This game is a game that aims to teach people the workings of social hierarchies. It does this by putting you in the shoes of different people of differing classes and having you move up the ladder into the top class. How you move up is completely up to the player but once you move yup you must try and stay there for as long as possible before your quick drop from heaven.

The game will work like every other sandbox adventure games. You will be controlling your character and making decisions based on the interactions you have with people. Some people will like you and some won't. You can do jobs for people to gain favor from them this will in turn open a door to more people to interact with higher in the ladder. You will have a random character with different traits every time you play the game. You will have to use these traits to choose your preferred path to the top. Be it trying to start a large company or maybe even trying to become a drug lord. Your goal remains the same and that is to gain as much power as possible.

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This game is a mech game where you play as a mech which controls an even bigger mech. Your small mech can be detached from your massive mech for extra speed by sacrificing huge power. With these mechs you will fight other mechs to have your mech pierce the heavens.

The arena will be all of space itself with your massive mech being the size of earth (or bigger if you want that build). The massive mech has a huge amount of power, enough to pick up planets and throw them at your opponent or cut through space and time itself to close the gap between you and your opponent. The small mech (which actually controls the massive one) moves at extreme speeds and can be used to cut down your opponent's massive mech or to counter your opponent's small mech. Battles involving small mechs are really fast paced light sword combat sessions. If your small mech dies you lose the match, but you still have the choice to switch out into the big one where your small mech regenerates health . Destroying the big one will forcibly bring out the small mech. The big mech is too slow to kill the small one so you will need to have a tactical mindset when going into battles. making sure you have enough health to actually win the game, or that your massive mech will be the surviving one.


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In this game you play as a real witch during the witch trials. You have to hide the fact that you are a witch each day, with people getting more and more suspicious everyday. You will need to blend in with the crowd while at the same time doing your daily witch rituals. Once you're caught its game over.

The game will have rounds these rounds signifying the days you have evaded death. Within these rounds you will need to walk around the town to get your usual ingredients for your rituals. These ingredients being some food ingredients, a couple of dead bodies and some creepy spooky skeletons. You can choose to substitute one ingredient at the start of every round but once you substitute you will need to play at least 2 more rounds before substituting that item for a new one. With the higher suspicion you will need to substitute for more normal ingredients to get the heat off you. You can also plant some random things on your neighbors to lose some heat off yourself as well. You get a final score based on how long you survived, how well you managed your ingredients and how many rituals you completed.

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This is a survival game where your end goal is to survive as many storms as possible. You have moved to this town and cant afford to leave so you must endure the massive storms that are coming your way. The game will have a preparation stage and then the storm stage. Upgrading your house and contents will help you survive the infinite storms coming your way.

In the preparation stage you will have to buy supplies and fortify your house. You will start out with some low grade equipment and for every storm you survive you get money to rebuild and reinforce. The more storms you survive the more money you gain. The storms will get stronger and stronger with each round. During the storm phase you will need to go around fixing your house while the storm is there. If parts of your house get destroyed you end up losing some of your money because it will go to rebuilding the destroyed parts. So it is in the player's best interest to minimize damage as much as possible.

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This is a dungeon crawling puzzle game where you play as an armature treasure hunter looking for some legendary treasures around the world. You will then visit many different tombs and old city ruins that have never been explored before.

These old ruins will all have their challenges and puzzles. The puzzles will be extremely difficult since you are the first person to step foot in these ruins you wont have any clues. You also wouldn't have magical knowledge of the symbols and everything else in the ruins. The game will be connected to a server and players can store the clues they find in this server. Items and sections that have been solved will glow a bit letting you see others' clues that they give you. You could finish the game without using this but the fastest way for anyone to finish the game is through everyone's help. The puzzles will be very trial and error when you start but as players progress they will start to get better and will be able to decipher some of the symbols present throughout these ruins.

