Rock Of The Dead

This week's game is from NMJ:

Rock of the Dead. It's like rock band or guitar hero except the behind the fret board stream there are zombies playing instruments in various states of decay. Also, all song lyrics are rewritten in Zombie language; that is to say grunts.

Zombies! They're the old new pirates! I find them to be legitimately unsettling- what with that whole dehumanized mob thing- so I chose to use silhouettes. The less I have to draw them, the less I have to ponder my own mortality. I could rationalize that drawing a zombie personalizes it and personalized zombies are vampires. I respect you too much to lie. After wussing out so painfully, I pretty much had locked myself into something more stark and iconic.

Would I play this game? Until I got bored consistently winning. It would be like Rock Band on Triple Easy. Easierest. Or playing early The Beatles. OH! Weird Burn!

Spelling Champion: Earn My Love

The first Made Up Video Game is from Mr. Stephen H. He writes of his idea:

My game is "Spelling Champion:  Earn My Love."

You play the part of a parent or guardian raising and training your child to be a spelling-bee world champion.  The game contains little to no actual spelling, but a great deal of telling your son he will never be good enough.  Pit your daughter against her peers in the district championship!  Have her wander the neighborhood, matching wits with strangers!  Have your little one skip an entire weekend of sleep to run flash cards!

It's like Pokemon... but with terrified human children!

And here's what I came up with: 

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A little bit Imagine Babiez. A little bit Ingmar Bergman. A lot of text. In fact, every National Spelling Bee winning word since 1925 is in there... somewhere. I wanted to make this look as dreary and uninviting as possible because- let's face it- only overly eager grandmothers are buying this. And maybe nihilists.

Would I play this? Only politely.

Got A Great Video Game Idea?

Well, I can't help you.

But I can draw your fake video game's box art!

Email Me or leave a note here with the title and a short description of your best and/or worst non-existing video game. We can make such questionable decisions together.

I'll be posting the weekly box art every Saturday so hurry up and gimme your stuff.