Category: Game Ideas

• Alike an upscaled version of the game cyclone in arcades. (Circle of lights that go around and you must time the button click with the light) With more players and instead of pressing the button when light comes, you must jump off a button that is underneath you. Much like a game of jump rope.
• Each player has a different color button. You get a pattern alike simon says/ bop it and must repeat it as a team. Time slowly goes down while patterns become increasingly more challenging.
• Shuffleboard like game with golf/hockey sticks. There are tiers of the goal. Closer to the middle is better.
• Reaction time game where each player has a button. The game says go and you must be the fastest. But it can also fake go and if a player presses then. They get a penalty.
• Game where each player has a hoop near them. Each person rolls dice to see how many shots they get to take at each other’s hoop. Start at a certain score and the last one knocked out wins.

Thro Fish – Played like “Go Fish” but the players are ~6 feet apart and cards are thrown. Only caught cards are added to the hand, the rest remain in the center pile.

Simple Ball Bounce – Players stand in a circle, six feet apart. Players bounce a bouncy ball to other players who try to catch it. If a player misses a ball, they are out. More balls can be added for extra difficulty.

6ft Laser Tag (AR) – A laser tag system that can be played anywhere, but players cannot shoot other players that are less than six feet away. Could include various game modes.

Infection (AR) – Similar to tag in that one player starts off “Infected” and must try to “Infect” other players. Other players are infected when an infected player is less than six feet away. Infection isn’t instantaneous, rather a progress bar slowly fills and fills faster the closer the two players are to each other. The progress bar would slowly deplete once the two players are far enough apart. Last one standing wins.

Snowless Snowball Fight (AR) – Players have targets attached to them and a set of balls. Players throw the balls at the target’s on the other players to score points.

Target Ball

Players wear vest with led targets, team members must hit opposing team members targets with soft tennis balls/foam balls. When all targets are hit you are out. The team with the last player standing wins. Can be a group game or individual.

Parachute Toss

People pair off into teams and take turns using a parachute to launch a ball into various baskets. Each basket is worth a different amount. First team to reach a certain score wins.

My Spot

Flat target with various divots is placed in the center of all players. As the start signal all players must roll balls simultaneously and try to get their balls to stay within the holes. The holes are shallow enough where players have the ability to knock other people out. Round of play lasts a certain amount of time and the person with the most points wins.

Zombie

Players must stay away from the infected. Players are given some time to hide and the zombie must find them. All players wear a band on their wrist. The band notifies hiders when a zombie is nearby(6ft). If a player and zombie make eye contact while the band is going off then the hider is now infected and becomes a zombie as well. Game ends when time is up or all hiders are found.

Shhh

Players take turns. On the table there are various items. In the center of the table is a machine/sleeping character. Players draw cards that say various different tasks they must complete. Players are given a certain amount of time and must complete as many tasks as possible without going over the sound limit of the machine. The person who completes the most tasks wins.

Mobile Murder Mystery:

A game like Clue or murder mystery parties where there’s a mystery the players race each other to solve.  They each start off with some amount of clues, and at some point during their turn they can ask another player for another clue.  There would be 2 or more players that were imposters of some kind.  When a player asks another player for a clue, only those two players can see the conversation, and all the rest of the game can see is that those two players are discussing (to add to potential paranoia.)

Escape from Haunted House:

A phone based group game that uses exercise and movement as a game mechanic.  All the players are trapped in a haunted house, and must explore it to ultimately find a way to escape.  The way players are able to move spaces is by moving spaces in real life.  The total distance covered between all the players determines how much they can explore the haunted house, and there’s some kind of time limit, so it benefits players to split up over a large area.

Crowd Sourced Story:

A choice-based adventure game, similar to choose your own adventure games.  The players will play through a story making choices to decide what happens in the story.  Each choice will be decided by a player vote, and they will be able to try to persuade others to vote for a certain choice.  Could have two modes: relaxed and competitive, where relaxed simply has a group of players telling a story together, but competitive starts with each player getting a secret goal of bringing the story to another outcome.  Relaxed mode would have no victor but competitive mode would have the winner as the player that successfully makes their outcome happen in the story.

Connect the Path:

An exercise based game utilizing phone GPS (and would only be playable in certain locations.) The game would assign the players a long path in the nearby area to fill out. The path would consist of multiple smaller “tracks”.  A player would complete a track by walking through it, and only one player would be able to complete a track.  The game ends when the full path is complete, and the winner is the player who has completed the most tracks.  A path might be to walk from Yorktown to the Neville Island RMU Sports Center.  Tracks along that path might include from Yorktown to Walmart, from Walmart to RMU entrance, from RMU entrance to Coraopolis, and from Coraopolis to RMU Sports Center. Players cannot feasibly make it from each location to the next in a shortened time frame, so they need to spread out to cover all the paths before the timer runs out.

Garden Growth:

A resource management and building board game.  Each player has their own board representing a garden, with different slots in which to plant things.  (The plants are represented with different colored chips.)  Different plants have different advantages.  One plant might yield a harvest every turn that allows the player to purchase more plants or supplies to tend to plants. Another plant might not offer any harvest, but have a fertilizing effect that causes nearby plants to be healthier or produce faster.  Each turn, the player would have to use a limited amount of actions to tend to their plants.  (At the beginning of the game, it would be easy for a player to tend to all plants in their garden, but by the end, the player would have to prioritize some plants over the others, and if a plant goes without, say water, for a certain amount of turns, that plant would die.) The game would have a finite amount of turns.  At the end, the victory would be calculated by points, awarding different points for features such as amount of healthy plants, money earned, etc.