Imagine a game that combined Cities Skylines with Civ 5. You'd be designing a full empire with a crazy amount of freedom. Or imagine a game with the spaceships from Elite but the planets from Destiny.
I think we all like to day dream about games like this but what if they could happen? It'd be way too expensive to make a game with all these features but instead what if it really worked by just bundling multiple games together?
For existing games, it could be done as a game mod. e.g. you'd have a beefy computer running Skylines and Civ 5 at the same time and a mod would integrate them.
But what if games were designed from day 1 to support such a feature? Like if there was an open source method to connect games that any dev could support. At the very least, an individual publisher could do this and make their games combine into a larger whole. The end result would be a super game that combined a ton of genres but didn't have much added risk. Each individual game would still sell for $60 and have a normal budget.
Thoughts?
I think we all like to day dream about games like this but what if they could happen? It'd be way too expensive to make a game with all these features but instead what if it really worked by just bundling multiple games together?
For existing games, it could be done as a game mod. e.g. you'd have a beefy computer running Skylines and Civ 5 at the same time and a mod would integrate them.
But what if games were designed from day 1 to support such a feature? Like if there was an open source method to connect games that any dev could support. At the very least, an individual publisher could do this and make their games combine into a larger whole. The end result would be a super game that combined a ton of genres but didn't have much added risk. Each individual game would still sell for $60 and have a normal budget.
Thoughts?