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gerrymandering game genre boundaries to create a new "little guys you must keep safe" category that includes Lemmings, Pikmin, Chu Chu Rocket, etc
May 25 at 8:19pmWeb
Show threadJPMay 26
[suddenly growing a flowing gray beard] what if the little guys you must keep safe... were the workers of the world...
Show threadVideo Game KingMay 26
@jplebreton I guess this really only works if you, too, are one of the workers, as opposed to some transcendent figure marshaling them from without. In other words: Pikmin, but with MMO raids, somehow.
Show threadjazz mickle (NOT rip bgz)May 26
@jplebreton what if you could talk to the workers
Show threadJPMay 26
@jazz "... form alliances... yes, now that would be interesting."
Show threadDeveloping Stacy May 25

@jplebreton

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Show threadplayer_03May 25
@jplebreton The "escort mission but better" genre.
Show threadLachlan CooperMay 25
@jplebreton World of Goo too
Show threadErinMay 25
@jplebreton The Sims: *Eric Andre Let Me In Meme*
Show threadFarbsMay 25
@jplebreton Cannon Fodder?
Show threadJPMay 25
@Farbs feel like the degree to which the little guys can fight for themselves is critical (inversely) to the protective feelings - pikmin can fight, but they still feel so fragile.
Show threadFarbsMay 25
@jplebreton Agreed, though I think the point of Cannon Fodder was that everyone is fragile.
Show threadJPMay 26
@Farbs very cool unique angle, with the song and everything!
Show threadnaught101May 25
@jplebreton simcity
Show threadIrenes (many)May 26
@jplebreton oh yeah tbh
Show threadpancelorMay 26
@jplebreton zoombinis!
Show threadæon May 31
@jplebreton I remember 90s magazines calling these "save-'em-ups"
Show threadSephMay 31
@jplebreton Also, arguably, go.