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20. I. R. Man!

Learn the essential skills of being a man.

A series of 30+ micro games, some skill based some puzzles depicting the common day to day challenges men face. The micro games are divided into levels. Within each level the games increases in difficulty. All the games are timed. Time to complete the each game subtracts from a base point total. Between each level a bonus round will give the players an opportunity to earn a multiplier for the total points earned in that level.

For young adult males
Platform: Web, Wiiware

19. Cirque de Vous

Keep the audience WOW'ed by skillfully performing every act in this circus of one.

Platform: Wii exclusive
For Everyone

Many short simple "micro games" mainly focusing on fun use of the Wii remote.

4 basic skills would be used in similar ways but in different scenarios.
Balancing –
-plate spinner
-Seal/beach ball
-Stilt Walking
- High Wire

Timing -
- Trapeze
- Illusionist
- Strong Man
- Fire Eater/Breather

Precision -
- High Wire
- Sword Swallower
- Human Pincushion
- Human Cannon ball
- Trampoline

Coordination -
- Juggler
- Contortionist

18. Bathysphere

Discover and collect new creatures in the darkest depths of the ocean.

Players control the bathysphere vessel and a drop net. Both are attached to a ship topside by long cables so the controls are a bit like the claw games/ball on a string. Collect creatures to earn cash, the larger, more rare a creature is the more its capture is worth. The creatures are out for blood though so you’d be wise to capture them before they get you. Each dive has a long timer. The deeper a dive is the more it cost.

Training Dive Level – Light dive with many small harmless creatures
Level 1 though 3 – deep sea floor/slope - Each level gets deeper, darker, and has big but fewer creatures.
Level 4 – deep sea crack , vertical level
Level 5 through 8 - deep sea floor/slope
Level 9 – deep sea crack , vertical level with hydrothermal vent gas bubbles(deadly)

Theme: The dark alien world of deep sea creatures.

For teens to adult guys
Platform: Web, Console( would work well with 2 analog pads)

17. Switch Pin Pachinko

Add some skill to the asian parlor classic pachinko by allowing players to push pins in, but pushing one in pushes another back out.

For everyone
Platform: Web

16. Cloud Jumper

Defeat the oppressing Royal Sky Fleet and aid the rebels using your jet pack, weapons, tools, stealth, and cunning.

Theme: steam punk fantasy land in the clouds

Arching Goal – Help the rebels defeat the Royal Sky Fleet.
Mid Goals – Complete each mission by delivering key information and/or sabotaging the enemies’ ships.
Micro Goals – Collect bounty to upgrade your gear, weapons, and tool box.

For teens to young adults
Platform: Console

15. Zombie Strippers

Fight your way though this stripe club turned zombie, collecting cash and VIP tokens.

Various objects found throughout each level can be picked up and used to thwart enemies. Each defeated enemy awards cash in various amounts, some drop VIP tokens that can be picked up. Cash multipliers are awarded by making combo hits. At the end of each level there is a bonus round where the objective is to get as many lap dances as possible in X amount of time. Each VIP token adds 10 seconds to the clock. Every completed lap dance awards cash.

Weapons – Stats: (d) damage level dealt, (s) strength (how many times it can be used)
Chair..............(d) 8, (s) 2
Bar stool..........(d) 8, (s) 4
Striper pole.......(d) 8, (s) 8
Liquor bottle......(d) 4, (s) 2
Full beer bottle...(d) 4, (s) 1
Broken bottle......(d) 2, (s) 1

Zombie Enemy – (d) Strength, (c) Cash Reward
Patrons........(d) 2, (c) 5
Deejay.........(d) 4, (c) 10
Stripper.......(d) 8, (c) 20
Bar Tender.....(d) 8, (c) 30
Manager........(d) 8, (c) 30
Bouncer........(d) 16, (c) 30

For young adult males
Platform: Web, PC, Console, iPhone

14. Earthworm Attack

Lay waste to the land and devour everything in you path.

“Side scrolling shoot ‘em up” take on the subterranean world of earthworms, sans the shooting.

Players become an earthworm as it moves though the ground, collecting power-ups and devouring the enemies it can. Power ups are not instant, once devoured the power-up travels the interior of the worm till digested and activated. If an enemy contacts the worms body or is too large to devour the worm loses a segment and resets many of the powers, if the worm loses too many segments it dies. Regular Boss battles are simply heavy waves of organized small enemies that must be devoured to be defeated. As the worm moves through the ground it leaves an empty tunnel behind it. In the Mega Boss battles (mole, Bird, Fisherman) the goal is to tunnel out enough earth below the boss to cause a collapse, while avoiding getting killed.

