Me and Carra replied back and forth about how older people could play games, if they were made for them. Thing is with the Wii, that's already been done, seeing how titles like Wii Sports became a smash to pretty much any audience. Carra did mention how their could be a game about ironing, and I replied about that there's a game called Extreme Ironing, however that was more of a plaforming game, rather than a game about actual ironing. This Google+ post got me thinking again about game play design concepts that can work in this new age of technology, so I got my thinking cap on again and I thought of things...
Photography on Wii-U
The Wii-U, Nintendo's next console, rumoured to be release next year, or in 2013, takes on the craze of tablet computers and incorporates one into a controller. The controller not only has Wii-Remote accelerometers, but has an azamoth meter. What's an azamoth meter? The iPhone and Android phones have them, they're digital compasses that use very precise sensors to know exactly where it's pointing, with this in mind it'll know what direction it's facing without the need of the Wii's sensor bar.
What I was thinking, as I'm getting into photography, wouldn't it be cool to have a Photography game where you use the Wii-U tablet controller as a faux digital camera? You don't need to actually point and take snaps of your room, rather it would simulate an environment on the Wii-U controller screen and as you turn and pan the controller around, like how you position a camera for a shot, and can look into a virtual environment where you can take pictures. It can be a rural environment with a mountain in the background, or maybe a urban town with lights and cars in the streets, you can be trying to take pictures of animals, or even take pictures of a model showing off a fashion. I think this would be a great idea for a game! I better Patent this before someone steals this! lol!
Real life Survival Horror on the 3DS and/or PSVita
The 3DS introduced Augmented reality into gaming. For those that might not know what augmented reality is, it's simply a way where a game uses a camera to see what you're looking at, but puts objects that are not there in real life, this is Augment Reality. Since Zombies appears to be an undying trend... ah ha... pun! :P I think it would be a great idea to simulated a zombie apocalypse through augmented reality. Games like Left 4 Dead were great games about a zombie apocalypse, but imagine what would happen if the zombie apocalypse was happening around you! The idea being is that you'd use a 3DS or a PSVita to find zombies around you, and you have to move out and actually hide from them! No using the direction pad or an analogue stick to move around, you need to literally run and get out of their way to survive!
Expanding Social Gaming
The 3DS was released with a really good in-built game called "Street Pass Quest". This is a game that uses the 3DS' always on wireless network feature to find other 3DS' around you and pull other people's Miis onto your 3DS, and then use them in a basic role playing game that uses the Miis that you collected to rescue your own Mii, who gets kidnapped at the beginning of the game. This got me thinking, they should go a lot deeper into this. Why not make a fully fledged role playing game with this feature?
What I was thinking was that, a "Street Pass Quest 2" would start as you're the king again and the King of the ghosts returns and invades your kingdom, you and your civilians have been kicked out of your land and now you got to get it back! So you recruit knight by using the 3DS' street pass feature to pull other people's Miis from other 3DS' as they join you into the fight to reclaim your land. But this time when you play the game and add experience to the knights that you picked for battle, that experience goes back to the original person's 3DS and they can see their Mii become stronger as you put experience onto them. That and the internet can be used to hire the best players of the game when you become stuck at parts of the game, you hire them using the coins you collect from the 3DS' pedometer, and that Mii's player will receive those coins onto his 3DS. I think these would be great ways to evolve social gaming.
I read up on Official Nintendo Magazine Website that there's going to be a Street Pass Quest 2 on the next 3DS software update. The game will include new enemies, branching paths, and allows you to use 2 Miis at once in battle rather than one at a time in the first game, and includes a feature where you will do better in the game if you collect Miis from around your country rather than just the town you live in.
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