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This is a real time strategy rpg game where you play as the army of asgard at the time of ragnarok. You are trying to fight off all of your enemies at the same time while trying not to die.

You will be able to control every single major character in your army while in the rpg mode of the game. In this mode you can upgrade the characters you want to play as. These players will start to gain fame and recognition. With fame comes the chance for them to be reborn with half of their skills unlocked. The RTS mode will have you controlling your entire army. Choosing where they strike and how they move to objectives. In this mode you can upgrade your units all at once. This will make your army overall stronger with exception to their commander/general. The level cap for units is the current level of their commanders. Commanders will level up without your intervention but going into rpg mode will make them level up a lot faster.

You will fail your main objective many times before truly finishing. At that point almost everything will reset, giving you another go at the objective with the chance of having one or more of your commanders being reborn. You can choose to play completely differently or you could try to improve your current strategy with these new plays. There are many ways to win the game so you can always restart and find a new way to beat the game.

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This game is an action adventure game where you create and play as a captain of a pirate crew. You will have to look for your crew, recruiting many members until you rule the seven seas. You will need to travel around the world mapping your path and finding your allies.

The majority of the game will be played out at sea. Naval combat will be the most common combat system where you will be controlling the ship and it's guns. The bigger your crew the easier it is to control your ship. Your crew members are all upgradable with each of them gaining new unique skills as they level up. Once they reach max level you will then be able to change players and play as your crew mate. They will all have different fighting and play styles making it a more fun experience leveling up your characters and seeing how they all play. The ocean is your playground and also your grave if you aren't careful.

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This is a game where you are stuck in an alien world and you must make it habitable. You are not a super genius scientist so you must find ways to survive on your own through basic observation and your own knowledge. More people will be thrown onto the planet from time to time, it is your duty to save them and start the new earth community in this strange new world.

The game will play like a survival rpg. You wont have anything at the beginning but as you progress and your character gains intelligence you will be able to make more tools to help you survive. A big aspect of the game-play is the observation of local fauna. You will have to see how the animals interact with the world to learn how you can do things, an example would be seeing an animal eat a strange fruit that you've never seen before, by observing the behavior you yourself gain the ability to eat these fruits. Once new people join they will have a period of learning then they become active. Active members of the society will be the biggest help in this mission. They will have knowledge that you yourself don't have and together you can do more. The more people the longer the learning phase as you would have more to teach them since you are learning more about the new earth.

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In this game you uplay as a paladin who hunts demons and ghosts for his kingdom. As a demon hunter you will have to face multiple demons, ghosts and various occult sects. To do this you will need to scout the area first, make a plan of attack, prepare and then execute your plan.

The scouting phase will require you to look around the area affected be it a town or a part of a city. You will need to gather all the information you need to make a plan for the beasts. The planning stage is where you will be basically creating a quest for yourself, using your information to make it easier for you(or harder if you want). The preparation phase is when you get the components you will need to execute your plan, it is also when you recruit people into your party to help out if needed. The last phase of the missions will be the execution phase. You will get rewarded based on how well you adhered to your quest that you set for yourself. If your plan completely fails but you still defeat the monster then you will still get a prize but it will be of a much lower quality than one you would gain from completing you plan.

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This game is a narrative game whereby you play as the sidekick to a sucky hero. Your job is to make him/her a better hero by making them look good. Once your hero becomes the greatest in the world you win the game.

To make your hero noticed you will be setting up a bunch of different scenarios. These scenarios vary in scope from little dairy robberies to full scale battles. You will need to play the villain sometimes without the hero noticing, pulling strings to make them great. The game will be more about planning and making sure your plans work well. If the hero realizes that you were behind everything then you will lose the game, this means randomising your plans will be the best way to keep the hero on their toes. You will start to grow your little criminal syndicate into something huge and by the end of the game you will be the final villain. With the money you gain from these scenarios you set up you will be able to hire bigger and badder goons to create more advanced crimes that your hero can try to stop. Just make sure you don't make a scenario too hard for your hero otherwise they could die and your game will end.

