271: Procedural Swayze

Ben and Trevor riff on some randomly generated prompts to come up with game designs - this week the ideas tended towards relationships and small narrative segments, with games like:

• a cross between X-Com and The Sims where your soldiers relationships are tied deeply into the combat mechanics
• a simulated road house with extensible stories that play out night after night
• a Satisfactory style automation game where all of your tools and machines are plants that you must keep alive
• a retired programmer is asked to go to space so she can fight a rogue AI
• and more!