20th August 2016
You can skip X and Z
'You can skip X and Z, but you get bonus points if you use them'. This is the recurring quote from nearly every alphabetical based word game. It's time X and Z fight back.
You can skip X and Z is a progressive word based fighting game where the player will fight their way through the alphabet in order to get revenge for the years of being purposely skipped in word games.
The player will play as both X and Z. They will have to fight through a ladder of the alphabet using only items that relate to their corresponding letter.
X, hailing from Chinese Xizang province has access to items like his sturdy battle xylophone, his X-ray vision, and his might similar to that of Xerxes the Great.
Z, one of the finest combatants of Zambia seals victory with her Zipper of hatred, her Zippo lighter, and her immense arsenal of Zirconium at her disposal.
The player will have to fight against increasingly difficult Letters in their home battlefield. The enemy letters will be using weapons that also correspond with their alphabetical heritage.
Platform:
PC, Console
Target Audience:
People who enjoy a humorous fighting game, and those who want revenge for all those years where X and Z have been underappreciated.
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In this game you play as a renowned food critic who has just lost their sense of taste and smell in a terrible accident. Luckily, your loyal readership is unaware of the career threatening event, and so you may still be able to feign refined taste and expertise for the sake of your livelihood. In your unfortunate situation however, you will have to base your judgements on everything that isn't your experience of the food. When reviewing a restaurant, you will have to interpret the behaviour of the other patrons for an indication of the quality of the food, relying on their tastes now that yours is gone. If your reviews align with public opinion, your career may continue as if nothing ever happened, but if you misjudge what they experience and expect from you, you may find your job security evaporating. The gameplay will have the player sitting in a restaurant, ideally using with a VR headset, as they eat food that they are completely unable to taste or smell, while paying close attention to the experiences of those around them. Remember to take note every time a dish is sent back to the kitchen, and how much of any meal tends to go uneaten, and use this to infer how good the food might be. The player will then have to rate the restaurant, selecting between different possible options for specific criticisms and compliments, and then see how the public responds to your views.
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Physics based, isometric perspective tower building game where you correctly stack different sized Catloafs.
85 year old Griselda has too many cats. Possibly one for each year she has been alive. They're getting pretty sick of it too and want to escape. You must help them by stacking them correctly as they fall from the top of the screen. The best way to assure a nice study tower is to vigorously pat them as they fall down, which promotes them to pop their tongue out in a gesture commonly referred to as a "blep". A catloaf with a "blep" will stick onto whatever cat the blep-tongue is in contact with, while a non-blepping catloaf will be a bit slippery. If not placed somewhere securely in the middle of the tower, non-blep catloafs will weaken the structure and send the tower of catloafs scattering. Stack the catloafs correctly with lots of secure blep-links in order to help them reach the window and escape Griselda.
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DMCA is a point and clicks text adventure game about a guy who tries to upload or illegally share content online. In this game, the player must help the poor guy hide from the DMCA. At first, the player will need to help the guy find a proper web hosting service that is not in the US or the UK. Finding an offshore is not easy; there are scams and services with poor customer support. The player will need to intensively check each website's reliability before selecting the right one.
Finding a good hosting provider is still the early steps. To help his website remains anonymous, he can try to hide the website's real IP by using proxy services. Using a proxy, he can hide from DMCA for a while. This is not a permanent solution as the website's real IP can still be found with some simple hacks.
The DMCA will try to find him and shut down his website at all cost. If his website had been shut down, the player can try to help him restart his website again. However, the DMCA is not his only enemy. The FBI will also try tracking him down if his website becomes large enough. The player will need to help him escape if his real location has been found out.
Text based game with a twist. You have your DM who sets up the game like its in a room, with the story, encounters, NPCs, all with an in built app that they can use to check on characters at a tap of a button and update and add notes on. The players then join the room and make their own characters, and can use real dice to sort stats etc or use ingame digital dice. they then begin, with the DM setting the scene, they also choose the general sort of area, town, forest, underground, swamp etc which changes the color and background to match. the players then all get turns to cut in as the text scrolls through and do things, talk to someone attack something, look at something else, anything they want. The DM can then allow it or get them to roll dice to determine sucess or failure. If something changes the DM can note it in the relevant area and continue on. If they run into an encounter the DM can set up a grid and place enemies on it and the players will have their own avatars in and can then use their turn to move and act accordingly and fight like a normal DND game. To speed it up the DM could even record themselves talking instead of typing everything out for the story and the players can play it back to themselves when they have time to play. Would be a mix of TXT and text based game but also with visual cues to help with immersion, if they talktalk to someone then a villager may appear on their screen while they converse, or when they battle they can see the characters moving around
What's the deal with airline food is a game that has the player control an airhostess or steward. The player has to manage different tasks on the most turbulent airplane ever. The game has two main modes the first being a progressive 'story mode' and the second being a challenge mode where more ridiculous and fun gameplay can occur. The second mode allows for modifiers. The main mechanic is the games soft physics. The plane is absolute chaos and the player has to manage in that chaos. Events such as tugging a cart down the main hallway of the plane becomes increasingly difficult as ragdoll physics kick in. Objectives such as reach the cockpit, which requires the player to walk down the hallway without Sub coming to the ragdoll. And other such events will keep the player laughing and well entertained. Get Jerry his Peanuts.
