La Creatividad: Game ideas I came up with at ~7 years old (feat. concept "art")
Rediscovered a folder with Mr. Incredible on it which turned out to contain a bunch of doodles of game ideas I drew when I was little. Each idea's represented by the game it was most influenced by/transparently ripping off (according to my memory roughly 20 years later), or a game adaptation of the series it'd be part of in cases where the point of influence wasn't necessarily a specific one. Descriptions of the ideas are in the notes, along with pictures.
7 Games
Crazy Cooks
Unsure what the title has to do with anything in retrospect, other than that I evidently liked alliteration, but I vividly remember this being a chilled out exploratory 3D platformer collectathon type of thing where you’d complete various scenarios lifted straight out of the Spongebob movie (and by extension its game) to obtain Crazy Cooks Tokens™, whose pink and orangey colour scheme was also taken from Goofy Goober’s ice cream bar. Activities you’d undertake included:
- Getting drunk on ice cream
- Survival segments where you’d fend off enemies by swinging your arms in an X motion, which I thought was really cool but couldn’t quite figure out how to draw
- Shooting enemies with rockets using a bow, complete with some cheeky objective descriptions
- Disguising yourself as a clone to sneak into their army before whipping out the rocket bow
- Getting powerups to smash up a lab in a crater filled with tubes of acid for some reason
- Surfboard racing
- Surfboard racing, but with lava
- Obligatory water levels
It's interesting that this is easily the most fleshed out one, since these sorts of 3D platformers are still way up my alley even now.
Unsure what the title has to do with anything in retrospect, other than that I evidently liked alliteration, but I vividly remember this being a chilled out exploratory 3D platformer collectathon type of thing where you’d complete various scenarios lifted straight out of the Spongebob movie (and by extension its game) to obtain Crazy Cooks Tokens™, whose pink and orangey colour scheme was also taken from Goofy Goober’s ice cream bar. Activities you’d undertake included:
- Getting drunk on ice cream
- Survival segments where you’d fend off enemies by swinging your arms in an X motion, which I thought was really cool but couldn’t quite figure out how to draw
- Shooting enemies with rockets using a bow, complete with some cheeky objective descriptions
- Disguising yourself as a clone to sneak into their army before whipping out the rocket bow
- Getting powerups to smash up a lab in a crater filled with tubes of acid for some reason
- Surfboard racing
- Surfboard racing, but with lava
- Obligatory water levels
It's interesting that this is easily the most fleshed out one, since these sorts of 3D platformers are still way up my alley even now.
Rad Rampage
Upgrading from a brown marker to coloured pencils and ink pens, this would've been a top-down co-op action game where you'd battle increasingly tough hordes of magic stickmen, minus the c, armed with magical staves. I imagine I'd have put in some kind of versus mode too, given the little "team battel!" at the top. It would've also become increasingly fantastical as you progressed, eventually leading to you playing as knights while fending off zombies and dual swordsmen miniboss guys.
Upgrading from a brown marker to coloured pencils and ink pens, this would've been a top-down co-op action game where you'd battle increasingly tough hordes of magic stickmen, minus the c, armed with magical staves. I imagine I'd have put in some kind of versus mode too, given the little "team battel!" at the top. It would've also become increasingly fantastical as you progressed, eventually leading to you playing as knights while fending off zombies and dual swordsmen miniboss guys.
Codename: Kids Next Door, feat. my original character (do not steal) Numbuh 1085192
I could've sworn the guy on the bottom here was an actual character from the show with how specific his name is, but it seems like I made him up? I assume the biggerer number just means he's strongerer than the rest. I did play Sonic Battle quite a lot at this age, so I'm guessing this was one of those "custom character saves the day while the main cast cheer him on" sorts of things.
The size of those ears. It doesn't seem to have been an accident, since I drew him again and he's still got those absolute honkers.
I could've sworn the guy on the bottom here was an actual character from the show with how specific his name is, but it seems like I made him up? I assume the biggerer number just means he's strongerer than the rest. I did play Sonic Battle quite a lot at this age, so I'm guessing this was one of those "custom character saves the day while the main cast cheer him on" sorts of things.
The size of those ears. It doesn't seem to have been an accident, since I drew him again and he's still got those absolute honkers.
Some sort of villainous beat 'em up
I loved hoaking about Newgrounds and ignoring age ratings when I was little. The cartoony violence of this and Altered Beast (which I'm pretty sure is the oldest game I own a physical copy of) really appealed to me at the time for the power fantasy sort of feeling it brought, in addition to getting me into beat 'em ups in general, so I dreamed up my own medieval sort of take on it where your enemies would have pulpy cries of pain flash up whenever you defeated them. Naturally, it would've also had co-op and eventually seen you going up against even bigger and badder dudes than yourself, complete with some absolutely chuuni dialogue. I still always plays as antiheroes or villains whenever a game lets me now, which probably goes to show that I'm not that different.
Can't remember if this more sci-fi one is at all related to this idea, but the guy in it definitely looks like he's up to no good.
I loved hoaking about Newgrounds and ignoring age ratings when I was little. The cartoony violence of this and Altered Beast (which I'm pretty sure is the oldest game I own a physical copy of) really appealed to me at the time for the power fantasy sort of feeling it brought, in addition to getting me into beat 'em ups in general, so I dreamed up my own medieval sort of take on it where your enemies would have pulpy cries of pain flash up whenever you defeated them. Naturally, it would've also had co-op and eventually seen you going up against even bigger and badder dudes than yourself, complete with some absolutely chuuni dialogue. I still always plays as antiheroes or villains whenever a game lets me now, which probably goes to show that I'm not that different.
Can't remember if this more sci-fi one is at all related to this idea, but the guy in it definitely looks like he's up to no good.
Another beat 'em up, except you could turn into a Super Saiyan
It is what is says on the tin. The transformation mechanics of Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi were great for taking that sort of power fantasy feeling I mentioned and making it tangible, and I don't think there's any primary school lad who hasn't envisioned a SS version of himself at some stage. The Legacy of Goku games probably would've blown my mind if I'd known about them at the time.
It is what is says on the tin. The transformation mechanics of Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi were great for taking that sort of power fantasy feeling I mentioned and making it tangible, and I don't think there's any primary school lad who hasn't envisioned a SS version of himself at some stage. The Legacy of Goku games probably would've blown my mind if I'd known about them at the time.
Some kind of fighting game with knights
I was really into Lego whenever I was wee and the Knights series coincided neatly with my growing interest in history at the time, which culminated in this doodle of the green and blue knights, my favourite ones, duking it out. Absolutely no idea how I knew what a brandistock was at this age.
I was really into Lego whenever I was wee and the Knights series coincided neatly with my growing interest in history at the time, which culminated in this doodle of the green and blue knights, my favourite ones, duking it out. Absolutely no idea how I knew what a brandistock was at this age.
Untitled Spongebob fighting game
Clearly based off of that sports episode that "my name's not Riiiiiiiiiiick" is from. Envious of the size of those guns, so much so that I forgot to colour in the rest of the Krabby Patty they're fighting on.
As a bonus (and thank you for reading), here's Battle for Bikini Bottom's box art as interpreted by my mum along with a picture of Patrick that she drew for me. She's still way better at art than I am.
Clearly based off of that sports episode that "my name's not Riiiiiiiiiiick" is from. Envious of the size of those guns, so much so that I forgot to colour in the rest of the Krabby Patty they're fighting on.
As a bonus (and thank you for reading), here's Battle for Bikini Bottom's box art as interpreted by my mum along with a picture of Patrick that she drew for me. She's still way better at art than I am.