Game Title: Cliff diver the game

Platform: Mobile

Overview: Cliff diver the game is a small flash game where all you need to do is jump off of a cliff into the ocean and reach as far down as possible. There will be three stages to your jump which you can control. The first stage is the angle, Tap the screen to start angling down, don't let yourself angle all the way down otherwise you will fall over. The second stage is the launch, Tap when you are at the right angle to launch yourself towards the ocean. The third stage is rotation, tap and hold down your finger to start rotating mid-air, try dive into the water as best as possible to maintain speed and get a larger depth. While diving down try to collect coins which can be used to buy extras and upgrades. You can spend them on upgrading your cliff to be larger or buying more streamline clothing. Aim to dive as far down as possible and find what lurks at the bottom of the ocean.

Image source: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cliff_diver.jpg"

More submissions by Thomas Male for MDS GDV110 - 'One Game a Day' Assignment

Game Title: Type to fight

Platform: PC

Overview: Type to fight is a game in which you do simply what the title says. Defend you castle by typing out several different commands such as "Fight!" or "Defend!". These commands will make your troops change formations and make them do several different things.

The waves of enemies don't stop coming, it is an endless survival. Buying upgrades and defences and other tings will all take place in real time. Buying these things will also require you to type them out, so the faster the typer you are the easier it will be. Buy automatic typers that will help you when it comes to typing certain words. Over time they will type a word out for you so if you are in a hurry you can just hit enter (using the word they typed for you) rather than typing the whole word out. You are also able to buy and upgrade spells that allow you to cast magic by typing words (e.g Fireball) these will have short cooldowns.

Image source: "http://www.rapidtyping.com/img/online-typing-games/typing-defense.jpg"



Image Source:"http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/austinally/images/e/eb/Tableflip.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130913203300"

Game Title: Table Flip

Platform: Mobile

Overview: TABLE FLIP! Flip the table as hard as you can! You dream is to get gold in the table flipping Olympics! Don't give up! Never give up! Table flip is a game all about flipping tables. Start off as a rage induced nerd and flip your first table. After finding the satisfaction of flipping tables you aspire to be the best. Somehow you find someone stupid enough to sponsor your table flipping profession and you get straight to work. Training.

Flip tables far and high, depending on how you do your sponsor will give you x amount of cash. The more impressive the flip the more money he will through at you as you are showing promise of doing well. Flip the table in special ways to make more money like get the table to land back on its legs. Spend the money from your sponsor on gym sessions for strength and flipping sessions for technique. The better these are the better you can flip. Also spend money of more impressive tables to flip during training, if you can flip these impressive bad boys you sponsor will give you more money which in turn means more training. Compete in competitions and ultimately the Olympics and get gold to win the game, if you don't win the game just keep training until you do, as simple as that.

When playing the game, the only control will be your finger. Tap and only the touch screen on your mobile device and simply flick the table up, depending on how you flicked it will give different results on where the table flips (like far or high).


Game Title: Space Pirates

Platform: PC

Overview: What is more awesome than space pirates traveling through space plundering people for gold? Doing it in an old school style wooden pirate ships with cannons! How you ask? Because Science.

Fly around in all 3 dimensions through the everlasting ocean of space all while in your own ozone bubble! On your ship is a gravity well that keeps the ozone in a bubble and allows you to walk on the deck of the ship no matter the rotation. As this ozone bubble can only hold a certain amount of oxygen you must make sure to refill oxygen at gas stations, but since you are filthy pirates, you exchange goods with the station owners, their lives or their oxygen, their choice.

As your ship is made out of wood… it isn't really resistant to the dangers of space. So you spend most of the time running from others. The only way you can really make money is by boarding other people's ships, holding up stations for supplies or finding buried treasure on lost planets. Use this money for buying upgrades and for repairs. Buy these at neutral trading posts least you get fired upon.

Image source: "http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/b/b3/Space_Pirate_Ship.jpg/300px-Space_Pirate_Ship.jpg"

Game Title: Hacking Inc.

