In the Great Migration you can play as a variety of animals during their migration period. These animals include penguins, swallows and wildebeests among many others. The game challenges the player with the task of navigating themselves across large distances over land and sea to reach where the animals are headed to. In each of the levels in the game you play as a different species that has a completely different migration pattern. At the end of each level the player will have access to a large set of stats about how far they traveled and how they did it. They will also have access to a map where they can look at the path they took and find out if it was the most viable route. Not only is the game enjoyable to play but players will learn more about the animals they are playing as and their migration patterns.

Source: http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/animal-migration.htm

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PC Defender is a tower defense game that takes place within a computers hardware and circuitry. Each level you are defending a different part of the computer. All of the levels will have completely different layouts and design making the player have to adapt their play style as they progress through the game. Each level the player will set up their defenses by buying units with points that they earn for destroying the incoming viruses trying to attack the computer. There are tower types of all shapes and sizes, some that fire lasers and others that slow enemies. After each level the player will have the choice of upgrading one of their units, only one can be upgraded at a time and each unit can only be upgraded three times. PC Defender is a fast paced fun to play game that can be played for long sessions or just quickly while on the buses as it is available on mobile devices as well as PC.

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Reverse Driving is a racing game where the game only allows you to drive in reverse. First person and third person are available to players but you cannot look behind you. Your only means of guidance is your co-driver who will be calling out which turns are coming up so you will have to listen closely. The main campaign mode of the game will have you competing in a large amount of tournaments to try and become the best reverse driver in the world. In the games online multiplayer mode you can do standard races or any of the fun arcade modes like demolition derby and stunt jumps. The more races that the player completes the more unlocks they will have available to them. These range from cosmetic things such as paint jobs and different rims to upgrades to different parts of their car like the engine and braking system.

Source: http://digitaldeconstruction.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/driving-backwards.jpg

In the game "A Giant Adventure" the player controls a giant who is partaking in their right of passage into adulthood. To do this you have to go on an adventure to unexplored lands where anything is possible to discover and learn. Along the way you will encounter creatures of all shapes and sizes, some friendly and others not. Because you are a giant you can be of great use to creatures that are smaller than you so you can choose to help them out if you wish to gain their rewards. You will also come across a large array of different types of puzzles that have to be solved to progress. Once you have explored enough new places and been kind enough to help lots of strangers it will be time for the player to return home and finally become accepted as an adult. There are lots of different paths that the player can take in their journey giving the game a large amount of replay value.

Source: http://orig13.deviantart.net/41d3/f/2013/193/3/3/game_of_thrones___giant_character_poster_by_franeres-d6d57go.jpg

Guard Duty is a stealth genre game like thief or dishonored except in this game you play as the commander of the guards. Each level you control an elite task force that has been hired to protect certain people and facilities. You might be trying to stop an assassination, heist or prison break from occurring. Each level you can place and control all of the guards, view the security cameras and motion detectors. You will also have access to the floor plans of the destination so you can look for paths that the "Hero" may take to avoid detection. You win each level if you catch the "Hero" and stop them from completing their task and loose if they do. As you progress through the levels the people you are trying to stop get smarter and the locations get more complex so you get access to better equipment to counter them.

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Seeing Double is you typical 2d arcade fighting game with a twist. The twist is that you are controlling two characters at once, one on the top of the screen and one on the bottom and there is an enemy in each section to fight. There are a wide variety of character to choose from each having a different stats distribution such that no two are the same. Some fighters move faster than others and some hit faster etc. When playing the game any button pushed effects both characters the player controls. There are a set amount of combos in the game which are the same throughout all of the characters but they work differently for each one. Seeing Double can be played in both single player against bots and against other players online. A fun meta game within Seeing Double is trying to find which combinations of fighters work best together to give you the best chance of winning. Challenge you friends to see who can make the best team and win the most battles.

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The Hunt is On is an online multiplayer action game you play as either a hunter or an animal that is being hunted. If your team is playing as the hunters you have to track your kills through the woods and kill them. You get points each time you get a kill. If your team is playing as the animals you goal is to survive by running away and hiding from the hunters. You get points based on how long you survived for and how sneaky you were. Bonus points are awarded if you manage to survive the entire round without dieing. Each team gets a chance to play as both sides and whoever has the most amount of points wins the game. The game takes place in a giant Forrest landscape that is randomly generated at the beginning of every game so that now two rounds are the same.

Source:http://www.searchamateur.com/Hunting-Games-Online/Hunting.htm

In this 2d platformer game you play as an astronaut to is traveling the outer reaches of the universe all by himself. In your travels you will visit many different planets each with their own species of aliens and types of terrain and weaponry. Some of the aliens will be hostile towards you and you'll have to fight to stay alive and other aliens will want to aid you in your journey by helping you explore the areas to find all of the resources you require to continue on your quest. There are lots or different weapon types and utility items that are available to create and at the end of each level you will be able to build new weaponry and equipment or upgrade your current gear with the resources you have collected. The game has 10 different planets to visit that all have three levels each and more will be added via DLC in the future.

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In this game you play as a busker who aims to travel the entire world with the money he makes off of his busking act. In each country you visit you have to perform your act which allows you to make money and level up your skills, charisma, talent and charm are a few examples. When you're not busking you will have to be meeting as many locals as you can and getting them to like you so that acquiring things such as food and a place to stay are much easier to do. When you have saved enough money you can buy a ticket to the country of your choice. Using your travel itinerary and map you can map out the most optimal route of travel to save you the most amount of money and time. The game is won when you have been to every country in the world.

