Every week in 2006 I posted a new original game idea on this website. If you like, you can read all about the challenge I issued myself. By the end of the year it was quite cumbersome to sift through the site to find them all. So here are all 52 game ideas in one easy to browse list!
1. Toothache 2. It’s All Business 3. Mountain Bike Mike 4. Blast Moves 5. Pack Rat 6. Freelance Foto 7. Oval Office 8. Work of Art 9. Snow Day 10. Project Luna 11. Blackout 12. Family Album 13. Oceanopolis |
14. Soapbox Grand Prix 15. Loup-Garou 16. On the Road Again 17. Miracle of Life 18. Go Nuts! 19. Salon 20. Family Restaurant 21. Face Your Fear 22. Haunted Hotel 23. Puppet Show 24. Audio Trip 25. Grand Canyon 26. My Librarian’s a Witch! |
27. Sandcastle Creator 28. Game Designer Trivia 29. Bike Messenger Mike 30. The Nutcracker 31. Homecoming 32. Berlin 33. Let’s Go Camping 34. Gunslinger 35. Museum Madness 36. Birthday Party! 37. Firefight 38. Green Thumb Gardening 39. Alphabet Detectives |
40. Apothecaries Guild 41. Air Traffic Jam 42. Newshound 43. Snapshot Shootout 44. Stone Roller 45. Angry Villagers 46. Cave In 47. Maid to Order 48. Turkey Trouble 49. The Confidence Game 50. Blast Moves 2 51. Bodyguard 52. Swordplay |
If you'd like to learn more about the methodology I used to write these ideas, check out my GDC talk titled "Brainstorming in Public".
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Some of these ideas have since come to life, either by my doing or others. For example, I got to explore a bunch of the ideas in #25 Grand Canyon making virtual reality tour of historical sites! Check out MasterWorks for various VR platforms.