'Too many cooks spoil the broth' is an online multiplayer game similar in style to Overcooked. The game will be for two to eight players but can also be played locally if there are enough controllers for the players. (moment of silence for Overcooked not being online multiplayer)

The games difficulty will depend on how many players are present for the game, since having too many cooks in one kitchen can get quite chaotic. With two to four players there will need to be obstacles and extra challenges in order to keep the game interesting and help to increase the games difficulty for the players.

Two teams will be chosen randomly from the players and if there is an odd number of players one will be selected to sit out for that round to make the teams even.

Your team must work together to create dishes and serve them before the other team has a chance to. Make the dishes as quickly and with as little errors as possible in order to increase your score.

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

'Lolly Scramble' is a game where you get to play as a colony of ants at a children's birthday party. A lolly scramble is happening and you are ready.

Send troops of ants to areas containing the lollies and collect as many as you can before the children are able to.

You must be able to collect and bring back the lollies in order for the score to count but be careful where you send your troops as the children may accidently squish them when they are running to get their lollies. Once all of your troops are dead the game is over and the amount of lollies you had collected in that time will be your final score.

You may use the lollies to purchase power ups that will help you collect more but since the lollies are your final score you must use them wisely in order to win.

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In 'Holiday time!' you will be playing as a hard-working citizen who has finally decided to take a holiday from his fulltime job. You will get to decide the location from various different options that you will be given at the beginning of the game.

Okay so this game isn't actually about being on holiday… you will instead be packing for your holiday. The location you have chosen will determine what kind of items you will be searching through your bedroom for. The style of this game will be similar to most 'Escape the room' games and you will be turning and trying to find the items necessary for your holiday by looking everywhere you possibly can. You must find these items all within the given time-limit so that you do not miss your flight/method of travel.

The locations given to you at the start of the game will gradually give you harder items to find as you win more and more games.

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'Pick your fav' is a game where you play as a stressed cat fanatic who has just finished a terrifying maths test. You decide to look at cat pictures in order to destress yourself and calm down.

You are only allowed to download one picture of a cat onto your desktop that you will set as your background.

A specific amount of cat pictures will be given to you which you can choose from and you must narrow it down to find the cutest of the selection.

To narrow the selection, you must eliminate the cat pictures that don't catch your eye and try to decide between all the other cute kitties in order to find and 'pick your fav'.

Side note: this game will not actually cure your stress so please do not play during stressful times in your life; it will most likely make it worse. Good luck with that.


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In this game you play as the King Jon as he rules his Kingdom.

There are two ways to play this game which you will decide at the beginning of each play through. You could succumb to being the Mad King and try to kill off all of the kingdom's population before everyone realises that it's your fault and decides to overthrow you or you could go against your nature and be the Kind King, trying to save your kingdom from anything that could destroy it.

You will be given decisions to make which will be how to get through the game. To be the Kind King you must carefully choose your decisions based on how many lives it will save and how much gold will be used up. To be the Mad King you must kill off as much of the population as you can without them guessing your true nature.


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'Just One More' will be a strategy game involving some slight gambling aspects.

You will be given a bag full of randomly shaped items that must be placed on top of each other in order to form a tower. You will be fighting against an opponent and the winner will be declared by who has the most items placed on their tower. There will also be a race against the clock and you will only have a specific amount of time to place the object onto the tower in the best way possible for the tower to not collapse.

You will be able to decide when you want to stop piling items onto the tower or if you want to try just one more item, however as the items are random you never know what you might get and the tower might not be able to handle the item.

If the tower falls over because of your gamble then the opponent will win for that round.

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'Feel young yet?' is a game where you are the youngest person in your group of friends or your 'squad' as you may refer to it. You must be able to guess which old movie, song or TV show your friends are referencing in order to remain cool and not be mocked for being the youngest, like usual.

Some references will be easier to guess than others and some you may already know from your limited knowledge of things made before your time.

