Second Idea - The Borrowers

My Second main Idea came to me when watching Ant-man in the Cinema, for those who don't know he is a character who can shrink himself down to around an ants size. Being so small opens up a lot of possibilities as in to what you can do, where you can go, and the amazing and different points of view you could experience. I wondered at the time why this interesting aspect hadn't been used in games more, theres plenty of examples of it in books, film and on the t.v. screen. I can only recall playing 3 games that used being miniature as a main feature, Toy Story and Micro-Machines on the playstation 1 the other being Buck Bumble on the Nintendo 64. Must have been some of the first games I ever played and I remember thoroughly enjoying them all. 

  

So why are no more games based around being miniature being made? With Todays graphics it would be Amazing, using macro photos to produce high quality textures, being able to view the world differently. I almost expected there to be an Ant-man game after the films release. However I believe even now to get the the mechanic of turning small to big, big to small would still be nigh on impossible to create and make function well within the environment. Fortunately I don't want to make an Ant-man game I want to make a Borrowers game, or at least design some environment samples for one. I Imagine the game not based on the books but within the same world, and the game play being like that of an open world adventure where you can start different quests at anytime and your success depends on how much you have levelled up by. Similar to that of the Witcher games were there is a storyline, but also multiple side quests one can partake in, in order to adventure more, have fun and level up. A lot of the missions would involve exploring new environments in order to find and 'Borrow' specific items, which you can then keep, sell or use to build other things. It would be a very explorative and collecting game.

So far thats the basis of my Idea (for Idea 2), A borrower for hire but has his or her own mission too on top of staying alive in such a big world.