Tree of Life

Tree of Life is an asymmetrical multiplayer game where three forest critters tries to obtain the magical sap from the tree of life. Legends be told that the sap from the tree of life is the key to eternal youth but there will a forest guardian protecting it from the unworthy.

The game is a 3v1 game where you play as either one of the forest critters of the forest guardian. The forest critters goal is to locate the tree of life and obtain its sap, while the forest guardian's role is to protect the tree of life from the forest critters. Once caught by the forest guardian the forest critter is sent to a prison where they will have to wait for rescue from the other forest critters.

The forest guardian has huge mobility and is able to fly over trees and cover huge distances. In contrast, the forest critters move at a normal pace but they can hide in trees and work together to locate the tree of life. The location of the tree of life is different every game, but there will be signs in the forest that the critters can use to navigate. For example certain plants will only grow in the vicinity of the tree of life, and that can be used by the critters to find the tree of life.

Tree of Life is a fun multiplayer game which incorporates elements of hide and seek and robbers and cops.

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Dungeon Friends Forever

Dungeon Friends Forever is almost your typical dungeon crawler game but with an unique feature that allows you to create and utilize unique characters. To create a character in Dungeon Friends Forever you will have to upload a photo of you and/or your friends to the game. A character will then be generated based on the photo you upload. The characters generated will try to have likeness to the persons in the photos. In addition to that, using the photo the game will generate stats for your character.

Different photos will generate different characters with different stats and abilities. However, you can only use a photo once to create a character and once that character dies you cannot recreate the same character again. This creates a game mechanic that relies on having images to create characters for your party.

The rest of the game is a generic roguelike dungeon crawler, that sometimes you might face enemies and even bosses that will have faces of your past created characters.

Mystery Room Doors

In Mystery Room Doors you were chasing a dreamy duck until you came to a halt. In front of you lies two doors which leads to a unique room. Not knowing which door the duck went through, you are now faced with a decision of which room to enter. Each room has its own challenges, sometimes you have to fight, sometimes you have to solve a puzzle or sometimes you need to show off your platforming skills to reach the end. Regardless, once you cleared the challenge and reach the end of the room you will be faced with yet another pair of doors, waiting for you to open them.

Not all doors you encounter can be opened, some doors will require you to pass a stat check of either fighting prowess, puzzle-solving intellect, or platforming agility. This will require you to mix and match and choose which challenges to complete and discourage you from always choosing one type of challenge.

Go through a mystery number of doors and finally you will reach the elusive dreamy duck that you desired.

Ocean Janitor

In Ocean Janitor you play as a small underwater robot scouring the ocean floor for human waste and debris. Depending on the size of the problem, you will require different ways to handle it. Small debris and plastic waste can be picked up and stored in your trash compartment. For medium sized waste, you could drag them and accumulate them all into one spot before sending a signal and calling in the trash collection mothership. You would call in the mothership too for large debris.

Ocean Janitor is a relaxing game where you aim to clean up human waste while exploring the underwater world. It is meant to allow players to experience the beautiful scenery and appreciate the precious ecosystem that lives under the sea while reminding them the harm we do to the environment. Dive underwater and swim with the fishes as a robot while spotting and saving a turtle stuck in a plastic net.

Heir to the Throne

Heir to the Throne is a simulation game where you try to ascend the throne of a fantasy kingdom. Your character is just a normal person living a normal life in the 21st century when all of a sudden you found a mythical heirloom which transported you to a fantasy world. In that world whoever held the heirloom was given the right to ascend the throne. Now, caught in the crossfire of a succession battle, do you choose to fight and gain the throne for yourself or do you just try to gain enough power to find a way back home? Heir to the Throne gives you those options depending on what path you picked.

While in the game, you will have to make many decisions including who to ally with, who you should trust and who is your priority to eliminate. After being whooshed into a magical land, you will inadvertently have to learn about the land and the lore of the people who live in it. Understanding the different factions and their history will be the key in surviving as you use it to your advantage. Another advantage you have is your modern knowledge that will sometimes be useful as you will be able to figure out things no one in the land has ever seen or thought of.

Compose yourself as you build your own character to succeed and be the ruler of the kingdom. For glory, for power, or just to find a way back home, Heir to the Throne is a simulation game that will allow you to achieve all of that.

Hell Heli

Hell Heli is a game about flying a helicopter around in hell. Your mission is to save the innocent and repented souls trapped under the fiery prison for eternity. You fly around hell while spotting for souls to save. Once you spot a soul to save, you fly towards it and lower the ropes of salvation for them to climb up. While doing so, the demon guards will try to attack you and prevent your rescue mission. To overcome this, you will have to time your stops properly to avoid the detection of the guards.

