There should totally be a laundramat game. A 1st-person shooter. Or maybe the laundramat would be just one level or area of a wider game?
Like, you'd be just going around, doing regular stuff. Chores. Grocery shopping, dry cleaning, laundramat, drugstore, liquor store etc. Errands, basically. But you'd have to fight the world every step of the way! There would be enemies. It would just be like ordinary day-to-day life, but with enemies.
You would spend your day at the office, brutally beating-down aggressors in-between performing meaningless document and chart tasks. Then you leave work and fight your way through the gauntlet you'd have to run to get home. Home would be your "base" - but the challenges don't end there! At home, you need to do the dishes, etc. Stuff would keep piling up. Dusting. That toilet needs another good hit with the comet & scrub-brush. Shoot, you're out of comet! Now you've got to go to the store, but uh-oh, there's a pack of thugs in the way, challenging your passage!
Select weapon: A) ku baton, B) stilleto, C) attempt bribe! D) uzi, E) kung fu.
It could be called Death Errand, or something. Maybe Death Grind.
Like, you'd be just going around, doing regular stuff. Chores. Grocery shopping, dry cleaning, laundramat, drugstore, liquor store etc. Errands, basically. But you'd have to fight the world every step of the way! There would be enemies. It would just be like ordinary day-to-day life, but with enemies.
You would spend your day at the office, brutally beating-down aggressors in-between performing meaningless document and chart tasks. Then you leave work and fight your way through the gauntlet you'd have to run to get home. Home would be your "base" - but the challenges don't end there! At home, you need to do the dishes, etc. Stuff would keep piling up. Dusting. That toilet needs another good hit with the comet & scrub-brush. Shoot, you're out of comet! Now you've got to go to the store, but uh-oh, there's a pack of thugs in the way, challenging your passage!
Select weapon: A) ku baton, B) stilleto, C) attempt bribe! D) uzi, E) kung fu.
It could be called Death Errand, or something. Maybe Death Grind.
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Maybe it could also be Duke Nukem-esque, in that as you progress you pick up special equipment to do the chores with that transform into deadly weapons. A toilet brush that turns into a mace … *thwack*. A compact vacuum cleaner that sucks your enemies' faces right off … *sluuurp*.
You gotta keep your health stocks up too, your energy. Maybe if you get the ironing done, for example, within a particular amount of time you acquire food sources and time off to recharge your power levels (called sofa time), like maybe a pack of salt and vinegar chips and 2 hours in front of The Wire.
I really like Death Errand and Death Grind as names. Or maybe Chore Massacre
Although I don't think they'll be super-powered. Just the regular kind. I mean, a tire-iron or a fire extinguisher (for instance) doesn't have to do anything special to pack a whallop.
And I don't mean the chemical foam.