Category: Game Ideas

Top two ideas, each in only one sentence

A Game About Colors, More or Less is a deduction game where players compare subtle color differences and guess which card shows more or less of a chosen color.

Reactor 21 is a cooperative game where two players work together to stabilize unstable reactors by managing cards, preventing meltdowns, and keeping the system balanced.

Here are my five game ideas that revolve around the idea of collecting:

Red Flag Rally is a team party game where players collect “red flag” personality traits from fictional characters and work together to decide whose imaginary date is the least disastrous.

After Hours Heist is a collaborative strategy game where players collect tools and inside intel to pull off a late-night break-in, making risky choices that raise tension but require the whole group to commit.

Secret Signals is a social deduction game where players collect coded clue cards and have to share information in subtle, slightly flirty ways to reveal who in the group is actually on their team.

Flirt & Fumble is a cooperative chaos game where players collect “effort points” by attempting mildly awkward or bold social challenges written on cards the group draws together.

Moonlit Market is a mysterious team game where players collect forbidden items from a nighttime bazaar and must negotiate with strange NPCs and each other while keeping certain temptations in check.

5 game ideas that involve collaboration use the following formate : [Game name] is a [category of] game in which [the players or their avatars] [do or compete or collaborate for some goal] by [using tools the game provides them]

Prism Teamwork is a cooperative board game in which players work together to fix broken colors by using color tiles to match and complete patterns on the table.

Color Detectives is a team guessing game in which players try to figure out which color is missing or out of place by using clue cards and talking it out together.

Rainbow Builders is a collaborative building game in which players work as a team to create a big rainbow by placing colored blocks or cards in the right order.

Shade Garden is a shared strategy game in which players take care of a garden that changes colors and help each other mix the right shades using simple color-mixing cards.

Color Path Adventure is a cooperative path game in which players try to travel across a map by matching colors and using special color cards to help teammates move forward.

(apologies for posting this so late – better late than never I guess)

1. Set amount of cards based on the number of players. To begin you take turns picking all the cards one at a time (strategy/psychology of the game in paying attention to the cards others choose) There’s also a money pile. Then based on what cards you took, you take action against each other and take whatever money you get from what happened. You do this three times and whoever has the most money wins.
2. Building the perfect music company – trying to collect the most “talented” artists – you start with base characters and throughout the game build up their strengths (and sometimes weaknesses) to create the most talented group or company of musicians/singers
3. Society kind of thing where you build your army for world dominance or just your quiet little villages – so like amassing funds, resources, people, homes, etc etc
4. Collecting design pieces/tiles that you must try to replicate a design but you are picking up pieces every round and can lose certain pieces that don’t allow you to complete the design so it’s a sort of race to complete and gather correct pieces fastest
5. Hidden Objectives kind of game – there’s something you have to complete but noone knows so you gotta secretly work toward a goal of sorts.

languages are a hobby of mine and any “gaming” i usually do by myself has to do with learning languages – i wanted to be able to incorporate this into some of my games in this class since I enjoy them so much and would love to share with others

1. Traditional Matching Game but with different languages – there are two cards in square of like 100 cards with the same interpretation of the two languages and several players try to remember what they mean and match them and get most matches

2. like TacoCatGoatCheesePizza and War combined but different greetings in languages – each player has a hand of cards and when they match you must shout that greeting and whoever has the closest pronunciation to what it actually means gets that round (have google translate at the ready)

3. Accent game – very simple trying to guess languages by sound – more collaborative with less “winning” just having a good time

4. National Market/Menu Game – each player has a menu/list they must complete by drawing ingredient cards BUT CATCH they’re not in english – there’s also tokens and event cards mixed in to spice it up – you accumulate a hand as you play and place ingredients that match to your menu/list and finish by completing it first and have money and stuff. Each list though is a different language/nationality and you must complete it in that language. So sort of go fish/bartering sort of game

5. For people who already know a little bit of a language, there are different language stacks that basically work as vocab review so obviously is a very niche game since you’d have to have a rudimentary understanding of a language… as many players as possible, single players to collective playing, racing to point out the words fastest.

