Idea Info Name: SubTris Index: Primary Category: Puzzle Submitted: 9/18/2002 Written By: From Old Site Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition Book Highly Recommended !

Face it. We have all been on a Subway. We have all seen crowds. People come in 3 sizes: Those that take up the space of 4 normal sized people, and those that take up the size of one quarter of an average human. Finally, there is the average human that takes up two blocks. Now we have the Sub way, which comes once every 2 minutes, and leaves every 5 seconds. For this game, lets make it even... It comes, waits a minute, then goes, with another one RIGHT behind it (as though it was joined). Likewise, every 30 seconds a bus drops off passengers.

This 2D overhead game would be simple in concept... But here's the challenge: The platform must be under a given amount in order to clear a round. When a subway comes, there are people that want to get off, thus you have no control over (they just beline for the exit, so don't block them). The fat people are slower, and skinney people are easily sickened.

On that thought, there are 5 states people can enter:

1-Alive and well : These are people you can move, with no problems.

2-Sick : They can barf on other people, and cause them to become...

3-Unconscience : They cannot be moved until they wake up.

4-Insane Murderers : They can kill people, causing them to be immobile, and block the way for other passengers.

5-Dead : They are like the Unconscience, but don't wake up. Paramedics tend to arrive, and cannot be controlled. Paramedics can cost points, and dead people make pasengers sick.

As you can tell, this is a completly different twist on Tetris, and "Subtris" is not quite appropriate, but it's a working title. Hope someone picks it up!

(Transferred from the old Game Discovery website)
Submitted in 2000 by

Derek McCabe
dmccabe@techie.com