There's a great bit in HL:Alyx where you have to avoid an enemy that is also attracted by noise - and then you walk into a room FULL of glass bottles and things you could bump off the shelves. great concept in VR!
That's what I loved about Thief the Dark Paroject. You couldn't stand up toe-to-toe with a guard. You could stealth kill or knock someone out, but if you engaged in melee with an unwounded guard, you were dead.
A Queit Place has a game coming out next week. Someone stole your idea! A lot of the features you imagined are actually in it. You have to open doors quietly, open desks quietly, if you knock anything off you die. They throw in the fact that you are asthmatic so if you have to do strenuous things you have to be careful to not over exert yourself, which is sort of the equivalent of a stamina meter (except the punishment is you breathe too loud). You do get a sound meter quite early so you have to constantly watch the level you are making. There is no combat in the game though. They had the same reasoning as you, use a weapon its really loud. You also have things to distract them although in the game I think its standard survival horror in that its things you throw or flares you fire off. One cool feature of the game is that if you wear headphones with a microphone the game will react to you, or those around you, making noise. Make a gasp, your dead. Eat a snack too loud, you die. That is actually the feature i thought was coolest. Although living with a small child who might suddenly make noise on the baby monitor would probably rule it out.
Project Zomboid has cool system for choosing negative and positive attributes. There are points, you get few for free, and you can get more for choosing bad attributes. You can pick slightly overweight or weak or lousy(louder looting) to get more stealth to avoid enemies better or to run faster or to have more room in backpacks and stuff like that. You can also spend them on "profession" which will give you initial points to skills. Seems like a game Tim would like, but he does not do reviews :-)
Yeah, I was thinking maybe Tim was unaware of that game when he did the video. That or he was REALLY behind on uploading and they had not even announced it yet. 😂
I Am Legend (well, the book): The idea of managing time because you only have the daytime to gather resources and build. I think 7 Days to Die pulls this off.
7 Days to Die is still nothing like I Am Legend. I have often thought about gameplay based upon the process of clearing out areas during the day while gathering supplies, and the danger of entering dark buildings (This part taken from the 2007 movie). There would of course have to be some larger goal to work toward. Admittedly though, I haven't tried 7 Days to Die since 2014. It was nothing like the game I have in my mind, though.
I think the hardest part of the game you describe is walking outside. The character would have to walk so slowly in an industry that has players running/sprinting all the time as if they're world record marathon runners.
I was going to mention this as well. I can imagine being so frustrated if it takes "too long" to walk anywhere, especially if this game was an open world one.
@@wabba67 A gameplay loop that could encourage slowing down could be in the level design itself. A short walk from one searchable container to the next and discoverable shortcuts to and from locations. Run and you miss out of content!
TIIIIIIM!!!!! Thank you for answering my question! Hope everyone enjoys this as much as I did! [EDIT] P.S. the -zn4np at the end of my name was something youtube added, not by choice
If you could generate actual "sound waves" that word in the code to travel across the environment that'd be a really interesting coding challenge. Also bonus points for aliens who hate water but choose to invade Earth, 70% water. Reminds me of Signs with Mel Gibson lol
I think the recent Deadspace remake had attempted doign that in development and Microsoft had some sort of plugin for Unreal Engine (recently discontinued) that calculated the propogataion of sound using a sort of 'audio voxel' system.
i dont think they hate water, they probably just dont have lungs nor gills, so they can only breath in open air, but in signs water HURT them, which could be avoided by using clothes
It's not specifically tied to A Quiet Place, but having a scenario where monsters create strict gameplay restrictions like that would be interesting to have them adapt over time to a few of the tricks you do. Basically a way to prevent you from having one solution for all problems, because if you do it too much, they get wise to it and it doesn't work anymore. You could even have a further tier of it where they've adapted beyond "ignore this player tactic" to "pretend to fall for it and then use that behavior to bait the player into getting attacked." But a system like this would encourage players to use a variety of means to deal with the monsters, whatever they were. Otherwise, even in a survival horror game, the most efficient way of getting past obstacles is always going to be the one people choose.
I like the idea of having charisma as a trait or something you can use a handful of times in unique situations in a campaign. This could be convincing someone to let you stay in their shelter while the night passes, which could make the next segment a bit easier by passing through the area in the day when there’s potentially less aliens. Could also use it to barber for extra supplies that help you remain stealthy or support your parkour etc. Not necessary but I always like small touches like that myself.
