Mini Game Scenarios

Mini-game Ideas

• Successfully completing a mini-game can upgrade or improve efficiency of a building or technology.

Medicine

• Mixing/Alchemy/Pharmacy/Herbology
• Repairing an arm/Operating room

Research/Education

• Trick question game (test for literal interpretation?)
• Memory games

Farm/Agriculture

• Farm simulation
• Harvesting game – picking ripe foods (symbolic cue)
• Livestock Breeding / Crossbreeding (like chocobos)

Factory/Industry

• Factory frenzy
• Quality assurance – item inspection
  • Circuit boards / electronics
  • Toys
  • Spaceships
• Assembly Line / Building product

Power Plant

• Solar panel construction (like Tetris)

Leisure

• Theme park
• Carnival games
  • Ring toss
  • Water guns
  • Duck slinger
  • Baseball throw
  • Catching goldfish

Construction/Architecture

• Lego style – replicating things
• Finding flaws in blueprints (similar to quality assurance)
• Making cement
• Terrain (de)formation
• Sims type of house creation

Resource Gathering/Mining

• Puzzle style – like columns
• Breakout
• Picture finding (Where’s Waldo)
• Detecting and collecting asteroids

Repairs

• Tetris type game, carpentry
• Glass crack repair
• Electric repair
  • mess of wires, line up and connect the correct ones

Navigation

• Forced scrolling
  • clear a path through asteroid belt
  • dodging asteroids – like Battletoads, show blinking alert, move left or right
• Mazes
• Sound / sonar

Aliens, etc..

• Defense game (Spaceship Shenanigans)
• Diplomacy

Gravity

• Inside core of colony – physics puzzles to fix gravity
• (use (planetary) gravity in navigation)

Refueling

• Line up the fuel pump with the ship - precision flying
• Pipe organizing