Who hasn't pretended the floor to be lava when they were younger? Now imagine that concept brought to the oculus rift experience. I thought of adding additional features to the original idea of the floor is lava to be a fun game, for example, it would the floor would be like a board divided by 64x64 blocks, there would be only two different blocks, one textured as rocks and the other one as lava, it would be a game for two people, both players would start at opposite corners and the goal is to reach the block where the other player started. Moving through the blocks is only possible by jumping, and you cannot jump more than one block at a time, also some of the rock blocks would turn into lava after one second or less, if you die you will re spawn at the starting point. So the game is basically a race to see who can reach the other side of the board first.


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This is an underwater room and your goal is to escape to the second floor. To enter this room you first put a scuba diving kit and keep in mind that the oxygen levels will last 2 hours only, so that's the time you figure out all the clues that will eventually lead you the key that opens the door to the second floor.

There is a lot of stuff floating around, there is also furniture, paintings and carpets on the walls and floor, the complexity of this clues and riddles won't be too hard, actually they will be fairly easy to figure out, the reason for this is that is already going to be extremely difficult trying to communicate underwater, since the only ways to do this is by hand signs or charades kind of things.

The stress of the game is real because of the limited oxygen you have, so is expected many creative ways to finish the game fast.

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This is a fast paced game set in the most fancy restaurants, you play as a chef that have gone mad after getting jealous on other chef because people says his is food is not as good . You start the match playing as a chef and you must knock out all other players by throwing food at them, there won't be classes but instead you can only choose one type of food before the match so for example is you choose meats, all of your inventory, weapons and ammunition will be meat themed, you will have a peperoni sword, or meatballs as grenades, if for example you choose vegetables, everything will have this theme, the game is a brawl for 8 persons and it will have a lot of skill shots too, it's for PC only but you can plug your controller from Xbox or Ps4, after each round you will earn points that can be used to get cosmetic items.

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This is a fighting game, you play as an insect inside a circle, and your objective is to push the opponent off the ring, to do this each insect you choose will have a special ability that won't cause any resource but will have a long cooldown. You can play this in single player mode or multiplayer in which you will face people around the world, but to unlock all of the insects you will have to finish the single player campaign, that is basically defeat every insect so you unlock them. The multiplayer version of the game will include a ladder system so players will get a rank depending on how many games they have won. The mechanics itself are pretty easy, you will only have the AWSD buttons to move inside the circle and only two abilities a punch and your special, the game will come out only for PC.

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This is an endless runner for smartphones and tablets, you play as a druid that can shapeshift intro three different animals, a fish, a bear and an eagle, you can switch between this transformations at any time you want, but the environments may change drastically, so you have to be very careful about choosing the specific time for shapeshifting, there will be three terrains each one designed for all those three animals, the first one will be a forest where you have to avoid hitting rocks, trees and snakes, the second terrain is going to be set underwater, the transition between these two terrains will be when you reach the end of the forest and a lake starts, same will happen the other way around, in the underwater environment you are being chased by bigger fish so you have to avoid underwater rocks and other obstacles trying to get out of water as soon as possible, the third environment is air, there is only a transition between forest and air, not water, and it will be when you reach the peak of a mountain, then you will have to switch into eagle and try to not get hit by lightings or get pushed away by wind gusts.

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This is an RTS game with crafting features, the game is set during medieval times, you start with a castle in front of it there is a long road that ends on your opponent's castle, every minute soldiers and archers will spawn, from both castles, initially both armies will have same stats, you earn gold coins on every kill your soldiers cause, and with this gold you earn you can start crafting better swords, helmets, chests etc. for them, keep in mind that you cannot control this waves of armies that spawn from your castle so the only way you have to overcome your opponent is how well you spend the gold you get. This game involves a lot of strategy because while some people may focus on melee soldiers you can start upgrading the weapons of your archers or maybe upgrade both archers and soldiers equally, so think twice before starting to craft, and choose wisely because there are hundreds of upgrades for both infantry and range. The game will for PC only.

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This is a fast paced race game that involves gorillas, huge birds, spoiled bananas and crazy roads. So the game is basically similar as any racing game with the only difference that instead of cars you will ride gorillas, but not common gorillas, but instead gigantopithecus, these were the largest known apes that ever lived, standing up to 3 m and yeah, you will be able to ride them!, so in each match you will face players from all over the world riding their gorillas, there will be pickups along each race track, some of them will be positive like summoning a huge bird that will carry you to the first place, so if you were losing and manage to grab one of these pickups you can turn things in your favor, but there will be negative pickups as well like spoiled bananas that your gorilla will automatically eat if you pick it slowing him down for a long period of time. After each race you will get points depending on your performance you can use these points later on cosmetics to customize your gorilla.

