Thursday, September 30, 2010

My life as a game ideas

Thinking of what aspects of my life that could be a game.
1 I cycle a lot so a cycling game - I'm thinking along the lines of having to cycle through a city with traffic/pedestrians and all around. Can be in either a race, time limit, beat your own time or free mode(where you can just cycle around). Basically a racing game with bikes. There would be obstacles such as glass on the roads(potentially burst your tires), red lights (so you could go through them but there would be vehicles coming at you, pedestrians wondering on to the road without looking if a bike is coming. Would need a simulated traffic system and pedestrians.

2 I work in a shop- wouldn't be an end to this game so it would be an open ended game. I'm thinking along the lines of Transport/railroad tycoon, theme park except it'd be in a shop. What kind of shop you have would be up to you e.g. big supermarket, small newsagent, games shop or whatever. So you would have to order supplies from suppliers, hire and fire staff, price items, deal with robberies.

3 I play guitar most days - so some kind of guitar hero game with a difference of course. What that is I don't know as of yet. Will think about it.

4 I like cats, I have a cat so some kind of game where you're a cat :) Haven't thought what it'd play like. I have an idea now. You have to find stray cats and get them to like you by feeding them, playing with them

5 I like football so maybe a football game. Either one where you play as the players (top down game like Sensible world of soccer) or a management game (like football manager).

6 A beer brewing game, just started brewing my own beer at home. So you would have to brew different beers and sell the on or something. Depending on how good they are they would sell better. Thus making more money you could spend to buy better ingredients and better equipment.
So you brew your beer by adding ingredients and going through the procedures. But you have to do them at the right time and add the correct amount of ingredients. So if you don't do it right it'll turn out bad and if you do it right it'll be good and various levels in between. Buying better equipment and ingredients will result in better beer too. Eventually you can accumulate enough resources/money to open your own brewery and you can automate the process for a beer you have already created. Of course you'll be selling your beer to pubs, people, hotels, and well basically anywhere that wants to buy beer. Sell by the bottle, can and keg. But that's not the main part of the game. The selling would be simple and not very involved.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Ludology

Had my first ludology class, was quite fun. Enjoyed making the boardgame. Turned out well enough I thought. After playing it I see where I went wrong in the design. How I imagined it to play out was quite different than it actually did. I see where I would go with it from here though. I also enjoyed seeing what other people came up with.

It involved 2 players trying to get to the other side of the board and when they occupy the same square they fight using a throw of the dice.

Gonna play some Civilization 5 now :)

First Blog Post

Just testing it out :)