Battle Royale is old as fuck but just in case I'll give a quick synopsis. The movie follows a group of high schoolers as they are roped into the Battle Royale, a death game that takes place on a deserted island. The idea is that each student has an explosive collar on their neck and they must kill their fellow students until only one remains. If they fail to achieve this goal by the end of a number of days then every ones neck bombs detonate and they all die. At the start of the film they are all given a bag with a number of tools and a random weapon and then they are let loose on each other. It's a really good movie and I'd suggest that you go watch it if you haven't already.
Why has no one considered making a game based around this concept?! In an age where multiplayer shooting games and roguelikes are stupid popular you think a game like this would be in a good position for a video game adaptation. The best part is that it wouldn't even have to follow the movie that closely strictly speaking.
You could just have the player on an island with a randomly generated set of equipment running around trying to kill other players. The layout of the island could be random as well as the equipment and survival elements such as finding food/water and other resources could be a core part of the game play. If you did want to follow the movie you could give players the option to band together and try and beat the game itself but then there would have to be some kind of meta game going on to stop people just doing this every fucking time.
My rough idea probably isn't all that good but I imagine if a group of talented developers sat down and thought about it a Battle Royale game (or game with a similar theme) would be really fun. Playing a game like this online would also be really fun I imagine so I'm hoping someone stumbles on this post and steals the idea.
Probably not though, I'll keep dreaming.
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