Yesterday I tried the one-Like Twitter meme thing:
OK, one â¤ď¸Like = one old đUsVsTh3m idea from my notes.txt file
— Matt Round (@mattround) December 8, 2016
(while stocks last; some will be terrible; really good ones will be withheld)
Contrary to what many say, ideas arenât worthless, but if youâre doing creative work you should aim to make them almost worthless by having far more than you can ever use. So hereâs an almost worthless list of daft ideas, maybe one of themâll inspire something interesting.
- WIN ÂŁ1000000 (in binary) - give away 64 quid and make some unobservant people angry
- 3D Monster Maze 2014 - recreate the ZX81 classic using photos of someone in crap dinosaur suit in hedge maze
- Emergency Offline Internet Kit - Zip file of single-user Twitter, crap Wikipedia articles, etc
- DUMP Magazine - printable publication aimed at people who are on the toilet, with toilet-themed content
- Four Candles - a topic-based index of videos of all Two Ronnies sketches
- Head Balls, Ed Balls - politican-related footy sim
- Clash of the CyberKittens - reactions-based shoot-out, when you win share your performance to challenge others
- Celebrikit - identikit thing using facial features of celebs from photo archive
- You Canât Do Your Tax Return Under Pressure
- Swearfighter - beat-em-up where you have to type swears to attack, canât repeat them so gets tricky
- Design A Kitten - create your perfect cute animated fwuffball & share it
- Top Shelf or Bottom Shelf? - is the cropped photo from a porn mag or one of those puzzle mags that always have a woman on the cover for some reason
- Northometer redone for Game of Thrones
- Play Your Shards Right - is each building higher or lower than the previous one?
- Meme Therapy - problem page where the replies are always based around prescribing & over-analysing internet memes
- Fatty Mush - Candy Crush clone but featuring greasy fried foods, unhealthy-looking characters & belching sounds
- How Optimistic Are You? - just asks what you think youâll score in a quiz, and thatâs your score
- Sandwich Construction Simulator - build up the layers, share and rate them
- Realistic London Simulator - pick some common minor annoyance and make the player experience it repeatedly until they give up
- Realistic Countryside Simulator - nothing happens but it looks lovely
- Gallery of imaginary friends - user-submitted hand-drawn pics and descriptions
- KNN, Kitten News Network - take a news feed of text & pics and present it automatically with animated kittens & meowing audio
- Ballbearing shooty game Crossfire for 2 players on a phone
- Something about Culture Club on The A Team, it was so bloody weird Iâm still not 100% convinced it actually happened
- Lorem ipsum typing game
- Message In A Bottle - submit a message, wait a while to get one back that someone else wrote (or fib & have disturbing presets?)
- Gauntlet clone but level layout consists of letters of your Twitter username & monsters are your followers
- Online Auld Lang Syne - submit pic of yourself with arms crossed to join ever-growing chain. Terrible singing plays on loop
- Worldâs Fastest Sloth - try to make a sloth travel 10m as fast as possible, maybe with QWOP-like controls
- Weightwatcher - shown photos, guess weight, analyse results to spot gender biases etc of player & people in general
- Worldâs Biggest Time-waster - hold down button, shows how much time youâve wasted, position in chart and total time wasted by everyone so far
- Death masks quiz - name the famous faces, dark & stylish presentation
- Are You A NIMBY? - asks how youâd feel about various things being put next to your home, everyone ends up a NIMBY
- Darkest Moments In Animation - all from The Plague Dogs
- Whereâs Your Nearest Hellmouth? - shows a nearby location on Google Maps with animated demons spewing out
- You Canât Edit Copy Under Pressure
- International Clickbait Day - âYou wonât believe whatâs going to happenâ
- How Long Is Your Sausage? - keep the wobbling, ever-growing sausage away from sharp edges, tweet âMy sausage is X.Ym long!â
- One of those Christmassy log fire videos, but someone then starts burning presents, sobs, etc. Make it go on for hours
- Medieval Monk Simulator 1307
- Spoiler Bomb - make hundreds of movie/TV spoilers fly up the screen
- Make those sliding tile puzzles from your own GIFs
- Whoâs Your Patron Saint? - enter job & hobbies, get saints & descriptions of their weird lives
- Stare-out game - detect blinking on webcam?
- Virtual scratchcards with crap virtual prizes
- Sherlockâs Or Bollocks? - is it a case mentioned in the Holmes stories, or made-up nonsense?
- Ecommerce sweatshop game - drag and drop to frantically fill the virtual shelves in run-up to Christmas
- Weather app using stupid GIFs
- Do something with binaural audio (game? crossing road with just audio? Escape from maze?)
- George Osborne Virtual Pet - feed him Byron burgers, work on budget, phone mummy, etc
- How BASIC Are You? - as in the programming language
- Fax It Up - upload pic/text, send URL to someone, pic comes through slowly as glitchy pixellated fax
- How Much Is Your Body Worth? - based on its chemical composition of minerals etc
- Can you tap along perfectly to the Friends claps?
- Blatantly rehash my Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? quiz
- How Much Do They Earn? - try to guess wages from photos, analyse biases
- 2 player tug-of-war game for phones
- The Singing Ringing Tree as a weird Mario game
- Animal poo quiz
- A chat room that only lets you swear, you canât say anything else. Would end up weirdly inoffensive
- Guess your age from apps on your phone home screen
- GIFTV - make a âTV channelâ showing your selection of GIFs
- Are You Sex-Obsessed? - vague double-entendre instructions make the player inevitably draw/click/type rude things
- Googlifier - stick googly eyes on pics, shake phone/mouse to make them jiggle
- Realistic Conkers Simulator - must feature tangling and stampsies
- Horrorscope - enter your DOB, get a gruesome over-the-top prediction of how youâll die
- Pac-Man but in The Shiningâs maze
- Award-o-matic - give yourself a ridiculous mundane accolade, along the lines of Rear of the Year, Spectacle Wearer of the Year, etc
- Crapper Mapper 2: Eclectic Bog-or-loo
9th December, 2016