I watched today the anti-christmas clip from Cinemassacre that exposed the fact that christmas was expanding everywhere, you even have decorations before halloween has arrived, and I had some game ideas.
I already wanted to make a game about halloween fighting back to take their revenge on christmas. My first idea was to have some sort of shopping mall where some halloween characters attacked the christmas decorations and take everything down while shopping for new weapons.
But when I watched the video above, I had a flash when they shown a 4 month calendar page and you could see christmas expand. I thought it could be cool to have a game where you fight on a calendar.
The idea would be that each player would play a popular holiday, probably: valentine, easter, christmas and Halloween. The idea is to expand your territory on the calendar and capture more territories including minor holidays.
My idea would be to be able to play on a real calendar. You could play the game like some sort of chess game where each holiday has special units of their own with special powers. I thought first of using a linear calendar, but the problem, it makes some holidays unaccessible. For example, Easter can hardly attack christmas, it needs to pass through haloween or valentine.
So I thought that Maybe I could use a 4x3 calendar where you can warp on the edges if the month follow each other. The initial placement is perfect because each holiday is 2 month away from each other in all directions if the months are ordered from left to right.
What do you think?
What kind of game would you like to play on a calendar, a chess like, war like, snakes and ladder like game?
The idea of playing on a calendar is actually very print and play friendly. You could actually tear up a real calendar and use it as a board.