Concepts for Blink-detection game
Lately I've been prototyping an input system that watches a user's face and detects when they shut their eyes or blink. I think this can be a cool control scheme for a game, and I've been trying to find a cool concept to use it with.
Cyclops Simulator: 1st person view of someone that shoots lasers from his eyes. The only way to stop shooting is to close your (real) eyes, but then of course you don't see (but do hear) what's going on. I imagine this as being a Surgeon Simulator/Katamari Damacy kind of looneyness where you shoot baddies and goodies alike and cause all kinds of funny, semi-controlled mayhem.
THEME: BLINKING CHANGES THE WORLD
A rouge-like where the dungeon is procedurally re-created every time you blink (instead of every time you die). The hero, monsters, treasure and everything else stays where it is, but the walls and the layout of the level changes. This means you can be fighting a monster, blink and find it at the other side of the wall (or the other way around).
A platformer (in the vain of Super Meat Boy) where there are two (or more) states of the world. A blink alternates between these states, making some platforms appear or disappear, for example. Combined with the basic interface of platformers (jumping, running), this adds an extra layer of skill and control.
THEME: GAINING CONTROL BY LOSING CONTROL
After-image: A 1st person puzzler (like Antichamber) where the world is totally dark, but if you close your eyes for a little while and open them, you can see for a few seconds a glimpse of the world as an "after image", and you can navigate and solve puzzles. Alternatively, when you close your eyes something "grows", like a bridge rises where there was a gap. When you open them it slowly fades away, and you must quickly find your way and close your eyes again.
A 2d puzzle platformer where you become invulnerable and unaffected by gravity when you close your eyes (that is, you are exactly in the same place, unharmed, when you reopen them). The world around you is constantly moving and changing - monsters, saws and platforms move about. You have to time your movements and your eye openings-closings so as to position yourself in the correct places at the right times to finish each level.
Which of these is most worth going no with?
origamiaround
jacobvanloon
turnnoffyourmind
blakekathryn
kaledo-art
stormborns
yousharknotpass