawing them is, for me, even harder.

-The main character is a video game character in a really terrible "art" game on some Flash-based website. The kind of game that's too pretentious to actually let the player do anything, and instead just dictates some incredibly stupid nonsense that's supposed to be deep at the player. At the time the adventure begins, however, the main character decides he's sick of being in this game and starts doing stuff he shouldn't be able to do, completely changing the genre of the game around. And then he finds a portal to another game also on the website, and goes and screws around there, too. He goes through progressively better games, always looking for a genre he actually enjoys existing in. And...what happens with that is up to you. Attempted in GenreShiftEr, which I consider my most successful abandoned image-based adventure. The second area was going to be a cheap clone of Twilight Princess, but drawing stuff is hard in MSPaint when you're terrible at it, and I just ran out of steam.

-There is only one character throughout the entire adventure. However, the character has somehow entered an area of spacetime where time travel is relatively easy and the normal rules of causality do not necessarily apply. In my imagining, time travel is done by simply opening doors: Doorknobs work like keys, and turning one to the right or left will push one forward or backward in time, respectively. The adventure takes place over a small, limited amount of time (say, a week), and if someone waits around at the end it loops back to the beginning (so, for instance, Saturday's midnight becomes Sunday's hour 0, where Sunday is the beginning of the loop). There are numerous instances of you (which I'm using for the main character so I can explain in less words) not only because causality is weird and you can literally decide to do two different things at the same time as a result of time traveling (i.e., go back and prevent yourself from doing A, causing a version B of yourself), but also because there are a number of you from the beginning (that is, there are several versions of you that never experienced anything you're experiencing since coming to the weird time zone). The adventure would be puzzle-based, and focused on the main character's attempts to escape. Again, in my version, it's a building of questionable geometry where each room contains at least one puzzle which will release a doorknob, which is needed to open a door and which will also send one through time. My effort was DIME TERRA POX (an obvious spoonerism of "time paradox"), but I just couldn't come up with any decent puzzles when it came right down to it, and--guess what?--drawing is hard. Even in my best approximation of the original Jailbreak style.

[hector212121]

You Have to Rope the Burns. George Burns.

[Xindaris]

-An adventure based on the game Dungeons of Dredmor, preferably a little more complex than a simple let's-play-and-take-screenshots adventure, although that could certainly work since the game's turn-based.

-There is a particular type of art called synesthesia; it comes in many types but in particular I'm referring to the kind that attempts to give visual expression to sounds--this would be an example of what I'm talking about. Your adventure takes place in a world where the visual "stuff" from that kind of art is physically present and can act on the world around it, and behaves as a kind of magic that only musicians can use. Essentially this is a world where musician=mage, and musical talent/skill=magical power/control (maybe even respectively with those two). It's important to the idea that random noise and things like talking don't have the effect music does; they are mundane sounds with no more effect than in the real world. Other than that detail of the setting, the rest is up to you.

[snuffysam]

You are the Bear Pope, and you are about to maul the next guy who asks if you're Catholic or if you shit in the woods.

[argre000]

You are a very cute ice cube, and you must use your powers of adorable to convince people to let you into their home, and then raid their freezer.

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bluh how do I idea?

[SNeakyRobot]

This is you

You are a shogun in fuedal Tank-Japan. You have to totally take over some other tank-clans and also keep them from taking over yours, or something.

[OldManRupee]

A gameshow with more and more elaborate show mechanics, and the show producers keep adding weirder gimmicks during the commercial breaks. Can you win, or even survive?

[Yako]

So for a class, I had to come up with 100 potential video game ideas. My friends urged me to post it here.
Some of the ideas I've used, others are from this topic, but I'm too lazy to weed them out so you get EVERYTHING. Under a spoiler since, you know, 100 ideas.

