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title: One-sentence game ideas
credits: XPUB
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- PLACEHOLDER COVER
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You are in an empty
room with 13 doors
that are portals
to 13 different worlds.
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5 min
slow-motion epidemics,
visually transmitted.
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Every crisis
is a simulation
of another crisis.
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Every crisis
is a preparation
for another crisis.
- You receive a point for each floating tile you encounter on the street.
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You sleep and
the more you sleep,
the more the buildings
around the bedroom
collapse and nature
starts growing and
invading the space.
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ThermoSTATE
the state where no citizen feels cold. 🥵
- The same day is looping over and over. The goal is to figure out which decision will make you move on to the next day.
- A flat with no floors.
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Hello,
where are you,
what can you see
from there?
- You give someone a gift. They give the gift to someone else.
- "You meet a person in a corridor, but you're in a supermarket, in Canada."
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Collect fantasy words
in a fantasy world
by talking to other fantasy characters
so you can describe fantasy objects better.
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...and yes...
only give
a positive answer
(or inflexion)
to any question.
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A city room
without gravity.
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Thank you!
No, I thank you!
Noo, I thank YOU!
No. I really thank you.
No, I THANK you!
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You get up and you're
a dictator for 5 min.
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You get up and you're
a dictator for 5 min
and if you don't change anything in the current status quo you die.
- You have a lethal laugh.
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You are late.
You have to leave
but you start
playing a game.
- You change language and you discover how clever you are but you cannot communicate with others anymore.
- You are in an empty room with 13 doors that are portals to 13 similar worlds, only your character changes.
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Plastic bag on a
windy day at the
market simulator.
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Reality show
for cultural workers.
- A portal will take you to the exact opposite spot on the globe.
- You dive into an ocean without an ocean floor but it's actually the sky.
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A bruschetta
and some tomato sauce,
but you're not in Italy.
- "You're a flock of birds. You interact with things only collectively."
- "You're in a layer of a multilayered world. You cannot see the effect of your actions unless you change the layer."
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Any action
could potentially kill
the other players
(including staying still).
The longer all the players are kept alive the more you score.
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Dutch wind
vs.
Human being
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Interpret what birds
are saying.
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A game where your
real-life issues are solved through playing and you don't realise
it's happening.
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Sometimes things change depending
on who you tell.
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You are a helium balloon
and you just got
to the big city.
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You are stuck in reality and you're trying to get back to your imaginary world but cannot
find the door.
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Build the highest high
heels in the world so
you can traverse the
Mariana Trench, with a
depth of 11 034 m,
without touching
the water.
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It's night with rain
and Devil Dutch Wind
(DDW) and you are
trying to ride your
way home.
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The calories burned while running on the treadmill become
actual currency.
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Files keep coming in
and you have to
sort them in your
folder system.
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You get to experience your whole life
in reverse.
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There is no gravity,
no left or right,
no up and down,
but you have to guide
someone to a treasure.
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Life's a game,
play the game.
- "You're a door and you have the power to open or close as you wish. Sometimes someone tries to go through you, will you let them pass?"
- You enter a room full of obscure items and have to select some of them to curate an exhibition.
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Time is given
to each player.
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During the game, several tasks are given to players, and they need to split their time and accomplish those tasks in the time allocated. If you fail to do so, it will affect the whole time sequence. In short, you play
the game by splitting your
time, rearranging your
priority constantly.
- Git commit-push battle.
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Noise-inducing
headphones so you
can hear the electronic
magnetic fields
around you.
- Harmonizing everything.
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The printer that works
is hidden somewhere
in a maze.
- Do you want me to tell you the story of Wendy?
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You enter a room
where you meet your
friends with whom
you play a game where
you play a game, where
you play a game, where
you play a game.
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The rain starts
when the meeting stops.
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The rain stops
when the meeting starts.
- Print 80000 post-its.
- Guess the Guests.
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Try to eat the hole
of a donut.
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Try to find out whether
the donut hole which
was expired was
any good.
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Each chatroom is
a different reality.
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A random age
generator that
gives you
a random age
on your birthday
and your body
turns that age.
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A random ape
generator that
gives you
a random ape
on your birthday
and your body
turns that ape.
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A random grape
generator that
gives you
a random grape
on your birthday
and your body
turns that wine.
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A random wine
generator that
gives you
a random headache
on your birthday
and your body
turns that wine.
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A random-random
generator that
gives you
a random-random
on your birthday
and your body
turns that random.
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The world is literally turned upside down
and you must try
to cure a hickup!
- Randominance.
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Steal Jeff Bezos's
money and use it
for the loot box.
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Sushi but
it tastes
like cola.
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Cola but
it tastes
like sushi.
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Your manager reminds
you of Michael Scott
and you feel like you
are part of the Office.
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Grocery.
Delivery.
Startup.
- A one-sentence games list that never ends...
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Inspired by Pippin
Barr's Game Ideas 🛴
www.pippinbarr.com
/category
/game-ideas
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