Brainstorming Ideas from Friday 1 Feb.

So the whole group started brainstorming some ideas branching off from the original concept of a colony shipwreck on an alien planet (a basic description).

Alien planet ideas:-

The alien plants on the planet have adapted to its empty environment by making the land look habitable to other species (i.e humans or other lifeforms) hence how the colony thought this planet would make a good place to colonise. but once the plants have lured lifeforms on to its surface, they become vicious carnivorous killers. the planet seems almost impossible to escape, due to a thick smog/fog floating high in the atmosphere(just thought of this when i was typing give me your thoughts guys?)

We then thought of unrelated ideas, concepts for a different game?

-Colourblind game? ( http://io9.com/5867406/what-do-colorblind-people-see )
This is an interesting article explaining the different types of colourblindness and shws pictures of what those people would see.

From what I gathered when we were talking and thinking more about it now, we thought the idea of a colourblind person perspective would be interesting and i htink this concept might work wel as a puzzle type game because the player would have to think about things from a colourblind perspective? (toop maybe you can elaborate on what you were thinking because I don't have anything written down really for colourblind?)

Schizophrenia Character Perspective: -

I thought schizophrenia would be interesting s mental illness is something a lot of people never really understand and like emotional things you never understand until you experience it. 

Some (I'm assuming) medical students and mental health doctors have already worked on auditory projects and someone even tried to recreate the effects of schizophrenia visually as well as audibly using a game second life. I think creating a game were you character is schizophrenic but you aren't aware until the end of the experience would be interesting. having people talking to you as a schizophrenic would hear it and seeing people who aren't there and much like the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' you have to try and think about who you are talking to do they seem real is what they are saying making sense to you and there are also normal people talking to you, but these voices are trying to convince you that somethings not right. 

Hallucinogenic Alien Plants

then we moved on from schizophrenia back to our alien concept and thought what if the plants didnt kill you but instead caused you to hallucinate and you had a choice between trying to complete missions starving or keeping your health up by eating these plants but having to complete a mission with distracting hallucinations .

Give me you thoughts on these concepts everyone, and of course add to this post or make a new post if you have anymore ideas of your own? :D

Cathleen