Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Games That Could Be: Virus - Concept

Out of the three game concepts I've played with most, this one has stolen the most hours from me when I should be sleeping. I don't have any real title for it, so for now, let's call it Virus.

The concept is that you are --in your own opinion-- an ancient, freshly awakening god. Your dominion is centered on sexual pleasure. Your opponent, however, sees you as a long-buried demon, an embodiment of sins of the flesh, that has been foolishly released from its prison. In practice, over the course of this game, you act as something closer to a psychic venereal disease.

The game begins with your waking, bodiless, to find a small team of miners that have broken into your sanctum. You choose one of them to possess-- not assuming direct control, but simply pouring your existence into his or her body. When they return to their secluded mining outpost, it becomes your goal to claim every last one of the miners, workers, and overseers as your worshipers. When the spring comes and the workers are free to leave, you will spread throughout the world once more, and all life shall be reunited in a glorious, everlasting orgy.

But first, you must find ways to spread your influence. You are very weak as you are at the beginning, but every follower you claim will be your eyes into the world, and by inflaming their lust and forcing them to pleasure themselves in worship to you, you will gain power to better influence your followers and awaken your many ancient and fearsome abilities. To spread your influence, though, one of your followers must join a non-believer in the holy ritual: shared orgasms, of course.

So depending on who you first infect, your follower might go home to his wife, and give you a second follower within a few days. From there, perhaps you could turn her temptation to cheat with the neighbor into a lustful passion, and you can spread to a third. Or if you first infect a great thug of a man, you might try going to the bar and scoring, or taking a rather more forceful approach. You must be careful, though-- if you're spotted acting strangely, others may grow suspicious. And when your opponent comes to hunt you down, suspicions will quickly become deadly. If all of your followers are cleansed, you will lose grasp on this world altogether and fall into oblivion.

Obviously, this theme would offer a lot of room for interpretation-- you could see yourself as a holy being, spreading enlightenment to a world that has become too stiff and distant from its own desires, or as a devil hungry to corrupt as many as possible, or simply as a creature trying to survive the only way it knows how. The people you manipulate would all have individual personalities, quirks, secret desires, and various relationships with those around them. How you interact with this social ecosystem could destroy lives or bring everyone together in a way they may never have thought possible. It's my hope that I could infuse these people with enough life that many of you would earnestly want to make their lives better, in a similar fashion to your affection for Lith.

That roughly covers the high concept of the game as a story. Next time, I'll talk about the gameplay that you'd be working with, exactly what sort of game you'd be playing. Hope this intrigues folks!

13 comments:

  1. You've got me interested. Don't make us wait too long to find out how the game will play.

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  2. This sounds amazing like a sexy version of the sims do want

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  3. Very ambitious. However, it caries the potential to be an incredible game. If you plan on making this, I will eagerly await it's playability.

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  4. Intrigues? This does more than that, it makes me want to play that kind of game >.>

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  5. Seems like everyone likes it- including me. Would you play in first person point of view as your possessed character or always in third POV?

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    1. A good question, although I'm assuming you mean "second person" instead of first, so that it would be like MVOL. As for the question? I'm not too sure about that-- my first thought would be to do it in third, as technically, the only "you" would be the virus-god-demon, but it could make sense to "see" it through the perspective of the worshiper, maybe even spreading to both perspectives once the infection is complete.

      On the one hand, I know folks enjoy the second person, it can make it a deal more intense to say "you do this, you have this done to you" and so on, but on the other, third person allows a little more freedom for the player to, for example, sic his big thug of a man on various people and enjoy the following semi-rape from whichever perspective they prefer to put themselves in. So it may be something I'd have to think over, discuss with whoever would be on the project with me, or maybe leave to the fans to decide, as I see fit :3 Thanks for the question!

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  6. This sounds alot like a story I read were this fallen god/demon does exactly what your suggesting. Corrupting or "unifying" the inhabitants of the land and being able to see through the eyes of all the infected but mostly living inside the main host or patient zero granting the main host vast power with each person that they spread their "love" to and slowly changing they way they look (sexier) and think without directly controlling them but cleverly manipulating them into thinking it was all their idea and that they're doing the right thing.

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    1. It's Inception, but with lust.

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    2. Goldangit somebody stole my idea before I thought of it! :U Or possibly just before I wrote about it in a public area, I guess.

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    3. Here is the story

      Book 1: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/90058/the-twilight-struggle
      Book 2: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/93530/the-twilight-fall

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  7. The game concept in which you get to play in that God role is relatively new and different than from reading about it without given choices.

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  8. I definitely think you should make this game a reality.

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