References could include -but will not be restricted to- popular movies (such as the original Jurassic Park films, Star Wars, Terminator, etc.), music from before your era (Guns N' Roses, Metallica), strange 90s children's shows and so much more.

If you manage to get all of the references right during a conversation with the squad you will be rewarded with pizza and Gold Star stickers, well done.


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Face your worst fears in this online multiplayer strategy game. You must use your wits and skills to travel through a maze, find your fears and destroy them before your opponents are able to destroy theirs.

You will be given a list of your fears at the beginning of each game (I.E: fear of spiders, clowns, your neighbours, etc.) and you must navigate your way through a large, complex maze in order to locate them.

If you stumble upon a fear that isn't yours during your time in the maze you are able to sabotage your opponents by making the fear worse, this will cause them to take more time in destroying it.

A time limit is set for each game so that it will not drag on too long, if the timer runs out before a player has destroyed all of their fears then the player who has destroyed the most will be victorious. If there are two or more players with the same amount of destroyed fears then the game will end in a tie… obviously.

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'Armed and Furry' is an open world, adventure game where the humans have all fallen and been vanquished by the Darkness, you will get to choose between playing as a cat or a dog and you must face and defeat the Darkness in order to save everyone.

The main quest and end goal of the game is to go through the story, defeat the Darkness and save the world; but side quests will be available for you to earn some extra cash or weapons that will help you in the long run.

By earning cash you will be able to purchase ammo (if you have a gun in your inventory) or common melee weapons that can be used to beat all the Darkness minions that will be hanging around, waiting to strike and cash can also be used to buy costumes and outfits for your animal, because what's the point of kicking ass if you don't look cool while doing it.

'Royal Rat Catcher' is a stealth game where you get to play as a cute little kitten - the royal rat catcher- in a steam-punk style world.

Your mission in this game is to rid the kingdom of all the mice and rats that have been crawling around and stealing food from the royals.

In order to do that you must sneak about and find any and all rodents that could be creeping nearby. After you have snuck up on the rodent you can choose to pounce or stalk your prey, by stalking your prey it will give you a greater chance of catching it when you choose to pounce and by pouncing straight away it is not certain that you will catch it and it will run away to a different area of the castle.

A mini map will be featured in the corner of the screen which will show your location and possible locations of the rodents that could be near you. If you can't see any rodents near you then moving to a different section of the castle could be helpful. Each section of the castle will have a certain amount of rodents hanging around and the section will be cleared by catching all the rodents in that area.

The game is finished once all the sections of the castle have been cleared out.

Image source: http://www.steampunktendencies.com/post/143524678139/steampunk-kitty-by-kajenna

'Arachnophobia' is a game where you play as an everyday housewife who is deathly afraid of spiders. The spiders have come to take over and it is your job to protect the house from the large waves of arachnids. You must board up windows very securely, use weapons to squish them and create elaborate traps, by catching spiders within these traps you can use them as hostages and slow down the spiders attempting to reach the inner sanctum of your home.

If a spider so much as touches you or is able to finish creating a web inside the house, then you have lost the game.

Each wave of spiders will get more and more difficult, the small, slow spiders at the beginning will upgrade and become faster and smarter. At the end of each level you will be given a choice of what skill you want to upgrade, your choice will be for things such as upgrading your speed (both movement and speed of boarding up windows) or upgrading your weapon, etc.

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'Walking the Dog' is a virtual reality game where essentially your only mission is to take your dog for a walk but of course it will be slightly more difficult than just that.

Your dog loves to make life hard for you (but of course you adore him anyway) and will try to walk out into the street, follow around other animals and try to tangle his lead around poles or people, etc.

In order to make this walk as injury-free as possible you must keep track off him at all times and control the way he is walking, if you see him veering off towards the road or a pole you can adjust the direction you are walking by turning your body to correct him back to the right path. If he begins to follow another animal you can call out his name and get his attention back to the walk at hand.

