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Another season of Firefly
EDIT: Or however many seasons it takes to wrap up the story properly. Also, I'll pay the original actors however much it takes to join the project. And I'll pay makeup artists and VFX artists however much it takes to make it appear like they haven't aged.
Maybe Sarah Connor Chronicles as well. That show ended on a cliffhangwr without resolution.
Yes. Do a "Southpark" Eric Cartman. Make 5 seasons of Firefly and let know one see it.
Rumors will fly. Anticipation will build.
Lets a small numer of people see parts. Allow the rich to bribe me for access. Pay for other projects with the money. Charge enough that people only dpeak glowingly about it.
Release the whole thing for free.
I’d fund the final three season of The Expanse.
And pay for the Elite Dangerous developers to better support simulators.
I'd hate Bezos a little bit less if he greenlit a season or two of the expanse to round off the last 3 books :o
Give the original disco elysium team a blank check to do anything they want.
Doesn't need to be a game, books, art, whatever. That team was lightning in a bottle.
I'd fund Larian to create and release creator tools for custom campaigns for their BG3 engine. Then let the community do its thing. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good for a general D&D video game engine.
I'd also request a sequel/DLC for BG3. Specifically, going to hell in search of a heart...
They did. The tools they released can "accidentally" be "hacked" easily to enable all needed features.
See https://youtube.com/@lotrichexe4860 for some work in progress videos of a custom campaign.
Wing commander, Freespace.
Games of this genre are completely dead. I'd love another decent mission based space flight game.
Kerbal Space Program / Factorio / Stellaris crossover
Key elements would include:
-design a factory/macro-economy to produce aerospace components & weapons similar to Factorio
-using those components, design vehicles that obey real-ish physical laws similar to KSP
-arm those vehicles and use them as units in Real Time Strategy with the option to take First Person control of individual units
~~Mumm~~ Vimes: A Discworld Story. As a series planned with a fixed amount of seasons and as close to the books as possible.
A „The forever war“ movie would also be very interesting. Or a „Hyperion“ series.
Personally I'd love to recreate The Walking Dead but I'd want it made much more realistic, slow paced and with less pointless action scenes. I'd want the zombies being the only unrealistic thing on the entire show. It would focus much more on the survival aspect of the zombie apocalypse. It would show things like loot-runs and base building in much greater detail. Instead of the flashy highlights it would be more about the mundane life in the apocalypse. There would be entire episodes where "nothing" happens.
I imagine it would be an extremely boring show for the vast majority of people, but the tiny niche audience of zombie fanatics like myself would absolutely love it. I'd let other people watch it for free (because why not) but it would be made entirely according to my personal preferences with no regard for how it would be received by others.
An X-Wing and TIE Fighter remake. Yeah, there's the TFTC, but the X-Wing Alliance engine is pretty dated as well. And who knows how far along XWVM is. Why do none of these projects ever get developed as open source?
I'd like to see a foss micro kernal GNUHurd become as mature as linux.
I'd like a serious focus on linux distro and kernel security so I'd fund research and development on those areas.
I'd happily finance another Dredd movie with Garland and Urban working on it.
Double movie trilogy of Star Craft and Brood War filmed back-to-back so there’s one every year for 6 years.
Just started reading through Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy and it feels tailor-made for a game adaptation where the player is a Mistborn for hire before the events of the first book.
Spoilers from the first book
The magic system is well-defined and the noble factions are all there with their own headquarters. Traversal would be the perfect hybrid of Assassin's Creed and Spiderman, running over rooftops and swinging from metal fixtures throughout Luthadel with iron and steel.
I imagine combat feeling like Breath of the Wild where the player can burn tin to slow down time, allowing the player to perform coin shots, dodge attacks, etc. Pewter increases damage and iron pulls weapons, coins, or enemies themselves if wearing armour. Zinc could allow skaa to be rioted, attacking nearby enemies on the player's behalf whilst brass could be used for stealth.
Areas the player could access at any given time could be limited via soothing stations and metal availability. The mist itself would even allow the developers to keep draw distance down and prevent players from travelling too far outside the city grounds until the story permits.
