New Challenge
October 30th, 2006 by Pierre-Alexandre Garneau
This week’s random theme is a woozy — the most challenging on my “list of random themes”. I hoped it’d come up later, but randomness being what it is, I got it this week.
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- Theme: Wine Tasting
This is about as inappropriate for video games as it come. Games are good with sight, sound and even touch (with rumbling controllers), but have nothing for taste and smell. Wine tasting, on the other hand, is all about taste and smell. Obviously, a game based on virtually tasting and evaluating wine isn’t going to work…
So, why did I put that theme in my list in the first place? The whole idea of a game based on tasting wine comes from an interview Yu Suzuki (the guy who created Virtua Fighter and Shenmue among others) had years ago with the now defunct Next Generation magazine. In it, he talked about his hobbies and how it influenced his work. He mentioned he liked wine tasting and that there probably was a way to make a game out of that. If Yu Suzuki thinks he can make a game out of that, then it deserved to be on my list.
Of course, now I’m stuck with having to find a good game idea… Whatever it is, it should be unique. Come back tomorrow when, hopefully, I will have thought of something.
Crap.
If I was you I’d give up on this one.
But you are not me, so I think that you’ll think of something great.
I’ll Read you.