Power-up/Resulting Effects
G – decreases time till activation of power-ups
M – lets the player devour larger enemies
S – increase speed
L – adds life segments, but makes the worm longer = more body area susceptible to attack
C – shield , prevents enemy contact for decreasing life segments
A - splits a worm in two, half the length of the original, which then move together in a cork screw pattern together but are essentially separate worms

Enemies (mostly caterpillar grub, and micro beetle variants)
white grubs
yellow grubs
red grubs
sod webworms
armyworms
cutworms
lacebugs
spittlebugs
chiggers
chinch bug

Bosses:
1. Boss - mole cricket
2. Boss - billbug
3. Mega Boss - mole (mammal)
4. Boss - mole cricket monster
5. Boss - billbug monster
6. Mega Boss - Bird
7. Boss - mole cricket complex monster
8. Boss - billbug complex monster
9. Mega Boss - Fisherman

For teens to young adult guys
Platform: Web, PC, Console, iPhone

13. Double Nuggets (pinball table series)

A old west/mining/saloon pinball table series. What is a "series" you ask? Typically a pinball table is a self contained game all in one space with minor changes, features become unlocked on the table as the player progresses. It is packed with all the challenges, goals, awards, and gameplay features a designer can fit on one table.
Here the idea is to simplify the individual table designs and connect the progression from one table to another like levels in a typical computer game.

For teens to adults
Platform: PC, Web, iPhone

12. Prismic

Manipulate prisms to direct parts of the light spectrum to match a pattern.

White light contains 12 colors;
V,VB,B,BG,G,GY,Y,YO,O,OR,R,RV

Each prism has 8 rotation angles.
By rotating a prism the outgoing light from each side can be directed in 8 directions.
If the incoming attributes are perpendicular to a prism surface the outgoing colors are split 2 ways.
If the incoming attributes are at 60* or 30* to a prism surface the outgoing colors are split 3 ways.

When a unequal division occurs neighboring colors are added to make an even split.
12 colors split 2 ways = 2x6
12 colors split 3 ways = 3x4
6 colors split 2 ways = 2x3
6 colors split 3 ways = 3x3
4 colors split 2 ways = 2x2
4 colors split 3 ways = 3x2
3 colors split 2 ways = 2x2
3 colors split 3 ways = 3x1
2 colors split 2 ways = 2x1
2 colors split 3 ways = 2x1 + black
1 color split 2 ways = 1 + black
1 color split 3 ways = 1 + 2xblack

an incomplete mockup


For adults
Platform: Web, mobile, PC

11. Young Magellan

Navigate the oceans avoiding treacherous obstacles, monstrous creatures, and the edge of world.

Collect bounty and trade for goods at port to keep your crew and the ship in good shape.

Theme: Exploration of the oceans under the guise of the mythic, magical, early ages.

The world is an isometric scrolling map that’s bounded by a stationary circle. The player selects points on a map to navigate to which causes the level to scroll in that direction. The player must keep the ship in the circle to keep from falling off the edge while avoiding dangerous obstacles in the circle.

For kids to adults
Platform: Web, Console, PC, iPhone

10. Bit 808

Complete patterns by selecting bits. Each bit corresponds to a sound. Each completed pattern creates the next sequence in a song.

Players select bits from a single row of 8. When a bit is selected, it’s removed from the row and a new one slides in on the end. The selected bit is added on the end of the pattern. Once a pattern of 8 is completed it’s collapsed and stored. Once 1 pattern is stored the song starts. Stored patterns are removed one at a time. Then goal becomes keeping stored patterns in the bank, to prevent the song from breaking. In addition to this mode a compose mode that works the same except players make their own patterns.

For young adults
Platform: iPhone, DS, PC

9. The Great Hamster Escape

Escape the hamster maze undetected before the kids get home.

Players become a frantic hamster bent on escape from its maze in the cover of darkness. Avoid getting caught by holding still or finding cover when the lights come on as the mother of the house passes by and for heaven’s sake make it out before the kids get home. Collecting pellets found across the level increase the hamsters speed but make it harder to stop from smacking into walls which resets you speed. Various toys and level features must be mastered to complete each level, such as a hamster ball, rubber squeak toy, etc. Each level would introduce new toys to master, more complex mazes, and shorter timers.

