Week 4 Ideas

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#1) Executioner: Time: Middle Ages, Setting: England. Your role is that of the land's head of executions. You must fully develop various ways of killing the King's enemies and criminals of the land. Much like building a better mouse trap, th e goal is to artistic as well as functional. Develop elaborate pully systems with razor like blades of steel, boiling vats of oil, or whatever else comes to your marginally deranged mind.
#2) Logan's Run: Based on the old television show and movie, you are scheduled to be executed, but you decide that you don't want to die. Avoid the guards and make your way out of the city. A gripping story is ready to be retold through multi media. Unlike DOOM or Dark Forces, you are not armed with a variety of weapons, but your own cunning. Let's use this first person interface in a less violent, yet equally thrilling way. Getting chased is the real attraction here.
#3) Virtual Fireman: The movie Backdraft established a sort of 'glamour' in firefighting. In this game you would work your way from low-ladder fireman to driving trucks, climbing ladders, resucing babies (and cats) from burning buildings. Ent er Burning Houses, Get in and out as quickly as possible. Feel Doors for heat, use axes, water hoses, and chemical extinguishers.
#4) Droid Factory: Build your own robots and androids from parts. Scavange around the planet for parts. Put them together in any way you want, as long as it works, its O.K. Sell your finished droids for money to buy better parts. If you are good enough, your entire business could become automated!.
#5) Arena Organ Player: You are in control of the big organ! Choose various venues, from Old Chicago Stadium to the new Fleet Center in Boston. Choose your sport: Hockey or Basketball, or even Indoor Soccer. The way you play influences the c rowd and the players. Help your team win the game. (don't play while your team is at the free-throw line). The player watches the game, and varies what is played according to what happens. A very involving game that rewards good organ play with charge d emotions that you otherwise only get at the game.
#6) SuperHero/SuperVilain Design Kit: Choose from a staggering array of super powers including: flying, x-ray vision, strength, teleportation, body morphing, telekenesis, and many, many more. It doesn't even have to be human, you can choose al ien superheros as well. Have your opponent be the vilains, and you are the heros, or play the vilains if you are feeling sinister. Match up in a variety of settings, from Urban to Rural, from Earth to beyond. Design a team that would rival the Justice League or the X-Men. Again with this game, the more you could have tie-ins to Marvel and D.C. for rights to pre-existing characters, the better off you would be. Wouldn't it be great to pit your team against Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Cyclops and Profe ssor X!
#7) Candy Wars: Choose from a variety of candy heros (all animated, life-given candy heros). Pit the fat-free vs. the full-o-fat. The potential for crazy candy-powers like sticky breath, cotton-candy web shooter, the blinding starbuts gaze, a nd others would make this a very farsical game.