5 Collaborative Game Ideas

Rees Edwards

1. Blind Help is a Strategy Game in which One player is blindfolded. This player then draws a card from the deck, and on the card is a detailed picture of something. He or she then must show this card to the rest of the non-blindfolded players in the match. They then will shout out one word descriptors of what is on the card. The blindfolded player then must use these hints to come up with the correct answer in three tries. Whoever gave the winning hint gets a point as well as the blindfolded player if they get it correct too.
2. Kill the Boss is a team based fantasy fighting game, in which a group of players each pick an avatar based on the player pieces they choose. Each player piece has their own abilities. In the center of the board there is the boss. All the players must team up to defeat the boss, but there could still be some betrayal. The boss has a deck of cards as well as the players (2 decks). The players can pull specialty moves or choose to take the loot associated with that power if that said power doesn’t retain to their player’s abilities. There are 4 different abilities: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. If one gains enough loot, They can buy power enhancements, which are unlock-able on most cards of the deck for those with enough loot. If someone gets enough enhanced abilities, they can then strike at other players and choose whether or not to kill or join the boss.
3. Start Up is a team based economic game, in which a group of players start their own start up brand based on the cards that they pull. Each person gets fake money, and pulls a card with details about a storefront. It is then up to the players to come up with different ways that they can invest their fake money to keep the store afloat. There will be another deck of cards that determines what they spend their money on or not, however at the end of the day, it is the player’s decisions if they want to make a purchase for their store or not. However, taxes and monthly sales also comes into play with the other deck, and this can cause everyone to either lose and go bankrupt, or win the game by becoming a monopoly
4. Order’s Up is a team based word play game, similar to scrabble. However, every tile is an ingredient. Each player gets 7 random ingredients to start the match. There will also include a card deck. When drawn at the beginning of each round, each player must “spell” or “cook up” an order that would fit the cards description of how the food must be. If one cannot complete the order with their ingredients, they either loose that round, or they can choose to continue working for another franchise (another player). Once this is done the new 2 player teams can get 11 ingredients. Whoever makes the most orders (team or teamless) wins.
5. Memory ice burg. This is a memory game in which every player collaborates with their minds to remember what “tools” they left on their ship that has crashed into an ice burg, but still hasn’t sunk. Each tool is a card, but the cards are faced down after being shown in the beginning. If everyone remembers where and what each of the 30 cards is, that was placed down, they are able to repair the ship and sail away. If not, they are stuck on the Ice burg forever and loose. Collectively, each team of players will have 10 tries total until they are stuck on the Ice Burgh.