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[Neutron Night]

Let's say some rich guy with way too much time on his hands came up to you and offered you a challenge. He gives you $10 million and your choice of any industry figure as an assistant, as well as 20 student programmers/designers/artists who will do whatever you tell them.

You task is to create a PS2 game that will sell at least 2 million copies in the US, and will be split roughly across demographic lines - about 25% of buyers under 12, 25% 13-18, 25% 19-25, 25% 26+, etc. There is an additional $5 million for marketing, you control the campaign, the packaging, etc. If you succeed, you get $100 million.

What do you create?

 

[Suikoguy]

how about 1 million copies?

 

[Great Wasabi Man]

a Dragon Ball Game totally ripping off the MvsC engine. the name should sell enough alone.

 

[Gek54]

Just include lots of boobies and you are good with anything.

 

[Wario64]

A game with boobies, violence, guns, car jacking, drugs, sex...

 

[Tenguman]

Make a shit ass game for cheap and then give it away for free in cereal boxes aimed at different age markets.

 

[shuri]

A dragonball game ripping off MvsC but with an urban theme

 

[Ranger X]

I would pair with Miyamoto and would create the freakin ultimate true Mario game that would forever rule.
3D with "Maximo-linear" levels. Plenty of power ups and costumes switchable on the fly or very quickly ( ala Megaman). You could also play as other Mario characters and pair with Yoshi. A very simple and small targeting system (most probably zelda-like or Prime-like would be used from trowing things as eggs and also Fireballs when on foot with Mario and the Flower power-up.)

 

[The Faceless Master]

A dragonball game ripping off MvsC but with an urban theme

DragonBall NYC

 

[GashPrex]

give me jason rubin, buy a great engine, and a bigtime movie/tv license

 

[Gattsu25]

Lemon Party - The Game

 

[Stuggernaut]

I'd take the $10 million, use 200k and develop an elaborate hoax (IE : vaporware) to cover my trail as I escape with the cash to an unextraditable country and retire.

 

[bjork]

Easy, one of two choices, possibly both, given the budget:

Lumberjack Olympics or World's Strongest Man competition, an either would ship with solid play but lackluster visuals (honestly, you'd only need to lift the control schemes found in EPYX's C64 sports games... Winter Games, California Game, etc), and a really awful boxart.

Ship them both at $9.99, watch them fly out the window.

 

[BobbyRobby]

Damn, now I really want to play World Games again.

 

[Alcibiades]

considering how many of the GTA customers when I worked last summer were little kids, I'd say you just about described something GTA did...

 

[fennec fox]

I would run off with all the money and move to Brazil.