What are some unexplored game themes?

Let's start with "War Correspondant" some kind of news team or journalist struggling to get stories to satiate his employers News Corp a la Clark Kent or Peter Parker.

You could have NPC's such as Camermen, Boom Operators, Drivers, Local Correspondants, Snitches, people "working for you" in other big companies, Whistleblowers etc.

Perhaps victory would be somehow to do with acruing the best stories and publishing the best journals via some kind of quest system : "Get the inside scoop on the current civil war in X" you would need to accomplish certain things in order to get the rewards offered by the quest.

Cool, it would have to be a triumphant game no? As in, you are being actiavely bullied, and then you rise up and defeat the big bad bully.

Alternatively we could keep the theme and stretch it a little: A geek game. So you are part of the "nerdy geek group" at school, attracted to the fellow "geek girl" and go to board games club every friday after school. During lunch time there are random encounters say, or at least "one a turn" that would involve all of the perils of school "Tuck your shirt in!" from a head teacher would give you a "confidence" resource penalty, alternatively a Battlestar Galactica style event to overcome. Eg you must pay 2 red and 3 blue worth of cards to conquer the challenge otherwise you must do the failure option on the card (bringing you closer and closer to dropping out of school, or having to repeat the year or something) and of course there would be the incessant "bully assaults" that you would have to deal with (with or without help from the rest of your geek nerd team) special cards could help you negate certain cards or combat situations easie: "Chewing Gum: Use to distract one bully attack from another geek group member or seal any one door in the school shut" or "Gym Kit: Any gym-related quest card needs 3 less colours worth of cards to succeed" or "Fountain Pen: Shower a bully in ink; remove him from the game and you are placed in the "principals office" from the game for 2 turns while the teachers deal with you - gain 1 Bad Report token"

Hey cool, there could be other ways to lose as well: Report Tokens reaching 10 would have a letter sent home to your parents and you would lose the game.

The expansions could be different levels of school (UK system would be: Primary School, Secondary School, College, University) each taking place in a different environment with different challenges, "Peer pressures" and pit falls. Hehe - sounds fun, great idea moapy!