Sonic Adventure 3 with Chao Garden
A roguelike deck builder but with real time combat similar to Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
Black and White 3
Knights of the Old Republic 3
I would buy the Warcraft IP from Blizzard, just Warcraft.
I would lobby to bring back as many of the original developers and creative designers as possible into the newly formed Warcraft Company, including Chris Metzen and Russell Brower. (Though, some of those people would be made to sign formal apologies for doing nothing about the dudebro culture that was systemic inside Blizzard long before they got bought out.)
The goal would be to basically remaster the entire RTS franchise using modern hardware and software while keeping as close as possible to the original spirit of the games. Then continue the RTS franchise using the story from the MMO.
The MMO would be recreated from scratch using modern understanding and a modular, highly-adaptable architecture to prevent the duct tape and baling wire situation the current WoW has. The game itself would now feature story content going all the way back to the first Warcraft game. Each “chapter” of Warcraft lore would be a self contained experience that players could stay in forever or progress to the next arc in the overarching tale. There would be simple, single baseline cost for subscribing that included everything so you can decide for yourself which parts to play.
Measures would be taken to make the MMO just as fun and satisfying for casual players as it is for professional gamers. No more pay to jump ahead or even pay to get things that can’t be gotten by regular players. Using real money in-game would probably be completely eliminated. And the Warcraft Company would take an active role in preventing gaming addition and council existing players who needed help.
Outside of the games, other merchandise like art books and novels would reflect and complement the lore of the series to give people even more stuff to learn about and enjoy.
Movies and TV in particular would be a strong focus. A whole new movie series based on the parent games would be made with the same care as the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
(For the record, I like the existing Warcraft movie. But today, it could be done a lot better.)
And TV series would be made to tell more detailed stories about lesser-known events or to follow unique characters through well known events and see their unique takes.
All multimedia content would be free to stream for active subscribers to the online game.
Apps would be made to help players manage their games and access associated multimedia. There would also be an app to help gamers manage their time playing so they don’t overdo it but are still able to participate in limited events they care about.
Then… a theme park!
(I honestly think that if someone went forward with this proposal with reckless abandon that it actually would turn a profit.)
If I could say "Here's 84 billion dollars, we're fuckin' doing this..."
We're doing a Battletech cinematic universe, and it's gonna be awesome. We'll start with a trilogy of 100 minute movies based on each of the books in the Grey Death Saga and see what we do from there.
And we're gonna do it as practically as possible. You know how for Empire Strikes Back they built a life size Millennium Falcon? We're doing that at least for mechs that aren't going to move much, for static shots with the actors.
A reboot of Firefly ans Farscape.
I'd buy Magic The Gathering and just make it less greedy
I want to make an 8-bit rpg in the vein of Final Fantasy set in Mesoamerica.
In the beginning you select classes/characters based on historical roles from the region. The class choice designates party roles and gives access to skills that are manually input via arrow keys or d-pad. Those skills drain a stamina resource that is refilled in combat.
I want a magic system that resembles Metaphor Refantasio. Completing achievements/challenges characters unlock forms (stored in mirrors) based on Mesoamerican mythology that give access to spells that use mana points as a resource and a limit break transformation. There will be twenty forms, one for each symbol in the Tonalpolhualli.
I want to write it in Lua so I can give it Balatro like bells and whistles. Or JavaScript because this whole thing is a total fantasy.
Yeah, I would buy the rights to Kerbal Space Program and Dungeons and Dragons and just make it all free and make the KSP2 we all deserved. Then I'd fund a professional SCP cinematic universe, it basically has to be free because it's a licensing mess of community creations but there are so many stories in it worthy of being part of a high budget serialized cinematic universe.
If moneys truly no object, then buy the Fallout IP, build a new engine with a creation kit that all actually works and is made with ease and stability of modding in mind and then make a high fantasy game with the same engine and let people go nuts. Downvote me if you want but I don't think TES is inherently a good enough fantasy IP (the games have always been better than the central unique overarching plot) to be worth not just starting something new, or better yet, tie it in with the D&D IP I bought earlier.
A high-art movie where practical effects are used extensively so there are no characters shown. All you hear is their voices and the physical effect on the scene from their actions. Imagine a movie and edit out the people. There would be no known actors used, so the viewer is left to imagine what each character looks like. Voice actors would be selected with as many as possible that don't look like they sound.
