The earths water reserves are running low. The only cities that have any kind of water are the ones directly by the ocean, the only thing is you belong to a landlocked city and have no access to any ocean or lake of a big size. You just got yourself a job trying to collect water from the only place possible. Your job is to jump between towers scraping the sky for clouds and collecting them to transfer into water for the city to survive. The lose condition in this game is if you fall too far when trying to jump between towers and dying to fall damage and also if you don't collect enough clouds in a specific amount of time then the city will die to a drought. The game progresses and once you end the mission without dying you then go up a level where the towers are slightly harder to traverse and also there are fewer or faster moving clouds. The end levels will include gale force winds where you are physically pushed by the wind.

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More submissions by Hamish Mills for MDS GDV110 - 'One Game a Day' Assignment

Vietnam is a first person story driven shooter game. You take place as a recruit who had been drafted to fight in Vietnam against his will and had to live out the tortures of the jungle. The game isn't a typical run around and shoot everything you see type of game. It puts you in really dark positions that actual people from the Vietnam war had to experience and focuses heavily on the story of the game rather than the shoot mechanic. Vietnam will be a strictly r18 game with a heavy warning that the game will be graphic due to it involving torture, murder etc. The overall goal of the game is for you to finish your duty and get out alive without going rogue and abandoning your squad. Once you leave Vietnam that will be the end of the game and there won't be any potential to replay unless you do it on a higher difficulty.

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In spare change you play as a homeless person named josh. It is a multiplayer riddle game where one person is a homeless riddle maker and one is a pedestrian who is trying to solve your riddle. You have been living on the street for a majority of your life with only the bare essentials. You need to find a method to gain money and there is only one possible way you think you can do it. The only talent or skill you have is making riddles out of stone using his bare hands. Spare change is a virtual reality game where you have to create riddles for other players to come across and try to solve, the faster a player is able to solve your riddle, the more points they get. If they are unable to solve it and give up then they are forced to give you all their money. The aim of the game is to make increasingly difficult riddles to try prevent the other players from being able to get the correct answer to the riddle.

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Super power is a top down strategy game where you control a unit of characters who each have their own individual super power. The game works on a turn based system where you can choose to make your player move across the map or try to attack a target they have a visual on. Each mission will have an end goal of what the group has to do, whether it be trying to capture a building, securing a hostage or just holding your position from enemies. As you progress through the levels you pick up more super powered characters who have different abilities, the only thing is that they will have no experience so you might not want to use them but if they are good enough you can swap out your weakest link. This fact ads another element of strategy to the game that is not actually involved with the combat what so ever. The end goal of the entire game will be your team fighting off an invasion or trying to make the world accept the humans with super powers (undecided).

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Fish tank is a multiplayer game with either first or third person where you swim in a customized fish tank. The game starts off as you and your friends being small fish inside a lonely tank and food starts to drop from the roof of the bowl. Your goal as a fish is to eat as much as you possibly can. The more food that you eat correlates to how big you get. Once you eat enough, you are then able to eat your friends as long as they are significantly smaller than you are. Once you eat your friends you then gain the points that they previously had and they get to restart from the beginning. If you get too big you can have the chance to get caught in plastic seaweed traps that are around the fish tank and once you're trapped the smaller fish can all tag against you to eat you as a group.

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Space racer is a game where you compete in a game of a death run style race where the game is out to kill you. The game is switchable between third and first person and is compatible with virtual reality. You begin the race at a space station and you fly to different sectors that have check points and will be lead through a variety of different things that can kill you. For example, it may have you go through an asteroid field which if you touch and rock of a decent size then your ship will explode and you will start back at a checkpoint. You will be able to go around planets and get close enough to see detail within. The game will include AI for if there are not enough players able to participate or if desired you can turn the AI entirely off. The first person to the finish line wins and once the winner is chosen there is a 30 second timer for everyone to finish and if you do not pass within that 30 seconds then you get a DNF.

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King of the kitchen is a multiplayer game its chef verses rats. It will be in somewhat of a 1v2 scenario with more rats than there are chefs. The aim of the game is to either ruin the food as a rat or to stop the rats from ruining your food as a chef. The game can be up to a 1:5 ratio between chefs and rats. The rats can use any method they want to ruin the food, whether it be them physically touching the food, pouring something thats not supposed to be in the dish and any other method. The game will play out on a time limit so that the rats can physically see how long they have until the games over. The chef will have to multitask quite a bit because he will not only be thinking of stopping the rats but also thinking about which ingredients need to go in next. The chef looses points if he doesn't make the dishes correctly.

