When we put forth the effort to write a game, it’s usually because we’re in love with the concept and want to see someone do something about it. The problem with writing games is that it’s hard to get a chance to play the game you wrote. Either you’re too busy running the game for other people, or people get nervous if you sit in when someone else is running a game you wrote.
Here is a list of games I need someone else to write, so that I can play them. I want to play these games. If I have to write them, I’ll never get a chance to.
Futurama The RPG – I’d play the holy hell out of this game. I threw together a sample setting for a game system my good friend Will is working on, but I’d still like to see an official release. Dibs on Zoidberg!
The Harlem Globetrotters Fight Crime – I think it’d have to be another RPG but let’s be honest, this would be awesome as a first person shooter. Think of the team play!
Barbarians Of Cataan – Building cities and trading is for chumps. When to de get to crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamenting of their women? Start with a fully populated island, then rape, pillage and burn it to the ground.
Buckaroo Banzai The RPG – It’s a crime that we’ve gone so long without an officially endorsed Buckaroo Banzai RPG. Everyone would play this game. Everyone. Absolutely everyone.
Reverse Clue – All you have to do get yourself and the right weapon into the right room with Mr. Boddy, whereupon you knock him off and win the game. No one will suspect a thing.
Actually, I might have to add that last one to the Secret Project List.
Damn.
(Update: It’s been pointed out that Reverse Clue is Kill Doctor Lucky. Never played it, I’ll have to now).
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Actually that last one exists. It’s called Kill Doctor Lucky.
Comment by misuba
— July 31, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
“Reverse Clue” is out – It’s called “Kill Dr. Lucky” – originally by Cheapass Games, it was recently reprinted by Titanic Games (IIRC).
Comment by Gamethyme
— July 31, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
Right you are. I’d not actually looked at that one before but it’s probably as close as you could get without being sued. It doesn’t look like it plays the way it would in my head, but it means I don’t have to write it now.
Comment by Duane
— July 31, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
No matter what you roll, there you are.
Comment by Siskoid
— July 31, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
Brilliant.
Comment by Duane
— July 31, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
If you hunt around enough you’ll find the Futurama hack for Steve Jackson’s “Toon” RPG.
Comment by Dyson Logos
— July 31, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
I don’t want a hack, I want the real deal, officially licensed and with an awesome cover.
I mean, we all know that you don’t NEED a book or even a system to play a game. But I want this game to exist. I want to see it on the schedules at conventions and on the shelves at book stores. Because then someone who isn’t me will run it, and I can play it.
Comment by Duane
— July 31, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
When I started delving through the Starblazers RPG, Buckaroo Banzai decidedly came to mind. I’d play the shit out of that. Sadly my writing skills are… sub-par, but I’m a-workin on them, so maybe someday
Comment by zoem
— August 3, 2009 @ 6:01 am
“The Harlem Globetrotters Fight Crime – I think it’d have to be another RPG but let’s be honest, this would be awesome as a first person shooter.”
Instead of bullets or other conventional(?) ammo, …. basketballs.
Comment by wmraym
— August 4, 2009 @ 6:57 am