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All seven games from Capy's internal game jam are now listed over on the company blog, and to a title they all sound pretty good. The Final Act has the player acting on stage to win a battle, Ferret Wings features Captain Farris the Ferret fighting against Adolph Hamster, and Jetman Adventures (above) is described as "a kind of touch screen Panzer Dragoon/Defender hybrid with Fruit Ninja influence." Yes please!

Unfortunately, these are just prototypes developed over the two-day period of a game jam, so they're all unfinished (one turn-based tactical game, for example, didn't get any further than having just one unit), and most likely unplayable by the public. But one of these might plant a seed for Capy's next title, and when that flower blossoms we'll be happy to stick our noses right in it.

JoystiqCapy posts ideas from its internal game jam, and they all sound pretty good originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As people who frequent game blogs, you no doubt think about video games all the time. We've seen plenty of threads on message boards about "wouldn't this be a great Wii game" and "the Wii needs this" and "I'd totally buy this". Now it's time to put your money where ... their ... mouths are. Hmmm.

Inappropriate-sounding idioms aside, this is where we come up with our killer Wii game ideas. What do you think needs to exist? What would sell a million copies? What would be so awesome? The Star Wars lightsaber thing is off-limits-- that idea is well and truly out in the world now. It doesn't need any more encouragement. One note-- it doesn't necessarily have to be a super-Wiimote-appropriate idea-- we'll entertain "traditional" game designs too. Apparently Nintendo is keeping an eye on popular Wii gaming sites, so you could potentially put an idea into an influential mind or two! Or you could just have fun talking about games.

JoystiqWii Warm Up: The freeform game idea topic originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Richard form AeroPause has a pretty good idea for an Xbox Live Arcade title:

The basic concepts of Fantasy Sports are so simple that any developers could make this happen with minimum damage to their wallet. It doesn't even have to be flashy, as long as its feature packed and easy to navigate. Although it would be nice to see the Xbox Live Vision Camera be incorporated, in order to send some nice words of encouragement to your foes as you bury other teams week by week.

I know what some of you are saying, "But Richard I can play Fantasy Football for free online" Yeah, I know you can, but I have played in many Fantasy Leagues and when it comes to interaction they just don't deliver because being online they have to adjust to meet everyone's needs, this is not true with Xbox Live, where everything is standardized. Heck I would pay at least 1000 MS points to play in a solid Fantasy league.
I don't know about 1000 points, but fantasy football for XBLA definitely sounds like a no-brainer. It could even be free and ad-supported. If some cubicle monkey at EA is reading this, get to work.

JoystiqGood idea of the day: XBLA Fantasy Football originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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