Submissions by Gibson.Hickey tagged management

The end is coming in one day! Gather your supplies, family and friends before the day is over, by ANY means necessary. And then quickly build a shelter to keep everyone safe in.

You start the game in your humble abode from a strategy styled map, you control your character by clicking on other areas on the map, such as a supermarket to search for supplies or family/friends. Performing an action such as searching expends your one valuable resource; time. Upon gathering some extra people, you can then delegate them to assist in searching for more people or supplies. Each action uses up your time, but multiple actions being performed by multiple people will be performed at the same time without costing more time. At some point of course you will want to build some sort of shelter using some of the supplies you have gathered, this will work in the way where more people equals faster build time. Once the day is over your people enter the shelter and must survive as long as possible, the longer the higher your score! This depends on amount of supplies and how well built your shelter is.

-Gameplay Style, Strategy, Management

-Reference image from, http://mobile-cuisine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/the-end-is-nigh.jpg

Yarr harr! It be the time of the Pirate! All ye land lubbers have contracted the ole piracy disease making ya all uncontrollable pirates! Rampant pillaging and software thievery ahoy! Can ye survive the oncoming Pirate-ocalypse?

Everybody the world over has been infected by the Piracy disease. It reverts people to a state where they all "Yarr" and "Harr", convert any form of transportation into their pirate ship and get VERY sticky fingers for anything of value including those of the digital kind. This also affects you, but fortunately (Unfortunately) you were already somewhat of a pirate (You software thief!) so its effects took a weird take on you. Instead you are now compelled to pay for your games and become an upstanding citizen! This includes straightening out the unruly mobs who now propagate the land ignoring any sort of copyright infringement.

Equipped with your finest business suit and well organized suitcase you must smack some Cease and Desist orders into these pirate hooligans and find a means to fix this sickness, encountering likeminded ex-pirates along the way and building a team to build the next big project! Or get them to help with solving the pirate problem…

-Gameplay Style, Action, Adventure, Management

-Reference image from, A bunch of images I put together

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It's Friday, and tonight you and your mates head out into town, heading to the closest bar you can find and start drinking away your worries and stress from this week.

Your mates keep shouting you drinks which you need to keep drinking, you can let them sit for a while but your friends may start getting upset (Peer Pressure) so you must balance your intoxication levels with their happiness meters. Of course your drink is also increasing your “bathroom" meter which upon getting too high requires you to get to a toilet ASAP. On top of this you also have to keep an eye out for any lonely women who approach you as your rugged handsomeness (through their drunken eyes) has just too strong a pull. This means that you must either politely shoo them away or somehow endure their bombardment of small talk until they are satisfied. Of course this also comes with the risk of again upsetting your friends, because they are so jealous obviously. Once done in this bar it's time to head to the next one and start all over again!

-Gameplay Genre, Virtual Reality, Management

-Reference image from, the huffington post

Limousine Chauffeur is both a driving simulator and a multi-tasking management game in where you must pick up and deliver your customers with haste, as well as keep them happy and comforted. Customers may include newlywed couples, national big-wigs or crazy rich people throwing their money about.

You start off parked near your company's parking hub, as time passes your cell phone will buzz, notifying you of job locations. These jobs have both a time limit and happiness meter attached to them. So speed is both key and a detriment, blazing around corners for instance will throw around consumables and other objects within the limo which may hit your customers, greatly dropping their happiness. Happiness also slowly drops if they aren't given enough attention. Depending on how well you do, you'll receive your pay-check/score at the end of the day, so on top of each job's time limit you also have one for your current day.

The platform of use would be on PC, using Virtual Reality controls. Switching between driving and catering to customers would be done by turning yourself to face the direction of the road or your customers. Both actions use the motion controls to steer, control speed, and grab objects used for keeping your customers happy. Being able to multi-task between these quickly is key.

-Game play Genre, Driving, Management, Virtual Reality, Chaos.

-Target audience, those invested in VR who enjoy mechanics that can turn in to a hilarious mess.

-Reference image from, Prague Airport Transfers

You are a sqweeb (A Skinny and weak man). One day while walking with your companion; your little dog, you encounter a strong looking man with a moustache so manly your instincts scream at you to run away. However the man smells your fear and quickly clasps your shoulders preventing you from escaping, he then exclaims: "Boy do you desire to be a man!? To be strong!? TO HAVE A MOUSTACHE!?"