[Game name] is a [category of] game in which [the players or their avatars] [do or compete or collaborate for some goal] by [using tools the game provides them].

“Scrapworld” is a board game in which players act as robots that compete to be the only settlement standing using the scrap they collect in the wasteland.

“Ghostly Gather” is a board game in which a paranormal investigator must collect as many haunted items possible, and escape, before being haunted, using the tools in their arsenal and the items they collect.

“Shuffled” is a memory-based card game in which players compete to build the largest deck of cards by memorizing and matching cards.

“Sheltered” is a card game in which survivors in a zombie apocalypse must collaborate to fortify their base and survive the waves of zombie attacks by using the items they collect.

“Quads” is a card game where players compete to have the highest poker hand by collecting cards and bluffing other players.

Madison Hurst

[Game name] is a [category of] game in which [the players or their avatars] [do or compete or collaborate for some goal] by [using tools the game provides them].

Taste Test is a card game in which players have to collect unique ingredients or food to make (various ingredients hold different values), and they have to decipher whether or not that ingredients is cursed/poisoned by other opponents.

The Alleyway Pharmacy is a card game in which the players are drug dealers competing against other drug dealers where they have to collect various drugs to resell. The kick to it is, the drug dealers have to make sure whether the drugs they collected are real and not candy. If they are caught using candy (x amount of times) then they will go to jail (lose).

Recycle Go! Is a card game in which players are collecting and sorting what trash is recycled properly and efficiently. They are to sort plastic, trash, glass, etc and the faster player to do so wins.

Blink and Collect is a card game in which the player has a set amount of time to look at a card that is a picture filled with random junk/objects that contain various things that could potentially earn them points. They have to remember as much as they can from that card to pick cards that gives them points (they saw a chair in the picture, so they would pick up a chair card that is 1 point).

The attic is a memory/collection game in which players are going through their attic while flipping tiles that match the items they found. They have to avoid different setbacks (mice) that affect your collections of matches.

Theme: Chakras 

1. Chakra Crusade- This is a collecting card game where the goal is to achieve balance by gathering chakra sets. Each player must collect five cards of each chakra color to reach total harmony. The first player to complete all chakra sets wins.To add strategy and interaction, there are action cards that can alter other players’ progress. For example, an action card might block a chakra, steal one from an opponent, or temporarily disrupt their balance. This creates both competition and tension as players race to complete their chakra collections while managing obstacles from others.
2. Balance- This is a collaborative game, where all players must help the board reach total balance, by aligning all their chakras. During the game, players take turns taking actions and drawing cards that will either help them align the chakras or cause problems that alter their progress. Players win whenever all the chakras are aligned, or if the deck runs out and the players do not align all chakras then they lose. 
3. Spiritual Journey is a dice and movement game where players travel along a path toward the Crown Chakra, collecting chakra tokens along the way. Each turn, players roll dice to move forward, landing on spaces that present different outcomes such as challenges, setbacks, or energy boosts. When a player successfully overcomes a challenge or lands on an energy space, they earn a chakra token that represents balance in that area. The goal is to collect all seven chakra tokens before reaching the Crown Chakra. The first player to arrive at the Crown Chakra with all their chakra tokens wins the game, completing their spiritual journey to harmony and enlightenment. 
4. Chakra Crash is a competitive head-to-head game where players begin fully enlightened, with all their chakras aligned. The goal is to maintain your own balance while disrupting other players’ chakras using action cards. Players take turns playing cards with abilities such as “Meditate to be safe from attacks until your next turn” or “Use Heart Chakra to heal a lost chakra.” Once players are out of chakras they are out of the game, and whoever is left with whatever chakras they still have, wins the game. 

Chakra-enga- this game is a version of jenga, and is a collaborative game, rules are the same as regular jenga. But there are special blocks with chakra labels on them and all players must gather all the chakra blocks to win without making the tower fall, but if it falls players lose.