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God for a day is a virtual reality sandbox game where you go to your job and are given the powers of god. The powers of god includes not being able to die, able to summon any creature in existence and causing havoc with natural disasters. The game will be on HTC vive and other games that come with a wand. One wand will control the abilities you can use so that you can morph your city how you want. The game will be entirely modifiable so players can create their own powers as they wish and make it so they are capable of doing what ever they want. The game will be exclusively single player in order to keep the game from turning to utter chaos. Once you start doing enough damage the government will send everything they have at you, but because you are god nothing will really get in your way. They just stand as insects for you to crush and have fun.

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In innocence you play as either a cat or a dog who is home alone while your owners are away at work. You begin the game with a bored meter and its slowly increasing. Once the meter reaches 100% you then go into a state of insanity where you will then lose the game. The game is you trying to destroy as much property of your owners as you possibly can. The dog is stronger but less agile and the cat can get to much higher places to knock things off so you can choose which animal is best for which house. Once you start destroying property then your bored meter will start to decrease depending on how much damage you did to the overall house. The game will be entirely singleplayer and contain levels with different and more difficult houses which start bringing in security like cameras. Once your owners get home you need to find a way to pin the target on something else other than yourself.

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Rabbit hole is a 3D platformer game where you progress through the game as a rabbit trying to get his son back from the lions who had stolen him from you. On the way to the lions habitat you come across other predators which you must avoid and collect different types of food to keep your energy and health from depleting. There is no real fight mechanic due to you being the prey, the only thing you can do is make the enemy chase you and lure them into traps or outrunning them and making them hit a wall or something to knock themselves out. The story then progresses to the lions den where you must use the abilities you learned to get to the lion to then fend it off and get your children back. The game is intended for only being single player and there is no method to include any multiplayer at all.

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In taxi madness you play as a low paid taxi driver who needs a bit of spare cash. You drive people around and charge extra to go faster and break the rules of the road. The more jobs you do successfully the more reputation you gain and thus richer people want to take your taxi so they can get around the city faster than the usual poor casuals. You need to rush through stop lights and swerve through traffic without taking any hit or freaking out your customer too much to reach your destination in as short of a time as humanly possible. The game ends if you get caught by a police officer or if you crash your car into someone else. The game will use a high score system in order to measure how well a person did and then they will be able to compare their scores to others. The game will incorporate a multiplayer mode where the person being driven is the other player and they have to choose your direction, either left or right to get to the destination instead of GPS.

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In unBEARable you play as a teddy bear in a little girls room, you have sat through countless tea parties and its begun to feel like torture. Your objective of the game is to escape the house without alerting anyone's attention. The game is a 3D platformer where you use features like rag doll and jump mechanics to reach high objects. You must stay still whenever your owner is near you and if the owner notices you moved a considerable amount then they will begin to get suspicious. The game plays out like you having to run around and scout the house while your owner is gone but you have to make sure that you're back before the owner notices you're missing or else they will hunt you down and it will be game over. The game will also end if it reaches night time and you're still inside the premise of the house. The moment you leave the house its game over and you win.

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Mountain climber is a mobile game where the player has to try make his way up a very steep mountain and then back down again. The game features include a rag doll system that takes into effect once the player hits too high of an incline which will leave the player tumbling back down the mountain until they hit a flattish surface. The whole game is trying to get as high as you possibly can and they will be a high scores menu where you can see your scores compared to other players. The more you climb the more experience you gain also which acts sort of like a currency. After specific milestones you're able to acquire certain gear that helps you traverse more easily like for instance a hook that stops you from falling too far that you can throw before you attempt a jump. There is no lose condition, if you fall to the bottom of the mountain you can continue trying until you give up.

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A group of seemingly unstoppable advanced race of aliens has invaded earth and begun the extinction of the human race. After a large portion of the human race has been annihilated and finally you find out the aliens only weakness. Something about cats make the aliens violently explode. You go around and collect as many stray cats that you can possibly hold. You then build a launcher using elastic (like a slingshot on wheels) to go around and to launch as many cats at the aliens as you can to stop the alien invasion. If you launch the cats at the wrong trajectory you may end up with a cat corpse, so to prevent this you are given extra points if the cats survive the launch (also it provides more ammo). The game will progress through levels where you traverse a two dimensional world shooting cats at enemies and throughout the levels the aliens start getting more and more aggressive and larger in size.

