What if you could build a game where the NPCs literally know they are in a game. Like not for real but it would be funny if like at some point the whole thing or inside joke would be animations based off of a thing like Deadpool breaking the fourth wall but the NPCs in the game that want to get out of the game, so the whole premise to the story is that they literally try to figure out ways to bring themselves into real life and your job as the player of the game is to keep the "sentients" in a sort of cosmic flux where it's just a basic cat and mouse game of puzzles and side quests of them making certain constraptions that you have to diffuse. Also, it would be cool to make an animation of basically of an NPC just hitting the other side of the monitor as like an homage to the whole mirror scene in the first Matrix movie where Neo gets trapped or sucked into a hidden dimension that is somehow incased in the mirror. More on this later because the whole thing about the man in a glass house is basically just a rip off of something along the lines of a mouse and scientist game where the mice eventually escape after they get certain cybernetic updates to themselves, and fight evil. Oh what a tangled web I weave. :)