This idea came to me in a dream. It's a choose your own adventure game. 2D and VR optional. Basically, you are set up in a big town with other live players. You are free to do what you'd prefer. For example, in the game you could stay at home and do any mundane activity that you choose. Or, explore and find quests. These quests are no dragons and knights. This setting is taken place in a regular town in a modern day time frame. You could find a quest from a programmed avatar who would need help trying to capture a criminal, etc. You could be like Grand Theft Auto and be the one people try to capture. You could get a job. You could meet people (being a live game) and go to a restaurant, smoke, drink, play darts/pool, get a hotel room with someone etc. The game is what you want to make of it. Either it's a simple story line (for someone like me) who likes to explore different places, do extreme sports and play mini games with other live players. Or. You can make it something completely different and fierce with a whole lot of action. It's your choice.

All people would love this game because they are almost designing it as it goes. What will be the adventure today? Or what will the regular day bring?

Thoughts? Comments? An e-mail is fine, too. Taraloumccarthy@gmail.com. 

So far this is an idea. And the post is would you play it? Are there interests in coming up with a game plan on this.

I think the soul of the game you are describing exists a little bit in the hearts and minds of nearly every person who's imagined building the ultimate MMO game.  Not to say your idea doesn't have some truly original angles on it, I like your take a lot.  Look at Ready Player One, for similar constructs, even star-trek's holodeck,etc..  It's a great game concept to write about, but(I think) nearly impossible to actually write, as yet..  

That is, unless you were to narrow the list of activities you could perform in the game down to a manageable and/or extendable list that could be implemented in phases and/or could be implemented by the users themselves.  In which case the bulk of the programming effort by the creator of the game would be significantly lower.

Sorry to ramble, just some thoughts I had after reading your post.  I have an open world MMO project that I'm working on bits and pieces of a little at a time right now, so I think about this stuff a lot.

I had that same question come to me a few minutes ago. Either I make it a town with some restrictions or I call it somehow a Vacation Land type game. Every night a new activity. Karaoke, gambling, drinking, fishing. etc. Again... quests. Then somehow try to fit action into it since that's what people really enjoy. This is all very raw.

Maybe have an option in the game for other players to create different towns/themes and have other live players explore in them.

3 hours ago, Tara Louise said:

Thoughts? Comments?

I think we've all had that same dream. 

Feel you.

5 hours ago, SIr Pep said:

On the other hand, you could learn VR Programming and make exactly what your describing with a measly 2 decades of programming and using the technology that will be available in 2029

Nah just wait long enough and some AI will develop the game for you, just be careful it doesn't imprison you inside it...