As you probably know, I plan on entering the video game industry within the next decade. My mind is always thinking up random ideas for different games of all genres. Earlier tonight, I was hit with an idea for a game about disease, and the spreading thereof. I call it "Super Spready Virus."
Basically, you start off by controlling a single virus, and you infect a host cell. From there, you infect all of the surrounding cells and begin attacking the entire body, until the carrier is sick. Then you control the sick bird or mouse and infect the other animals, until the disease spreads to the human population. By the end of the game, you'll be controlling swarms of brain-dead sick people in an attempt to conquer the world.
I haven't thought up the specifics yet, but I like the idea of starting off microscopic and spreading to the entire world. I guess that would make the game fit into the light-strategy genre. Maybe the parts inside the body are side-scrolling, as you navigate the bloodstream and fight off medicine and try and bring down the immune system. Then it becomes a top-down game as you destroy the world with your army of diseased folks. Like Little King's Story, except you control different virus-carriers (mice, birds, people) instead of different job cIasses.
Once I give it more thought, I can explain it a little better. I mostly wanted to write this down so I wouldn't forget about it.