Telltale did a good job with Back to the Future couple of years ago. They went on to make sequel story to the original series. It was faithful to its core and fun. Shame how we can't buy the game anywhere now.
I like your Ideas Tim, you really activated my electric meatball! "Project Zomboid: Sound of Silence" A lot of the mechanics you described reminded of Project Zomboid so I'm thinking something a Total Conversion mod might me cool. The possibility of being granted official permission to use A Quite Place IP seems very low. However, the idea of a TC mod for Zomboid with custom maps, mechanics, NPCs and expanded stealths seems doable. Might be a bit too ambitious for a single modder, maybe small mod team? I'd play it if it existed. Hey, all y'all modders out there, there's your next project! Don't forget me.
It would be cool if distracting enemies with sound was fairly powerful but it attracts more aliens to the zone youre exploring. The player would have to manage distracting enemies while not raising the "danger level" of the zone too much
The setting proved to be unpopular based upon reviews and comments of The Quiet Place : The Road Ahead. While part of the critisism was directed at the heavily scripted AI, the underlying complaint was how tedious gameplay became due to the constant need to remain quiet. I suspect this is the same reason why the stealth genre has become so niche because the majority of gamers are just looking for a steady flow of dopamine and if they're not being constantly rewarded they lose interest. On the flipide you have the gamers that comprise those that were introduced to gaming through mobile titles which are looking for cosy games or something to relax with which again means stealth is a no-go. I feel the Quiet Place would need to be set up in such a way that players need a break from the tension. I'd wager the problem with The Road Ahead stems from the gameplay loop just never deviating from the constant pressure except for cut scenes where players become detatched from the experince. As such you'd probably need something like the Director/Actor AI dynamic from Alien Isolation where the Director manages the tdnsion to avoid emotional fatigue.
Lol, he's just describing Alien Isolation... Worth a play for anyone who hasn't yet. Not only does gameplay hold up, it's also the best looking raster based game to drop in the last decade. Just grab the txaa mod if you don't have access to a.i antialiasing, and reshade for contrast adaptive sharpening.
Your basic premise reminds me of Death Stranding, where you can't kill humans or it will cause a 'voidout', and the BT enemies are attracted to sound so you have a button mapped to hold your breath while sneaking.
I began a recent playthrough on the zombie game "Project Zomboid" with custom settings that resembled Tim's game idea from the video. I made the zombies with random strength, vision, hearing (including pinpoint hearing, from a long distance), intelligence (some zombies try to break door and windows, others can simply open them) and speed (from crawlers to sprinters). Just to equilibrate a little bit, I enabled the option to make zomboid more active during night (which makes them all slow shamblers during day, but you will certainly will meet too many sprints to handle at night). I also began the game with the lowest strength and endurance possible, as if I was playing a surviving becoming stronger and stronger as he survives one more day in this apocalypse, and after some months, I'm aiming for a nomad experience, traveling through all of the game's map. It has been a highly intense playthrough, with a lot of stealth, hiding at night and taking care to not draw attentions from too many zombies, especially a little before night arrives. Really fun. Recommend the experience to everyone.
@@taepyeoon8245 Yes I'm not at home now, but in around five hours I will be When I get to my PC, I'll copy the setting I changed and then I'll post here
@@taepyeoon8245 here it goes I will tell only the settings that I changed The other ones, remained the same as the Apocalypse setting If you want only night sprinter random stats zombies, here's my settings: Time - Start Hour: 12 AM Sadistic AI Director - Helicopter: Sometimes (I forgot to mention this one in the post. Now you will have to deal with hordes! Try to stay silent during a horde event when you are far away from your base. It's a experience!) Zombie Lore - Speed: Random Zombie Lore - Strength: Random Zombie Lore - Toughness: Random Zombie Lore - Cognition: Random Zombie Lore - Memory: Random Zombie Lore - Sight: Random Zombie Lore - Hearing: Random Zombie Lore - Day/Night Activity: Night Also, I tapped with the world's settings a little bit for a "nomad/scrapper" gameplay Loot Mechanics: Common (there will be a setback) In-game Map - All Known on Start: Checked (as I mentioned in the post, I want to explore the map) Vehicles - Car Spawn Rate: High (there will be a set back) Vehicles - Initial Gas: Very Low (there's your first set back. Good luck finding a car with full tank!) Vehicles - General Condition: Very Low (Good luck finding a good car in good condition! Now you will have to put your mechanics skills to use) Anyway, these are the settings Hope you have a good experience!
