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Potential Game Directions
Direction 1 – Super Mario Party Inspired
- All players travel together, on a tandem bicycle, and they all travel through the phases of Stanford.
- The game will be collaborative but also have individual competition – they each take turns rolling dice and move the bicycle to advance along the physical game board, and the spot they land on is a Stanford location that has them complete a special task related to the location
- For instance, they have to pull a trivia card when they reach Treehouse, answer a truth or dare question when they reach their freshman dorm, or play a “minigame” against another player (ex. Make up a dish they would serve at Stern and everyone else judges or compete to guess the song that is playing at Frost), etc.
- The board game is broken up into sections: the first part is freshman year, the second part is sophomore year, and so on. At the end of every year, they have to play a 4-player game. For example, at the end of freshman year, the big challenge is figuring out what your major is, so the game could be something like trying to guess the major based off of major stereotypes or answering a personality quiz and being assigned a major for the rest of the game or some Quiplash-esque game.
Direction 2 – Episode Inspired
- There is a set narrative of a student going through their years at Stanford and encountering + overcoming various challenges related to school, life, love, career, friendship, etc.
- Would be completely digital
- Episode-inspired with being able to choose your own path and make your own decision at every crossroads (ex. Which major you are, which new friend you’ll talk to, etc.)
Direction 3 – Time Capsule / Photo Roulette / We’re Not Really Strangers
- Physical game board – Players take turns rolling and moving along the board (one lap = 1 year at Stanford).
- Each space is a different location on campus
- When you land on a space, it either is a photo roulette space or memory space
- AI-powered memory questions that dynamically change based on the player’s current spot (e.g., “You’re at your old dorm. What did you love – and hate – about it?” or “when’s the last time you flaked a plan and why?”).
- Photo Roulette spaces pulls a random photo from each player’s camera roll from the location you land on – you either have to tell the story behind the photo or maybe it can be like actual photo roulette where you have to guess which photo belongs to who.
