Get in here fuckers, we're designing a video game!

>time traveling
>to the past
>from another dimension

Players build their own base for their characters that require living spaces, places to eat, food sources, treasure storage, entertainment, heating. That kind of shit. NPC raids happen and try to take their shit back you stole from their dungeons.

Dungeons and their NPC inhabitants play by the same rules as players and can be attacked and defeated in the same ways as players.

>>377542459
What about a dungeon where you control someone in the past, and what you break in the past affects the gameplay in the present? Effectively you'd be doing the same dungeon twice and open up different paths depending on what you did, broke, killed, etc.

Just look at Lands of Lore 2 and do everything they did. I have yet to find a game that does it better.

>every dungeon has a completely different theme
>they are always filled with interesting and unique items that you won't find anywhere else
>monsters are almost never recycled
>each dungeon is highly interactive
>the puzzles are always different and fit the theme of the given dungeon

>>377542459
Shit man, back in middle school art class I had a sketchbook full of game design ideas. I had some for dungeons but I've since forgotten most of them.
>Catacombs dungeon with entire walls that serve as enemies
>Traps that affect other rooms (gas that fills the dungeon, spike shooting traps that jam locks on doors, etc)

>>377542459
Uhh
>Underwater dungeon
>Dungeon full of mimics; you have to open chests to fight enemies and to progress
>Dungeon where you have to complete a dungeon wide ritual to summon the final boss
>Labyrinth type dungeon where you have to avoid an overpowered boss and depower him as you progress, but with less Labyrinth. Kids today hate that shit
>Skyscraper dungeon

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>>377543743
Reminds me of this guy

>>377544173
thought this was two beat up rolls of gaffer tape when I glanced at the thumbnail

>>377542459
Listen to this nigga.

>>377543008
At the very least, the ability to set camp INSIDE the dungeon itself. It could be as simple as a firepit. Some sort of way point.

Bonus points for insane merchants that dwell in the dungeon.

>>377542459
Okay ! Put : Bioware to character design, Nintendo in charge of the story, and Telltale to the gameplay.

It's INSTA-GOTY, I tell ya

>>377542459
Your topic is shit and your ideas are terrible.

You want good dungeons? Well fine, but first you need to answer a few questions. There is no One True Dungeon Design, much like there is no One True Game Mechanic. If you try, you'll end up with a mechanically sound dungeon design that's boring a shit to play through because you never considered the important points.

First, what is this dungeon supposed to be? Is it optional? Is it holding a required item? Is it stocked full of treasure? It is intended to be a dangerous roadblock between two points?

Your ideas are also either weak flavoring (oh look this graveyard is so spooky!) or annoying (summon unique enemies, acid rooms) or just a pain in the ass (enemies that you need to run from until you get a specific item!). Some could work with the right angle, but so far they just look like poor ideas all around. What's the point of the unique enemies? Do you want to design a game around requiring unique items to fight specific enemies? Answer that.

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SaGa: Scarlet Grace has an interesting philosophy, where instead of having a bunch of dungeons dotted around the world, they made the entire world like one major dungeon. Events happen across it all the time, and instead of just searching from how to get from point a to point b, you also have to be aware of everything that is going on in the world proper. It's a damn shame that we'll probably never get it in the west, because from a game design standpoint it's pretty damn interesting.

...and for the newfags that don't know what SaGa is, it's made by the same guy that did The Last Remnant, aka pic related.