Your description of game mechanics kinda reminds me of Alien Isolation. I've not seen any of the quiet place movies, so I don't understand why we wouldn't just set up all sorts of automated noise generators or attempt to use very loud devices like flashbangs to try and permanently deafen them.
Converting a movie or TV show into a game? I recently had that thought. I was watching the TV show Narcos. I have played many Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games. While watching Narcos, I thought that that world would make a good RPG. I know that GTA is not an RPG, but GTA created the context by which to understand that Narcos could transfer into the game world. Within Narcos, the "factions" are pre-loaded: there are various cartels and various law enforcement agencies. Also, there is no shortage of maps and travel modes. So, you start as a low-level farmer re-directed into weed due to economic necessity, and you begin to move up the ranks to building an empire.
It's funny you mention A Quiet Place game, as one just got released a couple days ago. It seems to have taken some inspiration from Alien Isolation, and stealth games. Sadly, it doesn't look that good, a common theme with converting a game, from another medium. Honestly, I'd much prefer playing your version, though I can imagine that the costs would spiral. This game (and it's AI generated art) looks like it had a much tighter budget.
Game Idea reminds me of Alien Isolation but if you removed the Aliens ability to see. One thing you didnt bring up which I think would be cool is adding NPC's maybe you have to fight them as queitly as possible or even barter and trade. Silent fights would be so interesting as well as takedowns. You are fighting a guy and he knows hes about to die or lose so he screams and you have to choose if you will kill and finish them off quickly as possible, or just run away and see him get attacked by the monster. In my head I am imagining something like a mix of State of Decay 2, Sons of the Forest, and Last of Us.
I remember you talking about your idea book one time, about like. An adventure/survival game where you're a young, young kid, and like. You can't read, and don't understand certain words, etc. I think that would be insanely dope if smashed together with some of the rules and mechanics you mentioned here, hah. I wish I was a billionaire, so I could just fund video games all the time :c
with how weird some players can be, someone would make some kind of "killing floor" area and murder the alien in drowse. And not by something as using the ''planed'' weakness. More like physics of a can in a box, shaking it to get some kind of can gun... that kind of code breaking thing :) Still reminds of "Alien: Isolation" of a strong monster that you hide from but in a urban environment. An interesting idea.
>"Not necessarily a RPG" > Start describing attributes and skills and flaws and level up Tim, you silly guy. But the idea of using flaws as some sort of custom difficulty level is innovative. There is no easy, standard and hard difficulty level, but a player can choose flaws to increase difficulty. Maybe add some kind of rogue-lite elements, like surviving until you find or do X unlocks a trait that can be selected in future runs to help survive. I can see a heavily tense game, like Amnesia: Dark Descent, but without the need for constant darkness.
Good morning, Timothy! I hate to beat a dead horse but what you're describing is extremely similar to the game, "Project Zomboid." You should check it out!
The idea about flaws has to much potential. I'm still not sure how to implement it, but I'll figure it out. In my case space ships would have to have the "flaws", not people, and I assume they'd have to be both positive and negative. Maybe they are acquired when fighting and taking damage, causing things like "deformed hull." I am also torn between giving players agency to prevent them (and allow them to rotate through until they get what they want) or to force them to take what they get. Making it choosable could also be a viable solution... just how?
@@Sauvva_ So the point of the flaw-system according to Tim is that it creates unique characteristics to a character, but in turn provides something positive. His example was "robophobia", which would be an irrational fear of robots. In a Fallout game setting it would fit well. In a role playing game like D&D it would also fit quite well, even if it's only negative, as it could provide interesting, unique situations for characters.
@Timothy Cain Here's a question. I just watched your video Arcanum As A Windows 10 App. Could you make a video about the transition from Windows 95/98/Me to Windows 2000/XP back then? And back when most end users were still using Windows 95 and 98, were you as a developer already using any Windows NT system before Windows 2000?
@@CainOnGames Thanks for the quick answer! Did you have to dodge some mechanic during development or were made aware, is there any advice on how to mind patents when developing a game?
