Aka ideas that sound cool on paper.
Aka ideas that sound cool if yer stoned.
Today my wife was reading the scene from the book Piranesi. A man is trapped alone forever in an infinite maze of hallways filled with large statues from antiquity. In the scene he watches bird flock to specific statues, in order to tell him a secret message.
I was thinking it would be cool to make a video game based around that scene, if not the book generally.
Here are the birds:
And over here are the statues:
In theory it’s just a matter of sticking the two together with some neat riddles. In practice, of course, it’s probably impossible for (reasons), but it’s a nice idea for now.