What is this?

My name’s Lars Doucet. I’m a game developer, analyst, and writer. Over the past twenty years or so I’ve come up with more ideas than I’ll ever be able to bring to life.

So instead of hoarding them until I’m too old (or too dead) to do anything with them, I’m just going to write them all up on this site. Feel free to steal them, that’s the entire point of what I’m doing here.

Ideas so far

• Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick 2
• Luddites in Space
• Block Broker
• Blobble Royale

TODO:

• Barter Royale
• Dragon Pants series
• Dragon Pants Royale
• Ninja Havoc Machines
• What a Terrible Night for a Curse
• Insectimon
• Nils, the Narcoleptic Ninja Norseman
• Ideas for that PlayData hand-crank gameboy thingy
• The Little Monster
  • “My soul is an unreliable narrator”
  • Bouncy ball mechanics
• Fun with Literal Translations
• Sword of Songs
• The Adventure of Shield Toad
• Page, Stone, and Blade
• Procedural Technology
• Super Energy Apocalypse 2
• Super Energy Metropolis
• Strategic Oaths and Boasts
• 4X space game
  • Alien species psychology grid
  • Planetary classification system
  • Tower defense space battles
  • Infrastructure system for planetary improvements
  • Military exercises
• Super Waluigi RPG: Tennis Tactics
• ApocaList / DoomsDayPlanner
• What’s Your Zombie Plan
• Municipal flooding simulator
• Paranormal Pest Control
  • Hide & Seek / Light & Dark
  • Vac & Trap
  • Haunting / Infestation
  • Small business vs. The Attorney General
  • Those Meddling Kids
• Procedural Debt Labyrinth
• Dungeon of Healthcare
• Sandwich Power
• Final Fantasy Defender’s Quest
• Pokemon Defender’s Quest
• Dragon Quest Defender’s Quest
• Pokemon Auto Chess
• Final Fantasy Auto Chess
• Zelda II-2
• Various thoughts on Alchemy
• Games about Disability
  • Narcolepsy / Cataplexy
  • Tourette’s
  • O.C.D.
• Intelligence systems (aka Spycraft)
  • Disinformation / Uncertainty
  • Security / Zero-day exploits

FAQ

Q: Do I need to credit you?
A: That’d be nice, but I can’t and won’t enforce it. If you take one of these ideas and turn it into something cool, I ask (but do not require) that you do two things: 1) put a line in the credits like “inspired by an idea from Lars Doucet” or somesuch, and 2) tell me about it so I can check it out!

Q: Do I need to pay you?
A: No. Please STEAL my ideas.

Q: Do you have a Patreon or something?
A: Yes, but mostly as a placeholder. If you insist on giving me money, I’ll take it, but you can also just by a copy of my game Defender’s Quest.

Q: If you’re just giving ideas away it’s not really STEALING right?
A: Correct. For the avoidance of doubt there’s no real stealing going on here. For one, I want you to take the ideas. Also, ideas are non-rival goods (at worst you can copy an idea without permission, which is different from stealing, which requires that you obtain something and at the same time meaningfull deprive someone else of the same thing. If you copy an idea, you aren’t also deleting it from the originator’s brain or anything).

Q: What if I think YOU stole MY idea???
A: I swear I didn’t. Ever heard of convergent evolution? There’s so many people in the world, with so many of us in similar environments being exposed to the same ideas. It’s inevitable that some of us are going to come up with some of the same stuff.

Q: I have some ideas I want people to steal too! Will you post them here for me?
A: That’s great of you! Unfortunately I can’t, for a lot of reasons, but chiefly because I can only take responsibility for the ideas that came out of my own brain – it’d be too easy to accidentally insert myself in all sorts of disputes otherwise. BUT, if you make your own list, I’ll happily link to it in a special section of this site with the appropriate disclaimers.