Ultimate Game Mashup [Skinny Banter #1]

Welcome to the very first Skinny Banter, the community discussion without borders, where we encourage anyone and everyone to have their say on a topic relating in some way to video games.

How It Works

1. Check out the Skinny Banter topic:

   Skinny Banter #1: Your Ultimate Game

   If you could take your favorite game elements of all time and combine them into the ultimate digital experience – the one game to rule them all – what would it be? How would it work? Describe your digital nirvana, build your ultimate game from the still twitching parts salvaged from other titles.

2. Click on the ‘Post Now’ button (top-right) to use the GameSkinny tools to post your response, written or video, any way you like. 
   

3. Add a “Skinny Banter #1” tag.

We’ll maintain a master list of all entries at the bottom of this post, spread word of your amazing/bizarre/hilarious/disturbing #SkinnyBanter post and encourage contributors to visit and comment on each others stuff.

What Hath We Wrought?!?

When the dust has settled, we’ll put together a glorious summary of every contribution to compare and contrast the whims of the GameSkinny nation. It’ll be like building Frankenstein’s monster by committee – who knows what we’ll end up with?

If it all works out well, we’ll do it again soon with a brand new topic.

That’s the brief – Banter on!

Graduates of the Academy of Dr. Frankenskinny

• All the Worlds all at Once by Sugar Kyle
• The Dark, Oblivious Time of Ponies: An Ultimate Game Mashup by Amy White
• Elder Civilization Age: Total War by Wokendreamer
• Give Me Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song with a Dash of Dark Cloud 2 by Ashley Shankle
• Let Me Bore You For A Moment by Rothalack
• The Ultimate RPG: Zelda, FF6, ShadowRun, Myst, Valve, and MUDs by Ste Grainer
• Ultimate Super Duper TERRIBLE GAME Turbo Arcade Edition HD Remix Game of the Year Edition by Joxef
• Elite Call of the Dragonborn: NASCAR’s Most Wanted Assassin, Report to the Battlefield by Haemish the Gamer
• SPIRIT, the Multi-Genre Dynamic Storytelling RPG Toolkit by Mat Westhorpe

About the author

Mat Westhorpe

Broken paramedic and coffee-drinking Englishman whose favourite dumb animal is an oxymoron. After over a decade of humping and dumping the fat and the dead, my lower spine did things normally reserved for Rubik's cubes, bringing my career as a medical clinician to an unexpectedly early end. Fortunately, my real passion is in writing and given that I'm now highly qualified in the art of sitting down, I have the time to pursue it. Having blogged about video games (well, mostly EVE Online) for years, I hope to channel my enjoyment of wordcraft and my hobby of gaming into one handy new career that doesn't involve other people's vomit.

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