Some claim ideas are hard - they are wrong - ideas are the easiest things in the world - the hard bit is getting anyone to give you money for them.*
Anyway, we'll worry about money later, firstly let's make an ideas machine. A FRICKING MACHINE WITH LAZERS ON ITS HEAD.
Sometimes it's hard to come with something from scratch, so a great shortcut is to bodge bits of old tat together to see if it sparks off your brain into thinking of something interesting.
For this example we're filling it full of retro-games because we're proper old, but you, you crazy young kids, might want to use new modern stuff like Super Mario World or Lemmings.

Pacman Vs Snake: Like Pacman but every time he eats a power-pill he gets longer, thereby increasing the likelihood of being got by a ghost. Sounds hard.
Space Invaders Vs Breakout: You play a nippy little bat that kills aliens by batting a ball into their evil invading faces. Oooh, we'd quite like to play this for 5 minutes, just to see if it works.
Space Invaders Vs Space Invaders: If the dice calls the same number twice, we'll play the joker: reverse it. (We've just made this rule up, because we're the Dungeon Master mofo) Hence "Reverse Space Invaders" - this would need extensive play testing to get the balance right as 50 aliens Vs 1 invader might be a tad easy.
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