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Did someone already develop a dishwasher loading/unloading simulator game? Could be a smash hit!


Not sure about unloading the dishwasher but unpacking was pretty fun: https://www.unpackinggame.com/


Unpacking was fun not because of the mundane chore but b/c the chore was telling a story through the environment of the house and the items unpacked.

What a beautiful game


Right. When you move in to the boyfriend's place and there's not really enough space for what you have, and so your art stuff must be "tidied away" out of sight I was like "Oh - oh no..." and then IIRC the next move is back to your childhood bedroom. No need for words.

[Although if you do want some words, those words are "Fuck Off Fund"]


I was watching the promo video thinking this was a very wholesome game, until I saw the electric toaster sitting in the bath :)


The only ever video game idea I had was a VR hand dryer simulator crossed with some Guitar Hero and RPG elements. You can build it up with historical hand dryers and funky toilet locations. It doesn't really matter around what activity the core gameplay revolves if the end result is fun.


I like this one too. You could add expansion packs that also simulate different soap dispensers and water armatures, so the story arc of how the hands got wet in the first place is covered as well. And challenges to remove various types of gunk from your (virtual) hands in the most efficient way possible (less water, less soap used, fastest,...).


I would play a VR dish unloading game where I had to throw breakable items into place from a distance and hope they balanced or that breakage was minimised.


There's a VR game series (?) called job simulator that has you doing joke versions of common jobs, apparently for some AI overlord's amusement. I haven't played it but my kids watch a Let's Play kind of deal of it on youtube and it actually looks fun and funny to just make a huge mess dumping all the wrong fluids into a car or hurling hot dogs at a customer.


Tetris?


Tetris doesn't incorporate a physically-correct simulation of water that needs to be sprayed in between dishes in order to remove the gunk, so the strategy to win Tetris would not be helpful to win a proper dishwasher simulator game, even though there are of course some similarities.


I know there's a VR cooking/kitchen one, maybe that one?


Could be a smash hit!

I see what you did there.. :)




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