Depending how you answer the game will begin if you hit 'yes' or will throw you out if you hit 'no'. Upon beginning the game you are taught that everything 'Manly' revolves around the moustache. So your objective is to grow and groom your moustache in various areas, in order to become stronger. This includes performing facial hair weight lifting, reading up on 'Moustache management techniques' and grooming your moustache. When you think you are ready you can try the 'Moustached Battle Arena' where you can fight against other moustached men seeking strength and manliness.

The game starts off very much as a management RPG game, where you train in certain areas consuming both time and energy for that day. Once the player reaches a certain point they are able to use the 'Moustached Battle Arena' which is implemented in a 'Fighting game' format while still using the aforementioned RPG statistics. Other than training and fighting, the player can also go shopping for items, or take a part-time job. Both fighting and going to a part-time job give you money you can then spend at the shops.

-Game play Genre, RPG, Management, Fighting, Humour.

-Target Audience, People who enjoy humorous games and anyone else.

-Reference image from, Braum from League of Legends, art by Philips Lacanlale (Terkoiz)

Extreme Hair Stylist is a game about catering to your customer's hair related needs. You provide this service, but with a twist. You snowboard down the snowy slopes while performing your customer's hair styling. This is done by 'securing' your customer to a chair strapped to a snowboard while you use your own to manoeuvre around, therefore styling their hair. However you require tools and equipment to accurately perform your task, so to make sure you have everything you need, you strap a desk to a pair of skis with all your equipment inside.

So in order to your customer's hair, first you use the keyboard to move around the slopes, keeping in mind to keep fairly close to your customer and equipment. Next you use the mouse to look around and choose your tools from your equipment desk. Now you perform the styling, which you must get as close as possible to what the customer wants, inaccuracy results in loss of payment and possibly for the customer loss of an ear or of the like. There is a time limit given for each styling you do, which is to complete the job before you get to the end of the track. Funds gathered can then be used to unlock more tracks and buy better equipment.

-Game play Genre, First Person, Sports, Management

-Target Audience, Teen/general

-Reference image from the game, SSX

The world has become a wasteland, radiation lingers everywhere and has mutated and killed many, including many forms of entertainment such as 'TV' and the 'Internet'. So what does one do to entertain oneself? They head on over to Bob's Zombie Rally!

Choose your starting zombie, deck him out in threads of your choosing. Race him against others! Don't worry about motivating your zombie to run; we have an automated brain-on-a-stick device to keep them a shuffling. Zombies can be surprisingly moody; they may lash out at their fellow racers, only the strongest and fastest will earn their prize. Earned enough winnings? Streamline your zombie with our all new *cough* not-so-legal *cough* customization station! Cut down on your zombie's weight by removing any unnecessary parts, add special lightweight materials that come in a variety of shapes to reduce air resistance, or even slap a new and better pair of legs on! So what are you waiting for? Come on down to Bob's Zombie Rally today and throw your boredom away!

Bob's Zombie Rally takes no responsibility for loss of brains in when dealing with zombies.

-Game play Genre, Management, Strategy, Racing

-Target Audience, Teen

-Reference image from, Zombies, Run

You are both cook and manager of a small restaurant that specializes in waffles of unique but delicious flavours. However, in order to keep customers both interested and returning you must on occasion take a trip to your basement. In the deepest part of your basement lies an ornamented archway, otherwise called a doorway to another world. This doorway just so happens to connect to a dungeon in another world, and in this dungeon plenty of monsters inhabits its halls. So you must hunt these monsters for special ingredients for your waffles.

You start the game as the only employee of your small restaurant, and must cater to what your customers like. After a while, returning customers may get bored with your current waffles. At this point it is a good idea to go hunting in your basement/dungeon for new ingredients. In the dungeon aside from monsters, you may encounter adventurers from their own world. You may be able to party with, take quests, or even employ them at your restaurant. After gaining an employee you can then assign them a set amount of waffle recipes, they will create these to their best abilities, however if a customer asks for something they are not proficient in and no other employee can either, then they may make a 'poor' or 'passable' quality waffle of that kind. Quality determines whether you get paid for that waffle or not. Having more employees allows you to widen the range of waffle types you can make and also allows you to spend more time in the dungeon, as at the beginning you'll only be able to spend a short amount of time per day.

-Game Play Genre, Cooking, Management, Strategy, RPG

-Target Audience, General/Teen

-Reference image from, Chef Peter Assue