"Be quiet as you can" is a cool mechanic, but would the game also NOT have music or a soundtrack? I'd worry it would get dull really fast. That would have to get worked out.
at 0:37 to 0:38 you said "because of work". What are you working on!??!!!??!!! Please tell me you are polishing final details on Outer Worlds 2 or that the corporate overlords brought you in to work on Fallout New Vegas 2! What are you working on?!!!!???!!
You often talk about loosing the GURPS license during the development of Fallout. I wonder why you didn't foresee this during development? You often talk about it as if it was a sudden event.
5:50 No, i don't like respawning aliens coming outside of the map. It's unfair. It may be true to the film, but it is also unfair. I want to be able to eliminate all the aliens within the map and then have peace and quiet. That would be possible with an island.
it is not unfair, it is caused by player actions, and could just as well reduce the danger level of a nearby area, so you can do it on purpose, there are too many aliens in map A ? go to map B and make a lot of noise
@@loach- If this is the only thread in your game, you are doing something wrong. Respawning enemies out of nowhere is usually a bad idea. It breaks the idea of clearing the map.
Have you ever thought about games that use disabilities as mechanics? Like a game about daredevil where the screen is only populated as the environment/enemies make sound?
The closest I have gotten to using disabilities in games were flaws in The Outer Worlds, although traits in Fallout and backgrounds in Arcanum can provide disabilities too, as well as any low attributes in most of my games.
A quiet place is a world for bobby traps, mines and drones. Thus it is possible to win as long as you don't run out of mines, booby traps and drones. It's actually pretty easy. You need a 500 kg bomb, a noisemaker that makes as much noise as possible and a remote detonator, and you've destroyed 50 of these aliens. This is what it would look like in reality.
There's a great bit in HL:Alyx where you have to avoid an enemy that is also attracted by noise - and then you walk into a room FULL of glass bottles and things you could bump off the shelves. great concept in VR!
That's what I loved about Thief the Dark Paroject. You couldn't stand up toe-to-toe with a guard. You could stealth kill or knock someone out, but if you engaged in melee with an unwounded guard, you were dead.
They should really make a game based on Fallout tv show
Joke?
That terrible written mess? Nah
@@braydoxastora5584 I respectfully disagree
@@braydoxastora5584it’s not that bad, be reasonable
Wasteland 2
Character Flaw: Gassy when Nervous
I've read this before watching the video, and thought you were speaking about Tim's dog.
I went into the comments expecting fart jokes and you didn't disappoint.
A Queit Place has a game coming out next week. Someone stole your idea! A lot of the features you imagined are actually in it. You have to open doors quietly, open desks quietly, if you knock anything off you die. They throw in the fact that you are asthmatic so if you have to do strenuous things you have to be careful to not over exert yourself, which is sort of the equivalent of a stamina meter (except the punishment is you breathe too loud). You do get a sound meter quite early so you have to constantly watch the level you are making. There is no combat in the game though. They had the same reasoning as you, use a weapon its really loud. You also have things to distract them although in the game I think its standard survival horror in that its things you throw or flares you fire off.
One cool feature of the game is that if you wear headphones with a microphone the game will react to you, or those around you, making noise. Make a gasp, your dead. Eat a snack too loud, you die. That is actually the feature i thought was coolest. Although living with a small child who might suddenly make noise on the baby monitor would probably rule it out.
Fooster has a full play of the game and it's really good, not my genre but loved watching someone else play it, the dude can be hilarious
Project Zomboid has cool system for choosing negative and positive attributes. There are points, you get few for free, and you can get more for choosing bad attributes. You can pick slightly overweight or weak or lousy(louder looting) to get more stealth to avoid enemies better or to run faster or to have more room in backpacks and stuff like that. You can also spend them on "profession" which will give you initial points to skills.
Seems like a game Tim would like, but he does not do reviews :-)
I said the same thing. It sounded like he was just describing PZ but with aliens 😂
The noise system he describes reminds me of Project Zomboid as well.
1:05 Good timing: I just saw a gameplay review of "A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead" game this morning.
Yeah, I was thinking maybe Tim was unaware of that game when he did the video. That or he was REALLY behind on uploading and they had not even announced it yet. 😂
Your game idea for A Quiet Place sounds a lot like Project Zomboid with aliens
Which would be amazing, so I’m all for it!
