Okay, so here me out:
I was busy playing with the idea of a water gun game in my head, and it went like this: It’s a 3rd person shooter where you spray your opponents until they’re become “soaked”, at which point you run up to them and whack them with a melee attack to send them flying off the arena Smash-Bros style. It could be played in a 4-player multiplayer mode, with various game modes like deathmatch and king of the hill, or it could be played single-player with waves of enemies spawning in to be eliminated.
I posted the idea on Bluesky, but then a friend of mine commented something about how he wished more people were interested in weight gain games that weren’t visual novels or rpgs. That comment got me thinking how this game could use some roundness to them…
So when you blast enemies with water, in this version you pump them up and bloat them into walking water balloons, at which point you can whack them outta the ring. But be careful! Being bloated isn’t the end; they can still shoot you and whack you out too!
Other ideas:
Different gun types (fast but mid water pistols, strong but heavy water cannons, instant inflation water balloons, etc.)
Water elements of the arena (i.e. pools that cause you to fill up partially if you walk into them but bloat you to maximum fullness if you jump in and splash yourself)
Unique character archetypes like TF2 (a heavy and powerful character, a light but fast character, etc.)
Thoughts, ideas, possible volunteering to make this game for free just because you want to support the idea? Leave it down below~