Game Brainstorm

 Coming up with Game Ideas

When it came to thinking of the following game ideas, I read this article to help me out with the whole process: https://gamedevelopertips.com/game-ideas-create-game-ideas-in-5-steps/

For my first game idea, it is a very simple game. The game is basically a bow and arrow game. The game is level based, and the aim of the game is to simply hit the target. But as you progress throughout the game, it obviously gets harder. The game will start introducing moving targets, the target getting smaller, obstacles such as wind or using different types of arrows such as fire arrows, rubber arrows etc. There will be also an upgrade system for the bow or you can even unlock new bows which would help you out in the later stages of the game. Overall, this idea is my favorite one out of the other three and am looking for feedback regarding it to decide whether I should proceed with this idea.

My second game idea is a tower based game. Basically, you start off at the bottom of the tower with just a plain sword. The aim of the game is to clear the floor to go up one. At the end of each floor there is a chest you unlock which drops loot such as swords, elemental properties or money. Every 2 floors, a mysterious figure appears which acts as the shop where you can buy new swords, upgrade them and elemental properties, buy lives etc. Every 5 floors, there is a mini boss and every 10 floors, there is a main boss, both of which drop great loot for your journey ahead. In total there are 50 floors in the tower with the 50th floor boss being the hardest to defeat. If the player manages to slay that boss, the complete the game and clear the tower.

With the third game idea, the objective is to escape the building(Have yet to decide whether it's a school or hospital) from a ghost entity that's sensitive to sound. With this mechanic, this means there are 2 modes of moving, running and sneak walking. The player could also use the environment to make noise to attract the ghost to said location. But the closer you get to the exit, the harder the ghost becomes to avoid such as it will be distracted less to the environmental noise you make, it'll become faster and the radius of the ghost detecting you also increases. Instead of normal escape type horror games, I wanna make the entity which is the obstacle more of a challenge and unpredictable than that what you see in typical games.

For the final game idea, I wanted to leave the creativity aspect to the player. The aim of the game is to design a vehicle that is able to jump across a valley using a ramp to the other side. There are many things you could add to the vehicle such as a propulsion engine, nitro, wing system etc. But as you progress throughout every level, there are different obstacles preventing you from getting to the other side but the main principle of there being a valley between the player and the other side is still there.

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Comments

  1. Roman KomarNovember 8, 2020 at 12:02 PM

    Hi Justin I really like your game idea and I think it will be an interesting one to work with and to try your gaming skills creating this game.When I was think of a game I also read and watched a lot of videos in order to find out what I would like to make and what is possible to make with my current knowledge.I think your game would be a tricky one to make but I should be a great experience which improve your coding skills even more.Overall great choice and best of look with the game.

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