Week 8: Game Ideas and Feedback (22/11/2019)

All physical work on this topic can be found on page 11 of the black sketchbook, and page 5 of the black backlog.

Sketchbook (page 11)

Game ideas

Idea #1:

"I was considering making an adventure-based (Western) card or board game but people in the chat were discussing management games, which I like...

I once made a list of character classes and I think that (the list) that would come in useful there."

Feedback:

I received feedback from one member of my class saying that management games in particular are quite mundane and unimaginative for the kinds of games that I normally like to produce. I can agree that they were not my first choice, and that they probably won't be my main choice either.

Other feedback: (from the interactive online tool)

• Strategy game

• A game where you build towns or communities using law and order to set difficulty

• An 'expanding borders' game as befits the American frontier, having a small space and attempting to increase this

• A house building game

• Resource management system

• Papers Please-type game searching for criminals on wanted posters

• A game where you play as a Western doctor to showcase the healthcare and medicine of the time

• A town building/tycoon game

• Focus on the strategy elements of the subject you have studied

• Management game where you control and maintain a town or a small group of people

• Consider the Space Western subgenre

• A game countering the misconceptions about the American frontier

• A game focusing on the 'Manifest Destiny' style of expansion

• A game that puts out the truth about the time and make a community-based game which shows the actual struggle of the townsfolk

• Management game where you try to find water or manage a town as a sheriff

• Crime mystery

Backlog (page 5)

Game ideas

The whole reason why I got this sketchbook was to note down and visually explore my game ideas.

I started noting these down here, on this page, as it was overdue and needed to be laid out.

I have also put down the feedback from Friday's presentation.

22/11/2019

Phase 3

Week 6: 04/11/2019 - 10/11/2019

Week 7: 11/11/2019 - 17/11/2019

Week 8: 18/11/2019 - 24/11/2019

Week 9: 25/11/2019 - 01/12/2019