I Am Legend (well, the book): The idea of managing time because you only have the daytime to gather resources and build. I think 7 Days to Die pulls this off.
I was thinking 7 Days To Die too. Theres alot of what Tim described in that.
7 Days to Die is still nothing like I Am Legend. I have often thought about gameplay based upon the process of clearing out areas during the day while gathering supplies, and the danger of entering dark buildings (This part taken from the 2007 movie). There would of course have to be some larger goal to work toward.
Admittedly though, I haven't tried 7 Days to Die since 2014. It was nothing like the game I have in my mind, though.
I think the hardest part of the game you describe is walking outside. The character would have to walk so slowly in an industry that has players running/sprinting all the time as if they're world record marathon runners.
Something different might just be what is needed right now.
I was going to mention this as well. I can imagine being so frustrated if it takes "too long" to walk anywhere, especially if this game was an open world one.
@@wabba67 A gameplay loop that could encourage slowing down could be in the level design itself. A short walk from one searchable container to the next and discoverable shortcuts to and from locations. Run and you miss out of content!
Jeff from Half-Life Altx did this all super well! Legitimately terrifying and well designed.
TIIIIIIM!!!!! Thank you for answering my question! Hope everyone enjoys this as much as I did!
[EDIT] P.S. the -zn4np at the end of my name was something youtube added, not by choice
If you could generate actual "sound waves" that word in the code to travel across the environment that'd be a really interesting coding challenge.
Also bonus points for aliens who hate water but choose to invade Earth, 70% water. Reminds me of Signs with Mel Gibson lol
I think the recent Deadspace remake had attempted doign that in development and Microsoft had some sort of plugin for Unreal Engine (recently discontinued) that calculated the propogataion of sound using a sort of 'audio voxel' system.
i dont think they hate water, they probably just dont have lungs nor gills, so they can only breath in open air, but in signs water HURT them, which could be avoided by using clothes
Absolutely incredible that a Quiet Place game came out after Tim recorded this
It's not specifically tied to A Quiet Place, but having a scenario where monsters create strict gameplay restrictions like that would be interesting to have them adapt over time to a few of the tricks you do. Basically a way to prevent you from having one solution for all problems, because if you do it too much, they get wise to it and it doesn't work anymore. You could even have a further tier of it where they've adapted beyond "ignore this player tactic" to "pretend to fall for it and then use that behavior to bait the player into getting attacked." But a system like this would encourage players to use a variety of means to deal with the monsters, whatever they were. Otherwise, even in a survival horror game, the most efficient way of getting past obstacles is always going to be the one people choose.
I like the idea of having charisma as a trait or something you can use a handful of times in unique situations in a campaign. This could be convincing someone to let you stay in their shelter while the night passes, which could make the next segment a bit easier by passing through the area in the day when there’s potentially less aliens. Could also use it to barber for extra supplies that help you remain stealthy or support your parkour etc. Not necessary but I always like small touches like that myself.
Telltale did a good job with Back to the Future couple of years ago. They went on to make sequel story to the original series. It was faithful to its core and fun. Shame how we can't buy the game anywhere now.
I like your Ideas Tim, you really activated my electric meatball!
"Project Zomboid: Sound of Silence"
A lot of the mechanics you described reminded of Project Zomboid so I'm thinking something a Total Conversion mod might me cool. The possibility of being granted official permission to use A Quite Place IP seems very low. However, the idea of a TC mod for Zomboid with custom maps, mechanics, NPCs and expanded stealths seems doable. Might be a bit too ambitious for a single modder, maybe small mod team? I'd play it if it existed. Hey, all y'all modders out there, there's your next project!
Don't forget me.
Prey 2017 Seemed similar in the fact that a lot of the enemies were quite powerful and you really needed to use your wits to avoid or beat them.
Based on the description, I could see this as a Project Zomboid mod. 🖤
Adding to all the Project Zomboid bumpers :^)
Jurassic Park - Trespasser
As a show and a game but in its original vision without the limitations from back then.
Great video! I was neither interested in the Quiet Place franchise nor in survival games, but this made me kinda curious about both. Thanks, Tim! 😊
I was literally imagining what you would say about this topic yesterday before bed and I see this in my feed first thing when I wake up.
