Mini-Game Concepts

Below are a few conceptual Mini-Games that I (Mike Leeburn) Created for the Educational Game.

Mini-Game Idea 1 : There will be a locked box on a table in the room that the game is set in and on the lock there is a little maze that you must navigate a metal ball through, once you make it to the centre of the maze it will fall through a hole onto the next layer of the maze, the first layer will disappear to reveal the second layer and it will be a different maze, once this is completed it will repeat the process to another layer of maze which will be the last one, when you complete the last maze the lock box will unlock revealing a Clue inside the box. Each layer will feature a harder maze making it feel like the player is achieving something.

This is a really quickly (Badly) Drawn General Idea of how it would work

Mini-Game Idea 2 : The second Mini-game could be having to find random items inside the room and discovering what they are to be used for, an example of this would be finding a wrench that could be used to loosen a certain bolt that would release another item that could be used for something else. It would keep the player on their toes and will make the game last longer than it would without any types of mini-games. This Mini-Game could be used to allow the player to reach up to cupboards by using chairs or boxes and piling them up on top of each other. When the right items are found, combined and used correctly it would reveal another Item/Clue that is important to the story.

Mini-Game Idea 3 : This Idea could be that the player would have to collect a bunch of blocks that will be scattered and they will combine them together to create a puzzle on a wall and once they have gathered all of the blocks and placed them in the correct places it will reveal an image. This image could be of cutlery and vessels and when clicked on it will give a brief history of the objects featured. Once the player has read this set of information they will be allowed to inspect the picture to look for clues where they could find a piece of paper stuck to the corner of the picture which will have an detailed clue on it.