In addition to that, the population of hell obviously does not consist only of innocent souls to save. Mixed in with the souls you are tasked with to save are the souls that have not repent. While spotting for souls to save you will have to single them out and prevent them from climbing up to your heli.

Hell Heli is a quick casual game, mainly about trainspotting individuals with a unique theme.

Wolfrider

Wolfriders are arena an elite class of arena gladiators. They charge into battle on the back of a dire wolf flailing around their weapon slaying all who stands in their way. You are a young arena warrior who is recently promoted into the elite class of wolfriders. You are given a choice of a battle wolf from a few selections and is then scheduled for your first battle in the arena.

During battles, every warrior is stationed behind their own gate. Once the horn is blown, the gates are opened and every warrior starts charging in to the battlefield. As a wolfrider you must charge, when the horn is blown and cannot stop moving until your wolf is exhausted and out of breath. When your wolf is out of breath, it will take a few seconds for it to catch its breath. Do take note of your wolf's stamina and maneuver yourself timely so it coincides and you can stop at a safe place when your wolf is out of breath.

Depending on your weapon you either swing, stab or slash. Attain mastery of your weapon and upgrade them whenever you win more battles. Wolfrider is a game about advancing as a gladiator and doing battle by charging in on a wolf.

Bubble Popping

Bubble Popping is a top down bubble flicking game where you aim to destroy the opposing enemy's base. You are represented as an avatar in a bubble, a bubble hero. You move around by launching the bubble which is also similar to flicking marbles. Navigate and maneuver around the map while picking up items and powerups.

In addition to bubble flicking, you are able to attack by shooting projectiles and also using items.

You are only allowed to shoot and unleash your abilities only during the timeframe when your bubble is launched and is moving. Each time you launch your bubble to move around in the map you need to wait for it to cooldown before launching it again. This gives a stop and go gameplay to game where you perform an action and then are given time to evaluate the situation to make better decisions in your next actions.

Bubble Popping will feature single player and multiplayer modes. In single player mode you will be sieging castles and bases located behind interesting mazes to be navigated by your bubble hero. While multiplayer modes will be races to destroy each others bases.

Pan Knight

Pan Knight is a 2.5D adventure platformer where your main weapon is a cooking pan. Your cooking pan will allow you to primarily be able to deflect incoming projectiles to vanquish your foes. In addition to that, depending on the projectile, you can also use your pan to absorb or more accurately allow the projectile to be stuck to the pan like glue. With a projectile stuck to your pan like a fried egg you can choose to launch the projectile in any direction. This mechanic will be heavily utilized in the platforming and puzzle solving parts of the game. For example, you might need to launch certain projectiles at certain surfaces to unlock the door to progress to the next level. Also certain projectiles can be launched directly on the ground below you to give you a boost when performing certain platforming feats.

As a game that operates in the 2.5D world you can also move up or down instead of only left and right. This movement will be useful in avoiding projectiles. However, if the situation did not allow you to avoid the projectile you can also choose to use your pan to block it without reflecting it or absorbing it.

Pan Knight is a platforming game that is inspired by hit indie game Shovel Knight which is a competent platformer with a unique tool as its main weapon.

Legend Guide

In the age of heroes and questing adventurers you are a guide a rare profession that's highly in demand among the seven kingdoms. As a guide you are tasked with accompanying adventurers and other important figures that hire your services to lead them to any destination they desire in the fastest and safest manner possible.

You will have certain skills that you have honed over the years to help you in your profession. As a guide you posses vast knowledge of lore and history of every place in the seven kingdoms. Some Elite Guides might even have knowledge of lands beyond the seven kingdoms. Furthermore, you have the necessary skills to detect, anticipate and avoid dangers along your route. Speaking of routes, you are also tasked with planning efficient routes to the destination that the customers requested. You are often given a time limit for your routes and you will have to balance between going for fast routes and safe routes. Utilizing all your skills will be the key to being a successful guide in the seven kingdoms.

Master all the skills of your trade and ascend into the elite class known as Legend Guides and gain the opportunity to land guide jobs for high ranking political figures and eventually become the most respected guide the land has ever known.

Infinite Challenge

Infinite Challenge is a 2.5D game where you and a party of friends face challenges in the form of a boss battle and advance room by room. The game starts off in a room where you can sort out who shall take what weapon and subsequently became that weapon user role. The more you use a weapons the more proficient you will be at it, allowing you to level up some skills pertaining to that weapon. As such even though you can pick up and use any weapon, it would be wise for certain people to main certain weapons to ensure a variety of weapons in the party.

