The movie/book "Christine - by Stephen King" Got me thinking about a game where you play an evil spirit that can only inhabit machines. The player most kill people to feed on souls and is being hunted by a demon hunter. The hunter tries to trap the player in one machine and destroy him. The players powers are based on a soul-level like magic points including the ability to hope machines. Get enough power and free yourself from the curse that trapped you in machines.

Ok it's a goofy idea but it was fun to play with in my mind for a little bit.

I have a similar idea but its a lost soul who can possess any bilogical being and use it in the hunt for its own body but if the body it chose dies then it must start again...but from where it was killed.
All mana lost and therefore power so it must feed off others emotional outpourings to gain streanght again.

The ghost in the machine was a game similar to your concept and it worked well, just never made the big time at the time it was released.

Yeah Nems I'm starting to see there really isn't anything new under the sun. I've been pulling from books and recaps of books people tell me about and your version of the game sounds like something that could have be spawned if you got to think about "Tail of the Body Thief -by Anne Rice". That's what came to my mind when I read your post so I looked over the Wikipedia for the book and decided there was very little in common beside the idea of jumping into a body.

I think you both should/ could check out the game "Space Station Silicon Valley" from 1998 for N64, it's not about demons and the like but you control various animals and things by slipping into their brains and CPUs.

Yep old ideas Thanks for the point out.
How about mixing ideas-
- Old popular PC game -Leasure Suit Larry
- Body jumping and host control
- Micro settings
- Player evolution

So the player is a alien virus and is infecting a person. The virus controls the host to get 'it' to mate and spread the virus. Each person infected, infects others in a AI-sim. When the virus(player) enters a new host we switch to a micro setting and the virus must make its way to the host brain fighting off the hosts-body immune system. The virus(player) spawns a hybrid virus in the body. The virus(player) must enter some of the AI infected to absorb there hybrids and evolve it's self. The CDC is hunting the virus(player) to kill the pure alien source of the virus as all the other infected have human DNA-RNA hybrids they can treat. The virus evolves from making people sick to mutating them in to monsters, untill it has absorbed enough hybrids to mutate a human into it's alien source form.

You get 3d play(gta,watch dogs,ect), micro play(2d or 3d), player evolution(virus is a primer and player can choose it's final form through the choices of hybrids it absorbs), and go old trying to get laid(digital pick-up lines..need I say more?) all in one game.

I... I don't even have words for this except that I find it inspiring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROi6zbK7yhI

what the hell is it? crazy stuff, but really special!

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what I'm currently working is a historic strategy war-game concept. as I see turn based games are coming back again, I really love them too, and a bit easier to implement than a pure rts, so I would make something turn based combined somehow with real-time or pseudo-real-time parts/options (mainly in the battle system), where heroes would have significant role.
I know it is hard to make a unique game in this category too, but I have a good collection what I check through to get inspiration and ideas, to remember what I loved and hated... any suggestion to check an existing game would help me, thanks

Gothic 4 ?, not TB but still good game...

my 2nd game plan is something similar (and maybe it will have 1st priority if test pre-works go fast enough):
a 3rd person game with a few selectable characters (knight, wizard, elf...the usual boring stuff I can get freely), using WJBender's navmesh pathfinder for enemies what I have tested in these days and seems to work fine. probably I have to integrate the navmesh plugin to my editor and add a player editor too (I mean a simple AI behaviour editor). only some avoidance should be added to AI movements, which can make development a bit longer. not a big scale game, just a few levels, and open source. sounds like fun?

I like this concept: http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/legendsofeisenwald/482/interview.html

recently I've played with Rome2 Total War, and unfortunately they took a lot of great things from a 2D startegy game called Knights of Honour (it was a total war like game with real-time startegic map with real-time battle maps, set in medieval Europe) that I wanted to remake in 3D (somewhen in far future), made by a little Bulgarian studio which was bought and then closed by a bigger company. what is very same: large scale of the startegic map, new large sized towns, political map, relations map, happiness map, some ideas of town development, the "hero" system with selectable new experiences etc. basically I really enjoy these great features but I wanted to steal them
what I don't understand is how a total war game could have so much bugs, like shading errors of terrain chunks which sometimes become black, and in some official videos I saw bad transition between shadow splits...