The game I’d like is I wear a camera and you see what I see and you tell me what to do and if your smart you tell me how to make money and I pay you a cut
Jackpot.
lol, I’ve had very similar ideas. I think this is the sort of thing that’s really just becoming feasible with the rise of VR and the falling costs of camera and pocket computer (cell phones).
I see a ton of potential for a sort of real-open-world rpg but there are a ton of challenges. How does the player control the ‘character’ (you)? My thoughts were vibrating pads for direction control triggered by the player pressing direction keys / joystick directions. Probably received via cellphone / arduino but what about more complex commands. “Pick this up” “Slap that punk” “Trade that stock at $1.64 / share.” It almost seems like you would also need some sort of google glass style AR overlay or more cheaply just an audio feed from the player so they can just tell you what to do.
Also, shit man, don’t you have like a real job to do that prevents you from letting someone use your body as an avatar. No way is someone going to “take you over” and spend their time making money. They are going to want to experiment and see what they can get you to do / what kind of situations they can get into. People play games to escape work, not to work for someone else. Maybe you’d have something in the third world market though, they can use you to work remotely at a job they wouldn’t be able to get normally. Seems like a special kind of hell though. Imagine having an office job and not even getting to use your brain, literally just carrying out commands for 8 hours a day. No thanks.
Also from a game monetization angle it’s completely impossible. You can only have as many people playing at one time as the number of physical avatars that are available. So now you’re paying a whole work force + the normal infrastructure costs associated with making a networked game. Also there can’t really be any saving of progress unless avatars are going to just sit around 24/7 waiting for the player to pick it back up so they can be right where they left off.
Ok, maybe I’m way over thinking this, but it’s a fun thought experiment. Definitely something I’d like to play with one day, but impossible to do at scale I’d say. (unless maybe being an avatar is really fun and people volunteer? idk)