Could this be a new homebrew idea?

[SeaGtGruff]

When I read this, it made me think of Atari (Sunnyvale), and then I thought... hmm, is there a game idea lurking in here?

 

http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_13401750?source=rss

 

Michael

[Cebus Capucinis]

When I read this, it made me think of Atari (Sunnyvale), and then I thought... hmm, is there a game idea lurking in here?

 

http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_13401750?source=rss

 

Michael

 

Haha! A Kaboom! money hack would be hilarious.

[SeaGtGruff]

Haha! A Kaboom! money hack would be hilarious.

Yes, or maybe something along the lines of Toy Shop Trouble (i.e., with conveyor belts). I was thinking you could be a recycler employee, so your job is to scrounge through a bunch of junk looking for stuff that can be recycled for money-- anything from aluminum cans or empty returnable bottles to toys or games that were thrown away but are still good. You have to separate the trash from the treasure, with different points (or monetary values) for different items of treasure. Maybe you'd have to switch between two different modes. In one mode, the stuff you touch is supposed to be trash and goes into a big trash bin, with points taken away if you throw away something that still has value, or small points if you throw away something that really is trash. In the other mode, the stuff you touch is supposed to be treasure and goes into a different bin for saving items, with points based on how much it's worth, or points deducted if you save trash by mistake. Or maybe instead of two modes, you have to sort the items into their proper bins, with one bin for aluminum cans, another for paper products, another for glass bottles or jars, etc. Maybe you touch the items to carry them, then have to touch the proper bin to deposit them, so there could be some strategy involved like trying to collect a bunch of paper products and then deposit them, or collect a bunch of bottles and then deposit them, etc., depending on whether it looks like there's a lot of one type of item going by on the conveyor belts. Maybe you lose points if you let items go off screen on the conveyor belts, so you have to pick and choose which items to try to process and which items to let slip by. And the conveyor belts get faster as the level increases. But every so often something really bad comes up, like a corpse (as in the news story), or some kind of hazardous waste, etc. At other times-- maybe bonus rounds-- some package explodes or bursts open and dollar bills or jewels start to shower down, in which case you have to try to collect as much as you can before your coworkers get it first, and avoid your boss, who will try to take the valuables away from you so they can be turned in to the proper authorities. It wouldn't always be a shower of money-- that sort of thing would be only an occasional "wave." And maybe sometimes instead of good stuff raining down, there would be an explosion of stuff you need to dodge and avoid instead of trying to collect it, like dirty needles (medical waste) or broken glass or cylinders of radioactive waste, etc.

 

Michael

[+therealbountybob]

Sounds more than a bit like Gumball to me

[jrok]

And maybe sometimes instead of good stuff raining down, there would be an explosion of stuff you need to dodge and avoid instead of trying to collect it, like dirty needles (medical waste) or broken glass or cylinders of radioactive waste, etc.

 

Michael

 

 

Just for the sake a realism, maybe we should stick with this:

 

In 2006, the body of a 50-year-old woman was found on a conveyor belt.

 

Sort garbage, catch money and dodge corpses. When you say it out loud, it actually sounds very, very awesome.