You have to give this to Hideo Kojima – he always has interesting ideas for the video games he has made or would like to make. While the end product may not live up to these concepts, at least the man is trying to push the envelope.
In a recent interview with the Japanese lifestyle magazine An-An (via Siliconera i Yahoo! News), Kojima talked about what kind of games he wants to make. It does not mention specific genres, but the general concept behind it.
“What I want to do is games that change in real time,” Kojima said. “Even though we finally have people of different ages and occupations from all over the world playing the same game, everyone, and I mean everyone, plays the same.”
“Instead, [I want to make] something that changes depending on where a person lives or how they think ”.
It could be argued that RA games already do, a bit. The basic mechanics of the games don’t change, but the maps do, depending on your location. What’s more, for something like that Pokémon Go, physically you have to go out and play the game as you wanted. However, these games don’t really change based on, say, your thinking. Although many games for years offer decisions within the game, they affect the direction of the game, but they may seem arbitrary and even simplistic, unlike human thinking which is usually anything.
In the interview, Kojima spoke Boktai: The sun is in your hand, the 2003 Game Boy Advance title he produced, as an example. The cartridge of the vampire hunting game has a light sensor that forces players to go outside. (Kojima also wanted the game to include a sensor that would measure garlic breath).
“Because the amount of sunlight is applied to the game to defeat the vampires, the game changes depending on where you played and what time you played,” Kojima said. An-An. “A mechanic like this connects systems made by humans and real life.”
I have to wonder what he plans to do next.