Activate Game Ideas

With the goal of developing a new Activate game the team visited Activate's Burlington location to experience first hand their active, engaging, gaming experience.

Overall Thoughts after our Activate experience

• Urgency creates more enjoyment rather than do one thing many times

• Having things to avoid creates a sense of adrenaline

• Hide is more collaborative

• Can get information overload due to the noise in other rooms

• Too many inputs frustrates people (control proved to be hard to learn on the first attempt)

• Our team found that Pipes was not as engaging, though there are classmates who have that as their favorite game

After playing in all the rooms at least once the team had the following as their favorites.

Favourite games:

- Laser

- Megagrid

- Hide

The common factors that set these apart were how much they made us move and also the combination of objectives to achieve with obstacles to avoid gave a good adrenaline rush.

Our goal will be to design a game that carries both of these concepts.

However, before we constrained ourself to these goals we invested some time generating as many game ideas we could think of no matter how feasible.

All these games are listed below in no particular order. If you would like to see more feasible games with a little more detail please see the next post.

Game Ideas

• Spinning arm in wipeout (could implement with lasers)

• Red light green light

• Platform where you fall you die

• Ball pit based game

• Balance based games

• Sky zone based game

• Hole in the wall (Japanese game show)

• Wall falling down with holes in it

• Bowling based game (skeeball)

• Large scale pinball

• Axe throwing

• Football game similar to hoops

• Ring toss game (where pegs light up and can move to release the rings)

• Wheelchair game where the wheels act as inputs

• Musical chairs (could use grid tiles)

• Monkey bars

• Double Dutch jump rope

• George of the jungle room

• Protect game

• (block the lasers / balls)

• Throw balls at children and you protect the thing in the middle

• Soccer based (like an interactive training room)

• Pass an object around (hot potatoe)

• Physically push blocks around the room

• Maze

• How high you can stack something

• Rope gym exercise

• human body connection to connect 2 things

For more details on some of the games we thought were best see the next post.