Platform: PC

Overview: Hacking Inc. is a game where you must expand your influence over the internet. This is an incremental game where you use your profits from your illegal actions to buy better security and software to allow you to create and produce even greater viruses. Start off by slyly creating adverts and inserting them onto unsuspecting websites, the bigger the website the bigger the income but also the larger the risk. If your advert is found out to be illegal your clever skills of directing cash flow into many different accounts only means you lose X amount of money. Use your income from these ads to create more powerful adds like increasing their size or making them harder to track allowing you to put them on larger websites.

Use your money to also buy many other programs and development software to allow you to create other things than just adverts to create income. For example, create some bit coin farms and level them up to gather revenue. Grow your illegal empire as big as you dare, and see how far you can push it.

Image source: "http://cdn.whatismyipaddress.com/images-v4/hacking.png"



Inspired by and Image source: Wall-E (Getting the main mechanic of the game form Wall-E's Solar Panels) "http://i.stack.imgur.com/5H831.jpg"

Game Title: The Last One

Platform: All

Overview: You are the last robot on earth. All humans left this planet a long time ago in search of greater resources. The only way you have been able to survive so long is due to you being able to recharge using solar panels. This is a 2D adventure puzzle game where the objective is to explore century old ruins of a research facility and power it up level by level, with the lowest floor being the final level. At the end of every level of the facility is a power generator that you repair and modify to power that entire level and allow the main elevator to now reach that level.

Though, only exploring the ruins is not enough, at the start of each level will be a challenge the player has to overcome and they can only proceed to complete the challenge if they have the appropriate equipment/upgrades. If this is the case they must go back to the surface and search old abandoned factories and buildings looking for things to upgrade themselves to allow them to reach newer levels (e.g finding one of the first upgrade called the High Pressure Piston, this allows you to exert a large and quick amount of force onto the ground effectively jumping into the air).

The main mechanic of the game is your battery life. If you are not in direct sunlight for your solar panels to charge you or not at charging stations your battery will slowly drain away until you reach a certain amount and an emergency teleporter will take you back to the last charging station or solar area (these act as checkpoints). With level design each new level will require you to use the newly unlocked upgrade and then slowly incorporate all previous upgrades slowly increasing the difficulty as you go on.

Game Title: 8-Bit Adventure: Journey of genres

Platform: PC

Overview: 8-Bit Adventure: journey of genres is a game completely set in the 8-Bit art style. The game will take place with you being an average Joe being transported into a parallel gaming universe where you must game to survive. You will have to fight, run or jump in each level to make through it alive. As you make it through each of the levels you will be taken to another random level. Each of these levels have the unique genres from all the classic and amazing 8 bit games (e.g. Pacman, Mega Man).

Each level of the game will have unique game play features and enemies that the player will have to cross across and defeat or just completely avoid them. The game is rouge like so when you die all you keep is a stats logs. Make it as far as possible each time you play, if you manage to beat x amount of levels without dying you will unlock a secret ending and a new difficulty.

Image source: "http://bulldogbugle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Credit-goes-to-www.geelbomb-900x498.jpg"

Game Title: The Missing Sock

Platform: All

Overview: In the game "The Missing Sock" the player plays as a sock that has gone on a journey to another realm after being put through the dryer. The sock is nowhere to be seen with and other clothes that went through the dryer, this sock has entered the realm of forgotten socks. This game is a puzzle platformer where the player must guide this sock through the realm of forgotten socks to get back to their pair sock in the real work. The game itself is quite light hearted and has a fun art style to it and is really meant to be a casually but uplifting game.

This game will work like most other platformers in the way that it's a 2D style game where you can move left or right and jump. Throughout the game the sock will game power ups after defeating certain foes and can you these abilities to progress further through the realm of forgotten socks.

Image source: "http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/TECH/Illustrations/HLG_BlackHole_Dryer.jpg"

Game Title: Masseuse Master

Platform: VR

Overview: Masseuse Master is a game al about finding the sweet spots in people, specifically the sore spots. Massage each customer and try to find the knots in their muscles in their back/legs/shoulders. The better and faster the job you do, the larger the tip. Make enough money per day to pass the level and spend the money on aesthetics around your shop. Decorate and create your own style for your shop, having certain items of the same style put together or displayed next to each other will create a style bonus that will get customers tipping more.

