War on Terror

When I thought of designing a game based on "war on terror", it reminded me of one of the first games i'd ever played on computer. I think it was called "detectives" and was a DOS based game. So the following idea is pretty much inspired by the same game, with added imagination and concepts from real world events and james bond !

A 3D LARP / Strategy game, this game involves the player to choose an agency and play the role of an agent.

Objective: To uncover terrorist plots and foil them.

Gameplay: The agent is given a mission and a scene or a clue. Based on that, he/she will have to make a decision on what to do next from a set of options that could include the following:

- Go to some place (eg. Go to Footy Sports Bar . Downtown, Chicago )
- Talk to someone (eg. Talk to the curator of the Louvre, Paris )
- Attend an event (eg. Daily Hospital Grand Opening)
...

So the game requires the agent to make decisions and the events that follow depend heavily on these decisions.

He/She is obviously constrained by time (You can't take a year to uncover a plot thats already been executed ?!)

In some scenes, the player will be in FPS mode, where he/she will have to scout around to find clues and defend from enemy attacks. Yes, the player will be given a weapon. To make it really difficult and realistic, the player can carry only a limited amount of weapons and ammunition.

In some cases, when the plot is uncovered, the player will then have to engage in battle to say stop a bomb from exploding or prevent the assassination of a VIP.


Suggestion from class: this game has a potential of taking the form of an iCi.

Yummy

With miracle foods

Players: 4-6

Ages: 16 onwards

Game:

Consists of two major types of cards. The first type of cards are the miracle food cards, which can be one of the six miracle foods namely red wine, chocolate, fish, fruits and vegetables, garlic and nuts. Each card represents only 1 oz. of the particular miracle food. This means, two chocolate cards mean two ounces of chocolate. The other type of cards are the basic ingredients cards which include oil, spices, whole grain, salt & pepper, milk, spices etc. These are more general cards and don’t include quantity in them. Meaning, one oil card, is enough to make any dish that involves oil irrespective of the amount of oil needed.

Gameplay:

One player deals 7 cards (a mixture of all the above cards) and places the remaining stack in the center with the first card facing upwards. If you haven’t guessed it already, yUMMY is a rummy style card game where the player has to keep swapping cards with those in his/her hand and those in the center stacks, to get a recipe of a dish which he/she thinks will work. (It may or may not have to be from the book).

How to Play:

Once the seven cards are dealt, the person to the left of the dealers starts playing and the round goes in clockwise direction. At each turn, the player will take a card from either of the two piles in front of him, the once facing down or the one facing up, and put down a card from his own set in the pile facing up. The main objective is to build a recipe that he/she thinks will work. The round is over when one of them lays down a recipe that is accepted by all the other players. Points can be awarded based on the amount of miracle food used or the amount of risk to CVD that could be reduced by consuming that amount of miracle food as used in that recipe.

Possible rules and objectives:

- The recipe must be from a book.

- The person who wins/ claims that the recipe works, must make the dish. This requires the participants to gather as many ingredients as possible.

- The game can go on for a fixed number of rounds, and in the end all the winning recipes are made and tried out.

- The overall winner gets a bottle of red wine! And the runner up gets a big bar of dark chocolate!!

Refinements and possible extensions:

- Fixing the number of cards of each type, based on their frequency of occurrences in recipes.

- Selling sets of all ingredients + playing cards in grocery stores.

Group: Lance, Daniel and Vignesh