This sounds a lot like Alien: Isolation, but with a more open environment and more monsters to deal with. It sounds terrifying if done well.
also with a hint of death stranding when BT's are nearby
I'd argue that firing a gun is substantially louder than breaking glass.
I think it was Extra Credits who said Cthulu should NEVER have a health bar. Its not the setting you're trying to live in.
George A Romero's 'Day of the Day' would make for a heck of a survival management game!
It would be cool if distracting enemies with sound was fairly powerful but it attracts more aliens to the zone youre exploring. The player would have to manage distracting enemies while not raising the "danger level" of the zone too much
The setting proved to be unpopular based upon reviews and comments of The Quiet Place : The Road Ahead. While part of the critisism was directed at the heavily scripted AI, the underlying complaint was how tedious gameplay became due to the constant need to remain quiet.
I suspect this is the same reason why the stealth genre has become so niche because the majority of gamers are just looking for a steady flow of dopamine and if they're not being constantly rewarded they lose interest. On the flipide you have the gamers that comprise those that were introduced to gaming through mobile titles which are looking for cosy games or something to relax with which again means stealth is a no-go.
I feel the Quiet Place would need to be set up in such a way that players need a break from the tension. I'd wager the problem with The Road Ahead stems from the gameplay loop just never deviating from the constant pressure except for cut scenes where players become detatched from the experince. As such you'd probably need something like the Director/Actor AI dynamic from Alien Isolation where the Director manages the tdnsion to avoid emotional fatigue.
Lol, he's just describing Alien Isolation...
Worth a play for anyone who hasn't yet. Not only does gameplay hold up, it's also the best looking raster based game to drop in the last decade.
Just grab the txaa mod if you don't have access to a.i antialiasing, and reshade for contrast adaptive sharpening.
I can already see this as a mod for the ALIEN survival horror game.
Your basic premise reminds me of Death Stranding, where you can't kill humans or it will cause a 'voidout', and the BT enemies are attracted to sound so you have a button mapped to hold your breath while sneaking.
I began a recent playthrough on the zombie game "Project Zomboid" with custom settings that resembled Tim's game idea from the video.
I made the zombies with random strength, vision, hearing (including pinpoint hearing, from a long distance), intelligence (some zombies try to break door and windows, others can simply open them) and speed (from crawlers to sprinters).
Just to equilibrate a little bit, I enabled the option to make zomboid more active during night (which makes them all slow shamblers during day, but you will certainly will meet too many sprints to handle at night).
I also began the game with the lowest strength and endurance possible, as if I was playing a surviving becoming stronger and stronger as he survives one more day in this apocalypse, and after some months, I'm aiming for a nomad experience, traveling through all of the game's map.
It has been a highly intense playthrough, with a lot of stealth, hiding at night and taking care to not draw attentions from too many zombies, especially a little before night arrives.
Really fun. Recommend the experience to everyone.
Can you post your settings please
@@taepyeoon8245
Yes
I'm not at home now, but in around five hours I will be
When I get to my PC, I'll copy the setting I changed and then I'll post here
@@taepyeoon8245 here it goes
I will tell only the settings that I changed
The other ones, remained the same as the Apocalypse setting
If you want only night sprinter random stats zombies, here's my settings:
Time - Start Hour: 12 AM
Sadistic AI Director - Helicopter: Sometimes (I forgot to mention this one in the post. Now you will have to deal with hordes! Try to stay silent during a horde event when you are far away from your base. It's a experience!)
Zombie Lore - Speed: Random
Zombie Lore - Strength: Random
Zombie Lore - Toughness: Random
Zombie Lore - Cognition: Random
Zombie Lore - Memory: Random
Zombie Lore - Sight: Random
Zombie Lore - Hearing: Random
Zombie Lore - Day/Night Activity: Night
Also, I tapped with the world's settings a little bit for a "nomad/scrapper" gameplay
Loot Mechanics: Common (there will be a setback)
In-game Map - All Known on Start: Checked (as I mentioned in the post, I want to explore the map)
Vehicles - Car Spawn Rate: High (there will be a set back)
Vehicles - Initial Gas: Very Low (there's your first set back. Good luck finding a car with full tank!)
Vehicles - General Condition: Very Low (Good luck finding a good car in good condition! Now you will have to put your mechanics skills to use)
Anyway, these are the settings
Hope you have a good experience!