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001. Two young girls, one of which is very sick, attempt to live an ordinary farm life.
002. A father and son must deliver supplies to a friend who happens to live in a flooded war zone.
003. A rookie detective must navigate a foggy dream world to solve murder case in a rural town.
004. A young deity is forced by his father to travel through many worlds and gain life experience.
005. A detective attempts to go on vacation only to end up solving a murder case involving extraterrestrials.
006. A mother protects her children as she transports them through a war-torn country.
007. A young woman comes to understand adulthood through adventures in a grim fantasy world.
008. A young boy discovers his best friend's house is haunted by a snake-worshipping cult.
009. A girl goes to live with her backwater aunt and discovers the countryside is haunted.
010. A boy befriends an extraterrestrial and they build houses in the desert.
011. A fallen race of birdlike people must redeem themselves wile running a casino in a world of perpetual night.
012. In a generic high fantasy world, people use pure willpower to manifest goofy weapons and do battle.
013. A punk must reuse a sick girl from a labyrinthine hospital.
014. Three teens fine their lives hatred by a suburban serial killer.
015. A strange-looking child and their adoptive parent oppose an evil sorceress who rules a desert.
016. A girl must stop her best friend from dating a brooding, mysterious, and incredibly handsome boy who plans on using the power of love to destroy the world.
017. A superhero discovers the sordid past of her line of work and must choose either to defend the virtues she believed it to have or destroy it and start from scratch.
018. A lab technician discovers that a beloved hero is plotting world domination.
019. A Duke Nukem-style vigilante finds himself pushed out of the limelight by younger, more complex heroes.
020. A small group of people in a post-apocalyptic wasteland band together to find a cure for a rare, special zombie virus strain with which they are all infected.
021. A soldier explores an abandoned space station armed with nothing but an army of clones.
022. A cameraman attempts to create a documentary in a haunted location.
023. It is the age of exploration, and one captain must gain the most loot.
024. A pulp archaeologist must traverse the urban jungle to save lost artifacts.
025. An opera singer moonlights as a vampire slayer.
026. A wandering cabal of maids attempts to serve strangers and solve their problems.
027. A lowly rancher attempts to thwart ancient, unspeakable evil with the help of his livestock.
028. A school entomology club is mistakenly entered into a no-holds-barred fighting tournament.
029. An avatar of fire attempts to live normal daily life by burning everything.
030. An entire town is swept up in a feverous competition to be the best-dressed.
031. A football team is forced to fight the endless horde of undead.
032. A man must thwart the ghost mafia's plan to kill the United States President.
033. A company is contracted to paint a wall; a mysterious organization has contracted everything else in the world to stop them.
034. A psychologist must go to extreme measures to help her patients.
035. A middle-aged man under house arrest must find a way to stop intergalactic Russian stereotypes from taking over the world.
036. An exiled princess must work with--and against-- her often greedy countrymen to obtain resources and take back her country.
037. A high school nerdy loser must team up with the local hackers and extraterrestrials to stop the evil yearbook committee from using only the worst pictures of him.
038. A person is on a quest to scour the earth for the very best cup of coffee.
039. A bat must do anything to stop the corrupt duck aristocracy from executing his best friend.
040. A monster and its bumbling but well-intentioned, non-monstruous lover travel a desert in search of answers.
041. After a pandemic, the only people left on Earth are the crew of a ship and the inhabitants of a tiny island nation. They must rebuild.
042. A cafe-dwelling hipster is suddenly swept up in vigilante crimefighting, and must take down a local ring knowing only their silhouettes.
043. In a land of sweets, the queen of cake kingdom has summoned a humble hero to diffuse a situation with lady licorice.
044. A rag doll must ascend through a perilous basement and collect color and hope to return to its owner.
045. A person must collect and process seemingly meaningless reams of data to unlock the secrets of the universe.
