Prompt Game Ideas
The Well (NO)
The Light
Platformer
Strategy
Manage a community around a well / water
Going down a well
Trying to escape a well
Silence
Be as quiet as possible
Bull in a china shop / (various other quiet locations)
Octodad style
'Age Of Empires'
Building objects
Expansion around a water well
Build buildings
Upgrade well
Action
Stealth
Get to the water
Avoid monsters
Well is 'portal' between worlds
Themes
Scifi fantasy portal
Visual novel
TheYawhg
Prepare for disaster
Wishing well
Make everyone happy with a single wish
Tunnel network
Don't get eaten
Randomly changing sizes
Horror
Stop stuff making noise
Sneak around house, don't wake the familly
Scary mother
You slept with someone, escape from the house, hide from their angry parents
Adventure
Learn the truth behind 'Silence'
A peaceful game
Journey
Disconnect from society
City gone silent
Rewarded for being quiet
Friendly creatures help you when quiet
Narative
Mechanics
Story about light & dark
Puzzles
Good Vs Evil
Follow the light
Control light / sun
influence plant growth
'contrast game'
Colour
'The Saboteur' game
Rewards players with colour
'The Wolf' music video
'Revealing what things really are'
Multiple, alternate worlds
light world, dark world
rgb worlds
Ascent (NO)
Platformer
God makes noah build a plane for the elephants
you gotta make your own plane
catherine game
optical illusions
mc escher
The Watch (NO)
'Supervising or guarding'
CCTV operator
Watching for crime / deplorable activity
'Your turn on watch'
Patrolling an area / guarding a place
Aliens
Monsters
'A timekeeping device'
MYSTERY
detective
talk to people
work out what has happened
Time manipulation
Magical watch
Reverse time?
Forward time?
Pause time?
Slow time?
Adventure
Discover truth
Mystery
Inherited some old watch from a mysterious relative
MECHANICS
using light to kill monster
using light to solve puzzles
to reveal stuff
the name of a monster/object
lantern
oil!
color gels (red,green,blue)
a resource
click to edit
NARRATIVE
lighthouse
restore power to the lighthouse to bring power back to the world
using the lantern to scare off the monsters
mechanic to reveal/defend yourself against specific scenarios
the future - small amount of people move to a planet -> the player is running away from buildings that are collapsing (cos the building needs power) -> you're in dark -> find your way to the power. There are monsters too.
reality/extraterrestrial, sci-fi
neon 80s style
MECHANICS
crops
building of the well itself
community expansion
VISUALS
human-esque people
animal-esque models
hiding place
NARRATIVE
you fell down a well you clutz
you need to get out
there are a bunch of other people there too
MECHANICS
movement
objects making noise
Sound levels
NARRATIVE
SANTA CLAUS BUT CLUMSY
THIEF BUT CLUMSY
COMIC BOOK STYLE
COMEDY
VOID BASTERDZ
the interactive comic panels -> they act as the map
OBJECT THAT HOLDS EVERY POSSIBLE SOUND INSIDE IT - CALLED "SILENCE"
you have a super power which allows you to control sound for a limited amount of time
acts as a guide for the player so that they can visualize what is going on at all times
you can zoom in and zoom out
when you complete a level, you can see the whole page of the comic book being flipped