Further Developing Game Ideas

The top 4 games that emerged from our large brainstorming session:

• A wheelchair type game

• Musical chairs

• A monkey bar room

• A dodgeball type game

• A spinning laser similar to Wipeout

Thinking through these games further we came up with a few different game modes each could involve

Wheelchair Game

Game Modes

• Games similar to Mario Party minigames

• Racing

• Bumping each other off of platforms

• Falling and manipulate the object to keep it falling, collaborative Tetris

• Slot car races

• "Chairbone" Champ similar to the popular Trombone Champ game. Use one wheel to control pitch and another to control the volume

• Puzzle games where shapes need to be moved and rotated

Implementation

• Wheels provide too analog inputs with both a variable speed and direction of rotation

• resistance like an exercise bike to make it more work to push wheels

• proof of concept could be sufficient to make chairs and an interface and use them to play modded Mario Party ROMs

Musical Chairs

Game Modes

• Classic musical chairs, each player needs to sit on their own color when the music stops

• Grid like games of sit on the blue avoid the red

Implementation

• Use Grid sensors and lights

• Would have benches around the edge of the room to avoid sharp corners of individual chairs

• Could have a curved bench around a pillar like in Hide

Monkey bar Game

Game Modes

• Game mode similar to Climb

• Can have pattern games

• Could add buttons along the wall to hit with feet and lasers to dodge

• Can have floor is lava / grounders mode. Where you can run along the floor for some time and then have to jump up and out of the way

Implementation

• Sensitive bars

• Lights inside the bars

• Lasers and buttons

• Would be challenging to make this game accessible to 3.5ft - 7ft tall players

• Would require significant structural work to install at a location

Dodgeball Game

Game Modes

• Dodging all the balls

• Stopping all the balls from hitting the wall

• Can make it competitive in that each has their own portion of wall to dodge on or to protect

• Could make cleanup of balls a portion of the game (throw them at central target)

• Light up a pattern and that is where people have to block

Implementation

• Launchers shooting balls across the room

• A sensor on the back wall to detect balls

• Buttons to press and additional challenges

• Can have a slanted floor so the balls roll back towards the launchers to be reloaded

• A sensor to ensure that the players don't move too far from the wall (can't have players stand right beside the launcher

Spinning Laser Game

Game Modes

• Spinning laser with one arm low and one high, increasing in speed

• Can have the laser spinning and moving up and down in a pattern

• Can add additional challenges along the walls

Implementation

• Either a central column with lasers mounted that spin.

• Or having an array of laser modules with sensors in the middle and the lasers just move in such a way to simulate spinning

Of these ideas we further refined Wheel, Protect, and Bars: