Sunday, March 7, 2010

Brainstorming Ala Joe

I suppose our game need not be enormous. It would be good to have something we could actually demonstrate in the lecture hall (lecture small room, morelike). How about...some kind of zombie game? Olol cliche.


  • A SMALL GROUP stands vigilant in a corner of the room. They wear some kind of ITEM OF CLOTHING.
  • A LARGE GROUP, the larger the better, dominate the rest of the room. Their feet are tied together so that they cannot run, merely shuffle awkwardly. Their hands are also tied (or held behind their backs), and therefore useless. They wear DEVICES on their FOREHEADS. These DEVICES have a single large BUTTON on the front. They also wear a SECOND ITEM OF CLOTHING with a BUTTON on their CHESTS.
  • The LARGE GROUP staggers awkwardly toward the SMALL GROUP and attempts to lightly headbutt them in such a way as to cause the BUTTON in the assailant's FOREHEAD is pressed. When it is pressed, the ITEM OF CLOTHING worn by the members of the LARGE GROUP administers a small ELECTRIC SHOCK to the recipient of the headbutt.
  • The SMALL GROUP attempts to evade headbutts and dispatch each "zombie" (member of the large group) by pressing the BUTTON ON HIS CHEST. This administers a mild electric shock to the zombie, and the zombie is removed from the game for a period of time.
  • When a person who is not a zombie is zapped, they are incapacitated. Game ends when all persons who are not zombies are incapacitated.

JUST A RANDOM IDEA YO'

4 comments:

  1. I LOVE this idea ha ha, except maybe the buttons can vibrate (or light up or something) instead of electricity into the heads and cheasts... may be dangerous. It kind of reminds me of cops and robbers... for grown ups =D

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  2. While I see the fun side of electric shocks, I feel I should restate the dangers of this. The safety of an electric shock is calculated according to a person's build (what will just shock a tall person may seriously hurt a smaller person), which therefore would require individual, customised settings that ought to be decided by a medical professional (unless you're the police, in which case, indiscrimination is apparently fine and dandy). Electric shocks can also affect people with electronic devices (such as pacemakers) and body modifications like piercings or other internal metallic pieces that can work as conduits.
    Electric shocks do count as "cruel and unusual" by some standards, and that's not how you market a game (unless for the BDSM community).
    However, I'm all up for zombies.

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  3. RUN!! THE POLICE!!

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