Game idea concepts

This is a list of early game concepts that i have thought about designing over the course of BA7 and BA8:


Concept (50 Words Max): A game that allows you to play as a cloud and collect points by raining and saving plants. It would involve tactics against multiple enemies. Puzzles could be implemented to help gain more items or abilities. Possible teaching use for the game.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): A massive drought across the UK has left the country worrying about its plants. One small cloud is the only one in the sky. In a search for more clouds he accidentally rains on a small girls flower pot and saves her flower. In return the girl becomes his friend and tells the cloud about the drought and how he can save all the plants and everyone. He takes on the job to save the UK with her teaching him along the way.

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Platform: IPod, IPad, Mobiles, PC

Focus: Trying make a simple and fun game for kids that could help them learn about science of the weather. I want the game to be easy to pick up and play anywhere and be happy and enjoyable.

USP: Enjoyable Teaching Game

Good Points: Easy to pick up and play. Fun. Jolly and anyone can play.

Bad Points: Might not last long. Only to teaching weather science. May lose audience by adding teaching methods.

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Concept (50 Words Max): Sci Fi Survival In which you are pushed to your limits with jumpy scenes and scary moments. Third or first person survival were you have to escape a strange compound but all is not what it seems as you find others and see weird events.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): You play as a guy/girl who wakes up in a strange room after witnessing a strange crash of the side of a busy road. With missing memories you have to work your way out but not all is as it seems as walls move, Strange noises, Shadows appear regally and you have no idea how to get out. During the escape you can spark memories that were blank. But your not alone, others are there each missing their memory and sum so mentally torn they risk hurting you and any chance of escaping.

After a crash of a large truck into a ditch many people left there cars to help the driver but what they found were tubes carrying aliens. not only that but the driver was an alien in a human skin suit. After taking you to a secret location and locking the viewers away to be skinned some humans escape there rooms and explore the building only to be hunted down again by the aliens before they can find out the truth or get it out to the world.

Genre: Survival, Sci fi, Horror, Mystery, Point and Click, Escape room game.

Platform: Xbox + 3D, PS3, PSP, Wii, WiiU, PC

Focus: Making a game that is scary but a fun challenge to play
USP: Bringing Escape room games to new consoles with a strong narrative and realistic approach.

Good Points: Breaking the mold of sci fi games and challenging personal mentally rather then through the use of skill.

Bad Points: Similar games include: Alan wake, Alone in the Dark, Condemned and Saw.

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Concept (50 Words Max): A arcade game that explores teamwork and defense. A third person shooter in which you play as teenagers fighting off alien mutants using water guns and home made tools.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): Humans discover life in space but when they bring it to earth it escapes and turns one town into a dead zone with all those who get infected turn into alien mutants. a bunch of street kids try to defend there homes when they come across a promising weapon. Water. Now they have the means to fight off the enemy but can they save the day.

Genre: Comic, Sci fi, horror, arcade game.

Platform: Xbox Live Arcade Game, PSN, 3DS, Wii, Wii U

Focus: Creating a fun and creative multiplayer game for kids

USP: Unique story and gameplay.

Good Points: New ideas and game objects. New story, not a big game. Multiply characters and ways to play. Large mixed maps with attack and defense.

Bad Points: Might get repetitive. Cuts out large older audience.

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Concept (50 Words Max): A multi-world game that follows a player as he lives his perfect life until he winds up in the devious life of parallel universe jumping. After finding yourself in a new universe the only way out is joining the chase.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): you play as steven dawn, a family man, a hard worker, a lawsuit giver. After spending lots of time tracking down people and delivering bad news he goes home to a loving wife and kids. Things take a turn when he finds himself in crash with men traveling from demetion to demention stealing and collecting goods to sell back in there own universe.

After being in a crash you rush to help a guy stuck in a car only to find he pulls out a small pad that rips you out of your dimension and into another. in the chaos he manages to get away but were the hell are you. is this real? are you dead?

A flash appears behind you and you see a woman holding the remands of the same pad. she is heavily injured and dieing. She explains that your only way home is in his hands. She hands you a device that will help catch him but can you?