046. In the future, pop idols have magical powers that they must use to dismantle dystopian society.
047. A young hotshot detective must stop a supervillain in an overly complex city powered by steam.
048. A manager must save her coffee shop from the glitzy rival business that opened across the street.
049. The last hero must keep from succumbing to darkness as all their allies have.
050. An ordinary loser has only seven days to rescue their significant other from a serial killer's trap.
051. An artist travels a dead fantasy world to revitalize it with the principles of good design.
052. A person navigates abandonned buildings, avoiding a killer to solve a mystery.
053. Young sorcereresses must avoid falling into despair or face becoming monsters.
054. Three of a class of students navigate a bizarre school to find out what's wrong with it.
055. A young hotshot doctor cures people of strange, rare diseases in his secluded village.
056. A robotic engineer must prove they are the best at creating robots.
057. A mime and a lifeguard help their friend, a karate master, restore his dojo's honor.
058. A young boy finds a giant robot and must hide it from people who would hurt it.
059. A snowman must be the very most stylish in the winter competition.
060. A family moves to a new town and finds their next-door neighbors belong to an obscure cult.
061. A lone 5-year-old boy must fight off a legion of lovecraftian horrors.
062. In a future destroyed by card games, a scant few must rise to reunite the world.
063. A klutzy pacifist is forced into deep combat.
064. A pop star finds she is the target of assassination and must avoid death while giving the performance of a lifetime.
065. A student must balance his duty of sports with his hobby of rock.
066. A young girl plays a glitchy, weird version of a classic platformed.
067. A young man does battle on motorcycles
068. The main character of a girl's TV show must fight evil and look good doing it.
069. A prefect must force unruly students to go to class.
070. A gambler attempts to make enough money to build a palace.
071. An incredibly strong high school girl must prove herself by beating up everyone.
072. A supermodel is caught in the middle of a grisly murder.
073. A girl who loves romance novels finds herself in the middle of a battle for her affection.
074. A master sports player must balance their training and their sweet tooth.
075. A detective must solve a crime at a Star Trek convention despite having amnesia.
076. A fortune teller must expose a deep conspiracy relating to food.
077. A person is tasked with grooming the heir of a business conglomerate.
078. One person must restore faith to the entire world.
079. A young man must fake knowing business and not run a company into the ground.
080. A young man follows his dream to be the most famous chef in the world.
081. A young woman is taking pictures for National Geographic when she uncovers a heinous cover-up.
082. An assassin must eliminate her target in the middle of a crowded carnival
083. A dancer is drafted into a battle against extraterrestrials.
084. A young guitarist must prove to her former band that she is was its best member.
085. A nurse discovers a dark conspiracy in a hospital, but she is nearly powerless to stop it alone.
086. A bodybuilder must flex his way through strange obstacles to reunite with his beloved protein shake.
087. A rancher raises ordinary animals with the ultimate goal of world domination.
088. A small group of people is trapped and one of them is a traitor.
089. A young girl must travel cross country armed only with a power glove to prove her video game superiority.
090. A princess is forced into poverty and must lead the peasants for personal revenge.
091. A young lady must show the world the power of freeform gymnastics while fighting off the ninja horde.
092. A mechanic is attacked by literal monster trucks.
093. An FBI Special Agent must fight James Bond-esque villains with the power of ice.
094. A young man must do whatever he can to avoid making friends.
095. A man named Jim Kata must combine gymnastics and karate to win the most dangerous game played in a place called Parmestan.
096. An out-of-work action hero must create work for himself by creating action scenes in his every day.
097. The man who invented novelty singing bass must get revenge on everyone who has criticized his work.
098. A man who came up with a brilliant game idea must make sure he is the first to make it.
099. A woman attempts to become queen of all card games.
100. A person's house is being destroyed by glitches and they must stop it.

