More on #diseasedobesewombat

In a prior post, I included an example that incorporated a fake game:

For example, let's say that a new game comes out called Diseased Obese Wombat. All of a sudden, DOW becomes the most popular game on the planet, Fred Wilson and Michael Arrington are investing in it, and even non-tech publications (yes, there are non-tech publications) are talking about it. And since Peter, Craig, Kim, and Steve are all playing it, I start playing it too.

And things go fine - for a few months.

But after a while, Peter drops out to start playing the American Idol retro game, and Kim drops out because she has gotten really interested in the Pink Floyd Wall game. Craig and Steve also drop out of DOW, but it's unclear whether they're playing a new game, or whether they're doing something work-related that they can't talk about.

So you've run off to adopt a new social game to play with your friends, and after a while you're all alone.

Of course, now that I've come up with this example, it's imperative that I come up with a game called Diseased Obese Wombat.

To do this, I need to look at games that have been successful in the past.

Let's start with Pong. A paddle that can only move in one dimension is positioned to hit a bouncing object.

Then we moved to Pac Man. Now the game piece can move in two dimensions - and eat little pellet thingies.

Super Mario Brothers is another two-dimensional game baed upon the House of Pain song "Jump Around."

Farmville qualifies as three dimensions, I guess, since the crops go toward the sky.

And that leads us to Angry Birds, in which birds are shot at objects. As far as I know, PETA hasn't objected to the game itself, but it's used it to mount protests against Kentucky Fried Chicken.

With games like that, it's obvious that a game called Diseased Obese Wombat would be hugely successful.

So here's my proposed gameplay:

THERE ARE TWO FORCES, A GREEN FORCE AND A BLUE FORCE, TRYING TO KILL A WOMBAT. THE GREEN FORCE IS TRYING TO KILL THE WOMBAT BY INTRODUCING VARIOUS DISEASES. THE BLUE FORCE IS TRYING TO RESIST THESE ATTEMPTS, BUT IS MOUNTING ITS OWN ATTEMPTS TO STUFF THE WOMBAT UNTIL IT DIES OF OBESITY. THE GREEN FORCE THINKS THIS IS UNENLIGHTENED, AND IS THEREFORE GETTING THE WOMBAT TO EXERCISE AND LOSE WEIGHT BY RUNNING THROUGH SMALLPOX-INFESTED AREAS. TO PLAY DISEASED OBESE WOMBAT, YOU JOIN ONE OF THESE TWO FORCES AND TRY TO KILL THE WOMBAT.

Copyright April 4, 2013 by John E. Bredehoft. All rights reserved. Send me billions of dollars for my game idea.