6 Amazing Ideas

Each one better than the last.

Here are some potential ideas for a final:

This is an extension of my last project. Users would play a shoot-em-up game that spawns enemies and other level elements based on their actions within their homes and the actions of their friends. This would be a social game that people would play as much to compare their scores against their friends as for the challenge.

Mobile Oven would be an app that allows the user to control their oven and stove top from a distance. If a person is nervous that they left a burner on, they could check the app and either be sure they didn’t or turn it off right from where they are. They could also use the app to have the oven preheat when they know they are coming home.

Shadow Bot would be a game played using a robot that follows the lines created by shadows. The goal of the game would be to direct the bot to a specified location. I’m not sure if this game would be played cooperatively or competitively. It would most likely be played by children.

This is another game for children. Kids playing in a ball pit would know that there is one special ball, which looks just like the others. Whenever that ball is moved (either directly or by the balls around it) it lets out a chirp. If somebody finds it and is holding it, it makes a victory sound and that kid is the winner. If this were at a Chuck-Cheese type environment, the finder might receive some prize.

These would be a collection of roughly pool ball sized balls that create sound and music based on their proximity to each other and other actions. It would function as a set of toys for adults (such as would be sold on thinkgeek), being to complex (and most likely pricey) for kids, but capable of creating interesting play for adults as they experiment and find what sounds can be made.

The concert locator is for people who get lost at concerts. Each person would have a small device that they could use to tell when they are getting closer to their missing friend. It would comunicate with pulses or light so that hearing it would not be an issue.

 

And here are the projects mapped to their domains:

1- Appliance Game
2- Mobile Oven
3- Shadow Bot
4- Ball Pit Game
5- Sound Balls
6- Concert Locator