Do It Now: it is time to brainstorm your own idea. Get a potential team together—either in class or a group of friends who are interested in working on a game with you. If you cannot get a group together, do it on your own. As you did in Exercise 6.4, in the blue-sky brainstorm, state an interesting challenge for your game, set up a whiteboard or a sheet of butcher paper, and use the techniques previously discussed to generate 100 ideas related to your challenge in 60 minutes. This might sound like a lot, but if you can keep the energy level up, you can do it!
Challenge: Player experience – The real life stories of parenting…
- Predictable parents (kids play to figure out parent)
- Outsmarting kids (Getting them to do what you want with them thinking it’s their own idea)
- Are you smarter than your kid/parent?
- Hide the Broccoli
- Don’t be late for… (Mario Kart like game)
- Family counseling
- Freaky Friday (Swap)
- Vacation planning together
- The camping trip
- Parking the minivan in tight parking spot
- ‘Mom my ride’
- Grocery shopping
- Adulting for kids (paying bills)
- Where’s my wallet/keys?
- Who takes out the trash?
- Who did this? (The blame game)
- Who cleans the toilets
- Who didn’t lift the seat??
- The school called…
- Who will pick up the dog shit (or how much can I pay you to pick this up?)
- Who will change the diaper and how to work the diaper genie
- Tantrum control
- Feed the baby
- Pick paint colors
- Paint a wall together
- Who put a hole in the wall
- Who drew on the wall
- Who drove into the garbage can
- Why is there a dent in the car?
- Why is the headlight broken on the car
- Where is that smell coming from
- Why is there a hole in the siding
- Who adjusted the lawn mower, it is not level
- Who ran the lawn mower over the garden
- Why is your sisters hair green
- Why is the all the girls hair pink
- What happened to the white clothes they are all pink
- What is this? It’s a bouncy ball that lost its bounce
- Where is the remote?
- Why is the TV in the garage
- Give me your cell phone
- Who are you texting
- Why are the police calling
- Great, my sister is already in the car, I’m not in so much trouble now
- Where did the gas cap go
- Shut the window
- Why does it smell like pot
- Why are all the booze bottles lower than when I left
- Billing teenagers for missing alcohol
- Put the baby to sleep (no ether allowed)
- Building IKEA furniture with missing parts
- Teaching kids to ride a bike
- You must wear this before you go out
- Find the library books
- Get ready for professional family photos
- What can you get your sibling to do
- Mom, I think it’s broken!
- What is clogging the drain?
- Why can’t I have a bath with the dog?
- How did the toilet overflow?
- Feed the dog, but not dog food
- Can you Craigslist this?
- Blanket fort building
- Strategic LEGO placement on the floor
- Removing Sharpie from things like walls, floors, faces…
- Find the lost kid in Disneyland
- Does this have nuts in it (and surviving other allergies)
- Don’t wake the neighbors
- Go apologize to the neighbours
- Why should we apologize?
- Don’t wake the baby
- Don’t let the kids fall asleep on the car ride
- Honey that’s the TV not a canvas
- You don’t use a rock for that: Well what good is a rock then?
- Mom I want a different toy with my kids meal
- The kids are hangry
- I am hangry
- How to set parental controls on Netflix, or how to override them
- Why is my vodka frozen?
- Negotiating Curfews
- Can we have a gross out contest
- Why do I need to shower again? It’s only been 5 days.
- Family movie night.
- What’s at the bottom of the backpack?
- Did you remember your homework
- Things you can do with a helmet
- Why are there ants coming out of your room
- I am going to seal your room off and you can use the window as a door
- What did you leave in your pockets that went through the laundry?
- Is the baby supposed to be eating that? Or the dog?
- What is under the couch?
- Why is the fish floating?
- How many days is it until my birthday again? 364.
- Where is the hamster?
- What can fit up a nose
- Give Personal Space
- Matching socks
- Where did all the screwdrivers go
- Dad, where’s the hammer?” In the shed…..wait why?
- Where is the bedtime stuffy?!?