How about a cyber war game, where each player is in a basement of a house, and all houses exist in a futuristic but slightly ruined land. The game is endless with no true game over or victory, allowing for extended playtime, and with a VIP server you can choose between a Customizable server (Game can be configured by server owner, but data doesn’t save) and a Regular server (Game cannot be configured and data saves but with a slight percent of Crypto income removed).
Mechanics and gameplay
In the basement, there is a table, a computer monitor, keyboard, mouse, and tower, as well as some essentials, like a WI-FI Router. The PC setup and router is slightly trashed, but it’ll do. Using your setup plus your current WIFI router, you can access the internet.
In the internet, you can find free and paid programs in the ExecStore, like:
- Anti-Viruses - Adds digital defenses and will effectively remove viruses varying on quality.
- Cryptominers - Enables your setup to produce Crypto, and depending on your setup you will produce more Crypto.
- Lua Engines - Similar to Lua runtimes you can get realistically, but has a different spin in features. Some enabling wait(), some allowing RTTP Requests.
- Code Editors - Implements certain Syntax and shortcuts. Purely convenience.
Free programs (referred ingame as Freeware) do not cost money, but the more you download Freeware, the more likely your computer will accidentally install a virus.
Paid programs (referred ingame as Paidware) cost a hefty amount of crypto, but they are less likely to be a virus, and are more likely to be higher quality.
All programs will be generated randomly, and reviews will be pointers for if you should download a program. If a new program’s date of upload is very recent, you can bookmark the program’s page to eventually download the program when enough reviews are generated (Bookmarks would be a gamepass exclusive).
Some programs will require being programmed by players themselves. RTTP Requests are a viable way of attacking other players if said other players are using the internet, although players with specific anti-viruses will be invincible.
Oh, and don’t forget, although you can go outside, the electric fields are too strong for organic instances to survive outside, and will kill you.
Hopefully, this branches off as a really good game!