After you have selected you weapon of choice, you enter through a door to a room with a boss. After the boss is defeated you will be teleported back to the weapons room and all members who died during the boss battle will be revived. Infinite Challenge features hundreds of unique bosses in rooms after rooms that you can face with your merry band of friends

Fight your friends in a mud-filled pool. Mud Bath Battle is game trying to cash in on the current trends of hilarious local co-op games such as Gangbeasts and Mount your friends. In Mud Bath Battle you and bunch of your friends are thrown in a mud pool and you have to force each other out of the mud pool or hold them down for ten seconds on the ground.

Similar to Gangbeasts player movement will be silly as you are struggling through the mud while occasionally slipping and sliding, falling face planted on the mud. Holding on to your opponents will be a struggle as will trying to push them out of the pool. Mud Bath Battle will feature multiple arenas each with their own different mechanisms. For example one of them will feature a deep geothermal pool in the middle that you can utilize by pushing people into their scalding hot demise.

Play with your friends and have a blast laughing around with Mud Bath Battle as you try to screw each other over and toss them to their deaths.

Darwin's Game

Darwin's game is a game where you start out as a unicellular organism and work your way up the evolutionary chain to reign supreme. You start out as a experimental cell in a petri dish at a laboratory. From that point, you will have to consume other cells in the same petri dish and grow stronger. Eventually progress enough to grow out of the petri dish and invade the laboratory that produced you. And from that point break out of the laboratory and escape into wild. Keep progressing from that point until you become the strongest organism on the planet.

Depending on what food you consume on your progress will change what you eventually become. Consume the right food for the right situation to grow into the right creature you want.

The early part of this game is inspired by blob eating games such as agar.io and the overall idea is heavily inspired from Spore where you progressing through evolution. Darwin's game is a game that brings you along in a magical journey to become evolutionary successful.

Slide Duel

Slide Duel is a 3D first-person game where you control a character and fight one on one duels with another while sliding around in ice. The game is based and balanced around the concept of rock papers and scissors. In slide duel you can fight using three weapons which are the sword, the shield and the warhammer. The shield beats sword and sword beats hammer and hammer beats shield. However, the advantage over one another is not absolute.

For example, even if the shield is strong against the sword the player using the sword can still maneuver around to the back of the shield user and strike there. Movement is key in mastering dueling in this game as the game features an unique movement system. In Slide Duels, players move around the arena by sliding around in ice. This changes combat as you are forced to keep sliding around and you cannot stop. This make charging your opponent a costly move as you cannot easily stop and turn around whenever you like.

Charges are important in deciding the winner. In slide duel you are allowed to choose two types of weapon to bring to the fight. While charging your enemy you may bring out one of your weapon to bait the enemy and quickly switch to the other to counter them. This allows mind games to be played which also requires quick reactions.

Slide duel is an intense game where you have to outsmart and outmaneuver your opponent all in the matter of seconds.

Dreadsteed Trainer

A dreadsteed is a mythical horse that never truly dies, as when it dies it comes back to life again like a phoenix rising from its ashes except it's a horse. Dreadsteed Trainer is an idle incremental game where you breed dreadsteed horses and harvest their souls. You click on a dreadsteed to kill it and harvest its soul but fear not as the dreadsteed horse can never truly die it will simply revive from its ashes.

It will take some time, a short delay before the dreadsteed horse comes back but once it comes back you can click it to kill it and harvest it soul again. Rinse and repeat, gather more souls to summon more dreadsteeds. Build up a dreadsteed farm to placate your horses and provide them with great pastures. You can exchange souls for currency in the game, currency will be used to buy farm related things and souls will be used to buy and upgrade horse related things. Farm upgrades will help you with clicking and also provides automatic soul culling machines. Souls can be used to upgrade the quality of your horse's breed that will also increase the chance to gain more soul.

Gather enough souls to eventually be the first to summon the Legendary Golden Genow Dreadsteed and gain envy from all your dreadsteed horse trainer peers.

Totemic Might

Totemic Might is an action adventure game where you have the ability to summon totems that will aid you in your quest. The story begins in a land inhabited by shamans; water shamans, earth shamans, fire shamans and air shamans, where everyone once lived in peace and harmony. But everything changed when the confederation of fire shamans attacked. The land now engulfed in civil strife between shamans, cries for help, for this to end. As the last grand shaman alive, master of all four elements, it is your fate to end this war and save the land from disharmony.

