When thinking of game ideas, it helps to think about player actions (verbs): Advocate, Argue, Flirt, Rate, Give, Read Comment, Greet, Recommend, Harass, Help, Join, Like, etc. And remember, "We are not the mountain, we are the sherpa"

This game is on hold until we have a better higher-level solution for specifying schematic logic.

We are considering porting it to HTML.

• We have all the art.
• We know the design well enough.
• We have existing content.json files for it.

• A lot of the icons are SWFs, would need to be converted to SVGs or PNGs
• At its core, it's just a multiple choice test — not very "game"-y

This game had promise. But we didn't have time to work through a few design issues during the Cement project.

We have an existing 2-player variant that probably doesn't need to be ported to HTML just yet.

There was also some work done on a 1-player variant. That might be worth porting. The game doesn't have much in the way of dynamics, though.

For games ideas that are just quick thoughts or wildly speculative, throw them into the list below.

Follow an arrow through each path of a circuit. It stops at various points, and talks about what's happening

Given a named circuit, set up certain highlighted valves so that the circuit is correct. Easy/medium/hard

Drive a flow arrow down a circuit

The name says it all!

Given a circuit, with some highlighted valves that can be configured, try to arrange them in a way that will damage stuff (can have multiple win conditions)

Put these steps in order

Remove the thing that doesn't belong

Watch "me" (computer) do it, then you do it

The system presents steps one by one, and you have to stop it and correct it when it gets a step wrong (make sure the first few are always correct, so user is given context)

Interactive story, where things get worse and worse. whenever something breaks, you have to pick the correct steps to take. Basically, the Filter Press game.

Select the circuits that: are washed out at the end of a job; are under high pressure; risk freezing; (for choices, show both the list of names and schematic views together, and make both selectable)

time vs money

Drag component graphics to machine graphic, then connect hoses. Beside, it shows schematic assembling.

The player could produce a physical list/record (like a cheat sheet for a test) using their own knowledge based on their own equipment.

Using your smartphone, take a picture of a (cylinder/valve/etc) on your machine. Drag the blue dot onto the rod end, and the green dot into the blind end.

This gets submitted for marking, we mark it, and then when they log in next they see the result.

The novel ideas here are:

• Manually marking their assignments. This makes it easier to do cool assignments that require a bit of human intelligence to assess. We can do this because our audience is small — 1000 active users doesn't mean much marking. We can gradually ramp up or down the number of manually-marked activities to balance our workload.
• Using their phones to let them interact with their own equipment for credit. Mobile cool-factor + real life cool-factor.
• Asynchronous activities — they don't get a result immediately. This opens up the possibility for challenges/activities/projects that they work on iteratively across many sessions.

Learners submit questions. If they submit a good one, we give them points. If they submit a great one that we don't have in quizzer yet, we get to use it (and give them lots of points).

Correctly connect all of the hoses between the given valve ports on the grader (a game we have talked about and conceived in the past).

User can click on pieces of a scene to indicate which components have a problem. When they click, there is a multiple choice drop down asking them what they'd like to report/fix, etc. Example - several drawings of hoses that have been installed incorrectly, along with hoses that are fine. All hoses are clickable. User could click on a particularly long hose, for example, and then choose, "too long - replace with a shorter hose" from the multiple choice menu. Not sure how scoring/assessment should work - do they find out immediately if they were right? Do they have a counter at the top - 4 problems to go?