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This is a fighting game for mobiles phones, tablets, pc, and next gen consoles, the characters will have a cartoony style and similar to the ones in "Gang Beasts" the difference in this game is that you can take a picture of your face or anybody face and set it as the face of one the characters of the game, so by doing this you can simulate a fun fight between you and a friend. There will be plenty of characters to choose from each one with a special moves, most of them will be hilarious since the objective of this game is to be a fun social activity, the scores will be applied as in a common fighting game, depending on how many hits or combos you make, also you will be available to buy cosmetic items for any of the characters, and there is also going to be a worldwide ranked system so you can fight with people from all over the world.

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This is an RTS game set in ancient times with the difference that instead of commanding an army you will have to capture certain points in a battlefield using a handful of elite units only, the game will feature a maximum of 3v3, each player will have a pool of soldiers, the stats will change depending on the civilization they choose, at the start of every match there will be a map with at least three flags to capture this number can go up to six, the more flags each time holds the more income per second you will get, this will unlock better soldiers for you, also every second you maintain one more flag than the opponent team under your control will earn "control points" the team that reaches 100 control points first wins. The game will feature cultures like; Rome, Sparta, Egypt and Arverni, all cultures will start with enough gold to spawn the first group of soldiers which have the lower stats, from here it will depend on your strategy to take advantage of your opponent and start earning more gold to spawn better units, all units you spawn will consist in squads of 4-6 soldiers, some of them melee some of them range. The game will come up for PC only.

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This is a chill game to relax after a long stressful match of your favorite MOBA game. You play as a cloud and your objective is to travel around the world looking for dry areas so then you can rain on them bringing life again, you will earn points depending on how arid the zone is, so for example if you choose to rain over a desert and manage to make plants to flourish again you would earn double the points than if you choose to rain over a jungle that needed some water.

You have to keep in mind that raining doesn't guarantee to end a drought in some areas, so you will have to stick to that area until something grows. You can also exchange the points you achieve for some upgrades for your cloud like making it wider so you can cover larger areas, the greatest upgrade you can buy for your cloud is monsoon, this ability have a long cooldown and what it does is make your cloud as big as a city or even larger, you can use this ability to extinguish the fire in a forest if needed or maybe even trying to bring to life the Sahara desert. The game will come for PS4 and PC.

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In this game you play as a beast with a highly evolved metabolism living in an alien planet full of lifeforms and an forests that seem infinite, for centuries the balance of nature has remained the same, but everything changes when a race thirsty of raw material, came to your planet, they do not care about any lifeform, only about the resources this new planet have to offer.

The main objective of the game is to scare the invading race so much that they never comeback, to do this you must learn their ways and evolve in ways that makes you more powerful, subtle and intelligent, you will roam the huge forests looking for victims and you will be able to choose between a stealthy approach living no trace of a kill or a more savage assassination inspiring terror on the nearby invaders that witnesses your killing, every time you do this you will earn evolution points, there will be three branches where you can spend this points this are; predator, subtly and intellect. Once you are evolved enough you might want to try and kill a captain or a leader, once you have killed enough leaders the invaders will leave the planet.

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This is a single player survival game that is set in a vast jungle. The backstory is the following; you and a group of biologist flew to the deep jungle of the Amazonas for the objective of discovering new plants and animals, but because of a dense fog your helicopter crashed and you are the only survivor. You will start with a few tools that will help you collect some resources but soon you will realize how hostile is the environment you are in and will have to figure out ways to build a refuge, the aim of the game is to survive long enough to find civilization or maybe ancient ruins that could lead you to a long forgotten city, one cool feature is that you will be able to tame animals such as jaguars, by knocking them down first with poison darts that you will have to craft and once they are partially unconscious you will now need to feed them with meat, a tame indicator will show in the animal, this may take a while maybe even hours but once the animal is tamed it will extremely loyal to you, and could be really handy at hunting food or protecting you from other dangers, there will be a wide variety of animals you can tame. The game will come for PC only.

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This is a first person shooter game similar to Planetside 2 with the only different that is set during Napoleonic wars, so the weapons are limited to muskets, rifles and bayonets mostly. The world in which you are going to play is going be huge and it will resemble Europe during that time, you will be able to choose among three different factions which are France, England and Prussia each one of this will have their own pros and cons. You will also be able to choose different classes, like infantry, cavalry or even artillery.

The aim of the game Is to control different locations of the map such as iconic cities, like Paris or London, also you and your faction can take castles or small cities to protect certain points of interest, each 24 hours all this cities and castles will reset this means they will be neutral again, the faction that managed to control the majority of them will earn gold and experience that can be traded in game for upgrades on your weapons or cosmetics for your characters. The game will come only for PC.

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This is a free for all game for eight players in which the objective is to push all the other players outside a circular arena that is shrinking every minute, there will be multiple scenarios one of them is going to be a sci fi circular platform floating in the space it have an oxygen force field on it so obviously if you are pushed outside you will die of asphyxia, another scenario will be a rocky platform surrounded by lava.

