Monday, December 1, 2008

Ball Pit



Just now though, I had an idea for a casual game today. Refer to the image.

I was thinking that it might be a fun game to have these balls in a basket. The balls have different receptors on them. You have to match up the receptors to get a match.

Kind of basic still, obviously...

you match up the dots by rotating the ball, but when you 'rotate' a ball, other balls around it rotate as well.

Maybe there is a little tube that feeds this.

Maybe this is the liver and it is trying to get rid of contaminants. Hard to tell exactly. You've got to get rid of the contaminants before the liver fills up. As the levels progress, it gets more contaminants, and so matches are more difficult to come by.
Maybe you have to match up more than 1-to-1, maybe you have to make a string of three or more.

Maybe you have to make DNA strands to ward off cancer. It's just a thought for right now.

Any thoughts?

Maybe the balls are sticky... so that when you rotate a ball, the stuff around it rotates as well, so that you have to calculate how to rotate the balls. Maybe only the balls that directly touch your ball are sticky.

maybe these are gears to a machine, and you have to wrap a band around them. The band is sticky to the balls and rotates the balls as its is pulled through the bowl of balls.

Maybe the band gets shorter, or longer with the different levels.