So I'm actively working on three different game projects righht now. One is going to be in flash, one in source, and the last one I'd like to do in source but I'd probably need to go find some dudes to help with it.

But that isn't the point, I'm making this topic to pitch an idea because you *crag*ers play games so you should know enough to know whether or not this appeals to you.

Basically it is a first person adventure game that takes place on a cruise ship. Your character starts off in the hull in conversation with another man, most probably the both work on the ship as engineers i'm still ironing out the basic plot, when the ship is breached and water starts flooding in.

That's boring though *crag* that, here is the interesting part.

It is at this point that everything freezes in place, as if life just pauses. But you can still move around. You can then set off to explore the ship and basically what you see in nearly every room are people who are about to be completely destroyed by torrents of water as the ship has begun to sink. You see these living corpses frozen in time, completely oblivious as to what is about to happen to them as soon as this mysterious hold over reality breaks.

The player is free to do as they please at this point. They can try to rescue these people from the fate, you can find a means of escape, you can try to determine what is causing these events, or all of the above.

Eventually what you discover is that your character has the ability to manipulte time is small pockets. The best example of how this would work is that the player would be able to touch someone's face to speak tot hem, but he wouldn't be able to move their entire body, or if he did it would disrupt the area so much as to cause whatever catastrophy is about to befall them to occur anyway.

It's still something I'm hammering out the mechanics on, I'll probably try to get a script written up before I'd actually try to do anything serious with it. I was mostly just completely in love with the idea of seeing people frozen right before their deaths, or how startling it would be to see a moving body after being isolated in completely stillness for so long.

If it doesn't sound great that's fine, the image in my head seemed so great at the time that I'm more than a little biased. I have a dozen other ideas that I could flesh out if this falls though, this is just the one that I'd like to do more with the most right now.