Million dollar idea is co-op games that a streamer can play with their chat, at scale. Like, everyone in the chat can log on and operate a giant factory, or command an army, or something.
You'd need some kind of diminishing returns and hierarchical gameplay to get it to work, but as a proof of concept, imagine something like C&C Renegade, with the FX stripped down to accommodate anyone with a toaster and a fixed pool of resources divvied up among a team's players according to the streamer in charge. You could give giant mecha to your half-dozen viewers, or you could spawn in your thousand or so viewers as light infantry and manually pilot a land battleship alongside them, or something. Viewers could get matched into multi-crew vehicles and make friends with each other.
As a proof of concept, maybe some kind of hack of Supreme Commander where every unit you train gets controlled by a different person in your stream.
Minecraft Youtubers had a ton of success with this general concept, starting their own servers and letting the 10 year olds run wild or build megaprojects for their 'king'.
You'd need some kind of diminishing returns and hierarchical gameplay to get it to work, but as a proof of concept, imagine something like C&C Renegade, with the FX stripped down to accommodate anyone with a toaster and a fixed pool of resources divvied up among a team's players according to the streamer in charge. You could give giant mecha to your half-dozen viewers, or you could spawn in your thousand or so viewers as light infantry and manually pilot a land battleship alongside them, or something. Viewers could get matched into multi-crew vehicles and make friends with each other.
As a proof of concept, maybe some kind of hack of Supreme Commander where every unit you train gets controlled by a different person in your stream.
Minecraft Youtubers had a ton of success with this general concept, starting their own servers and letting the 10 year olds run wild or build megaprojects for their 'king'.
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In the original command and conquer a lot of units tend to die so each player might log in only to last a few seconds or a few minutes or journey all the way to the enemy only to be shot down and lose control of their one piece they control
You might need a way for them to control another piece when their piece is destroyed
