Friday, March 30, 2012

New idea

After looking over all our other ideas we found that they could be better, the platform based prisoners dilemma game would be difficult to make and as Daniel said, the prisoners dilemma would be too predictable without anything in game to influence the players decision.

We then thought of a different game idea:

Four players. Each player is either a red, yellow, green or blue rat. Some kids are having a big party, and have now gone outside to play. Inside the house it is a giant mess, with lollies and cupcakes scattered everywhere. It is not often the rats of the house get to feast, but this is their chance.
On one level they may start on the dining room table. There are lots of strawberry, lemon, apple, and blueberry candies scattered all over the table. The red rat will get points for eating strawberry, yellow for lemon, green for apple, and blue for blueberry. However, if a rat eats another rat's candy that isn't their flavour, they won't get points. E.g. if the red rat eats a lemon candy, the yellow rat will miss out on that point, the red rat won't get a point for it either and will simply be spiting the yellow rat. When all the food is eaten in one room/level, the mice will move on to the next room/level.
 
On each "level" or in each room will be one cupcake, worth a lot of points. It is a rule that each rat will share these cupcakes, so one rat should have a cupcake for one level, but they shouldn't eat the cupcake on the next level. There is no stopping one rat from having more than their fair share, and it is up to them if they cooperate with this rule or not. However, if they don't, the other mice may decide to punish them by maybe ganging up and eating their lollies. Anything can happen, and it is up to the players to decide what to do in this game with a fine balance between cooperation and competition.
 
At the end, each rat must have a certain number of points to finish the stage. If they don't, they won't be able to participate in the next stage. Whichever mouse has the most points wins that stage. 

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