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This 3D 3rd person game is about being inside an arena, and fighting people. In the menu, you will be able to choose a bunch of options, 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3, get lucky (which i will talk about later), or verse AI, which will have the same options. You will also be able to party up with people if you want to get competitive.
After you have chosen your option, you will be inside an area where you will prepare yourself for the fight. You will have a selection of melee weapons which will all be unique to use, such as a mace, sword, or a battleaxe, and possible different shields depending on what you prefer. If you are in a team, you will be dressed in the same colour as your team mates. After a specified time, the door will open which will lead you to where you fight against your opponents. last team standing wins.
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Paper Flies is a multiplayer vr plane racing game played with the HTC Vive, using the controllers to throw the paper plane and make them. The player will start out in the game by making their paper plane. The player will be able to fold the paper wherever they want and make cuts in the paper and will also be able to paint it. The player will be able to create and save many different types of planes for the different game modes. There will be many types of game modes such as drag racing where the planes must reach the finish as fast as possible, a distance mode where the planes must fly as far as possible, and stunt modes where the planes must complete specific stunts and are scored on how well it was executed such as front/back flips and barrel rolls etc. In each game mode the players will select their plane and once ready the players will throw their paper planes using the vr controllers. The game will have realistic physics using drag and stuff.
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Beautiful and mysterious. This game is all about the mystery and the unfolding if its strange yet heart warming story of lose and new life.
Starting with a prologue what is a series of underwater structures seemily made out of the coral itself, umoung the discretion a young girl darts into cave with a wound carry a small rock.
A 2D side scrolling game with 3D visual aspects to it. The arrow keys control your up, down forward keys ect, through story progress you unlock abilities such as a short charged boost and camouflaging skills. With no knowledge of where your going or why you traverse the hazardous sea floor with eternal back drops and strange alien like creates swimming around you both minuscule and gigantic.
With the appearance of a small child with long golden white hair and no apparent gender specified, all you have is the small glowing rock that you must protect and get it to wear it needs to be, while it lights your way in darkness it must also skillfully be hidden from enemy creatures that grow in numbers as you draw near to your goal.
A story of desperation, fear, beauty and sacrifice. You are the last chance of any hope for your kind.
Lonely Scarecrow is a 2D top down game where you are a scare crow, not a mean decrepit one that scares birds or people but a nice one. In this game you must successfully befriend birds and people by offering snacks and compliments. As the levels progress, it becomes more difficult to interact with them. So, you must strategically rationalise your actions for maximum efficiency.
You being a scarecrow are placed in the centre of the screen, cannot move but can rotate 360 degrees. They will often sneer at you from a distance, most likely from behind you and will only approach you when they are out of your sight. Use this to your advantage by enticing them with snacks and compliments to distract them and build their confidence. When they are close enough you may engage with a DMC (deep meaning conversation), which will appear on screen as a time based question.
Successfully connecting with birds and people will earn you points and most importantly a new friend.
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Green is a VR simulation game in which the player grow plants and finally makes their own beautiful garden. The player will start the game in a garden which does not have anything green there. The player needs to plant the grass first, and keep moisturising the soil to make it nutrient rich for the plants.
They can share their design and decoration of their garden with other people.
The players are able to get various types of plant seeds from the gardening shop on the map, also they can get the rare seeds and legendary seeds while they are exploring the map. Also the players can meet other players in the game, and trade the seeds.
Every plant has different instructions of how to grow it, such as a rose needs to be watered everyday, and a cactus once a month, If the player keeps forgetting to take care of them the plants will die easily like in reality.
There is no time limit, or competition in the game. The only thing the players need to do is gardening.
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When pollution leaves the earth near uninhabitable and the wealthiest members of society have set out to live in spaceships, Human Assistance, Protection and Preservation™ units, or "HAPPs", are deployed to keep the remaining population in high spirits.
Summary
In this third-person open world game, you play as HAPP-3Y, who is the only unit left in the city years after they were initially created. You are programmed to do everything you can to ensure that humans remain safe and content despite their dystopian environment and its chaotic makeshift social structure.
Gameplay
The player, armed with a powerful recycling machine and cheesy artificial grin, must go about the city every day completing missions for humans. They can collect rubbish, debris and chemicals, and then use them to craft items including weapons to protect the humans from the mutated creatures that thrive in the pollution. HAPP-3Y can be upgraded with items that are found or given as rewards for completing missions. There is a population meter that indicates how many humans are living in the city. The higher it is, the more rewards will be received and the more missions will be available. Finding food, water, and shelter increases the quality of life and therefore the population. The goal is to ultimately create an environment where humanity can flourish as it once did.
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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(http://store.steampowered.com/app/278360/)
///Worn\\\
"Bending time and space, a curious alien searches for life."
