After spending the whole morning brainstorming and writing game ideas I’ve decided to go with the following idea:

A strategy/simulation game with very limited interactions. You have been elected as the new king of a small kingdom and must bring prosperity by making the right decisions. The goal of the game is very simple, reach a population of X (to be announced). The grand issue tough is that no matter what you chose someone in your kingdom will always be unhappy and the bigger your population gets the more difficult it’ll be to keep your citizens happy. Eventually you’ll have to sacrifice your good will in order to reach your goal and win the game. But at what cost? because in the end you’ll have turned into the villain in the eyes of your citizens.

This idea is largely inspired by William Shakespear’s Macbeth.

Here’s the mind map I did while brainstorming:

And here are my other ideas I didn’t choose:

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You’re the evil cube wishing to do XXX upon YYY in order to reach ZZZ.
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Hero has to reach X, you have to prevent him from doing so by using all kinds of obstacles.
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You have to fight the hero who is an increadibely bad and incompetente fighter but you have to let him win in order to receive the applaus from the audience.
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You are a mountain the hero tries to conquer. Prevent him from reaching the top and getting salvation.
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You are the evil temptation in the form of sweets and must jump into the mouth of people who are on a diet.
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You are the god of sins. You get points by leading people to commit sins. The bigger the sin the more points.
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Now time to start coding. Watch it all go down live right here: http://www.twitch.tv/naughtyloose 😀

Tags: journal, you_are_the_king