Source: http://www.global-gallivanting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/527213_4020735450691_1783021864_n.jpg


This is an arcade style top down flying game in which the planes are controlled by two people. Each plane in the game has two people controlling it, one for the vertical movement and one for the horizontal. The game can be played locally or online and has many different game modes. The first is a traditional level based mode where two planes controlled by four people have to beat the countless waves of enemies and bosses. Another mode is a versus mode where up to four planes can be duking it out in a wide range of battlefields that all have their own layout and power ups. In both of these modes communication is key and is essential to success as each player controls an alternate fire mode and only one can be fired at a time. The one downside is that you can't play the game by yourself so don't buy this game if you don't have any friends to play it with.

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You play as a normal everyday person except for one thing, you cannot walk past an imperfection and must stop to fix it before you can move on with you life. The challenge of the game is to find all of the problems in a given section fast enough so that it doesn't hinder your daily routine and make you late for things such as meetings and appointments. Its a point and click game that requires you to click on objects in the scene and make the adjustment needed to make it perfect. If you fail to find all of the imperfections in a level or fail to find the fix for the problem fast enough you will be forced to move on and will feel awful for the rest of your day. At the end of each level you will score points based on how fast you fixed all of the problems and how creative your solutions were.

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This is a motion control game where you can try your hand at sculpting without getting your hands dirty. The game plays in first person mode where your arm and hand movements are replicated by your in game arms and hands.The game has no real goal and doesn't end so you can just try to make the best sculpture possible although there are party gamemodes available where each player only gets 3 minutes to try and create something and the other players have to guess what it is. You can play this mode locally or online with others. You can save your creations to share with friends or to revisit them later on. After you are happy with one of your sculptures you can submit it to the forums where people can vote on them to see who's is the best. The game also has a time lapse feature that you can activate at any time to see all of your progress so far sped up over time.

Source: http://www.creativebloq.com/app/review-lets-create-pottery-hd-app-iphone-and-ipad-5132700

In this game you play as a character who is addicted to buying lottery tickets. The player has to manage their money so that they can spend as much of it on the lotto as possible. Every week the player will have a total amount of income that they have to spend on both living costs and tickets. If you don't spend enough on living costs your overall health and well being will decrease resulting in you earning less money and if you don't spend enough on lottery tickets you will develop a stronger craving for them and will end up spending more money anyway to for full your addiction. You can win small amounts of money off of the lottery but much like in real life your chances of returning a profit are very small. The aim of the game is to last as long as you can before your life descends into chaos and you run out of money.

Source: http://www.kellyspokerroom.com/tag/lottery-games/

Escape is a game where the player is tasked with escaping various scenarios in order to finish the level. The levels are all randomly generated via this amazing game engine that hasn't been invented yet. So one level you could be a baby trying to escape it's cot and the next you could be trying to get out of a futuristic prison that's on another planet. You will not necessarily be a human in all of the levels either imagine being an animal trying to escape it's enclosure or a germ trying to leave the body. Since the levels are designed more as mini games the player will be tasked with finishing a certain amount of levels and their overall time will be their score. How many levels the user wants to try and complete is completely up to them, they could just go for a quick one or two or a marathon of 50. The game will keep track of each users high score for each number of levels and players will be able to check the global leaderboards and see how they rank up against their friends and the rest of the world.

Source: http://www.techmynd.com/escaping-esc-key/

In this game you play as a police officer who is too afraid to actually arrest someone and makes his arrests by tricking criminals into coming to the police station with him and letting other people assume that he arrested them. The core gameplay elements of the game involve devising crafty ways to lure the criminals in and keeping the fact that you are a coward a secret from the rest of the police force. As you progress through the game the plans that you have to create to fool the bad guys become more and more complicated so that people don't catch onto what you are doing. After each "arrest" you will score points based on your performance which is made up of things like how convinced everyone was and how long it took you to bring them in.The goal of the game is to see how long you can last as a cowardly police officer before someone figures out your secret and you loose your job.

Source: http://cf.shacknews.com/images/20110928/la-noire-screens_05-30-10_19516.jpg


It's Christmas time and there's a competition on between all of the mall Santas to see who is the greatest Santa of them all. Since you are the worst Santa out of everyone you have decided to eliminate the others so that you can win. During gameplay you have to sneak around shopping malls scouting out your targets and wait until the perfect time to strike. If you get detected by your target while trying to kill them or spy on them you will enter a fight to the death mode where if you loose you have to restart the game making planning your moves ahead of time very important. After each Santa you take out you will have to lay low for a while or else the other Santas will start to suspect you. Once you have killed all of the other Santas you win the game and become the greatest Santa in your local area.

Source: http://production.tweaktoday.com/users/thebradymachine

In this game you play as a talent manager who has to find clients then find them suitable parts in shows/movies/productions etc. Lots of people demonstrate their skills before you and you have to choose which ones to hire and which ones to turn down. After selecting who you want to hire you have to search for jobs for each of them. You will follow these people throughout the highs and lows of their careers and will score points based on how popular they become. As their manager you will handle all of the publicity they get via interviews and articles written about them to boost their reputation and score you more points. The game can take place over several years and finishes when each of your clients retires, this could be a very long or short amount of time depending on how long they manage to stay relevant for.

Source: http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Talent-Manager

This is a game where the player gets given gifts and has to guess what they are before they open them. The player is given a chance to shake the present to listen to the sounds it makes and is given a brief description of how heavy it is and who has given it to them. There are multiple levels that the player can play that take place during all of the different gift giving/receiving times of the year for example birthdays and Christmas. All of the gifts are randomly generated so the player can repeat the levels as many times as they like and get a different experience every time. The age of the player also changes each time you play a level giving the players a another hint to what sort of gift they might be receiving. The game will run on mobile devices to take advantage of the accelerometer they have so that players will feel like they are shaking their present when they are shaking the device.

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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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