Patrick Curry’s Thoughts on Game Design

It’s cold in Chicago… might as well stay home and play in the snow…
High Concept:
Snow Day is a sandbox game, but instead of the sandbox being full of sand, it’s full of snow! Your town has been completely snowed in… school’s been cancelled, and the kids are taking over.
Platform:
Next-gen home console
Why it needs to […]

This idea seems so obvious… But I haven’t heard of anything like it yet, so here goes…
High Concept:
Work of Art is the game of fine art. You play as an up and coming artist, trying to break it big into the art world. The problem is you’re dirt poor, have no studio, no […]

If you’re just here for the game ideas, then move along. Otherwise I have some cool news to share…
First off, the game I’m working on at Midway is John Woo’s Stranglehold.
John Woo directed some of the most-classic Hong Kong action films of all time, namely A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard-Boiled. He’s […]

Here’s game idea number seven. I thought I’d try something a little different this time…
High Concept:
Oval Office is a Presidential-Sim. You play as the President of the United States, widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. How you use these powers will be entirely up to you as […]

I was thinking about how we could make gameplay out of some of the new rendering technologies possible on next-gen systems… this is what I came up with.
High Concept:
Freelance Foto is the game of virtual photography. You play as an up and coming freelance photographer in a major metropolitan area. There are lots […]

My slightly less videogame-obsessed friends often ask me to recommend games to them. Unless I’m in the middle of a game I usually don’t have a great answer… so just tell them about the game I played last. So in an effort to head y’all off at the pass, here are some of […]