It would later be followed up with interviews with the actors. Between the two aspects it could be used as a tool of introspection to understand your biases in perception of others.
It would be such a financial loss, there is zero chance it would ever make money.
In 2011, there was a lightly steam-punk (Davinci-punk?) Three Musketeers movie with a villanous Orlando Bloom that set up for a sequel. We never got that sequel because only I liked it. It was, by no means, high art. I just like Alexander Dumas.
Would.love to see a series starting with Alexander the great. but turning into a game of thrones type deal with the war of the Diodochi.
the intrigue and settings would be amazing
the battles would be great
Does anyone remember "Advent Rising" back from the first Xbox and windows live? That was supposed to be a trilogy but was canned after the first game. I'd love to see that remade and continued!
Stargate SG-1.
Not Atlantis, with their star trek uniforms. Not Universe with their angst and jeans.
Hard, military professionals jaunting through wormholes into alien words they don't comprehend and won't really try to, fucking up local politics and delicate galactic power balances alike in their incessant hunt for really big fucking guns, and Baal clones.
A book accurate Dark Tower series. I would love to see the Gunslinger in action.
Ann McCaffrey's Pern series. Teleporting time traveling retro futuristic dragons.
Probably followed by either Footfall, invading octopus elephants, or Ringworld. Which is Halo with 2 headed 3 legged 1 hoof snakes.
I'd make Eragon as a series, but actually good this time. I like the universe.
GNU Theft Auto
I'd want to do a series of shows based on the chapters from World War Z
A sequel to Ex Machina - Ava's experiences in the real world. Caleb has managed to escape, and he's tracking her.
An open world TMNT game based on the original 90’s movie. It was dark and gritty and the perfect playground to fight the foot from the shadows.
KSP rewrite from scratch with a custom engine.
Super stoked about KSA :)
Um, I'm gonna reveal my age here and say that it's a crime the old Dragonlance fantasy series was never made into a movie. It's perfect.
buy Electronic Arts
fire everyone exec and up
go private
seek to rehire all of criterion (the real one that made burnout, not the shell today) and black box circa 2000-2008ish
NFS Underground 3
become worlds richest person
seek to rehire all of Bizzare Creations (the makers of Project Gotham Racing, and Blur)
reboot development of Blur 2
become an internet hero for reviving two of the most anticipated racing games in decades
try to buy Ivory Tower, ubisoft doesn't let me, buy ubisoft, end it
become internet hero for killing a bastard of a studio
relaunch Test Drive Unlimited, as an actually good game and not the sack of shit it is currently
no mtx, no paid dlc, no various editions or pre-order shit, full game, $50 max
internet hero
be assassinated by cooperation between MS, Sony and Nintendo
as a ghost: so about Half Life 3...
released
post-mortem internet hero
I still am not over 1899 getting canned. I wanted to see where that went so bad
Edit: remake of bungie’s Myth series, not by current day Bungie though
Film series of The Black Company, or the Darkstar Trilogy
TV limited series adaptations of The Culture novels. Amazon obviously made a start before giving up but they picked absolutely the wrong one to start with.
Yes Consider Phlebus is the first chronologically but a TV series where you have to replace the main character every episode does not work when you are already trying to adapt a very difficult IP.
Player of Games is where you want to begin. Clear storyline, no tricky time/universe/world jumps. Spends most of the time in an Earth-esque civilization. If you can successfully adapt PoG then you can try something more challenging like Phlebus or Use of Weapons.
KSP 2.
It was mismanaged, underfunded, and understaffed.
I'd scrap the mess they have now, hire an appropriate number of people to work on the game, and give them as much time as they need to get it right.
Uniracers 2
I'd buy controlling share of all three companies that own Pokemon and change absolutely nothing except fund Game Freak to hire more software talent and give them enough time for an actual development cycle worth a damn.
Farscape.
Modern visuals, Muppets, a team of good writers and the core cast returning could be really good. Black and Browder wouldn't be too old yet to make the characters work.
That chaotic universe could provide so many posibilities to explore if done right.
