A third person survival game set in a massive desert. The player finds themselves lost in the desert, this desert is filled with countless varieties of enemies and problems that the player must tackle if they wish to survive.

The survival aspect of the game will consist of the player finding shelter and crafting items from resources they find in the game world. The main goal of the player is to escape the desert and find freedom in the civilized world.

The story of the game is delivered through hallucinations and letters that the player finds, the deeper the player dives into the game the more understanding they will gain. The world may not be as it seems.

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An assassination based game where the player has control over time and space.

The game aims to challenge the player's creativity rather than skill and rewards players for putting in more effort.

The game starts off on the final level. You are assassinating a head mafia boss and all his henchmen are around him defending him. The player can try their best with the weapons they spawn with to kill the boss there and then and end the game. However this is where the main aspect of the game is introduced, the player can rewind time to when they were picking weapons and bring in new ones to better suit their playstyle/the situation. The player can also hijack the minds of the henchmen in the level, doing so transports the player back in time to a place where the henchman is more isolated, they can then assassinate the henchman in this new level and upon travelling back to the present time that henchman will no longer exist.

However, depending on the hierarchical standpoint of the henchman the player may need to travel even further back in time to kill that henchman's henchmen. Or the henchman may be replaced and introduce a new henchman entirely.

This level within level aspect of the game will make for an enjoyable and strategy filled game.

An mmorpg set in the future dystopian city of Mangare, Italy, where the citizens are forced to go through impossible tasks just to get food for themselves each day.

The player creates their own custom citizen and choose an alliance. The dastardly "Corporation" or the good willed "Saviours" each team has its own back story and mission. The corporation are evil and control territory so they can make profit from the poor citizens in the area. The Saviours feed the poor and must find supplies in order to keep everyone alive.

The two teams have a very different overall play style but still compete in matches against each other in similar ways. Each has their own classes and skill sets.

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Enter hatsville, a consumerist society where your success is determined by the quality of your hat. The player takes on the role of Bruce Smelbin, a hatless outcast with a plan antiestablishmental in nature.

Bruce seeks to murder the 7 nation leaders who enforce the ridiculous status symbol that hats represent. Bruce does this by infiltrating the faucets of society by donning the hats of those he has assassinated.

The game is non linear and the player can assassinate the leaders in any order. It is set in a near future world.

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you play as a button with a dream: freedom.

The game puts you in a plethora of scenarios all of which start with the button being on an item of clothing, or perhaps a pillow. The aim of the game is to escape the house without being caught and returned to your prison.

Example of gameplay: the player starts on a pillow. No one is in the room. The player goes through a QTE of untying the knots that hold you to the pillow. Then the player must make their way out of the room and the house. If a human should spot them in the open they will fail the game, however, the player can tether themselves to objects to appear as though they are in place and should be accepted. If the player makes it out they advance to the next level.

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You play as a modern day hipster working in a voice over studio in London. Your role is to give instructions to the many actors that come through the studio and make sure they do their job properly.

The game has two main parts of the gameplay, the first being the directions. The directions determine the multiplier you will gain for the following round. The players have as choice of 4 or more directions they can give. Each actor will respond differently to different types of direction, in order to get this right the player will have to examine a personality description they recieve at the start of each game.

After determining the multiplier for the game the player must then take on the role of the voice actor and provide spot on lines in time with a notes appearing on screen. The player does so by pressing the "wasd" keys in the order they pop up on screen.

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You play as twins who fight against all manner of evil to save the world from complete annihilation. These twins share their appearance but greatly differ in the abilities they have.

One twin wields darkness as its power and uses skills like creating black holes or draining the life force of his enemies to defeat them. The other twin wields the power of light to defeat his enemies. These powers include burning rays of light and telekinesis.

The twins both have a plethora of skills at their disposal, the player levels these up by using them more and more. The twins are anti-heroes in the game and dont abide by the law, so whilst fighting of bad guys they must also explore non-lethal options when taking out police officers who come at them.

