Thoughts on a new game
During a much needed break to read gadget blogs today, I found myself thinking about racing games. No, not because of my recent infatuation with Forza 3. I was actually reading a review of a massive steering wheel and stand combo (verdict: not so great.) This wheel has a Porsche logo on it and the brand purist in me finds it repulsive to think of “driving” an Alfa-Romeo or Ford in the game with a Porsche logo still on the wheel.
Not that you really have time to look down during most races. Right?
And this got me thinking…in a conversation with Kate on iChat:
Me: I want to design a racing game that has commuter challenges.
Get to the Target, the Petco, the post office and back to your office all in a lunch break.
Beat traffic on to the highway before the light.
That sort of thing.
Kate: i’d never play it
too real
Me: I would.
It would be awesome.
You could hit pedestrians.
Ram “competitors.”
Power slide into parking spaces.
Jump speed bumps.
Crash through store fronts.
Basically all the things you wish you could do in reality.
Kate: LOL
ok
i’m won over
Okay, I know this sounds like a weird game concept, but I’d absolutely find this enthralling. (Full disclosure: I played Need for Speed on the PC and would occasionally drive the tracks at the speed limit just because. I also played an entire level of Grand Theft Auto while endeavoring not to damage the Volvo station wagon I had stolen.) You have to admit that it would be far more enjoyable some days to be able to smash the crap out of the other cars you are stuck at an intersection with than it would be to take the checkered flag at Monza in a Ferrari. Who’s with me?