In our increasingly busy lives, we no longer have the luxury of time to sit in an armchair in front of the fire, reading the newspaper. Besides, the news is already a day old by then; we want to know what’s happening now. Enter Armchair, an app idea I just cooked up.
I love the retro stylings of the BIT.TRIP series. I wouldn’t call myself their biggest fan; I started playing the series with RUNNER, I haven’t finished any of the games and I haven’t even played FLUX. But I do love the series. One of the things I love the most is the control scheme for BEAT (and presumably FLUX). To a lot of people, twisting the Wiimote to control your paddle feels weird and unintuitive. But it’s an awesome replication of the old Atari paddle controller. The only thing better would be a real paddle controller.
This is an idea I’ve had in my head for a long time. I think it would be most suited to an anime series, but it’s just a story idea.
An idea that I’ve been kicking around for a little while now, that I know I’m probably never going to work on, is a Pokémon Real-Time Strategy game in the vein of Warcraft 2 (not 3). The idea is, you train trainers in a manner similar to training units in most RTS games, then send them into forests, caves, grassy areas, etc to find and catch Pokémon to use in battle. A trainer will only be allowed 3 Pokémon in their party for simplicity’s sake, and because that’s the most number of Pokémon you can send into battle at once.
“Pro Tanto” – According to Wikipedia, it means “for so much”, or “something that has only been partially fulfilled”.