The difficulty of the walk is decided by the area you pick. Cities will contain more obstacles such as pedestrians, objects such as poles or trashcans and other dogs while the countryside will contain different types of obstacles such as cars passing by in close proximity to you and places your dog will want to run off to and explore, this may be slightly easier to manage as there are fewer distractions.

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'Fast Food' is a game where you play as an average, ordinary university student with a very limited amount of money left to last for the week. You've spent most of your weekly allowance on video games and alcohol leaving you with no grocery money. A plan has been formed which you must execute; steal as much leftover food from your local restaurants and cafes as you possibly can in order to survive.

You must sit at one of the tables in the restaurant and wait for other customers to evacuate their table; leaving food for you to steal. But you must make it to the empty table before the waitress makes her way around to it.

There will be a bar on the side of the screen indicating how suspicious you are being, the way this will increase is if the waitress spots you stealing any food and if you have been sitting too long at the table without ordering anything. To decrease this you may order food with the small amount of money you have left, when you run out of money or the bar has filled up you will be chased out of the store and that will end the level.

Each level will be at a different restaurant or café and will have a different layout to the last area.

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'Holier than thou' is a first person shooter/strategy game where you play as Elijah, one of the town's local exorcists. Your town has been overrun with demons and it is your job to stop as many as you can from harming the townspeople.

In each play through of the game there will be a randomised amount of ammo and resources scattered throughout the map, once you have collected and used all of these supplies that map will be complete and the total amount of enemies you have killed for this map will be added to your score for total kills overall.

The main feature of this game is not to cause the total annihilation of all the demons in the map but to find the most effective way of killing them using the least amount of your supplies as possible.

You will be armed to the teeth with weapons and items right from the start of the game, they will be your main aid in battle; the only problem for this being the limited amount of ammo and resources you carry which these weapons require.

If your supplies are running low you will need to avoid conflict the best you can while searching through demon-ridden buildings to find more.

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'Stress Relief' is a mobile game where you must tap on your phone screen in order to break as many pots as you can, or just as many as you want to. This is a great game to play as a distraction from life or for relieving any stress. (We are not responsible for any damages that may occur to your phone while this app is open.)

There will be a worldwide high score list of how many pots have been broken during specific amounts of time such as in ten seconds, thirty seconds and a minute.

Certain pots that you break may contain special power ups that will help you break pots faster and more effectively; some power ups will be extremely common while others such as legendary power ups you will only have a 0.03% chance of finding. These power ups can be used whenever the player chooses but will only last a certain amount of time so they will need to use them effectively if they wish to rank higher against other players.

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In 'Ups and Downs' you play as an elevator attendant in a posh fifty story hotel, you will be manually operating the speed and movement of the elevator using the levers behind your character on screen.

Guests will arrive in the elevator and tell you which floor they would like to travel to, you must get them to the correct floor as quickly and safely as possible. You will need to line the elevator up with the desired floor as accurately as possible in order for the guest to be able to exit. Be careful not to move the elevator too fast or the guests will get scared but also be aware that if you move the elevator too slow they will get impatient, both of these moods will affect the total of the tip you will receive.

Use the money you earn to purchase decorations to personalise your elevator and be able to purchase upgrades that may help you stop the elevator more accurately and be able to move smoothly and not scare the passengers.

To begin with only the first 5 floors will be available to travel to but over time you are able to purchase the other floors for harder difficulty. After purchasing more floors you will encounter more than one guest at a time, plan your trips wisely so that you don't make the guests impatient and lose their tip.

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'Jacket Thief' is a mobile game where the user will play as a jacket stealing girlfriend. Your objective will be to steal as many of your boyfriend's jackets as possible without him noticing.

Your in-game boyfriend will have an unlimited supply of jackets (strangely enough) so the game will never end as long as you don't get caught, you can keep raking in as many as you like.

In order to not get caught you must tap the phone screen to collect jackets while the character on screen is turned away towards his computer. Jackets will appear on the floor around you and you must pick them up by tapping on the screen and then move around to place them in your backpack before he turns towards you. If he catches you the game is instantly over and your score is added to personal, regional and world high scores lists so that you can compare your score with other players of this game.

