Soap Opera games

Simple soap opera choose your own adventure, along the lines of Masq.

Would need an acomplished writer.

Graphics could be cartoon style, or photographs. Even video or rotoscoped images, almost anything.

Perfect for the iPhone.

Could work with a variety of settings, period pieces etc. Might appeal to a wide audience.

Fade in/out movement of characters ala The Last Express? Set it in a bar/speak easy?

How to solve the content problem? Small number of areas? Recycle images of the main characters etc....

Worth thinking about...

Game idea: looking for a pulse

Simply a game level in a first person shooter in which you explore the remnants of a battle trying to find people who are still alive.

The player character might be a doctor or a medic with tools for checking pulses, heart rates, breathing and blood loss in place of standard fps guns. These can be used on bodies to ascertain if they are actually dead or not. If not, there may be a way to resussitate them, either by use of some portable device, battlefield surgery or transporting the person to a more suitable location to operate.

Normally videogame characters transition simply from alive to dead via hitpoint reduction, rarely with any concept of specific injuries. The idea here would be to focus on those injuries as opposed to simply killing endless baddies.

This might work well as a short mod.