Re: OK. That's funny.
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Nick/Jon -
There IS a market for semi-hand-crafted custom "bobble head
dolls" which might suggest a precedent...
https://www.etsy.com/hk-en/listing/245733478/custom-bobblehead-dolls-personalized
Most likely, the "niche game" would really have to be no more than a custom "skin" for a standard game. Reminds me of an anecdote from early agent-simulation at LANL when we did a small exploratory project with the Australian Government to demonstrate how agent models could be used for their environmental studies. They "reskinned" a military simulation visualization, removing vehicles and replacing the infantry with kangaroos and wombats or something... but everyone was shocked when at some point the kangaroos started shooting at an observation aircraft.
I also remember with some fascination how the old pinball games
were significantly the same with a variety of different graphics
applied to the arena area, the scoreboard and the body. Even
when the mechanisms varied, they were somewhat modular mix-n-match
components of bumpers, flippers, gates...
I haven't looked but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few
open-source (on top of Unity?) game platforms that could be
reskinned on-demand as suggested here. The 2D Mario-Kong
franchise seems like it would lend itself to simple re-skinning
with different graphics.
As I remember it, Dave Pape (UIUC) designed the VR "game"
Crayoland for the CAVE with this in mind... allowing/encouraging
kids and other enthusiasts to draw up their own graphical elements
on paper, scan them in and have the immersive environment present
with *your* version of landscape, trees, cabin, pond, bees, etc. http://resumbrae.com/d/Crayoland
. I think, however, his reference implementation of crayon
art was so compelling, nobody was inclined to replace it with
their own!
We should be careful lest our friend Doctor Strangelove reskins our Friday Zoom calls with his own representations of us.
- Smithereens
That's funny, too. Is there a market for "niche-games" that pop up under particular social circumstances are are gone in a few months but make a bunch of money? Obviously, they would have to be slight modifications on some platform, you know "Angry McConnells" or something. Could you sell such a thing to Act Blue? N Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University [hidden email] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [hidden email] On Behalf Of jon zingale Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:19 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OK. That's funny. During the 2016 election, I tried to convince some programmer friends to help me make an android game in Unity. The premise was to be a 1 level rip off of the Jurassic Park video game from the 90s. The main character would throw bottles of suntan lotion at a T-rex with Trump's head. Trump's face would progressively get more and more orange. Eventually, his blonde toupee would fall to the ground and try to attack the main character, like a scurrying rat. Winning the game would mean defeating the toupee and the Trump-rex, and doing so would take the player to a game over screen with a laughing Hillary Clinton with Devil horns, and text above claiming that "You Still Lose". -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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