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The world has gone to ruin, it was true what they said about global warming. The whole world has been flooded and nothing is left. You play as a person who has survived the melting of the ice caps and you are on a plank of wood floating on the top of the world. Your goal is to collect as much junk on the oceans surface as possible to build upon your flotation device and survive for as long as possible. After a predetermined amount of time the weather will begin to change and you'll need a ship worthy of surviving the huge waves and gusts of wind. If you fall into the water you run the risk of getting eaten by the creatures of the sea. The further into the game you get either the weather intensity will increase or the creatures will get bigger and more diverse, e.g late game you might come across a kraken or megalodon. Your goal apart from getting a good boat and surviving is to find other survivors to build your own colony and start the world new again on top the oceans surface.

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In survival of the swolest you play as a gym junkie who is addicted to getting swole. You take place in a simple gym that has many other members who use it on a regular basis so its never empty. You must try get as big as you possibly can without getting injured at all. If you need to exercise a certain muscle and some other idiot is on your machine then you must go and force them off the machine by any means. Although this is difficult because if you're too rough then they might swing and if you get hit at all then you immediately fail. If you are kept off the machines for too long your depression meter goes up and if it reaches max you then procrastinate and fail because you stop going to the gym and if you do too much exercise in a small amount of time then you get overworked and lose.

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Have you ever heard people bragging about how they've dropped their phones countless times and the screen has never once cracked. Mobile Gladiator is a game set in real life where people who think they have strong phones battle each other to see which phone is superior in toughness. You start as close to the ground as possible, both drop the phone at the same time onto the same surface and if no phone breaks or cracks then you up the scale slightly. If you get to the point where you cant drop it any further because of height restrictions then you must drop it of a low ledge or stand on something like a bench. The first person to break their phone looses. The game has no real reward for the victor except the rush of having your phone having the potential of breaking each time you drop it. If you lose, the loser owes nothing to the winner due to them having to pay a fee to fix their own phone.

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Cops and robbers is a multiplayer stealth game where there is one thief and many guards or cops. The objective of the thief is to steal some kind of treasure or jewelry and the objective of the guards is to stop them. The twist of the game is that all the guards are played by one person, and the guards can only see whats in the cone of their flashlight and everything else will be pitched black. The guards perspective will be in third person looking down at all the guards field of view and can interact with each of them to tell them where to look. The guards will also be equipped with guns but with very limited ammo so you need to conserve it. The thief will be in first person and can see in the dark, once the thief gets the treasure and gets out without dying he then wins.

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In detriment you play as a detective who is getting progressively more and more blind very rapidly. You start the game with perfect vision and then have to very quickly do as much as you can before you go entirely blind. You will be given one case to work on and you must find clues while your eyes are still working properly. Once you become blind you are stuck to your thoughts about who the killer is and to piece all the clues together. Once you become blind you also gain the ability to use a guide dog so that you have the possibility to traverse the map without it being pitched black but you still cant find clues. The game ends once you make a decision on who you think the killer is and if you get it correct then you win the game and if not then you lose. The game will be entirely single player and will have randomly generated situations, buildings and clues.

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Prison sentence is a multiplayer prison break game where you and an ally must escape a randomly generated prison. The location of the prison and the architecture are random and the prison is fulled with AI guards and other prisoners. There is a third player who plays as the warden, they have complete control over where the guards patrol and they must stop the players from escaping, but because there are many other AI prisoners the warden wont know who is a player trying to escape and who a guard is. The game ends when the prisoners leave the confines of the prison and the warden wins when he finds the players trying to escape. The AI prisoners can be reasoned with and be manipulated to giving you items to help you escape. The only thing is that if you try talking to them and say the wrong thing then they may be the one killing you instead so its kind of a double edged blade.

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Childhood Shenanigans is a virtual reality game using the HTC vive where you verse another player. You are both in the body of children who are sitting and using their imagination to play a variety of games. The games will vary depending on the location you choose to play at. For example, if you're in a kids room then you will have a game mode where you sit across from the other kid or player. You will control an army of toy soldiers and must take objectives using the resources you have and will gain troops over time. You will be able to see your opponent sitting in front of you as well as where hes putting his troops. you must capture the most points by the end of the game to win. Childhood Shenanigans will include a variety of games like the one mentioned previously that are simple one versus one games or even co-op games.

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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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