Yeah, I would buy the rights to Kerbal Space Program and Dungeons and Dragons and just make it all free and make the KSP2 we all deserved. Then I’d fund a professional SCP cinematic universe, it basically has to be free because it’s a licensing mess of community creations but there are so many stories in it worthy of being part of a high budget serialized cinematic universe.

If moneys truly no object, then buy the Fallout IP, build a new engine with a creation kit that all actually works and is made with ease and stability of modding in mind and then make a high fantasy game with the same engine and let people go nuts. Downvote me if you want but I don’t think TES is inherently a good enough fantasy IP (the games have always been better than the central unique overarching plot) to be worth not just starting something new, or better yet, tie it in with the D&D IP I bought earlier.

There’s a space station sim from 2001 that I still play because I love it so much: Startopia. I’d like Startopia 2 to be pretty much the same as the original (including graphics) but with higher-poly models and better scripting tools for modders.

Ringworld and its sequels The Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld’s Children, and the Ringworld Throne, with some less-dated attitudes. I mean I’m not totally opposed to rishathra as a concept, but just a few tweaks here and there to catch up with modern attitudes.

If money really wasn’t an issue, the entire “Known Space” series. A chance for some really good CGI with Pierson’s Puppeteers, Kzin, and all the specialised post-human races living on the Ringworld. And Thrint, Slavers, Outsiders, and so on.

Then there’s the first-contact “The Mote in God’s Eye” and its sequel “The Mote in Murchison’s Eye” AKA “The Gripping Hand”. Another opportunity for some interesting three-armed CGI aliens.

Oh, and “Footfall” - an alien invasion story. These aliens look somewhat like baby elephants 😲

Uniracers 2

I’d say the Hyperion Cantos. But even with infinite money and an Oscar, even Bradley Cooper can’t get that shit made.

I’d fund some dream MMO. Those things are bottomless money pits.

Would love to see an hbo style show for Dresden files or for Brandon sandersons cosmere. They both have some fantastic potential.

I wouldn’t mind a cartoony anime style either similar to Vox Machina

I would hire a ton of artistic, technical, and creative people, both experienced and inexperienced, and I would fund them and encourage them to create novel things.

Ski free 2.

This time, on water.

A high-art movie where practical effects are used extensively so there are no characters shown. All you hear is their voices and the physical effect on the scene from their actions. Imagine a movie and edit out the people. There would be no known actors used, so the viewer is left to imagine what each character looks like. Voice actors would be selected with as many as possible that don’t look like they sound.

It would later be followed up with interviews with the actors. Between the two aspects it could be used as a tool of introspection to understand your biases in perception of others.

It would be such a financial loss, there is zero chance it would ever make money.

Deus Ex and cyberpunk.

Let them keep making games and slap as many wild dystopian conspiracy theories into it as possible. Both enhancing and sabotaging the general populous in it and watch the threads unravel and unite. Also would be curious to see how much of it ends up being true at the end of the day.

Stargate SG-1.

Not Atlantis, with their star trek uniforms. Not Universe with their angst and jeans.

Hard, military professionals jaunting through wormholes into alien words they don’t comprehend and won’t really try to, fucking up local politics and delicate galactic power balances alike in their incessant hunt for really big fucking guns, and Baal clones.

There’s an FPS game called Darkest of Days I remember kinda liking, where you’re a time-travelling soldier who’s trying to put history on the right path.

But basically all of the game’s levels are centered around WW1 and the American civil war. If I had the means, I’d remake this game from the ground up, give it a more varied story that does the concept justice.

Dan simmons Hyperion series.

I’d fund the final three season of The Expanse.

And pay for the Elite Dangerous developers to better support simulators.