Week 1: Idea Development

Class Activity Idea:

Key words: Escape Crazy unrestrained ‘Sainsbury’s’

Player plays the game trying to achieve the goal of escaping the crazy shopping mall. 

An unlucky person accidentally got into a crazy shopping mall.  They are trying to escape from this surreal environment. He must escape to keep the save. It is happening “nowadays”, happening in the ‘UK’. The way they do is try to reach different areas inside the shopping mall, and test how the reality will change, and possibly back to normal. Things get into the way is the monsters, the crazy transfer of the reality. If they fail, they will get trapped inside the space forever, or get attacked by the monsters. If they succeed, their life back to normal. 

Random Generated Idea (With specific words):

These ideas are generated using a game idea generate tool. Just a pool of ideas and trying to see if they inspire me.

Unfortunately, not going too deep in these ideas.

Presentation with three main Ideas:

1.

Single player game. The game is happening in the world inside the mirror. You play as a detective, running away from the collapsing world in a long corridor. You have to collect valuable items when you’re running. Your goal is to reach the exit, and get back to the real world. Could be fairytale style.

perspective is pretty much like 3D running game

Key words: detective, do not stop moving, fairytale, arcade.

2.

Single player game. The game is happening in the universe. You play as a spaceship driver in the military on some planet. You are alone on this ship, you have to shoot the floating rocks that blocks your way, and try to find other ships same as yours. You have full control of the shooting angle and the strength to hit those rocks. Your goal is to find all of the lost ships from your team and get back to mother planet together. Could be pixel style game or looks super realistic.

Key words: Pinball, Entire game on one screen, military, friendship

3.

multiplayer game. 1-3 players. A bit similar to billiards. The game is happening in the grand universe. Players play as superior gods, hit the planets as balls, try to make those planets crash with together as much time and power as possible. Players have full control of the strength and the angle of shooting a planet. The planets will keep floating in the border. The border is the “galaxy”. Planets will crash when they get hit more than once. Smaller planets are more likely to crash in a few crash. The one who destroy more planets get more point. When all planet got destroyed, count the score between superior gods (players). The one who has highest score wins. Then play a funny winning animation. 

 Key words: god game, you are the weapon, space, disaster 

Crit Feedback from others:

These three ideas are also generated because I really don’t know how to start.

I can see a lot of people like the first idea which is playing as a running detective, I think it is interesting too. But considering the actual required game experience time, I can’t imagine deeper about the game about the time.

Besides, personally I like the second idea and have a strong willing to develop on it. These feedback are all good, but at the beginning those my ideas are just short and simple games I think, with the story involved I like the idea 2 the most. So I decided to develop on that.
Idea 2 has strong potential on the storytelling which I love so much. Drive and shoot is only the initial idea, I think there could be more narrative instead of just keep shooting things.

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