A game where the moon helps at the darkest hour, the sun helps always but maybe not as much.
Has a deep message where the everything is good when it's light out because everything is bright and happy but when the sun goes away and it becomes night time only the moon can help the main protagnast at the darkest point.
Maybe have it to where monsters come out during the night and you are on an adventure exploring the landscape and killing monsters that come out during the night.
The setting is a post-apocalyptic futuristic world that you have to explore.
A 2D Side-Scroller adventure game with art being a major factor.
The art would be contrasting art in which the landscape is pure black with paralax scrolling in the background. Maybe having loading in between segments or exploring be riding a bike, car, train, or plane. Objective
The objective of the game is to get to the haven city where people collect and are fighting the monsters that are past the city limits. Having it so that less monsters appear the closer you get to the city but the stronger they get. The monsters spawn in the dark and are stronger in darkness but light slows them down.
Sound attracts the monsters.
Monsters cannot spawn in light.
Monsters can be killed with fighting or weapons or explosions and can drop loot from what they used to be (Maybe make monsters Xenomorphic or Zombielike?) Once you get to the city you can always go back out and explore, try to make the game an open-world game with the ability to update to unlock new segments of the map and so that the game can be forever growing. Weapons could be tiered so that as you advance through the game you're not underpowered.
Before the world was shredded to pieces, all the countries of the world were at peace, or at least it seemed. 193 countries all signed an Armistace agreement in which they followed, at least they were expected to do so. However, there was still wars between countries, just silenced. Still violence between groups of people, just quieted away. This period was aliased The Armistace War.
Although no war was actively waging, many people still fought for their nationality. The people fought over Jerusalem and although it seemed as if everything was peaceful to other countries outside of those bordering Israel. The countries in central and southern Africa fought many, many hidden wars and they were hushed away so that people could be ignorant and happy.
Such as the 18th century poet Thomas Gray once said, "Tis' ignorance is bliss, tis' folly to be wise."
Then one day a meteor shower passing by Earth made a nuclear missile defense system go off, alerting other missile defense systems reaking havick accross the globe. No one was to blame for this and in the end every nuke was launched asyncronously...
In the end the only survivors were those from small rural towns, which built from the ruins to become the biggest cities of them all while the big cities like New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and the like all got destroyed and are in ruins...
50 years later you emerge from a bunker, the child of preppers who grew up all their life in that bunker...
Although you survived the blast and must get to those newfound cities as fast as possible without dying of the monsters around you.
THE END
You start in the bunker that had just been infiltrated in the middle of the night by the creatures of the outside world. You've lived their all your life. You were born there. You go through the bunker looking for a way out and are presented with a choice at the exit, either to kill your mother pr yourself...
Choice 1: You grab the knife and kill yourself, the game goes to a white screen and says You Lost (or did you)...
Choice 2: You grab the knifen and run away from the bunker and everything their including your now dead parents into an unbeknownst world to you and start your adeventure.
From then on you find a car dealership that closed down with people in it who tell you what has happened and give you a car after you tell them about what you saw and the bunker full of food, water, and shelter. This starts your adventure in the car to find gas, gas stations, generators, and car plugs (it's an electric truck with a generator in the back). A maximum of 3 generators can go on the truck. After this you just go left to go to the cities and fight creatures to get past obstacles.
A medium-ish game I'm thinking about making...
I just really need art to create a parallax landscape so that might take a while unless I can find some in the public domain