To play the game imagine surgeon simulator but in VR. Move around your room to move around your shop and use your controllers as your hands. Move your hands around the customers muscles to find the sweet spots, The tighter the area you are in the more the controllers will react which will tell you where to massage.

Image source: "https://assets.vrfocus.com/uploads/2015/10/surgeon_simulator_experience_reality_2-1.jpg"

GameTitle: Barber shop nonsense

Platform: VR (HTC Vive)

Overview: Barber shop nonsense is a game about cutting peoples hair. In this game the aim is to make a certain amount of profit in the day to pass that day. Fail to do so and you lose the level and must try that day again. This isn't any ordinary hair cutting game, when the customers come in for a haircut, along with how they want their hair cut they also bring in the tool to do so. This can be anywhere from normal everyday items from scissors or an old fashion razor too crazy cutting objects like hedge trimmers or even chainsaws!

Cut the hair of the customer as well as you can to what they say they wanted along with any other requests they might have. Every time you miss a cut and cut them by accident (caution could be gory) or fail to do a good job you won't gain as much money, which will in turn make it more difficult to pass the level. The game will be played in VR using the HTC vive, move around your room to move around the barber shop and use your controllers to pick up various items and to cut peoples hair.

ImageSource: "https://andylehmann.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/chainsaw-haircut.jpg"

Game Title: Global Health Care

Platform: PC/Mobile

Overview: Global health care an incremental clicking game were you have to generate as much money as possible through any medical means. Make money by doing several things, some for example are treating patients, doing surgery or even developing medicine. Each of these will be buttons that your press to start the process, the process will take X amount of time depending on the complexity of the task and the amount of cash it generates. When X amount of time is up, you get the money and need to press the button again.

Spend money on upgrades throughout your care center by buying things such as improved healthcare or increasing the number of patients that you can treat a single time. After buying a certain amount of one upgrade you will have the chance to automate that process and buy additional automation bonuses after that. All of this in turn generates more money and the cycle continues after that.

Image source: "http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/69707000/69707132/image-04-700x414.jpg"

Game title: Curiosity

Platform: PC

Overview: Curiosity is a game about discovery, chance and risk and reward. The aim of the game is to make it through as many doors as possible. When you start the game you are presented with four doors, four choices. At the top of the door is a display of the item or bonus that is contained within that room, the better the reward the higher the risk of that room (past a certain point in the game where the rewards are better some displays are blanked out giving you some extra mystery).

When you enter the room the door will close behind you and only open once the room is "completed". Based on the risk of that room there is a chance that you will be launched into a mini game (e.g floor turns to lava and you have to make it to the other side by jumping on various moving platforms). Upon completion the player is given the reward and all doors connected to previously completed rooms open. The room could also be nice to you and just give you the item upfront, all depending on chance.

Initially you don't know what is bad or good reward wise which is why the dying mechanic starts you back at the beginning of the game. The reason for this is to show players you can die easily, but jump back into the game easily, the game is about progression and understanding the rewards and the player will have to die to understand that.

Dying isn't all that bad either, for the players who know the game and can make it pretty far, if they die they can spend points earned during the game (which gets banked if you have spare points for another play through) on buying starting upgrades which would usually be found in rooms. This gives the players who make it far through the game a less frustrating start to the game while also making them feel naked without all of the items they just had.

Image source: "http://il9.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/3652721/thumb/7.jpg"

Game title: Sleep deprivation

Platform: PC

Overview: You are a university student coming close to the end of a big semester, and all the projects are piling up. In this game you must manage your time, the time you spend eating, studying socialising and most importantly, the amount of time you rest for (be it day or night). The aim of the game is to make it to the end of the semester and pass all of your courses. If you fall into sleep deprivation from spending too much time doing other things, your work will be significantly reduced and you must rest if you want to recover back to the stage you were at before.

