ITT: games developed by a "mad scientist" type.
Unique games with huge depth and complexity, developed by a single visionary guy, often from an academic background.
Examples would be Dwarf fortress and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGFVAr7tZ4 [Embed]
Other suggestions from a previous thread:
>Katamari Damacy
>Noctis
>Super Smash Brothers
>Rollercoaster tycoon
>Aurora
>Warframe
>The Colony, an 80s fps
>The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three
>Cradle
>Pathologic
>>333172127
Tetris
Deadly Premonition should count. It looks pretty unplayable so I've only ever watched the letsplays by Supergreatfriend.
Unteralterbach
>>333172127
>Check Grandroids' dev log
>"I think I'll be finished this year."
Guess I'll come back in 2018.
>game about evolution with neural networks on the dreamcast
the absolute fucking madman
>>333173319
nice
>>333172127
I think Dwarf Fortress tops the list easily.
>>333174590
This. Compare DF to something like Platform Masters by Ulillillia. Both are made by programmers with pretty serious OCD. But one is fucking fascinating as shit while the other is 90% lines of code about parallax scrolling or whatever.
>>333174590
Toady is a national treasure.
>>333173149
link for the lazy:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WDKL-2vihuaRLHjsZCxtr6qj0oCe8lV82inwmCVrjBs/pub
How has nobody, NOBODY, mentioned Yoko Taro?
He is literally a fucking lunatic.
OSAMU SATO BABYYYYY
I'm 100% convinced Katamari is the result of japs using western drugs and proceeding to make a game
Todd Howard. He revolutionized going to things you can see, itso like the video game equivalent of the atomic bomb. It changed the world of video games forever
>>333177581
Shouldn't you be in high school, Anon?
Yume Nikki
>>333176864
Yeah, that crazy son of a bitch is something else.Fuck Drakengard 3's Ending D bodd, though.
>>333172127
>warframe
>super smash bros
These don't fucking apply.
And don't mention the lead directors, they're fucking "idea guys".
>>333174590
I'll belive that when toady codes a neural net simulation in it somewhere
>>333172127
>Warframe
>Super smash
Get the fuck out you mongoloid cockmongler
>>333172710
bought it for 2 bucks at xmas
tried to play it for the last 2 weeks
shit is charming
but unplayable with no hope for a patch
>>333181712
>>333179168
smash bros was originally made by one guy, who sent it to nintendo and they slapped nintendo characters over the original guy's models
and they never paid him
>>333181712
>>333179168
>mfw when I posted smash spoilered at the bottom of my list in the last thread for shits and giggles
>mfw when it paid off post 404mfw when I added the extra "whens" on purpose
