The Game What I Haven’t Yet Wrote

onside report by Dave Boundy

Finding ourselves with time to spare at the October games weekend(as a game had been rescheduled), I organised an exercise to say which one game we would each like to develop or have developed that was entirely new, with no previous work on the topic. My intention was then to take one of the suggestions and take the first steps in game design.

I the event, the topic we chose to develop had little support for the development. However, generating game ideas started slow but soon accelerated in a CLWG-esque fashion. So much so, and the enthusiasm became so great that I was forced to relax the “just one game” rule and the session produced a spin-off which gave the same tasks to chatGPT. This latter development will be written up by Jim and could, by some, prove that an AI has superior intellect to the combined brains of CLWG.

The list of games was:

• WW1 German colonial possessions in the Pacific
• Mahabarat (Indian gods and super-powers)
• Cold war superheroes
• 1940 governments in exile
• Battle of Lewisham 13/8/77
• Evacuating the Polish armoured division 1939
• Dieppe 1942
• Battle of Lepanto
• A game involving an open-ended tech tree
• Algorithm wars
• The 1^st meeting of a Reform cabinet – committee game

My challenge to you, gentle reader, is to put names to games: who proposed which games.