Socialise to keep your interaction meter up, the higher it is the better the work you do as you will communicate with others and get help/ideas for work. Manage the type of food you eat during the day and when you eat it. You have a set budget of money you can use for food and must ration it, spend too much and risk running out of money for food. (by default you get dinners each night for free from the uni as that is included in your boarding fee). The better and healthier the food, the bigger the boost your work gets, but caffeinated drinks to help reduce sleep deprivation for a short while.

Image source: "http://hsewise.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sleep.jpg"

Game title: Sound waves

Platform: PC

Overview: Sound waves is a 2D puzzle game where you have a speaker on one side of the level and a microphone on the other side. The aim of the game is simple, place various objects around the level to redirect the sound waves into the microphone. Easy. The only thing stopping you is the mass amount of sound proof walls which you have to avoid as the sound wave will disappear once touching it. If you can get the sound waves to the microphone you pass the level and move onto the next one.

Place objects in the level to help achieve this goal. Use various blocks of different liquids to diffract sound waves or you could even make small narrow passage ways to change the waves properties (e.g Frequency). The faster you can complete the level the more points you will be rewarded for completing the level. Don't aim to go too fast, if you make too many mistakes you will miss out on the bonus points permanently, so taking your time to make sure everything is set is better.

Image source: "http://hearingbetterohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sound-waves.jpg"

Game Title: VR Battle Simulator

Platform: VR (HTC Vive)

Overview: VR Battle Simulator is quite obviously what the title inclines. Take control of large medieval platoons and lead them all to victory. The game will control with you looking horizontally (straight ahead) and seeing the whole map displayed in front of you (the reason for this is so you don't get a sore neck from looking down so much). Walk up and down the map to get and visual of where and what is going on. Select and move different groups of units (on the map) using the trigger buttons on the controllers. While having groups selected use the touch pads to cycle through different battle/defensive formations (e.g setting them in a wedge or column).

The game will have a campaign where you lead many assaults on key points within the enemy territory to take back what is yours. Some scenarios will take place with you defending the points you have taken, so you will have to figure out new tactics when facing against siege equipment.

Image source: "http://www.eslgaming.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_big/public/Total-War-ARENA-Battle-Header.jpg?itok=Wh3Csj0e"

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Game Title: Stationary Stacker

Platform: Mobile

Overview: Do you ever get bored during a class or lecture and end up taking things out of your pencil case and start stacking them as high as possible? Well now it's a game you can play on your phone to avoid the embarrassment of when your tower falls over during class. The game will be played in levels, complete the first level to move onto the next one (and so on). Each level has a set amount of stationary you need to stack. You must use ALL stationary given to you. You must also stack your stationary up past a certain height to finish the level

When the two conditions have been met a small timer of 5 seconds will begin to count down. If both the conditions are still met after the timer and nothing else falls and touches the ground, (apart from the base starting piece) you pass the level. If you lose you simply just retry the level, nothing lost. The game will only use the touch screen feature of the phone and not the tilting feature. Drag and drop items from a small hot bar using your finger and position them however you want on top of the starting block (the stationary can also be rotated depending on how you hold it).

Image source: "https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/colored-pencils-stacked-top-eachother-1166113.jpg"

Game Title: Workout simulator

Platform: PC

Overview: Workout simulator is a game all about getting as strong as possible. The aim of the game is to make it to the Olympics, do this by starting off as an average joe and dedicating your life to the gym. Manage how much time you spend at each workout station, working out your different muscles or maybe working on general stamina/fitness.

At the end of each month the player is entered into a competition where you must do as best as you can. Compete in the competition by playing mini games for each of the lifts. The better your training goes and the better skills you get the easier specific lifts can be. Your ranking is based off the highest amount of weight you can lift. Try to aim high so you can be placed in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd range. Doing this will reward you with cash and prizes (like free protein for a month!). Manage your own cash expenses for gym sessions and buying foods and general rent. If you run out of money you lose and need to restart that month.

Image source: "https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/03/e5/32/03e532fb1f4300a26b677ab7b0efd7bc.jpg"

Game title: Mow the lawn!