The more jackets you have collected the harder the game will get, your boyfriend will turn around faster and you will have less collection time, to counter this power-ups will appear throughout the room that can increase your speed or increase how many jackets you are able to carry at once.

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'Duct Tape Fixes All' is a PC exclusive game where you will play as a normal dad of three who must fix as many household problems as possible but can only use duct tape as the solution.

Each level you will be given a To-do list for the day which could contain chores such as fixing the leaky ceiling or taping back together your kid's homework after the dog has shredded it. There will also be a time limit for the level and you will need to finish as many of the tasks as possible. Some of the tasks given will be of a harder difficulty than others and will reward you with more points and get you closer to finishing the level than with just the easy tasks completed.

You will travel around the house in order to get to the task and must avoid your kids, wife and pets on the way as they'll stop and talk to you, wasting some of your precious time.

When you have reached the area for the task the screen layout will change and show you what you need to fix and how to fix it best.

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'Catastrophe' is an online multiplayer game similar in game-play style to 'Who's your Daddy' except instead of the playable characters being a father and a suicidal baby the players will be either a cute little kitten or it's overly tired owner.

If they get chosen to play as the kitten their end goal is to make the house as messy as possible before the time runs out. They will have a destruction meter on the side of the screen which must be full in order to win. By destroying enough objects and making enough messes in a row you can earn power-ups such as increased speed and a bomb effect that can be used once every minute.

If they get chosen to play as the owner their end goal is to stop the kitten from making a mess before their wife gets home and tells them to get rid of the cat. They will need to clean up any mess they find but they will not know how full the kitten's destruction meter is and will have to alternate between cleaning and finishing the chores for the kitten. The chores will include feeding the kitten and cleaning its litter tray and by completing these it will give the kitten player negative effects (i.e. moving slower or not being able to make a mess for a certain amount of time).

Single player mode will also be available for if players don't have connection to the internet, the player is able to choose which character they will play as and choose the difficulty of the computer. Computer difficulty will range from Purrfectly Acceptable (Easy) to Catastrophe (Expert).

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In 'Blog Wars' you are running a less than successful blog and must use some very sketchy methods in order to get to the top and get the most traffic going through your site. Your purpose for doing this is the impending deadline at the end of the month for rent, you must earn money from the ad revenue on your blog as you are not qualified enough to get a real job.

The higher up your blog is on the top 100 list will determine how much income you will be earning.

The methods you can use will involve cutting off the other blog owner's power, sending copyright claims against them, hacking into their blog page and messing it up, etc.

You will be stationed at your desk in front of your computer with the internet open. You have different tabs you can change over to such as the website that has your bank account, a tab where you can view the top 100 blogs in the country and a tab that will allow you to purchase the methods you can use against blog owners of your choice.

But beware of which blogs you choose as some will not have any morals and can use the same methods against you. You must pay to have these issues fixed and will not be able to earn anything until they are resolved.

If you haven't earnt enough money from the ad revenue to then you will need to sell some of your household items, but if you end up selling all your items then the game is instantly over because what is the point of having nothing left but a blog.

As well as needing to save up for the rent at the end of the month you will also need have money saved up as money for food, power and internet will disappear from your account at the end of your week.

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In this 2D console game you play as an acrobat who has recently joined the circus. You have been recruited to be the new tightrope walker and must practice and learn this skill before the big showcase. The tutorial will contain the basic information needed in order to play such as using the analog sticks to balance your character and once you have that down it will teach you how to perform tricks. To perform tricks you will press any of the action buttons on your controller when the game prompts you to do so. Over time the tricks will increase in difficulty and the game may ask you to press multiple of the action buttons at once in order to pull off a massive trick while still trying to balance your character.

Tricks will need to be performed to earn points that will help you progress through the game, earn enough points before the day ends to level up and be able to perform more tricks. The tricks will be prompted to you randomly but will not be too difficult before you level up further.

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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.

daily from 2016-07-19 to 2016-09-09