Game Idea 33 - Consensu (Theme: Technically Children's Content, but Would be Banned in Many Jurisdictions)
A Jack Box style voting game that punishes divergence and teaches you to vote with the group. The optimal play is to get eliminated early
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Steven Smethurst is a Vancouver based Maker, Hacker, Coder, Artist, and all around great guy!
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Game Idea 32 - Local choir (Theme: Hello sir, would you like to join our cult?)
You joined a local choir to meet new people. It's a cult. But they turned out to be pretty decent drinking buddies
Game Idea 31 - Scale (Theme: Science Fiction Horror)
A systemic eco-horror where two identical Earths destroy each other through convenience, exploitation, and a thousand 'temporary' solutions—until gravity itself turns against them
Game Idea 30 - The perfect cup of coffee (Theme: Precursor or The perfect cup of coffee)
Speed run humanity's progress towards coffee
Game Idea 29 - The old man's magic (Theme: Elderly people with super powers)
The last magic user in the world has lived too long. A hero's journey to defeat him and release magic back into the world
Game Idea 28 - Bird Hunt (Theme: Lens or eye piece or sight)
Make a game out of the frustrations of using a telephoto lens while trying to photograph small song birds
Game Idea 27 - Regrets (Theme: Trashy Horror)
A horror story of forced backwards time travel in a fated universe
Game Idea 26 - Robot (Theme: Something that takes 10 years (3650 days) of daily work to do)
A robot crossing the country over 10 years, controlled by daily votes from Patreon contributors
Game Idea 25 - Flowers shop (Theme: Unsettlingly wholesome)
Sell flowers to townsfolk who love you, while harvesting the flowers from the town, making the town more gloomy, making more demand for your flowers. (AKA cute drug dealer with flowers)
Game Idea 24 - Child Actor (Theme: What's next after the hero's journey?)
An interview with the washed up hero who publicly saved the world from an evil most foul at sixteen
Game Idea 23 - One wish (Theme: Cryptozoology)
Every child in the world gets one wish. Sometimes that wish creates a monster
Game Idea 22 - AI Aztecs (Theme: What is in that mysterious black box of Doom?)
A galactic religion feeds human consciousness into an AI black box of Doom in exchange for technology. This is the story of the resistance
Game Idea 21 - Cocktail party (Theme: A Strange Fetish)
Talk to NPCs, use 'magnetic poetry' to build a strange fetish, entice the most NPCs to make the most popular orgy. Social game
Game Idea 20 - Good taste (Theme: Otherworldly Chef)
A puzzle game where you are a lifeform building up your senses from scratch, until you can cook a meal for an otherworldly being
Game Idea 19 - Pooper scrolls (Theme: A mysterious illness)
A man discovers his stool samples contain embroidered scrolls that accurately predict his future
Game Idea 18 - The symptoms (Theme: A mysterious illness)
Fool the doctor into giving you a sick note. A Fibbage style bluffing game of fake symptoms
Game Idea 17 - Detective (Theme: Detective)
You're a detective hunting a Time Looper bomber
Game Idea 16 - Expanding Body Platformer (Theme: Body Horror)
A puzzle platformer with a snake style expanding body. Eat enemies to gain their powers, but every meal makes your body bigger and more unwieldy
Game Idea 15 - Road Trip Map (Theme: Road trip)
The best road trip with your friends
Game Idea 14 - Road Trip Radio (Theme: Road trip)
Mini game based around who gets to choose the radio station on a road trip
Game Idea 13 - Jazzy vibes (Theme: Jack Box Games #1)
Vibe out with your fiends
Game Idea 12 - Tiny machines (Theme: Small, Micro, Minuscule, Teeny, Tiny, Itty-bitty, Infinitesimal)
Tiny racing machines, in an oversized world
Game Idea 11 - DNA Monster Hunter (Theme: Contemporary Epic Fantasy)
Hunt monsters, take their genes, make new monsters, repeat
Game Idea 10 - Thing explain guess - Web game (Theme: The Fablebound Five)
Can you describe complexity with simple words?
Game Idea 9 - Monster Guess Who - Field Guide Game (Theme: Urban Legends)
'Guess who' of monsters
Game Idea 8 - New Job for a Kill bot - Story (Theme: Overqualified)
A fish out of water story: a 10,000 year old AI war machine looks for a new job in a post-scarcity universe
Game Idea 7 - Potion maker (Theme: Cooking)
A dialog driven potion maker game. Listen to customer stories and make judgment calls from incomplete information
Game Idea 6 - One of us! (Theme: Joined Together)
Hive mind assimilating earth
Game Idea 5 - Trains but in space (Theme: Wormholes/Teleportation)
Building the galactic wormhole network, one generation ship at a time. Trains but in space using wormholes
Game Idea 4 - Mini Golf 'It can't be this easy' (Theme: It can't be this easy)
A puzzle mini golf game, where every round is a hole-in-one
Game Idea 3 - Necessary (Theme: Medical Procedures)
A rhythm game where a strong, tired hand drags a terrified inky mass through the environment, ripping its tendrils free on the beat
Game Idea 1 - Seek and Find (Theme: Loop)
A 'Seek and Find' game set in a living town updating in real time. Spot what the cultists are changing and stop them before they summon their evil god
Game Idea 2 - Reverse Katamari Damacy (Theme: Medical Procedures)
Top down vertical scroller, Reverse “Katamari Damacy” game where you are trying to drag your kid to a doctor's appointment
Migrating from Jekyll to Astro
On June 21, 2026 I switched the site from Jekyll to Astro and rebuilt the theme from scratch. Here's why.
2026-March Brain Dump
Bookmarks from March 2026
Glitch in the CounterProductive Button – June 28 to July 4
CounterProductive downtime between June 28-July 4
Ongoing Project status updates 2025 June 10th
A status update of the Counter productive, Sky Pixles projects
PCB Tips and Tricks
A few tools I keep coming back to when making PCBs: EasyEDA2Kicad, Gingerbread, and KiKit.
2024 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews
2024 year end Movies and TV Reviews
Tetragonal Trapezohedron Retrospective
Retrospective of the Tetragonal Trapezohedron polyhedron lamp
Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 using Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 blink sketch
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
A variation of the useless machine idea
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
PCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Dodecahedron PCB Retrospective
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
Dodecahedron PCB Design
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
USB-C PD Power Bank to Resmed AirMini or Airsense CPAP
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
Enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste
A tutorial on how to enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste. Specifically BrimFinancial
Website Changelog 2024-Feb-26
Added /now and /uses pages, moved old /about content to a /timeline page, and made /about the new home page.
100 ideas project retrospective (2023)
Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.
Tools and equipment 2024
A 2024 snapshot of the software, hardware, camera gear, and shop tools I use day to day.