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This is a 2d survival of the fittest game where you play a scavenger who really needs to support their scavenger family. You will need to beat the other scavengers to the food to win the round.

The rounds will be played in a rectangular top-down view map looking at random obstacles. A goal will be randomly placed somewhere on this map and you have to guess where it's gonna end up. You choose the trajectory in which you will dash to and the speed. The first person to catch the food wins the round. You will have five chances to get some food before your family dies of starvation. The map will give audio and visual cues as to where the food will end up, giving you an edge against everyone else and making the game more about careful calculations. Your opponents don't have this ability to see the cues so their first will always be random but their second will be more accurate, getting your character to get the food by the second movement is the way to win.

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This game is basically advanced rock-paper-scissors. You will have your character go up against many different opponents. The difference is you don't see them until you've chosen to fight them.

You will be given a choice of fighters to choose as an opponent. You will not see their skills or their level, only their appearance and stance. From this you will have to decide whether you will fight this person or run from them. One of these fighters will be at the same level as you, another will be at a lower level than you and two will be at a higher level then you. The game isn't completely random as players will begin to notice the patterns of the strong and be able to tell who is the strongest one in the pool. Once your fight is over you get to level up and improve on your skills. Winning the fight is just the beginning.

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In this game you are a cyborg assassin sent from the future to kill multiple targets. You will have to do your job swiftly and quickly without anyone noticing. Once you kill everyone the stage ends and you move to the next stage and next era in time.

The game will be played in stages, with each stage having a set number of targets. Your character will always be running and you won't have control over how fast they run but you can control the direction for where they run. The lower levels will be easier as your character will be running relatively slowly but as you progress your character will start to get even faster. You will have to move in a fashion that does not give you away awhile being able to assassinate your targets. The stages will go on forever , randomly generating targets and maps making the game more like an infinite runner where there is no end, just player's' skill getting better.

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This is an online multiplayer game where the goal is to be the last man standing. 60 players will be thrown into a giant map and pitted against each other in a free for all deathmatch. A standard match will go on until the last man standing but there will be other modes for different experiences.

There will also be npc's on the battlefield that you can kill for points. These points will be used to buy upgrades for your character. These upgrades do not stay with you forever and are gone once you die. Killing another player gives you all the points they've earned throughout the round. This means going for pvp although it's a lot harder than looking for npcs to kill is more rewarding. There are no weapons or magic in this game. Your upgrades will be affecting your martial arts skill and form. The higher upgrades you get the more skilled you will be, meaning you will be able to counter and hit for more damage.

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This game is a god game where instead of playing as a creator you play as a god of war. You will have to shape the world through wars. Giving different sides different technologies and maybe even fighting with a side to a war. Your aim is to try and build the most advanced world with war as your tool of choice. The game ends once The world has ended or when everyone dies.

You will be playing through the different eras and influencing the kind of war technology available at that time. Every time you incite a war between two sides you gain god points for every soldier killed and every battle fought. You get more points for higher ranking soldiers and bigger battles. The points will be red and blue. Red points will be for upgrading one side and blue for the other side. Your aim is to prolong the war enough such that the technology they use can be used to build a better world after the war. Personally intervening will help prolong the war since you can fight for the losing side until they regain their momentum. Intervening will transform you into a human with superhuman abilities. You will basically be akin to the demigods of greek mythology. You will start to see shrines up in your honor and use those as an extra means of income for points.

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This game is a game of conquering all your fears. You play as a character who is afraid of many things. You will have to conquer all of these fears without dying to finish the game.

The game will be set in an open world city where you can go almost anywhere you want. You also have a magical credit card that allows you to buy all the things. With these tools you will have to find all the things you fear and confront them. These fears include things like spiders to things like a fear of heights. Confronting these fears will require you to complete a minigame where you complete a task like skydiving to cure the fear of falling. With every fear you conquer a more extreme version will open up. The extreme fears can go wrong at any moment, keeping calm and not getting too excited will help win the game. Clearing everything without being too optimistic will be the key to winning.