Your description of game mechanics kinda reminds me of Alien Isolation. I've not seen any of the quiet place movies, so I don't understand why we wouldn't just set up all sorts of automated noise generators or attempt to use very loud devices like flashbangs to try and permanently deafen them.
So i watched the beginning of A Quiet Place game last night. It's very good, but I'd LOVE to see one desigbed by Tim.
Converting a movie or TV show into a game? I recently had that thought. I was watching the TV show Narcos. I have played many Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games. While watching Narcos, I thought that that world would make a good RPG. I know that GTA is not an RPG, but GTA created the context by which to understand that Narcos could transfer into the game world. Within Narcos, the "factions" are pre-loaded: there are various cartels and various law enforcement agencies. Also, there is no shortage of maps and travel modes. So, you start as a low-level farmer re-directed into weed due to economic necessity, and you begin to move up the ranks to building an empire.
It's funny you mention A Quiet Place game, as one just got released a couple days ago. It seems to have taken some inspiration from Alien Isolation, and stealth games. Sadly, it doesn't look that good, a common theme with converting a game, from another medium. Honestly, I'd much prefer playing your version, though I can imagine that the costs would spiral. This game (and it's AI generated art) looks like it had a much tighter budget.
Wow, you’re right, a Quiet Place game just released. I filmed this video almost 6 weeks ago and had no idea.
@@CainOnGames you predicted the future! Do you have any lottery tickets?
Game Idea reminds me of Alien Isolation but if you removed the Aliens ability to see. One thing you didnt bring up which I think would be cool is adding NPC's maybe you have to fight them as queitly as possible or even barter and trade. Silent fights would be so interesting as well as takedowns. You are fighting a guy and he knows hes about to die or lose so he screams and you have to choose if you will kill and finish them off quickly as possible, or just run away and see him get attacked by the monster.
In my head I am imagining something like a mix of State of Decay 2, Sons of the Forest, and Last of Us.
Shout out to Peter Jackson's King Kong Game Of The Movie. Played it a ton when I was in high school.
I remember you talking about your idea book one time, about like. An adventure/survival game where you're a young, young kid, and like. You can't read, and don't understand certain words, etc. I think that would be insanely dope if smashed together with some of the rules and mechanics you mentioned here, hah. I wish I was a billionaire, so I could just fund video games all the time :c
That game was described in
ruclips.net/video/ZonqVO0FNbc/видео.htmlsi=TNU98I6wZdNzJUiU
And you’re right, these mechanics would go well with that game.
Somebody call jim helpart. Seriously, john krasinsky would be so down with a silent hill style game based on a quiet place
my favorite example of a movie to a video game is king kong 2005 video game its one of the best movie to video games adaptations
with how weird some players can be, someone would make some kind of "killing floor" area and murder the alien in drowse. And not by something as using the ''planed'' weakness. More like physics of a can in a box, shaking it to get some kind of can gun... that kind of code breaking thing :) Still reminds of "Alien: Isolation" of a strong monster that you hide from but in a urban environment. An interesting idea.
There are some mechanical similarities to "They are Billions" in terms of sound as a mechanic.
>"Not necessarily a RPG"
> Start describing attributes and skills and flaws and level up
Tim, you silly guy.
But the idea of using flaws as some sort of custom difficulty level is innovative. There is no easy, standard and hard difficulty level, but a player can choose flaws to increase difficulty. Maybe add some kind of rogue-lite elements, like surviving until you find or do X unlocks a trait that can be selected in future runs to help survive.
I can see a heavily tense game, like Amnesia: Dark Descent, but without the need for constant darkness.
Good morning, Timothy!
I hate to beat a dead horse but what you're describing is extremely similar to the game, "Project Zomboid."
You should check it out!
The first question that pops into my mind about a Quiet Place video game is: do we let the player put their base right next to a waterfall? :P
Flaw: Everytime you (un)crouch your knee makes a cracking sound 😂
The idea about flaws has to much potential. I'm still not sure how to implement it, but I'll figure it out. In my case space ships would have to have the "flaws", not people, and I assume they'd have to be both positive and negative. Maybe they are acquired when fighting and taking damage, causing things like "deformed hull." I am also torn between giving players agency to prevent them (and allow them to rotate through until they get what they want) or to force them to take what they get. Making it choosable could also be a viable solution... just how?
maybe the player starts with an old ship and the parts come with flaws, that you can remove by fixing(using skills) or replacing (using money)
@@Sauvva_ So the point of the flaw-system according to Tim is that it creates unique characteristics to a character, but in turn provides something positive. His example was "robophobia", which would be an irrational fear of robots. In a Fallout game setting it would fit well.
