Taking Rob's advice and adding my own topic to the forums. So when listening to the Starr Mazer interview, I was intrigued by the merging of the point-and-click and shmup genres and wanted to know what other genre mash-ups the listeners could come up with?
I'll start. When I interviewed with Konami to be a game tester years ago, one of the questions they asked me was, "What is your favorite type of video game?"
I answered, "I like RPGs and sports games the most."
The interviewer commented that he never heard that combination before, and that got me thinking not about the individual genres, but combining them.
While I don't play them as much anymore, one of the the things I liked most about playing sports games was the career mode, if there even was one. Now take that concept and really expand it to incorporate elements of RPGs where you upgrade your characters' skills not just through combat (or playing the games in this case) but through all sorts of other methods such as interaction with other characters, side quests, and so on.
If during your career mode, your athlete makes a blunder on social media, for example, they actually lose stats. There are tons of possibilities beyond just playing a sporting event and getting better or worse throughout a season/career.
So that's my idea for a genre mashup, what about the other listeners? Any combination is fine, but the more unconventional, the better.
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