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Train and manage your own rugby team as you slowly but surely take over the world rugby scene. This game focuses on the player developing their players and skills over the course of "seasons" in the game rather than single games of rugby.

The players choose their players from a list of applicants that all range in skill whilst staying within budget for the season. Choosing players who are less skilled will be cheaper but will also result in many more losses. The player also hires staff to look after their team. The staff includes but is not limited to: Dietitians, physios, trainers and many more. The player must also be able to afford this. As the players team gets better and better they will earn more money for upgrading their team.

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In this game you play as a german spyhunter. Stop those pesky Americans before its too late! Thankfully your skills allow you to outsmart the dimwitted spies, however, they do not extend to outsmarting bees! and for that matter all variety of stinger toting flying insects!!

The game is a 3rd person shooter and relies heavily on stealth for the players progression. Unconventional weapons such as deodorant flamethrowers and vacuum cleaners are used to take out the bees, where silenced pistols and fibrewires are used to take out the spies.

The player has an enormous variety of weapons at their disposal but must choose only 3 at the start of each level.

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Take a cruise on a ship in the Atlantic where you will meet an abundance of interesting characters, all with their own backstories and personalities. Unfortunately after the first night on the vessel several of the passengers have been found murdered in their sleep.

Luckily the player is one of the greatest detectives in the world and just happens to also be on this cruise. Using your enhanced detective perception you must try to deduce who amongst the group of passengers is guilty and who is innocent. Every night more and more passengers are killed off in their sleep.

The player will find clues about the ship and in talking to the numerous passengers on the ship. Although there will be a large number of guests on the boat their will never be too many to handle and some will stand out more than others. Players actions influence the path that the game follows and the player must be careful not to reveal himself to the killer or risk being killed off himself.

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Play online as a drift racer and seek fame and fortune! In this game you play as a custom designed avatar and must compete against other players online to boost your global and local ranking.

The game features full customisation of both characters and cars and aims to be as realistic as possible. This means all the cars aerodynamics and engine tweaks are taken into account. The players can adjust any part on the car but must first purchase these parts with credits.

Credits are scored by beating other players or AI in drift races.

a brain training game that challenges the player to learn a new language. The users select a language they wish to learn and then are presented with a variety of ways to learn the language.

the way players learn words is through mini-games. These minigames include: associating words with pictures, match word cards(similar to the card game snap), having the words spoken to them and typing out the phonetics, and many other minigames.

Players can add friends on the app and compare their progress to them, this creates an incentive of competition to get the players involved in the game.

Players are given points based on how many words they learn and are tested periodically on these to make sure they understand them.

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A massive party game in which the players take control of their own custom wizards. These wizards have ultimate power and all fight for dominance on the land. The game can host an unlimited amount of players at one time and work individually to try and be the last man standing.

The game takes place over rounds, each round the wizards simultaneously choose either: Charge, Fireball (Or similar offensive spells), and block.

When attacking the player chooses one of the other wizards in the game who will then take 1 health worth of damage. The players each have 3 points of health at the beginning of the game (through playtesting this may be scaled with the number of players in game).

Attacks only count when the players are charging or attacking, and a player can only attack when they have a charge built up, the players can hold as many charges as they like. When blocking the players gain immunity from attacks and the attackers lose their attack charge.

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You play as a struggling young jazz dancer, Dan "Dash" Dashiell, who, alongside Hercules (yes the Arnold Shwarzenegger one), must fight off a myriad of classic enemies including: Killer Klowns!, living tomatoes!, giant ice spiders! and many more!

The game itself will feature a pixel art style and give the players a retro aesthetic to go along with the content it provides.

Although the game has a simple story, it will not focus on this at all and instead opt for massive explosions, insanely cheesy dialogue and (almost) cinematic cutscenes to tie players through to the end, upon reaching which they will fight "little Billy" Rhodes, a.k.a the Terror of Tiny Town, and claim ultimate(ly predictable) glory and loot.

There is a strong emphasis on not developing characters in this game and leaving them as one dimensional as possible.