[argre000]

Any of Peter Molydeux's tweets

[xeroticDeceiver]

You are dead, and have to solve your own murder. The thing is, the evidence points to you. And I'm not talking about suicide.

[Xindaris]

Use this random noun generator set to 10. The 10 nouns generated must be vitally important to your adventure, be they characters, weapons, locations, part of some sort of arc words or magic key-type incantations, or even relating to the overarcing plot or themes of your adventure.

[sapphireMonster]

You are an Ewok.



No, that's it. Good luck.

[snuffysam]

So for a class, I had to come up with 100 potential video game ideas. My friends urged me to post it here.
Some of the ideas I've used, others are from this topic, but I'm too lazy to weed them out so you get EVERYTHING. Under a spoiler since, you know, 100 ideas.

show spoiler

hide spoiler

001. Two young girls, one of which is very sick, attempt to live an ordinary farm life.
002. A father and son must deliver supplies to a friend who happens to live in a flooded war zone.
003. A rookie detective must navigate a foggy dream world to solve murder case in a rural town.
004. A young deity is forced by his father to travel through many worlds and gain life experience.
005. A detective attempts to go on vacation only to end up solving a murder case involving extraterrestrials.
006. A mother protects her children as she transports them through a war-torn country.
007. A young woman comes to understand adulthood through adventures in a grim fantasy world.
008. A young boy discovers his best friend's house is haunted by a snake-worshipping cult.
009. A girl goes to live with her backwater aunt and discovers the countryside is haunted.
010. A boy befriends an extraterrestrial and they build houses in the desert.
011. A fallen race of birdlike people must redeem themselves wile running a casino in a world of perpetual night.
012. In a generic high fantasy world, people use pure willpower to manifest goofy weapons and do battle.
013. A punk must reuse a sick girl from a labyrinthine hospital.
014. Three teens fine their lives hatred by a suburban serial killer.
015. A strange-looking child and their adoptive parent oppose an evil sorceress who rules a desert.
016. A girl must stop her best friend from dating a brooding, mysterious, and incredibly handsome boy who plans on using the power of love to destroy the world.
017. A superhero discovers the sordid past of her line of work and must choose either to defend the virtues she believed it to have or destroy it and start from scratch.
018. A lab technician discovers that a beloved hero is plotting world domination.
019. A Duke Nukem-style vigilante finds himself pushed out of the limelight by younger, more complex heroes.
020. A small group of people in a post-apocalyptic wasteland band together to find a cure for a rare, special zombie virus strain with which they are all infected.
021. A soldier explores an abandoned space station armed with nothing but an army of clones.
022. A cameraman attempts to create a documentary in a haunted location.
023. It is the age of exploration, and one captain must gain the most loot.
024. A pulp archaeologist must traverse the urban jungle to save lost artifacts.
025. An opera singer moonlights as a vampire slayer.
026. A wandering cabal of maids attempts to serve strangers and solve their problems.
027. A lowly rancher attempts to thwart ancient, unspeakable evil with the help of his livestock.
028. A school entomology club is mistakenly entered into a no-holds-barred fighting tournament.
029. An avatar of fire attempts to live normal daily life by burning everything.
030. An entire town is swept up in a feverous competition to be the best-dressed.
031. A football team is forced to fight the endless horde of undead.
032. A man must thwart the ghost mafia's plan to kill the United States President.
033. A company is contracted to paint a wall; a mysterious organization has contracted everything else in the world to stop them.
034. A psychologist must go to extreme measures to help her patients.
035. A middle-aged man under house arrest must find a way to stop intergalactic Russian stereotypes from taking over the world.
036. An exiled princess must work with--and against-- her often greedy countrymen to obtain resources and take back her country.
037. A high school nerdy loser must team up with the local hackers and extraterrestrials to stop the evil yearbook committee from using only the worst pictures of him.
038. A person is on a quest to scour the earth for the very best cup of coffee.
039. A bat must do anything to stop the corrupt duck aristocracy from executing his best friend.
040. A monster and its bumbling but well-intentioned, non-monstruous lover travel a desert in search of answers.
041. After a pandemic, the only people left on Earth are the crew of a ship and the inhabitants of a tiny island nation. They must rebuild.
042. A cafe-dwelling hipster is suddenly swept up in vigilante crimefighting, and must take down a local ring knowing only their silhouettes.
043. In a land of sweets, the queen of cake kingdom has summoned a humble hero to diffuse a situation with lady licorice.
044. A rag doll must ascend through a perilous basement and collect color and hope to return to its owner.
045. A person must collect and process seemingly meaningless reams of data to unlock the secrets of the universe.
