Since 2020 was significantly impacted by COVID-19, my first idea for the value-based game is about prevention for the spreading of the coronavirus. The game would be a scrolling shooter game. The main character is a hand sanitizer bottle, and the enemies are coronavirus with Trump's faces. The basic gameplay is that the bottle shoots drops of hand sanitizer to eliminate the ever-spawning coronavirus. There are two power-ups to boost the character. One is the mask, which provides temporary protecting shields. The other one is the vaccine, which acts like a full-screen attack that eliminates all enemy presents.
My second idea is about the hypocrisy of the media. This is something that relates to my own experience. I am a Chinese student. The hostility promoted by the media in the United States has gotten worse and worse since I got here. The news outlets are extremely biased when reporting any matters that relate to China. The game is a trivia game. The game asks questions based on similar events that happened in both China and the United States in recent years. The player needs to choose a definition for the events. For example, the question is “a massive crowd invades the floor of congress causing damage and casualties, would it be: a) a riot; b) freedom fighter”. If the player chooses “a riot”, the game reveals the answer as the incident of Hong Kong protesters violently occupying the Hong Kong congress floor. If the player chooses “freedom fighter,” the answer reveals the Capitol Riots that happened earlier this year. In the game, the player will always get the opposite ideas of what one chooses. The game promotes critical thinking about media consumption.
My third idea promotes a healthy diet. The game is a platformer. There will be many different pickups in the game which directly relate to the main character’s status. For example, chocolate slows down the moving speed of the character and the carrots speed up the character. The status of the character changes as the character picks up different items in the level.