Three Hundred

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 30 May 2007 14:25:00 GMT

Negative Space Wars

No, it’s not what you think! Sean Howard, aka “Squidi,” has embarked upon a noble quest:

“Simply put, a challenge to myself. Every day for three hundred days, I will post a gameplay mechanic that has (hopefully) never been seen in a commercial video game. Three hundred mechanics. No more. No less.”

Wow! He’s already 21 days into it, and it’s a super interesting read, and best of all the ideas are all illustrated with Squidi’s inimitable (heh heh) pixel style. All the ideas are free for anyone to use, also. I love it. Keep going, Squidi!

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  1. Guert said about 2 hours later:

    Wow! I’ll be checking his page out oftenly! Cheers for Squidi! :D

  2. Echo said about 2 hours later:

    This is fantastic!

  3. Pigbuster said about 2 hours later:

    Once I actually get my platformer engine working, I’m totally giving that negative space idea a try.

    Hope he can make it to 300. He’s already off to a great start.

  4. PoV said about 3 hours later:

    Nice. Squidi lives. Last I heard he was pissing off webcomic fans.

    A couple idea’s I’ve seen before. Adam T had a negative space concept Atari like game that seemed somewhat flawed, but Grey Matter’s “grey” is a fantastic fix. At one point Lex and I discussed a text snipped level editing system, in the same vein as the image save. Though it would have been technically easier to use, as all you’d need to do was copy to the clipboard a level found on a forum, and click a “play from clipboard” option in game. I think he added some variant of this to Zen Garden. Related, I never got around to it, short of registering a domain, a Wiki content driven game, where all in game content from enemies to world/rooms are defined in easy ascii, internal wiki links, and interpreted by a client.

    Procedurally generated tree, freaking awesome idea. Card crafting system, looks like it needs nonstandard cards. Pellet Quest, very cool.

  5. Aubrey said about 3 hours later:

    Cool idea, and looking really interesting so far, but you need a comments section so that we can have fun trying to trump your mechanics with ones which already exist :D. It’s like Schaden Freude created as a website.

  6. Aubrey said about 3 hours later:

    You may find out, then, how I felt when I found out about Liquid War.

  7. Akhel said about 4 hours later:

    Oh wow. This is… awesome. I love this kind of idea, and he’s doing a really awesome job there.

  8. Albert Lai said about 4 hours later:

    Three hundred? That man has my props!

  9. Zenith said about 5 hours later:

    This is amazing and brilliant! :)

  10. negative zero said about 5 hours later:

    brilliant…they’re all brilliant concepts. that stategy platforming one, very nice. that tree diagram for level designs…sweetness.

  11. Zenith said about 6 hours later:

    I wonder whats stopping him from making them?

  12. Zaphos said about 7 hours later:

    Wow – this is inspiring stuff! The entries I’ve read so far have been really thought provoking.

  13. Ilia Chentsov said about 18 hours later:

    Well, if, as they say, the ideas are dime a dozen, he’s now a bit below 20 cents!

  14. contra said about 21 hours later:

    “this is madness!” Not only does this guy have ALOT of ideas, but they’re actually good ones too. Very interesting and inspiring! Hope he keeps it up.

  15. Smallfry said 2 days later:

    This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. It’s a great way to get people thinking about innovative gameplay ideas!

    Great job, Squidi!

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