Genre: shooter, adventure, mystery
Platform: xbox, ps3
Focus: enviroment, story
USP: mutliply unqie areas.
Good Points: lots to do and lots of new things to use
Bad Points: lots to do, confusing

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Concept (50 Words Max): You choose to be either a good or bad vampire and this decides the worlds fate. GTA style free roaming but with strong narrative elements and choice making campaign options. Creating a nitty critty vampire world with monster vampires and a realistic world.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): You play as either a man or woman that was bitten by a vampire while traveling late on a subway. As you awake in the hospital you notice your different and at night suffer and terrifying change into a vampire beast. You remember waking up in the front of a podium in which you are knighted by the vampire priest as a ‘strong will’, one born from surviving a full bite. These means a vampire would of tried to suck the life and blood out of the person until death.

10 years later, becoming normal was hard and your past now has alot of blood split. But now a choice has to come as the vampire world starts to crumble with ‘Vampire Hunters’ attacking more and an increase of licans. will you be good and help stop the rise of the vampires and build peace with the licans or butcher anything that opposes the vampire kingdom.

Genre: Horror, third person, mystery. shooter.

Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC

Focus: Good and evil player choices, Strong narrative.

USP: In game change from human to vampire at night.

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Concept (50 Words Max): play as a robot that has to fight other toys to collect parts to build a car/boat to escape. play through levels in the home, garage and garden.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): a small toy robot was told he would be binned soon. you play as a robot that wants to find his way home, the toy store. Help him fight and collect pieces to build him a escape vehicle.

Genre: Comedy, adventure.
Platform: IPad,Iphone, mobile.
Focus: Interaction.
USP: fun and easy.
Good Points: pick up and play.
Bad Points: simple, mainly for young players.

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Concept (50 Words Max): A RPG racing game that is based around dragon riding, training and breeding. The game revoles around hunting and racing dragons. RPG elements allow a player to roam and explore and hunt.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): As a child you watched your father be the sidekick to a famous dragon racer, during these times dragon racing was new and up and coming as riders were rare. Dragons were also unpredictable, deadly and hard to capture. As the sport took over the world so did gambling, cheating and mobs. Early riders found it hard to compete as younger riders bred the best dragons. As you became a dragon trainer your father lost his job and ended up oweing money to mobs. As your father goes missing his debt becomes yours and you have to pay back the debt and find your father.

Genre: RPG, Fanasty.

Platform: Xbox 360, PS3,PC,Wii,Wii U
Focus: Creating a real mix of game play and person preference to play.
USP: Dragon Riding and customizing AI components.
Good Points: New concept, and allows people to play how they want. mixes different game play.
Bad Points: lots of different parts to the game may be confusing and troublesome.
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Concept (50 Words Max: You play as a robotic diving sub that looks for treasure undersea, unabled humans cant travel that far down so its your job to survive the deep dark depths of the sea. collect, explore and discover.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): As Gold and other presous metals are extremely vauable humans built smart small subs to travel deeper than thought possible in the ocean. Smart and alone you have to do there bidding and find there metals, discover new fish and creatures and survive the dark bottom. The more you do the more love and respect u are giving with more upgrades, better equipment.

Genre: Third Person, First person, adventure, mystery, puzzle.
Platform: xbox arcade, playstation network, PC, Steam, IPad.
Focus: creating a new exciting visual experience.
USP: Not many underwater games. exploration and learning.
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Concept (50 Words Max): A first or third person shooter that is based in world that is terrified of a disease that seriously hurt humanity. As some are amune they created save citys blocking out the illness, the less unfortunate suffer in a world were drugs keep you alive. There are those who carry the illness and wear it with pride. As they painfully live they choose to fight against those who will not help them.

Story/Narrative (250 Words Max): The earth suddenly came under the attack of a new disease that quickly spread over the world slowly and painfully killing millions. Some were not effected and soon came together to protect themselves as some could also live with disease as carriers. Those who stayed ill and didn't die carry the illness on them for all time and will infect anyone they touch even the immune. This created segregation with 3 types of people living in a torn world of disease and hatred. Those who lived re-build there cities from the outside world. Some who didn't get ill but were capable of contracting created drugs and masks to they could live. The drugs were expensive and didn't stop the illness just blocked them from invading the system for a limited amount of time. They live outside cities covered away trying there hardest to live. The infected live in the wastelands of what was old cities and towns. These people live to get back at the ones who will kill them on sight. This is only the start with gang wars and corruption and unexplained events trigger you the player to start exploring why.

Genre: Action, adventure, shooter, mild horror.
Platform: Xbox 360, PC, Playstation,
Focus: Creating a game will make the players think of choices and safety.
USP: Story and survival gameplay.