For kids to young adult guys
Platform: Web or PC, Console

8. Lift Man

Wanted: Elevator Operator
Make a good living on tips if you can handle a lift. Your goal is to get customers where they need to go, do that well and they’ll tip you. Take too long and you’ll get stiffed.

Level 1. One Elevator, Two-person capacity, 1pm to 9pm shift
The player would see an isometric view of the elevator, shaft, and people waiting to get on at each floor. Selecting a floor moves the elevator to it, it opens, customers waiting to get off on that floor exit, and customers waiting to get on do so. Customers boarding the elevator briefly indicate their desired floor with a number above their head. To see the number again will deduct tips from you’re pocket. Happy customers tip upon their exit.

Level 2. One Elevator, Four-person capacity, 1pm to 9pm shift
Level 3. Three Elevators, Two-person capacity, 1pm to 9pm shift
Level 4. Three Elevator, Two-person capacity, 5am to 1pm shift (more customers)

At the end of each level upgrades can be purchased to make them run faster, stop quicker, and indicator lights suggesting next floor to move too.

Some characters tip better then others.
Dirty Bum
Granny
Plumber Joe
Mrs. Jenkins
White Collar Rob
Martha Dowart
Sid Millions

For Kids to adult guys
Platform: Web, iPhone, Console

7. Electric Lawn Mower

Completely mow the lawn without running over you power cord.

Suburban spin on the retro classic Snake. Players take control of an electric lawn mower with the simple goal of mowing the lawn. However running over the electric cord trailing behind the mower results in death, as does failing to avoid the random lawn hazards like rocks, big wheels, and pets. Trees can be used to your advantage. Larger lawns with more hazards increase the difficulty.

For kids to adult guys
Platform: Web

6. The Bridge is Out!

Build a solid bridge in time for the train to make it across? Use anything you can find to stack up and lay tracks on for the train to make it safely across the gap.

Various items from rocks and trees to cows and cars can be used build up the trestle as well as enough train track to bridge the gap.

Each stage would increase in difficulty by increasing the gap distance and descreasing the time the player has before the train comes.

For kids to adults
Platform: Web

5. Dust Bunny Hell

Save the dust bunnies from vacuum cleaner hell by matching 3 of the same color or kind by swapping adjacent pieces.

A match 3 puzzle game where the pieces rise, touching pieces are linked, and pieces along the bottom are anchored. When the player makes a match those pieces are removed and any pieces above are released (into the vacuum.) New pieces are added from the bottom, sliding existing pieces up.
Goals:
Make X amount of matches to advance to the next round.
Special pieces are added by matching more pieces then losing them (into the vacuum.)

Note: In typical match 3 games once a match is made the pieces are removed and the above pieces collapse down.

For everyone
Platform: Web, PC, iPhone

4. Mrs Green Thumb

Care for, cultivate, and sale your own species of plant.

Given a budget to start with players are tasked with designing their plants features, keeping up with demand and maintain a healthy plant nursery.

For girl kids to tweens
Platform: Web

3. Spudgun

Welcome you are now a member of the ISGA(International Spudgun Association)
-Compete
-Backyard
-Workshop

Build your spudgun using a parts from your workshop, test them in your backyard, pay an entry fee to compete for cash prizes. Use the cash to buy better parts for your spudgun and hilarious targets to deface.

For teens to young adult males
Platform: Web

2. LowPower

Choose the most efficient path and mode of transportation under limited power constraints.

Different obstacle and terrain types require different transportation modes. Switching between modes uses large amount of power as does miss matching the transportation mode to the obstacle or terrain. Various non lethal characters roaming the levels can be consumed for power.

The main character Eugene, is a jelly like creature with very limited mobility on it's own, BUT suited with the swiss mech suit sG9k he is a varietal robo atv of death. The sG9k needs power though and lots of it.

Navigate Eugene across the lands and for god sake don't let him get stranded in the sun, he burns easily.

For kids to adult guys.
Platform: Web, PC, Console

1. Origami Decipher

A spatial relation puzzle wrapped around a word puzzle.

Given a origami figure players must find the folds in the correct order to unfold the figure with out taring it apart. Once unfolded players find a word puzzle written on the paper. Timed and campaign modes.

For young adult to middle aged males
Platform: Web, iPhone