[Idea] Falling Down an Elevator Shaft Simulator 2014
This is definitely going to mark as one of my more odd posts on the forums here but considering I'll probably not make this game I want to share the idea with people.
This is not a pitch, it is not a plan for the future. Literally I had a dream one night a few months ago, it happened to look like a game so I wrote it down when I woke up and now it's a game idea.
Here's the gist: FPS view, you are a delivery dude, pushing a cart on which rests a large crate. You don't care what's in the crate, boss man told you to take it to the 94th floor, whatevs. Push it into the elevator. Ok, cart is in, press lvl 94 and up you go, you're already pretty high mind you but you travel up further. CRACK, "wha?" creek SNAP CRASH omg the elevator is failing catastrophically! Get flung into the side, crate flies into the wall breaking apart, elevator is already disintegrated, nonononononono ohshi you are falling down the elevator shaft, everything goes in slow motion but the crate has broken open and has spewed out all sorts of useful shit...
GAME: F**KING MCGUYVER SOMETHING IN THE 10s (ok you are going in slow mo so it'll be like a minute) THAT YOU HAVE TO SAVE YOURSELF! (so, things will be floating around you in free fall and you'd simply drag things onto each other to 'mix' them, hopefully making something that'll save you)
So far I've got: rope + sailor bob's book of knots + grapple hook, or maybe flamethrower + jet fuel + siphon pipe (improv jetpack your way out), instant acting steroids + baseball bat + base ball - home run so hard downward that it flings you back up, I donno!
but I know there can be other ideas, I just can't think past these few. I'm thinking ridiculous, I'm thinking different combos with the same set of objects and different ways they can go wrong. I'm thinking blow up doll + compressed air tank to cushion the fall, or oragami instructions + ream of paper = paper plane to glide down, or candle + lighter + the little book of zen to meditate and find enlightenment before you fall to your demise. Just don't have an idea of a good set of objects that would interact in many ways to create interesting or successful solutions to your rather rapidly approaching demise. (Not to mention how I would program this! :o)
Ok it might be a terrible idea. It's too content heavy for me to actually make so I'm just playing with the possibility. I can only think of Monkey Island-esque combos in that they don't entirely make sense until you click on them, what objects could be shared among combos though?
Cool or humorous object set ideas welcome. Either way, hope you have a lol at the idea ;)
This is not a pitch, it is not a plan for the future. Literally I had a dream one night a few months ago, it happened to look like a game so I wrote it down when I woke up and now it's a game idea.
Here's the gist: FPS view, you are a delivery dude, pushing a cart on which rests a large crate. You don't care what's in the crate, boss man told you to take it to the 94th floor, whatevs. Push it into the elevator. Ok, cart is in, press lvl 94 and up you go, you're already pretty high mind you but you travel up further. CRACK, "wha?" creek SNAP CRASH omg the elevator is failing catastrophically! Get flung into the side, crate flies into the wall breaking apart, elevator is already disintegrated, nonononononono ohshi you are falling down the elevator shaft, everything goes in slow motion but the crate has broken open and has spewed out all sorts of useful shit...
GAME: F**KING MCGUYVER SOMETHING IN THE 10s (ok you are going in slow mo so it'll be like a minute) THAT YOU HAVE TO SAVE YOURSELF! (so, things will be floating around you in free fall and you'd simply drag things onto each other to 'mix' them, hopefully making something that'll save you)
So far I've got: rope + sailor bob's book of knots + grapple hook, or maybe flamethrower + jet fuel + siphon pipe (improv jetpack your way out), instant acting steroids + baseball bat + base ball - home run so hard downward that it flings you back up, I donno!
but I know there can be other ideas, I just can't think past these few. I'm thinking ridiculous, I'm thinking different combos with the same set of objects and different ways they can go wrong. I'm thinking blow up doll + compressed air tank to cushion the fall, or oragami instructions + ream of paper = paper plane to glide down, or candle + lighter + the little book of zen to meditate and find enlightenment before you fall to your demise. Just don't have an idea of a good set of objects that would interact in many ways to create interesting or successful solutions to your rather rapidly approaching demise. (Not to mention how I would program this! :o)
Ok it might be a terrible idea. It's too content heavy for me to actually make so I'm just playing with the possibility. I can only think of Monkey Island-esque combos in that they don't entirely make sense until you click on them, what objects could be shared among combos though?
Cool or humorous object set ideas welcome. Either way, hope you have a lol at the idea ;)
Comments
Ignoring air resistance completely, it takes a minimum of around 1 minute 10 seconds to fall 100 floors (~350m). Adding aerodynamic drag, you could allow the player to buy more time by changing positions (e.g. spreading their arms and legs the way skydivers do). But then to turn around to reach an object, the player may have to curl up, giving less aerodynamic drag, making them fall faster.
Some escape ideas:
- Bubble wrap + planks from the box = hang glider.
- The crate contains a washing machine so you have to use the motor and planks from the box to build a rudimentary helicopter, using one of the side panels as a stabiliser. The catch is that you have to throw everything else out the way, otherwise your rotors will hit something and you'll go spinning out of control.
EDIT: Sorry, some dumb maths there. It takes about 8.5 seconds to fall that far without air resistance. The 1 minute 10 seconds is with a parachute.