Experimental Game Ideas: Religious games. So about that, in the United States, for example, the concept of a "Christian video game" is pretty famous and well established, with titles like Super 3D Noah's Ark and Bible Adventures, among others. That doesn't mean that Christian video games are typically regarded as being good video games. But even though Japan is a Buddhist country, the concept of a video game developed by Buddhist practitioners that heavily incorporates Buddhist morality themes doesn't seem so famous. https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/9897/buddhist-video-games "Well, I don't know. Like, most video games are violent - hell, even Mario is. So... what kind of game could be a Buddhist themed non-violent game? There was a game called Your Hindu Shooter or something like that. It was a Hindu game where you had to complete various tasks to clean your chakras and such. There are Christian games where you collect animals and put them in the ark. What could a Buddhist game be like?" Well... that's why I got tired of playing video games. I'm going to be honest, I hate video games. Not so much the violent part as much as continuously playing one game after another where a single action hero runs around everywhere and doesn't learn to walk like a normal person just goes dashing into a swarm of enemies and flails a weapon haphazardly at them or shoots them all down; that part made me feel like I am doing nothing but playing the exact same few games over and over again, and it's really tiresome and I want to stop playing because THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO PLAY AND I'M SUCH A GROWN ASS THAT I WANT A BUNCH OF BUDDHIST PRACTITIONERS TO MAKE A GAME THAT HEAVILY INCORPORATES BUDDHIST MORALITY THEMES ELSE I'LL PLAY SHOPLIFTING SHOUNEN THINKING THAT THE FACT THAT THE GAME STARS A LARCENIST COMMITING A MASS SHOPLIFTING INCIDENT INSTEAD OF ACTION HERO WITH A SWORD OR A GUN OR SUPER MAGIC JUMPING POWERS NUMBER 3187 SOMEHOW MADE THE GAME SEEM REVOLUTIONARY AND A BREATH OF FRESH AIR AND THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT MY PERCEPTION OF THE QUALITY OF VIDEO GAMES AS A WHOLE. So I would wonder about the concept of Buddhist-themed video games that explores the concept of koans. Or maybe "Buddhist economics," which I realized just now as of time of writing is one reason why I came here. And, I wonder if some of my ideas I propose about a public service television commercial that says it's okay to not finish food because it makes for good biofuel and various other ideas are compatible with "Buddhist economics" or "gross national happiness" or something. Games about hacking into computer systems. Well, they would be perfectly compatible with each other. A video game is played on a computer device. And hacking into computer systems is the same thing. So, why a "dumbed-down" game where a 10 year old kid can feel like he is a master hacker by solving computer system related puzzles when in actuality the hacking in the game is plausible seeming but is a very unrealistic depiction of hacking simply for a combination of "making it fun to play" as well as safety reasons because 10 year olds have no business learning how to hack into actual computer systems and it's just an entertaining depiction of hacking in the first place. It would seem like a fun, cool game to play where you feel like you're the hero without resorting into physical assault. Because there are a whole lot more ways to solve a conflict than fighting. A game that experiments with atmospheric usage of 8 bit sound effects. So, pretty much any 8 bit game would have chiptune music blooping non-stop to convey the atmosphere, but this is a more quiet use of 8-bit sound. Like 8-bit background noises and not catchy tunes. So it could be a creeping 8-bit horror game. But the main aesthetic design issue is what the 8-bit sounds would be like. And I came up with "8-bit scent technology", basically it would be buying a set of the cheapest possible essential oils and putting them into a scent generation device, and there's "scentphones", like headphones, but for your nose, and you could basically enjoy unrealistic abstract representation smells or even have a "scent music" composition. Scent music! By the way, there are vibration vests for deaf people. Deaf people can enjoy music with vibrations. https://www.notimpossible.com/projects/music-not-impossible#:~:text=Music%3A%20Not%20Impossible%20is%20a,unique%20and%20nuanced%20music%20experience. Speaking of music, I wonder how you could have "cookie cutter" MIDI file parts to generate an entire soundtrack with as little space as possible? On a LoRa network. Could you for example... Take a selected sequence of notes and play them backwards, inverted, inverted backwards, arrange the notes one key away left or right. Take the same sequence of notes and apply a simple math algorithm filter to make it look like a completely new note sequence? Play the same notes with a different instrument? Do any other "simple trick" with your prearranged arrangements of notes? Create custom soundfonts with something like this? https://www.polyphone.io/en/documentation/tutorials/create-a-soundfont-from-scratch (This page will be updated shortly, be right back!) How do you have fun without electricity? This is inspired by the Atelier Non-Electric shop I mentioned, unfortunately, they're not in the process of making toys. I guess I will have to inspire some other future Japanese company. So, besides the obvious problem with smartphones and isolation, there's also the completely bogus claim of electromagnetic hypersensitivity which means that there is no justification for investing in mechanical McDonald's ordering kiosks which would do the job just as well without unnecessarily using biofuel! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity But even to paranoid families who are scared of AI art and such, how do you give their children a future? Well, this is a computer game from the 1960's! Dr. Nim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KABcmczPdg Because it's a mechanical computer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer And if you made very tiny mechanical parts, you could make a quite complex computer game that's hours of fun without any electricity. Maybe just clockwork. But my current ideas are with electronic computer programming like JavaScript, I don't know anything about mechanical computers. And I'd like to learn about composing sheet music through MIDI and such, I'm not willing to play a live instrument. Unless an educational mechanical MIDI music box could be made which plays the piano for you? But I wanted instruments other than the piano, such as Japanese musical instruments. Nevermind. Oh, and uneaten leftovers at McDonald's, Sukiya and MOS Burger are biofuel. Please call superiors such as top CEOs about this.