Worn is a first person puzzle adventure video game, set on Earth centuries after humanity abandoned it. An extraterrestrial explorer arrives on the now empty, lonely world, with hopes of finding those who came before or why they left. Exploring vast decaying structures and overgrown cities, the player harnesses the "Riftwave", unbelievably superior alien technology that allows the user to look through and visualise, in real time, what the world looked like in its prime. This feature is vital to the problem solving. For example, to find a passage, the player must use the Riftwave to locate where the key is, and where the key goes. Scanning through this handheld, brick-shaped device the player uses it as a lens to envision the once-illustrious environment. In essence, if one were to come into a room with a flipped table, the device will emit a feedback of it upright, and pristine; almost like a live portal into the past.
Distant Worlds is a game designed for VR and targeted towards the music virtuosos and video game music enthusiasts.
Visually you will take up the job of conductor for a symphony orchestra in front of a sold out crowd in the most iconic music halls from around the world, this is not your typical game where you would simply indicate which section to start but a combination of the game OSU!, Along with the crowd meter and story mode aspects of guitar hero.
Progress through each performance and gain positive reviews (indicated by the number of stars you gain each performance, and the music you will be showcasing?
You will perform iconic pieces from one of the most respected and well known game composers of all time, Nobuo Uematsu.
Play the iconic pieces from Final Fantasy 7 "One Winged Angel" and "Aerith's Theme" or "Zanarkand" from Final Fantasy 10, these along with many more pieces from the Final Fantasy franchise as well as other series worked on during his time at Square.
Photo Source: https://i.ppy.sh/b19d3bb3909a9472e9cce0f70924d53c376c0231/687474703a2f2f7075752e73682f67374845422f343337363961393032652e6a7067INTO THE DEPTHS is a dungeon crawler game for the PC platform. Players will be able to choose from a multitude of characters to enter the dungeon as a sole hero and reach the farthest, deepest level of the dungeon in order to rescue your comrades that were abducted by the demon king. Right from the start, players will be facing off against numerous enemies and each enemy will have its own attack pattern and ability that the game will generate on its own. This means that each individual enemy in each and every one of the 100 levels will have its own unique ability that may either be a variation of a previously encountered ability or a completely original one. This way players will not be able to depend on learning ability patterns and such in order to progress through the level. And also each level will be unique to each player, as the level design and level layout will also be randomly generated.
Players will start of with basic weapons and no abilities. They can only acquire new weapons by finding secrets, or discovering the hidden blacksmiths in the dungeon. It will be the same for abilities, players will have to discover the ones they want as the game will not teach them any skills. This will put an emphasis on exploring every nook and cranny of the dungeon.
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A massively multiplayer online multiplayer game. The primary goal of the game is to introduce people of similar music tastes, allow people to create music that they want to hear, and benefit from it. Players open the app, which uses a pedometer to determine the speed of the beat your phone will play. Different musical genres can be chosen, and the randomly generated beat will begin to resemble music. However, the game reacts to other users in the vicinity, and their music, their beats, their speed. genre, and style of play will begin to link with yours, and you'll both begin to make music together, maybe without even meeting them. Music fades in and out as you walk around, syncing with those around you. The more players playing around you, the more complicated and interesting, as well as enjoyable, the music gets. Silent parties could be played with a crowd all using the app, and music can be recorded, uploaded, and sold/downloaded. Those who contributed to the creation of the song get a portion of the royalties, or they could be given out for free.
(This is a stretch for what qualifies as a game, probably)
In the year 2020 a large meteor hits earth. Fortunately it crashes into the ocean, (as predicted) making some great photos a tsunami warning and not much else. Left to settle in the depth a strange creature it harbours takes a liking to the water and begins to take over the sea using the water as its own body. Seemingly unstoppable it spreads through the sewerage and drinking water systems of cities. 5 years pass and having grown into ¼ of the earth's water the first deaths occur. Tentacles of water burst out of taps, toilets and shower nozzles looking for more water. It's unfortunate the human body contains a lot of it.
Single player first person shooter style. With half the world's population dead and the other half fleeing civilisation, you're on a mission to save your family, and the world, tracking down the meteor and destroying the brain at its core. The Player and a few npc sharing your goal must survive the travel possibly encountering these tentacle at every tap, fountain and pool connected to the water mains. Drinking water is limited to rain and players are equipped with freeze guns and heat guns as it's been discovered the being only controls waters liquid state.
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A 2D puzzle game where you play as a squirrel making its way through some old ruins in a forest, on its way home with that day's collection of nuts. The squirrel can run and jump (quite high, but not so far) as well as spit out a nut from its stash. It can then pick it up said nut, drop it, or throw it.
Turns out the nuts are really useful for navigating through the crumbling buildings though- whether it be tossing one into a gap, jamming one into a hinge or hitting something to open up something else Rube Goldberg machine style. The aim is to get through the ruins in the most efficient fashion, using up the least amount of nuts. You need them for winter after all! Running out in the middle of the ruins would be a disaster too and will result in a game over.
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