Any Idea For A Soap Opera Computer Game?
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Having seen the success of several soap opera such as "La Usurpadora" (Mexico), "Yo Soy Betty La Fea" (Columbia) and "Long Vacation" (Japan) I have this idea to make soap opera computer game whose intented targets are women and girls who like love story. The difference between soap opera and computer game is interactiveness. In soap opera, you cannot choose the ending, but in computer game, you can choose the ending. For example in "Yo Soy Betty La Fea", the main actor Armado betray the main actress Betty, some fans of the show hope Betty will end up with a Frenchman Michel but some would like to see Betty and Armado get together in the end. In Soap Opera you can''t do this, but you can in computer game because of interactiveness.
I like to hear some great ideas from creative ideamen and ideawomen here.
Ok. So, what does the player control? What challenges do they face? What do you reward them with? What vantage is the game from?
Are you going to have a series of scripted choices or an engine capable of generating these situations?
Just something to think about.
Are you going to have a series of scripted choices or an engine capable of generating these situations?
Just something to think about.
I had an idea for a similar kind of thing, aimed at the female market. I called it and IDA, or Interactive Dramatic Adventure. My main idea was based upon the story of a french clown girl, who after living in the circus from a child to a young woman, goes on a journey home to find her real parents. I found designing the game to be a friggin boat load of work, as there had to be several alternativs to every situation. It started to read like a choose your own adventure book halfway through, and I bever got around to finishing it other than the main story path. But I think that this kind of game could really do well in todays market. People are hungry for unconventional games, and this kind of IDA might be it.
I think that the major problem with this concept is that if you don''t give the player enough options, it''s only as good as an "interactive movie" from the early CD-ROM days, which died out by dint of not quite being a movie but also not quite being a game, and ultimately being frustrating in most cases. But if you try to give them lots of options at every moment(for no reason at all, for example, your character takes a kitchen knife and kills his/her lover, gets sent to jail, has the option to escape...) it''s an exercise in frustration to construct a complete script for.
So the only way you could make a satisfying game from an interactive soap opera is to simulate everything. But we can''t do that in a totally satisfying way yet. And so on....
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So the only way you could make a satisfying game from an interactive soap opera is to simulate everything. But we can''t do that in a totally satisfying way yet. And so on....
Making the world furry one post at a time
it sounds like a super advancement on the dating sim idea. Of course, handling the script for this game would be hell itself
Yeah, Japan has an extensive list of "Dating Sims" which does basically what you''re describing here, just, not at complex in the story department. At any rate, it sounds like a marketable idea, though, I''d never buy it. By the way, Betty La Fea, would you say thats "Ugly Betty" or "Betty Ugly"? I only ask because the second is almost "Butt Ugly." Eh, forget it.
Anyways, since the term Soap Opera has already been coined, and we can''t get any decent common ground with the difference between console and computer rpgs (crpg vs crpg), how about we use SoapRPGs from now on to refer to rpgs that are driven by a (semi) linear narrative story?
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Anyways, since the term Soap Opera has already been coined, and we can''t get any decent common ground with the difference between console and computer rpgs (crpg vs crpg), how about we use SoapRPGs from now on to refer to rpgs that are driven by a (semi) linear narrative story?
-> Will Bubel
-> Machine wash cold, tumble dry.
Please... do we really want that sort of crap here as well? Isn''t it enough that sort of degenerate stuff is 24/7 on televsision? Is there no peace!
Doubt it''d work. Scripting would be hell, as would any decent engine. And how exactly would the graphics work? 2D, 3D, or everyone''s nemesis, FMV?
Yeah, I''ve thought about doing something like this also. My idea wasn''t to have it be an interactive movie or be heavily scripted, but to use some emergent stuff and social based gameplay. It would basically be a very large expansion on the dating sim theme, probably with a lot of topics that didn''t have to do with romance. Basically it would be an RPG style game where the gameplay would center around a repuation\relationship system instead of a combat system.
Interesting, Impossible, no details?
In the past, I proposed an that a game could be based on acting principles, with a die-roll for successful acting based on player stats. The trick would be acting out the right emotion, say, for the particular situation and doing so successfully enough to bluff other players (a treasure hunt scenario would be effective).
I don''t know, I know it hasn''t been done before.
In the past, I proposed an that a game could be based on acting principles, with a die-roll for successful acting based on player stats. The trick would be acting out the right emotion, say, for the particular situation and doing so successfully enough to bluff other players (a treasure hunt scenario would be effective).
I don''t know, I know it hasn''t been done before.
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