Platform: All

Overview: Ever wanted the joy and satisfaction of mowing the lawn in perfect nicely organised lanes but never wanted to actually get up, go outside and mow the lawns yourself. Well now you can, mow the lawn is a game that explains its self in the title. The aim of the game is to mow the lawn as quickly as possible, the faster you mow the lawn the larger the time bonus that you will acquire at the end of the level. Depending on your score you will be rates 0 – 3 Garden gnomes (stars).

With each level comes different shaped lawns, tress that you have to mow around and live obstacles that you have to watch out for like kids moving around and or playing on the lawn. The controls from the game are very simple, W and S control the speed of the lawn mower while A and D rotate it. Press SPACE to lower or raise the blades to allow you to move over obstacles.

Image source: "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i9G3kHngmJY/VKiRmZ07YgI/AAAAAAAAVk0/WWSGiTBEtag/s1600/Mars%2Band%2BVenus.png"

Game Title: Hype Simulator

Platform: PC

Overview: Hype simulator is a game where you job is to create as much hype around a product as you can. You are hired by companies for your amazing hype skills (you might of over hyped your own skills) and you must meet the brief with what each company wants as well as what product they are selling. The more hype around the product you make the more money the company can sell their product for. Get the hype high enough to hit a certain point in how much it sells to complete the level. Be careful! If you get enough hype and forget about the product before it launches, other events can lower the hype and if it lowers the hype lower than the selling point needed, you lose the level.

With each new level the game ultimately gets harder and harder by adding harder to achieve goals and more obscure products that really need hype. Generate hype in a number of ways such as going to festivals or events and promoting them, doing some marketing by creating posters / billboards even releasing videos on the product generates hype! Try even sneak in some false advertising for bonus hype! Remember as long as they don't catch on by the release date, and the hype is above the needed level, your job is a success and you get paid.

Image source: "https://41.media.tumblr.com/f4bca4406128ea02ac5137faeb207e8a/tumblr_inline_ns9qyfdaYv1tytsbv_540.jpg"

Game Title: The sky isn't the limit

Platform: PC

Overview: The sky isn't the limit is a small flash game played on the PC. In this game you start off with dreams to soar through the sky touching clouds and laughing at gravity. To achieve this, you are only left with your grandfather's old run down biplane. Lunch yourself each day from your hill top run way and try to fly as high and as far as you can. The player will be rewarded money for how far and high they have reached. The player will then spend this money on upgrading their aircraft (because what is this type of game without upgrades) upgrade weight to reduce your weight by using less dense materials, Increase thrust and lift and many other things.

After you make a certain height in the air, others will begin to get jealous and will stop at nothing to shoot you down and stop you from achieving your goals. Luckily your grandfather was in the way and the biplane has some machine guns attached to it. Dodge duck and weave through this while firing back to reach your goals in the sky. Of course guns will be upgradable too. By the end of the game you will probably have a modern looking jet, which of course means you are higher in the air, which of course means people are even more jealous of you and have hired more dangerous things to take you down.

Image source: "http://worldwar2headquarters.com/images/aircraftBritish/swordfish.jpg"

Game Title: Forever Dark

Platform: PC

Overview: You awaken underground inside of a stasis pod, your first few steps out of it are greeted with flickering lights and motion sickness. In this game you start off in a small underground room which has a barely functioning generator, a synthesizing bench and a set of tools. The aim of the game is simple, survive as long as you can in the underground caverns, all by yourself. Use your tools to mine for resources and dig in any direction you want. Use these resources to create/improve tools and other machines like a tool station, or better drills. Create new rooms and link them all together to create a small working house, have underground gardens to grow organic food and generator rooms to take care of all your power. Survive as long as possible and make it as luxurious as possible. Dig around to find the secrets of why you are here, and to find a teleporter that could just get you out of the ground and back to civilisation.

Image source: "http://thenorobotsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Dungeon-Keeper-iOS-%E2%80%93%C2%A0Mining-Gems-1024x768.jpg"


MDS GDV110 - 'One Game a Day' Assignment

Media Design School's GDV110 students come up with a game idea a day.

daily from 2016-07-19 to 2016-09-09