046. In the future, pop idols have magical powers that they must use to dismantle dystopian society.
047. A young hotshot detective must stop a supervillain in an overly complex city powered by steam.
048. A manager must save her coffee shop from the glitzy rival business that opened across the street.
049. The last hero must keep from succumbing to darkness as all their allies have.
050. An ordinary loser has only seven days to rescue their significant other from a serial killer's trap.
051. An artist travels a dead fantasy world to revitalize it with the principles of good design.
052. A person navigates abandonned buildings, avoiding a killer to solve a mystery.
053. Young sorcereresses must avoid falling into despair or face becoming monsters.
054. Three of a class of students navigate a bizarre school to find out what's wrong with it.
055. A young hotshot doctor cures people of strange, rare diseases in his secluded village.
056. A robotic engineer must prove they are the best at creating robots.
057. A mime and a lifeguard help their friend, a karate master, restore his dojo's honor.
058. A young boy finds a giant robot and must hide it from people who would hurt it.
059. A snowman must be the very most stylish in the winter competition.
060. A family moves to a new town and finds their next-door neighbors belong to an obscure cult.
061. A lone 5-year-old boy must fight off a legion of lovecraftian horrors.
062. In a future destroyed by card games, a scant few must rise to reunite the world.
063. A klutzy pacifist is forced into deep combat.
064. A pop star finds she is the target of assassination and must avoid death while giving the performance of a lifetime.
065. A student must balance his duty of sports with his hobby of rock.
066. A young girl plays a glitchy, weird version of a classic platformed.
067. A young man does battle on motorcycles
068. The main character of a girl's TV show must fight evil and look good doing it.
069. A prefect must force unruly students to go to class.
070. A gambler attempts to make enough money to build a palace.
071. An incredibly strong high school girl must prove herself by beating up everyone.
072. A supermodel is caught in the middle of a grisly murder.
073. A girl who loves romance novels finds herself in the middle of a battle for her affection.
074. A master sports player must balance their training and their sweet tooth.
075. A detective must solve a crime at a Star Trek convention despite having amnesia.
076. A fortune teller must expose a deep conspiracy relating to food.
077. A person is tasked with grooming the heir of a business conglomerate.
078. One person must restore faith to the entire world.
079. A young man must fake knowing business and not run a company into the ground.
080. A young man follows his dream to be the most famous chef in the world.
081. A young woman is taking pictures for National Geographic when she uncovers a heinous cover-up.
082. An assassin must eliminate her target in the middle of a crowded carnival
083. A dancer is drafted into a battle against extraterrestrials.
084. A young guitarist must prove to her former band that she is was its best member.
085. A nurse discovers a dark conspiracy in a hospital, but she is nearly powerless to stop it alone.
086. A bodybuilder must flex his way through strange obstacles to reunite with his beloved protein shake.
087. A rancher raises ordinary animals with the ultimate goal of world domination.
088. A small group of people is trapped and one of them is a traitor.
089. A young girl must travel cross country armed only with a power glove to prove her video game superiority.
090. A princess is forced into poverty and must lead the peasants for personal revenge.
091. A young lady must show the world the power of freeform gymnastics while fighting off the ninja horde.
092. A mechanic is attacked by literal monster trucks.
093. An FBI Special Agent must fight James Bond-esque villains with the power of ice.
094. A young man must do whatever he can to avoid making friends.
095. A man named Jim Kata must combine gymnastics and karate to win the most dangerous game played in a place called Parmestan.
096. An out-of-work action hero must create work for himself by creating action scenes in his every day.
097. The man who invented novelty singing bass must get revenge on everyone who has criticized his work.
098. A man who came up with a brilliant game idea must make sure he is the first to make it.
099. A woman attempts to become queen of all card games.
100. A person's house is being destroyed by glitches and they must stop it.

Idea: Use all of these.

[Xindaris]

Hmmmm...you might could make that work if you shifted from one plot to the next every, say, X updates. In fact..what if you cycled every single update, and always hijacked the suggestions intended to go to the previous main character for the use of the current one? (This could actually also work if you just cycled arbitrarily from one to the next after however many updates you felt like sticking around a single character for. The non-constant number would keep readers on their toes about who's actually going to enact their suggestions.) Obviously, you'd come back around to the 1st after hitting the 100th. And, of course, some of the characters interact with each other along the way.