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the game pits the player as an Uber/taxi driver taking NPC's to their destinations. The two core elements of the game are driving and making conversation.

Driving will supply the players with quick time events that randomly appear. Getting these right will get you to the destination faster. Missing them will make the passengers angry and make you lose points.

Points are gained by making good conversation with your passengers. The dialogue is given with multi choice answers that each have a corresponding reaction from the box. All NPC's react differently to the dialogue given to them. Some may react well others will get angry. The player must make sure the passengers don't get too awkward or they will give them a low rating.

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You play as a warrior in the barbaric times and must use brute strength and skill to overcome the vast array of enemies that attack you. The game is laid out like an arena shooter except the player uses spears, bow and arrows and fists to kill enemies. The player has extreme maneuverability and can wall-run and double jump, the gameplay focuses on quick reflexes and learning the paths of the arena.

Players can use the weapons whilst performing insane feats of agility and must utilise this to become the best at the game. The game is multiplayer only and features a ranking system to ensure players are matched with others of the same level so that the game can be enjoyable and keep that players interested.

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You play as Piko, a really small tyrannosaurus rex with a really big brain. Piko found it hard to fit in with the other t-rex at school, they were too big and mean to care about little Piko, so now its time for Piko to get revenge.

Design contraptions and weapons to defeat T-rex in this third person arcade brawler. Each mission will take around 2 minutes to complete and sees the players using their own pre-constructed tools to take down massive T-rex. Weapon and tool construction takes place in its own mode, and players can make anything from physics based catapults to specialised rifles and flamethrowers.

Gameplay focuses on gore and fun, it features asymmetrical combat with the enemy trex having large ehalth pools but small attack range. And the player being weak but having a massive arsenal of weapons.

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In Osmosis you play as an alien race set on universe wide domination. Players will find themselves making decisions on which planets to assimilate and how to set their army out. The game will feature a variety of races and race archetypes.

Hierarchy races will focus on domination through power and must fight wars in order to capture solar systems and planets. players who choose this type will fight RTS battles and also listen to their race members or risk mutiny and internal conflict.

Peaceful nations must find ways, either through religion or monetary ways, to gain control of planets and solar systems owned by other races. This mode will be more of a tycoon type game and focus less on the battle side of the game. The units will also be quite autonomous in their conquests leaving the player to focus more on strategy at a macroscopic level.

Hive mind races are controlled entirely by the player. They assimilate docile races with ease but are often weak when it comes to battle and must have a massive force in order to take larger systems.

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A mobile game in which players own a factory that produces toys. the toys have three major traits to them: Quality, Price and Enjoyability. these traits can be boosted by the player investing in game currency into areas underneath them i.e. Longevity of product = Greater quality stat. The player must then market their product on the virtual store and try to sell as much as possible.

Sales are affected by how well your brand is known, environmental factors and the traits described above. The players boost their brand image by selling good toys day to day, this can be seen as the players level as it grows gradually, however it can also fall. The environmental factors will be things like stock market crash so players have to lower their pricing, new laws being created so players have to change the quality of the product. How well the players track all of these things determines how well they will do.

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You play as a physics based squid. The squids tentacles are tied in impossible knots and the player must untangle them before the time runs out. The player does this by swiping and dragging tentacles around the screen in the hopes that it will be freed from the mess. The more the player plays the game the easier it will be to understand how to make specific knots be untied. Each game will have a time limit of one minute. The game uses bright colours and exciting feedback to keep thew players entertained.

Although the time limit is the main problem of the game sometimes the player is throw curve balls in the form of false limbs or bombs that destroy the players work and set them back.

The player can customise their squid for enhanced personal quirk to the game.

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In this first bird adventure game you play as a falcon on the hunt for mice and other scrumptious morsels found in the fields of the game. It's an open world game and you gain experience for killing animals you can use this experience to make your bird bigger the biggest risk in the game are other birds who will try to eat you.

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MDS GDV110 - 'One Game a Day' Assignment

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

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