#sprouts ideas

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ive been thinking about what i would do if i could make a sam and max game. figured out what id do for mechanics and the duo themselves so i give you:

goofy guy!!!

goofier guy!!!

obvs there's some minor design and vaing changes, but my main pitch is that, similar to tdp, you can play as both sam and max. however swapping between the two feels a lot more seemless. there's some changes in gameplay between them (max cant talk to most npcs, theyre put off by the way that he is. sam cant squeeze into some special areas because hes not small enough.)

the main thing is that the two have 'special abilities' that allow you to utilize one while playing as the other! teamwork or something! sam can start saying nonsense at npcs, locking them in conversation so max can sneak past them to steal things or otherwise cause trouble. max, similar to htd but with more input from the player, can be used as a variety of tools by contorting his squishy body into a variety of garish shapes!

i also think it would be interesting (super hard to do if this were an actual game but it works as a fake pitch) to have two different dialogue prompts for examining objects depending on who you're playing as. if sam looks into something, he's the main one making notes while max makes a wisecrack, and if max examines it he makes weird wrong observations while sam takes notes! this would encourage players to swap between the two more often and lead to a lot more replayability

i have a lot of other ideas for how the plot and gameplay might work, and i may start posting them if my motivation keeps up!

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firm believer that donnie has a mask for like any occasion. party? yeah this one is the exact same but it has sequins. joining a gang? yep whatevs here's the eyebrow slit one. at some point they all have to go undercover in the foot clan and lo and behold donnie has a black mask with a foot logo on it

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thinking about the devils playhouse theme song. it starts completely jazzy and bouncy and fun and like everything that youd expect from a sam and max track but then this alien ass tune slowly creeps its way in. it works in tandem with the flashy saxophone for a while and they compliment each other well, until it suddenly takes over completely and the sax is only responding in almost alarmed short notes. those notes then take center stage as the logo appears, only increasing in intensity until it ends with a satisfyingly loud blare. man thats crazy its almost like how everything is normal and like a fun sam and max game until max gets crazy unexplainable almost alien powers that work in tandem with the fun adventure he and sam are on until they dont anymore and hes morphed into a monster and sam can only watch in shock and horror as max becomes the key player in an awful and alien way and then his efforts to save max and anguish over the situation slowly take over until they fizzle out with one last, huge, bang

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current favorite turtles hc ive come up with is as a child donnie always got splinter a worlds best dad mug for christmas. however once draxum showed up he realized he couldnt get BOTH of them worlds best dad mugs. therefore he pits them against each other each year and whoever does the most stuff for him wins. loser gets worlds okayest dad mug

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thinking about devils playhouse max again. hes this strange hivemind who can see into every different reality, and they're all the same: him and his buddy goofing off and causing trouble until the end of time. he should be happy. he loves goofing off with his buddy! but there's something that itches at the back of his skull, something that craves for him to be more. to be better. he's given ultimate power that will destroy him. the back of his brain decides he's okay with that. decides that if he's content to goof off and be morally bankrupt endlessly, that his existence can be cut off in a disgusting blaze of glory that he'd be proud to witness. he realizes, far too late, that he has the capacity for selflessness, for good. he dies. he comes back. he goofs off until the end of time. he doesn't talk about it.

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thinking ab the possibility of there being more than one potential bad timeline for rottmnt.. a leo from a world where shredder won and killed every other hamato. a donnie from a world where big mama succeeded with battle nexus new york. a mikey from one where draxum captured them successfully. they get one of these guys every week and at this point they dont even bat an eye

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thinking ab the sam and max enemies au i started writing last year

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