Game Brainstorm

Hi, to get started the first thing I did was a brainstorm just to get my mind flowing:

Quick Brainstorm - (my own image)

Basically what I did was write genres to different games, then from there I wrote the first games that came to mind in each genre. Even though I would never be able to create a game even close to the standards of these with the time we have it just gives me an idea what I want to work on. After writing all of these games I then underlined the ones I'm most interesting in. 

Game 1:

Even before I made this list the first game that came to my mind when I thought of creating a game was the game slender man. For anyone that doesn’t know what slender man is, it is a scary game where you basically spawn in the woods and the objective of the game is to collect all the notes on the trees before slender man gets you. What made this game so fun and scary was it was actually difficult and slender man was scary and the even scarier part about slender man was that there’s stories of him being real well before the game ever came along. Anyway, the idea I’m thinking of for a game is that you spawn in a house and you collect a key somewhere in the house this key will unlock the front door to the house, if you make it out of the house you win and the game ends but of course it won’t be that easy from the moment you spawn there will be a ghostly creature hunting you and the longer you spend looking for the key the higher the chance of you getting caught of course. 

Image - Slender Man

The reason I was thinking of a game like this really is that the map will be small just a scary looking house with some furniture, the house will of course have to be a decent size and the rooms will have to look somewhat detailed but I think it will be a lot more simple then creating a huge map, also with the small map it allows me to focus more on detail then a bigger map at the moment I don’t know how much detail would be possible but I think if what I’m saying is possible it would be a very fun game to create and I think it really could be a good game.

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Game 2:

The second game idea I had in mind was an action type gun game. What I was thinking was to create a game where there is a lot of targets and you shoot them before a timer runs out, if you manage to shoot them before the timer runs out you move on to the next round as you progress through the rounds they gradually start to get harder with more targets or a lower time limit. This idea came to me from Call of Duty, Call of Duty is one of my favourite games of all time so I thought how could I make a game like it in the space of time we have and well the answer is I can’t but what I can do is create a game mode from Call of Duty but my own version. 

Image - Call of Duty

So basically, the game mode I am referring to is the practice mode it’s where you shoot targets and there is a time limit, as you make it through the rounds they get harder exactly like what I said, the difference is thoughI will of course put my own twist on my game, at the moment I’m not to sure what that twist will be but I’m just getting an idea on what I could possibly do at the moment. The good thing about creating this game is once again the map will be small which again allows me to focus on detail even as the rounds progress the map will stay the same just with different targets and so on. A cool feature I could also add to this game is your time records what I mean by that is keep a record of how quick you did each round or how quick you completed the whole game, this gives people a reason to play the game again and again as they want to always try and beat their score it also gives the player a competitive feeling instead of a feeling of just playing the game for no end purpose it almost feels like a reward.  

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Game 3:

For game 3 I was thinking of combing the game Subway Surfers and Fifa together, if you know both of these games, you’re probably asking yourself what is this guy talking about if you don’t know these games this is what they are:

 

Subway Surfers: This was a mobile phone game where basically your running on a train track dodging trains and all sorts of objects the aim of the game is to try and beat yours and your Facebook friends high scores, the longer you run the higher your score, simple as that. 

Image - Subway Surfers 

Fifa: Fifa is a football game where you can play as different real football teams with real players you can play a bot, your friends, or random people online. The game is full of different games modes but moral of the story it’s a football game.

Image - Fifa

So, my thought is to create a game where the character is a football player and you run across the map. Now of course it’s not going to be that easy there is going to be footballs, football boots, goal posts and just all football related items trying to hit you as you run, each object you dodge adds a point to your score and the game gradually gets harder as time goes on. When you finally get hit the game will end and if you want to play again, you’re playing to try beat your previous score. The way I was thinking of creating this is too create a map with all the objects, now the trick is there has to be an end point but I’m going to make it so hard towards the end that it is impossible to make it through in fact if you do make it past all of the objects even though I’m going to make it extremely difficult the game will just throw you off the map as if it is a glitch or something. Of course, if someone did make it to this point (which they won’t) they will want to try and get there again to see what just happened to them.

  

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Game 4: 

Somehow car games never came to my mind when I was making my list and I don’t know how because I really do love car games. For anyone that remembers Need for Speed you’ll like this game. 

Image - Need for Speed 

My plan for this game is to create a cool map with some tricky turns and maybe some jumps, you’ll race on this map against a bot and the first one to make it to the finish line wins. Basically, my plan is to program the bot to travel around the map at a certain speed and to take all the turns and everything perfectly. Now you’re probably asking yourself then how I will stand a chance to win, here is the thing the bot will travel at a lower speed then your max speed so if you take the turns good enough you should be able to beat it, I’m not saying it will be easy but that’s what makes a good game, a challenge. The plan is too make it difficult I want it to be hard enough that you won’t be able to beat the bot on your first few tries and that you have the play the game a few times before you actually manage to win and even at that you might want to play again to see if you can beat it by a further distance. 

 

A cool feature I would also like to add to this game is that you can choose what car you use even though they will all do the same speed it would be nice to add that in there so that the player may think some cars are better than others. 

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