A cool video demonstrating the potential of integrating video games with Vaporwave aesthetics and music

[BiglikesRice]

One of my first introductions into Vaporwave music was this video


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9jTLvl48F0


For some context, this video references an old mmorpg game, Toontown. Essentially Toontown was a game where you played as a fun loving toon who had to defeat evil robotic COGS who wanted to ruin the toons' world by converting it into boring business/industrial hellscape. Toontown used to be owned by Disney, but it was shut down due to various reasons. Luckily that means that the public now has a greater ability to access the code, graphic art, and even music of the game to enable their own unique creations based on Toontown.

The maker of that video "Smokin foreman", used that ability to sort of create a private vaporwave based version of Toontown that in my opinion does a great job of showing the potential to integrate vaporwave with video games.

He's able to sample fairly popular vaporwave audios and mesh them with the battle music that was present in the original Toontown game. He combined the graphics of the old game, like the industrial like buildings, with vaporwave aesthetics like the neon colored floor and background. Even the attacks and COGS that were originally present in the game were altered to fit a vaporwave style.

My final points are the following. Within the Agora forum, I have seen a broad representation of skilled programmers and artists. There are loads of games out there like Toontown that can be used as a framework to create our own unique Vaporwave like games. Of course original games could be created, but frankly, that would take immense amounts of time which I feel few here have. So using the frameworks of older abandoned games could potentially lead to a small renaissance of vapor wave themed games.

If people here really like the video and the idea of integration, I may even plan on chatting with the creator of that video and seeing if he would like to share his ideas and creations with the forum.

Anyways let me know what y'all think. Do you think there is real potential in this idea? Any roadblocks or factors I am not taking into account?

 

[Digital Cheese]

I like the idea of mixing Vaporwave and gaming together tbh. I think that if it were done right, it would go very well and probably would be a fun game to play too XD.

 

[Noxy]

I like the idea of reclaiming abandonware, and the whole idea fits so delightfully within vaporwave's themes that it's almost ironic.
I would like to note that you're basically talking about a full-conversion mod, which is indeed easier to do than make a whole game from scratch, but still takes quite a lot of time and resources.

I know most people probably don't have the time to sink on a project for the lulz, but I love the idea, do you have any potential contenders for a vaporwavey game on mind?

 

[Geezus]

Someone posted a cool indie one here a while ago. Will report back once I find it

 

[BiglikesRice]

I like the idea of reclaiming abandonware, and the whole idea fits so delightfully within vaporwave's themes that it's almost ironic.
I would like to note that you're basically talking about a full-conversion mod, which is indeed easier to do than make a whole game from scratch, but still takes quite a lot of time and resources.

I know most people probably don't have the time to sink on a project for the lulz, but I love the idea, do you have any potential contenders for a vaporwavey game on mind?

I've been looking at some open source and abandonware games.

BananaBread is a great option as it's code is open source and was designed to be altered by others trying to create their own games.

BananaBread

GitHub - kripken/BananaBread: BananaBread is a C++ 3D game engine that runs on the web using JavaScript+WebGL+HTML

BananaBread is a C++ 3D game engine that runs on the web using JavaScript+WebGL+HTML - kripken/BananaBread

github.com

3d.city is another good contender

GitHub - lo-th/3d.city: 3d city builder game

3d city builder game. Contribute to lo-th/3d.city development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

But I would say Toontown would be the best option: The theme of the game lends itself perfectly to a vaporwave based mod. Corporate cogs who are hell bent on destroying the fun of the world. And ironically Disney owned the game and abandoned it since it wasn't making enough profit. Ironically Disney is no different than the cogs the toons fight.

 

[Noxy]

BananaBread

It looks interesting, but i never imagined a vaporwave fps before, vaporwave is just so chill

3d.city

That looks pretty cool, like a simcity?
I can imagine a very chill vaporwave game about just building something...But what? A city? A vaporwave bar? An ancient machine that will eventually awaken the old gods? A very chill cyberpunk dystopia?

One of the most beautiful vaporwave games I know is broken reality:

The fact that you know nothing about it when you start playing is such a good way to emulate that feeling of 'first time on the internet'. At the same time the themes of the game dealing with vaporwave and the internet works great for the gameplay, it is both chill and interesting, and it works.

All in all, you know what I think would be a great vaporwave game?
I know you will want to kill me but, pony fucking town. Not only is one of the old builds 100% open source, but the game itself is just a glorified chatbox with character editing and stuff like that. I could see a vaporwave & subgenres-themed browser game working great. Akin to habbo hotel but with vaporwave.
But that's just an idea.

 

[Geezus]

It looks interesting, but i never imagined a vaporwave fps before, vaporwave is just so chill

That looks pretty cool, like a simcity?
I can imagine a very chill vaporwave game about just building something...But what? A city? A vaporwave bar? An ancient machine that will eventually awaken the old gods? A very chill cyberpunk dystopia?

One of the most beautiful vaporwave games I know is broken reality:

The fact that you know nothing about it when you start playing is such a good way to emulate that feeling of 'first time on the internet'. At the same time the themes of the game dealing with vaporwave and the internet works great for the gameplay, it is both chill and interesting, and it works.

All in all, you know what I think would be a great vaporwave game?
I know you will want to kill me but, pony fucking town. Not only is one of the old builds 100% open source, but the game itself is just a glorified chatbox with character editing and stuff like that. I could see a vaporwave & subgenres-themed browser game working great. Akin to habbo hotel but with vaporwave.
But that's just an idea.

Broken Reality! That's the one I wanted to mention here so case closed afaik tysm