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In this game you will play as a detective trying to find a killer. This killer is extremely elusive and will leave many clues to his identity. Throughout the game you will have to use these clues to find the killer and win the game

This killer will not be an easy target though. he will use these same clues as a weapon against you. This means that you have to look deeper than just the clues because a lot of them will lead you astray. Convicting an innocent person is the last thing you want to do. You will meet the killer in your hunt, sometimes you might pass him more than once, staying alert and being aware of your surroundings will help in your hunt. You will also have a team of supporters to do things such as forensics and providing back-up for you. Once you find the killer you must then pursue him and arrest him without killing him while also preventing him from committing suicide.

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This game is an fps game where your goal is to amass an army to beat the other player. It is a one on one multiplayer experience where you won't be doing the actual fighting but you will be competing to build the greater army.

The game play out in a huge map, this map will have a whole lot of bots that will be doing their own thing. You as a player must shoot the bot to claim him as your own. That bot will then become part of your army. There will be many different types of bots with differing play styles and different abilities. Once you claim a bot they will be yours but they are not guaranteed until the recruiting time limit is over. Once that happens the real war starts and this time you will be playing as a commander and are able to switch out with any other commander bots you may have encountered and claimed. These Commanders will have the best special abilities and more health than any other troop. They are a force to be reckoned with and can easily decide the game, but their abilities are only a one time use deal. Once A commander's ability has been used it can't be used again so timing is crucial in the war.

Your character still won't be able to kill anything but instead your bullets now have the ability to demoralize the opposing side. Making them weaker(commanders are immune to this). The last army standing will win the match.

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In this game you play as a mailman who is competing in the great mailman games. Your goal is to be crowned the best mailman in the world. You will have a choice out of the many competing countries to choose one mail man that you wish to compete as.

The game will play in events, similar to the olympics with each win giving you 3 points towards the total, second giving you 2 and third giving you 1. The events will be held in a huge sandbox world. You will be given a random challenge and that will be your event for that time. An example for an event would be, A snow event that has you get to the top of a mountain to deliver some mail to the yeti guy living there. The catch being that you have to get there within a very short amount of time, with fastest time winning. These events will be played against AI or online players. The person with the highest score at the end of the season gets crowned the greatest mail man who has ever lived.

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This game is an infinite runner style fighting game. Your objective is to run as far as you can before you get knocked out. You will be running on an infinite track that has its own puzzles and obstacles that you must face.

Along your infinite run you will have random encounters with other warriors. Upon meeting them your fighter's spirit will burn and you will have to fight them . These fights will last one round two rounds with you gaining some of your hp back upon winning. Winning also has a small chance of completely healing you, acting as a boost would in most infinite runners. Your opponents will start to get tougher the more you win. The frequency in which they appear will also start to increase. The puzzles and obstacles will get a lot harder as well. Each fight would last only 30 secs, so if you can't win you will have the option of surviving for 30 secs instead, while keeping your hp higher than your opponent.

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This is a game of wits where you are rewarded for your quick thinking. The game will be a multiplayer battle over a huge open world map. Each player will be given a target who they must assassinate. All players then get a score for how they killed their target. You as a player will need to think outside the box on your assassination attempts.

Every target's location and surroundings will give players an equal chance to think differently about their assassination attempts. Once you have used one technique you cannot use it again. This means if you used a knife to stab your first target, you cannot use a knife anymore. You will be using your points that you earn to gain new abilities such as invisibility, walking in complete silence to name a couple. These abilities will not be able to kill a target but they will help you think of new ways to kill your target. At the end of ten rounds the player with the highest score will be the winner. The winner will get to keep one of their abilities while also ranking up to players of the same skill level.




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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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