| 1) Paparazzi - Like an FPS, but you have a camera and you have to take a famous person's photo. Each level is quite short, because the famous person is travelling. You're not on rails (someone else mentioned Pokemon snap, which is sort of close to this). I'm not sure if this is a cross between a puzzle game (best place to take photo from + best combination of lenses) with an FPS, or just a not great idea. 2) Cat Detective - Sound isn't used very much in games. You get a bit of ocarina in some Zelda games (which hadn't come out when I first had this idea.) and there's a bit of sound use in Enemy Zero[1]. Rhythm games don't count. This idea is something like "Cat Detective" - you're a cat, and a detective. You have a crime scene. You have cat colleagues, and cat suspects, and cat witnesses. You have to walk around investigating crime. You have to talk to other cats. You use careful manipulations of the analogue sticks (also new when I first had this idea) to create "cat talk" sounds. The better you talk the more information you get or the quicker your colleagues work. 3) Freeform Markov Chain Generator - Very simple to use markov chaining software. The user drags a file for input; selects a delimiter (if needed) and whether they want to work on individual letters or whole words or sentences; selects how many levels (I forget the terminology) they want (2 being more different from input text; 4 being more similar to input text.) and how much text to spit out. This does exist in various forms, but not all in one place, and it's not idiot friendly. 4) Truchet tile screen saver - draw a bunch of truchet tiles, then change one at a time at a given rate. 5) Alcohol Awareness Game - (I'm teaching myself Javascript and I'm going to do this but I'd really like to see how other people do it) EASY VERSION: a multiple choice quiz of glasses of wine, with "how many units[2]?" as the answer. HARDER VERSION: Have a wine bottle and a glass and ask user to either pour one unit of wine or to pour what they'd normally drink and guess how many units that is. I have about a gajillion more. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero [2] Units is a UK concept to promote alcohol awareness. It's not great because people don't really know how many units they drink; alcohol has got stronger since units were introduced; etc. 125 ml of wine at 8% ABV is one unit. |
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