In a role playing game like D&D it would also fit quite well, even if it's only negative, as it could provide interesting, unique situations for characters.
A Quiet Place Day One is a prequel to the other films.
Can you share any data on how many players chose flaws in The Outer Worlds? Was it to you expectations?
Great video, thank you Tim!
I'd love to see you tackle a power ranger action RPG
@Timothy Cain
Here's a question. I just watched your video Arcanum As A Windows 10 App. Could you make a video about the transition from Windows 95/98/Me to Windows 2000/XP back then? And back when most end users were still using Windows 95 and 98, were you as a developer already using any Windows NT system before Windows 2000?
You really can get out from “level up” pattern even for survival game
Hey Tim, lovely video, I was wondering if you would have any history with patented game related features/mechanics. Thanks!
I don't think any of my mechanics or features have been patented. Certainly not by me.
@@CainOnGames Thanks for the quick answer! Did you have to dodge some mechanic during development or were made aware, is there any advice on how to mind patents when developing a game?
"Be quiet as you can" is a cool mechanic, but would the game also NOT have music or a soundtrack? I'd worry it would get dull really fast. That would have to get worked out.
I think the game could have an ambient soundtrack, the sound levels would also be shown in the ui.
For sure, and the game would absolutely need sound effects. It wouldn't be totally quiet.
8:28 I think a tactical game like Fallout Tactics would work.
12 angry men: the video game
Has anyone mentioned that there was JUST a game about a Quiet Place released like this week?
One show that I dont understand how it isnt a great game already is Stargate!
It was alright on Sega
Didn't the world war z movie or riddick (sorry can't pronounce that name properly, the pitch black franchise) had quite the interesting games?
Someone needs to buy Creative and bring back A3D for this one!
You have accidentally described most of Project Zomboid
I want to make a game similar to the first season of supernatural. *edit* also falling skys
Dude, I want to play this game 😊
at 0:37 to 0:38 you said "because of work". What are you working on!??!!!??!!! Please tell me you are polishing final details on Outer Worlds 2 or that the corporate overlords brought you in to work on Fallout New Vegas 2! What are you working on?!!!!???!!
Sounds a lot like metro series
Gollum. 10/10
They did just come out with a very compelling quiet place game that uses your mic
Way too much yellow paint.
@@Bushprowler oh nooo yellow paint, does it have lead in it ?
Anybody play the NES adaptations of Robin Hood or Willow? Solid games 👍🏻
You often talk about loosing the GURPS license during the development of Fallout. I wonder why you didn't foresee this during development? You often talk about it as if it was a sudden event.
If you snore, sucks to be you 🤣
5:50 No, i don't like respawning aliens coming outside of the map. It's unfair. It may be true to the film, but it is also unfair. I want to be able to eliminate all the aliens within the map and then have peace and quiet. That would be possible with an island.
it is not unfair, it is caused by player actions, and could just as well reduce the danger level of a nearby area, so you can do it on purpose, there are too many aliens in map A ? go to map B and make a lot of noise
@@Sauvva_ By map I mean the entire game world. You can't leave it. Sectors are something completely different.
what is the point of the game if you're killing its only threat
@@loach- If this is the only thread in your game, you are doing something wrong. Respawning enemies out of nowhere is usually a bad idea. It breaks the idea of clearing the map.
Thanks!
Thank you!
So I wasn't the only one :D
Have you ever thought about games that use disabilities as mechanics?
Like a game about daredevil where the screen is only populated as the environment/enemies make sound?
The closest I have gotten to using disabilities in games were flaws in The Outer Worlds, although traits in Fallout and backgrounds in Arcanum can provide disabilities too, as well as any low attributes in most of my games.
A quiet place is a world for bobby traps, mines and drones. Thus it is possible to win as long as you don't run out of mines, booby traps and drones. It's actually pretty easy. You need a 500 kg bomb, a noisemaker that makes as much noise as possible and a remote detonator, and you've destroyed 50 of these aliens. This is what it would look like in reality.
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Sound like a bad game
Make Games Difficult Again.