Survivor, the concept as a video game

[Courtney]

Its very easy to make a Wheel of Fortune game or Family Feud, but something like Survivor, a little more difficult.

I remember some cheesy video game for Survivor along time ago, I never played it, making alliances with npcs, seems dumb, bad mini-games, just seemed stupid.

You have to real players, an ability for players to build trust, separation of tribes, the tension you feel, bonds form, all that jazz.

So, these forum based games come closest. I just wonder if ever an actual PC game could duplicate this.

A few minuses these games have:
1. You don't really get to look at attractive people in bathing suits. You get to look at an avatar.
2. You don't get to hear people's voices
3. You can't see who's speaking to who
4. Locale is never going to be replicated
5. The survivor aspect as well doesn't exist

The plus I found though:
Because people play these games soooo much, sometimes you do see much more unique game play compared to Survivor the TV show.

I think as far as video games have come, I wonder if it would be possible to make a true Survivor video game taking the forum based concepts and giving it a graphical component.

Its the middle of the night, not sure if I'm making any sense. Don't mind me.

[Jeff Probst]

I've often wondered why tehy couldn't enable a chat aspect into the video games they had. THey had the online collab version, it seemed like a no brainer to put in a simple chat feature. Could you imagine a SIMS-esque game, every three days someone was booted, The challenges were non-live so you could complete them whenever and your total would be added to your tribe's score. You could talk to players over the course of the three days in an instant message environment. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch since you have games like WoW which I've honestly never played an online video game, but I know enough about them to see how this would be a possibility.

It would also be so much easier to do competitions in a virtual environment where you controlled who saw what and it was timed and everything. Memory games would be possible, etc...

[Ted]

Have you guys heard of Islands of Chaos? It's an app that Erik Reichenbach is working on that is basically the next Survivor video game.

[Courtney]

It would also be so much easier to do competitions in a virtual environment where you controlled who saw what and it was timed and everything. Memory games would be possible, etc...

Yes, the moment you add modern graphic and video game design, it just opens up so much more in terms of challenge design possibility and would help those who generally suck constrained by forum design (such as I).

I never could play the trope of the mute challenge whore.

[Jeff Probst]

It would also be so much easier to do competitions in a virtual environment where you controlled who saw what and it was timed and everything. Memory games would be possible, etc...

Yes, the moment you add modern graphic and video game design, it just opens up so much more in terms of challenge design possibility and would help those who generally suck constrained by forum design (such as I).

I never could play the trope of the mute challenge whore.

That would require being mute first and foremost

[Jeff Probst]

Have you guys heard of Islands of Chaos? It's an app that Erik Reichenbach is working on that is basically the next Survivor video game.

I've heard of this, haven't seen it come out yet... whats that going to do?

[Ted]

Have you guys heard of Islands of Chaos? It's an app that Erik Reichenbach is working on that is basically the next Survivor video game.

I've heard of this, haven't seen it come out yet... whats that going to do?

I only have a vague idea of what it does. I actually actively avoided it because I was working on my own Survivor program and I wanted it to be ~original~. There's mini-games and your characters have stats, from what I recall. All the artwork is the same style as Erik Reichenbach Comics. The highlight was that the host of his game is a skeleton named Jabony Bones Cryptoff which is a near-anagram of Jeff "Nancy Boy" Probst

[Courtney]

Have you guys heard of Islands of Chaos? It's an app that Erik Reichenbach is working on that is basically the next Survivor video game.

Interesting.

Thanks for pointing out this. I took a look at it on kickstarter real quick.

[Ralph]

I remember reading a "Choose your own adventure" book that was survivor based?
I think you play as some nameless guy or gal and then it says "if you want to do this go to page 36.
But if you want to do this go to page 42

and then if you make the wrong move your voted out. I think I just read it to see who was going to win

[Katie Collins]

I remember reading a "Choose your own adventure" book that was survivor based?
I think you play as some nameless guy or gal and then it says "if you want to do this go to page 36.
But if you want to do this go to page 42

and then if you make the wrong move your voted out. I think I just read it to see who was going to win

Umm, it wasn't you who won??

Everyone cheated on those Choose Your Own Adventures anyway - just admit it everyone.

[Jolanda]

I've often wondered why tehy couldn't enable a chat aspect into the video games they had. THey had the online collab version, it seemed like a no brainer to put in a simple chat feature. Could you imagine a SIMS-esque game, every three days someone was booted, The challenges were non-live so you could complete them whenever and your total would be added to your tribe's score. You could talk to players over the course of the three days in an instant message environment. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch since you have games like WoW which I've honestly never played an online video game, but I know enough about them to see how this would be a possibility.

It would also be so much easier to do competitions in a virtual environment where you controlled who saw what and it was timed and everything. Memory games would be possible, etc...

This has probably been my dream ever since I started watching Survivor. The Sims + Survivor would be a very happy marriage indeed

[Brenda Lowe]

I remember reading a "Choose your own adventure" book that was survivor based?
I think you play as some nameless guy or gal and then it says "if you want to do this go to page 36.
But if you want to do this go to page 42

and then if you make the wrong move your voted out. I think I just read it to see who was going to win

Umm, it wasn't you who won??

Everyone cheated on those Choose Your Own Adventures anyway - just admit it everyone.

I for sure had a finger holding about the last seven branches in the story at any given time