As the grand shaman your main ability is to summon totems. At the start of the game you will have access to the four main totems of water, fire, earth and air. As you progress you can upgrade your totems like fire totem to flametongue totem or get completely new totems like mana tide totem which gives you mana. Master all four elements and collect enough totems, while on your way to cleanse this land from the destruction brought upon by the fire shamans.

This is a 3D action adventure game where you have to fight by summoning totems.

Bouncing Blades

Bouncing Blades is a multiplayer fight to the death game in a specialized arena. You are secretly kidnapped and brought to an arena to fight. The arena is built upon special tiles that will fall off if its carrying weight for too long. Tiles will fall off one by one when that condition is met and you will eventually fall to your death. To counteract this you will be given a modified pogo stick that will synchronize its bounces with the arena's tiles to ensure it stays afloat. And so, while bouncing around you will have to fight your enemies and be the last man standing in this cruel showmatch.

Weapons that helps you in this fight will be spread all around the arena. Ranging from melee weapons to range weapons you will have to collect them and utilize them to defeat your opponents. Range weapons have limitations in number of uses and is harder to aim when bouncing around while melee weapons can be used unlimitedly but in a short range. Master all the weapons as you might find a different one each time.

Defeat all your opponents and be the last man standing, after that you may challenge the ones who captured you and free yourself from this death arena.

Time-Stop Man

Time-Stop Man is a 2D Side-scrolling action platformer where you play as Timmy, a person with a special ability to stop time. Armed with this time stopping ability, he sets out on his path for blood and vengeance. Vowed to destroy the laboratory and the evil head scientist that experimented on him, he charges ahead without fear, stopping for no one.

Timmy's ability to stop time is strong but limited only to a perimeter around him. Furthermore, using this ability will cost Timmy some of his life, forcing him to utilize his ability wisely instead of spamming it. As you progress, Timmy's ability to stop time will grow stronger allowing him greater range of operation for his ability.

Using the ability to stop time, infiltrate the evil laboratory and lay waste to those who have cursed you and wipe the whole facility from the face of the earth.

Pool Gun

Not pool as in swimming pools, but the billiards game, pool. Pool Gun is a Physics-based FPS where you shoot objects from your gun to hit other objects, like in pool, but with a gun that launches big ball bullets.

The game starts off with one target and one object and your goal is to launch a ball from your gun to hit the object and resulting the object landing on the target. As the game operates in 3D space, an extra dimension is added to the calculations when shooting the object, giving the game more complexity compared to normal 2D pool. This means you will need to predict where the ball will land when you shoot it.

There will be different modes including training mode, where you can practice your shots, infinite mode, where targets will spawn one after another, and normal mode where you try and clear levels with each level having its unique solution.

Pool Gun is a game about dexterity and aiming prediction and is ultimately a fun action physics game where you try to clear as much targets as possible.

Bubble Penguin

Bubble Penguin is a fun and silly game about a penguin's quest to touch the sky. You start off as a penguin in the bottom of the ocean floor hoping to reach the sky limit. You get on a magical bubble and begin floating upwards from the bottom of the ocean. While floating to the top, you need the maneuver around and avoid obstacles and sharp objects.

To do so, create smaller magical bubbles that pops, using the resulting explosive force of the smaller bubbles you can passively guide yourself, the penguin to the top. You can also make bigger bubble by holding down longer when creating a small bubble. Once you reach the ocean surface and start floating up in the air, gravity will start affecting your magical bubble ride (unrealistic, magic bubbles). You will then need to create bigger bubbles to boost yourself upwards.

Bubble Penguin is a casual game that can be enjoyed by many and works well as a mobile game. Do your best to reach the top as the sky's your limit in Bubble Penguin.

Guided Champions

Guided Champions is a 2D Dungeon Crawler with a unique system. Instead of directly controlling the character's movement you guide your champion by dropping paths in front of them. Your champion will move according to the beat of the music and they will move along the path that is laid in front of them. Once you drop a path you will have to wait for the champion to clear its previous path before you can drop another.

This gives a action puzzler feel to the dungeon crawling game while also making music relevant to the gameplay. You get a set of default paths to drop and guide your champion at the start. As you progress, you can get special paths that can buff your champion, increase its movespeed which also increases the tempo of the music.

Guide your champion on the path for epic loot while avoiding scary monsters, or just guide them to the monsters and slay them for glory. Do all these things with the feel of dropping tetris blocks.

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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