Saturday, January 17, 2009

Top Secret Totally Revolutionary Socially Conscious Game Project FTW

So I've finally figured out what I'm going to do for my Top Secret Totally Revolutionary Socially Conscious (TSTRSC) game.

Are you ready to have your mind freaking blown?

Drum roll please.....................................................

Community Flash Cards with weekly prizes (actual title pending)

Here's the high level concept
A new "pack" of 40 Flash cards are released every week and players attempt to memorize as many questions and answers as they can. At the end of the week, 20 questions are randomly selected from the pack of the weeks Flash cards and players play a trivia game. The player that is able to answer the most questions correctly in the fastest time will win a prize, hopefully donated by sponsors or fellow players :).

What makes this game a community game is that the pack of flash cards is actually created from questions and answers provided by fellow players because the "entry fee" of playing the weekly trivia game is that you submit a question/answer for the next weeks flash card pack.

Since I want the game to be a have a positive socially conscious angle, I'll have to come up with some guidelines for the questions and answers so that players are encouraged to submit facts that they want other players to also learn.

Ultimately the point of the game is to get players to teach each other about socially conscious issues important to themselves.

Since the game concept is fairly straightforward, I'm thinking of developing the game for multiple platforms including
1) Web - Flash
2) IPhone/IPod Touch
3) G1 Phone on Android OS

Since I'm already using Flash at work, I'll probably create the main game code in Flash and then port it over once I'm done with the initial prototype.

I'm thinking the Flash version should only take about a month. My main concern is the user management system since I'll have to set up a database to keep track of members.

I'll post a more specific design later, but for now I just wanted to do a brain dump to get my ideas down on paper, so to speak.

Look for more in details in the future and please let me know if you have any suggestions for the design and game name since Community Flash Cards doesn't have much zing to it.

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