A toddler/kid game

I'd love to see a very simple kids game. The problem with current kids games on the Kinect is: They are geared to older kids and demand the child mimics certain actions and the child has to stay in view of the Kinect or the game pauses. These requirements are fine for older kids.
I'd love to see a game (most likely a kind of dance game) geared to even smaller children 1-3 yrs old.
I'd love to see a game where it plays music and put up a nice Backdrop that changes with the music. Then the child/children would be imposed on the screen in front of the backdrop. They could dance and see themselves on the screen. If there are 2 or three kids in view, it would be cool if it showed them all, then focused on one of them, then the next and so on. The kids actions would have random effects on the screen depending on the beat of the music. The game would have other characters (say teddy bears or beach balls or puppies or clowns) come on screen and shadow/mimic the childs actions or dance around the child/children.
It would be really awesome if say Disney picked it up then the kids could dance around with many of their favorite Disney characters to favorite Disney songs in scenes from Disney movies.
It could be Sesame Street or Nickelodeon or whoever's clever.
It's such a simple concept I'm really miffed nobody has done it yet.

Your 18 month old daughter wouldn't really be playing the game. It would be more like a fancy mirror to her. Does she like seeing her reflection or seeing pictures of herself? This would be more like an interactive mirror with lights, sounds, and on screen characters/environment that responds to her actions. (clapping, sitting, standing even vocal responses). She would see herself in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with Mickey and friends dancing around her, the characters would mimic or respond to her movements. Screenshots would be taken during moments of high activity or the characters posing around her. These screenshots could be sent to your Facebook page to allow grandparents/realtives to check her out. Also, the game would not pause if she crawled/walked away, the song would finish with the characters still dancing.
When that song finished if she was still there all she would need to do is wave/clap/cry/yell and another song would start up. The next song might be with Snow White and the seven dwarves or with Handy Manny and the tools. The game would allow you to play your own CD and random characters and backgrounds would play.
If other kids or parents are there they too would show up on the screen and she would see them with her on the screen. Even if the cat or dog was there, they would be on the screen with her.
It's not really a game that requires any attention span or understanding.

My 3yr old and my 15 month old dance around like crazy to Dance Central. They have no idea what they're doing, but they love the music and the lights, and they point and laugh at all the screen captures with us all in there.

with Child of Eden showing some great controls, I say bring back all the light gun games for the modern era.  Especially since light guns only work with CRT and most people now only have LCD, DLP, plasma, etc.

I'd love to see the House of the Dead series, but also games like the Virtua Cop series, Area 51, Crossbow, lethal enforcers, operation wolf, silent scope, space gun, terminator 2, and the time crisis series.

Time Crisis

Well there's already a clear plastic steering wheel, I can imagine a clear plastic gun on the way too!

An Iron Man vs The incredible Hulk game,with a fully destructible environment like the battlefield series in urban and industrial settings.

I would like a first person shooting game. I have read other comments about using a xbox controller in conjunction with the kinect. I would happily buy a gun for shooting games. It could be aimed by having a sensor in the front, middle and butt of the gun. Directional controls could be on the stock or barrel of the gun. The kinect part would cover ducking, throwing grenades ect. Please Microsoft, the kinect has been out long enough without offering a first person shooter. If a tester is needed, I'd be happy to help!

Since Kinect was first announced, I've always thought a Professor Layton style puzzle game would work fantastically. You could manipulate the puzzles with your hands and get a real Minority Report-esque feeling.

I'm disappointed to see mainly energetic (i'm not lazy, honest!) mini-games so far. But given Kinect's superb sales I think it's only a matter of time till developers think outside the box.

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I really don't see the attraction in an FPS for Kinect. Blackwater tried it and was just about playable, but if I want to play an FPS, I'll pick up a controller.

Surely, Kinect is about new gaming experiences, and not just rehashes of old ones?

With that said, I'd love to see the first-person Namco soccer game Libero Grande (ARC/PS1) re-imagined for Kinect. That, and maybe a third entry in the supercool Space Channel 5 series? Now that game would be a PERFECT fit!

maybe they could give 3-d tetris another try.....kinect can't make it any worse than the virtualboy did.  not that it was bad......