The mechanics of the game are simple you only have 1 spell, that will push the players, however this is going to be a skill shot so you will have to aim carefully, the theme of this spell will change as well depending on which scenario players are, if they are in the space one, all players will start with a gun that shoots compressed air, if you are in the rocky platform, players will be wizards firing fireballs.

This is a really fast paced but fun game and it will come out only for PC.

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This is an arcade game in which food will start falling from the top of your screen, the food will include; fish, bread and fruits, but also there will be blighted food falling from the top of your screen, you must try to gather all the food except of course the blighted ones in a basket, after the basket is full the screen will change and in front of you will appear three animals, each one of this will eat something specific, your objective now is to feed them all with the right food in your basket, that will randomly pop out and you will have to drag it to the mouth of one this animals, in this phase you only have two minutes so you will have to think fast, because the less time is on the clock the faster the food will pop out of the basket. The game will come for mobiles and tablets only.

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In this game the whole world has been infected with a lethal virus, but it's still on its incubation phase and you really don't know how much time you got left before it evolves into a more deadly phase but the tests shows that is probably going to take a year. As the game starts you can see the earth and all of its countries very well detailed, since everyone is infected everything is in red. Your objective is to create a cure before the year ends, the time it's been scaled so one year is going to take one hour, so technically you have one hour to find the cure.

You can start making an antidote in the laboratory panel that is going to be at the bottom left of your screen. In here you can look at the virus composition and it will also show you information about what combination of elements could kill the virus, so just throw random elements into a test tube and comeback to the world map, then you can select any country to start testing your antidote, if it doesn't work you have to go back to the lab and repeat the process. But remember that the virus might evolve into something immune to one of the elements you are using against it. The game will feature thousands of chemic elements for you try and it will come only to PC.

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This is a puzzle game in which you play as a walrus riding a tortoise, the objective of the game is to search for food, because your village of walrus people is starving, the food will be treated as a pick up element but it will be hidden in wide areas, your tortoise is slow and you cannot unmount it so it may take a while for you to explore this areas, but sooner or later you will find the food, in tricky situations, like for example one box of food might be trapped on the top of a tree so you will have to find a solutions to bring it down, like searching for ropes or something that can be thrown at the top of the tree and then pull it down using your tortoise teeth.

There is also going to be ambient music so the game is pretty chill but some of the puzzles might require a lot of patience to solve. The game will come for PC only.

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This is fps game with a unique feature, you only have one bullet in your gun, and you are inside a maze with three more people, the aim of the game is to be the last man standing, before the time runs out, so you will have 15 minutes to search for the others and kill them, but since you only have one bullet, you can either test your luck and wait to see if the others have killed themselves or you can also search for traps that can be found inside the maze, once you have found this traps placing them will take some time, and during this time you won't be able to shoot so be sure that there is nobody nearby before placing your trap, most of the traps will blend with the environment so it will be really hard for the other players to see them, the game will come only for PC and PS4.

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This is a single player casual game for mobiles and tablets, you play as a catapult inside a castle and your goal is to throw pies, vegetables and other organic stuff to the face of a giant, the giant is controlled by the AI and his goal is to breach the walls of your castle, you have to distract him as much as you can before cavalry arrives. This is also a game that relies a lot in your aim so you may need some practice before being able to hit the giants face, because he will be moving a lot, depending on where you hit you will earn points that can be used later to upgrade your catapult or buy all new and exotic ammunition, like rats, blighted bananas, etc.. If you manage to hit the giant on the nose or mouth, something that is going to be particularly difficult, he will get stunned for short duration, adding more time for the reinforcement to arrives, so basically the game will end in two ways, the giant destroy the castle, or you hold him long enough for the cavalry to kill him once they arrive.

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This is a simple arcade game for mobile phones and tablets. It's a race to the end game in which you have a grappling hook and have to use it on trees to swing you across the map, some of the branches are going to be really weak so they will break as soon as you grip on them, this weak branches will have a glowing red outline so you will have to try and avoid them, another obstacle will be hanging snakes on the trees if you grip on them they will bite you and you will have to restart the map, this will also happen if you grip on a weak branch since is a 2D game all the characters will start at the left corner of the map and will have to swing their way to the right corner, the game can be played as single player against AI, or you can play in multiplier against people around the world, in both cases the aim of the game is to reach the end line before the other players and to avoid obstacles.

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This is a stealth game in which you play as a spider in first person camera, you will start at a random corner of a house and your objective is to reach your base (cobweb), your abilities will include, sprinting, gliding, in case you need to jump from a high place such a table, and finally but not least the ability to scare humans, this last ability will only work for a short duration of time, after the human have been scared they will either comeback with a broom or call for someone else, if this happens you can always run and hide under most of the furniture and wait for them leave. Some rounds will last longer than others, since you can start in a mansion, and your cobweb can be really far away. In overall is a fast paced game that will make you realize how hard is the life of spiders, game will come only for PC.

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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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