Idea about running upstairs and downstairs (Ziyi Gao)

Hi, here is my first idea of puzzle and stairs. Sorry, I've just learnt how to use the blog. Now I can put some ideas we've already talked about on the Internet.

1. This one is the idea that focuses mostly on the physical effort part of our game design. There are many different ways to get one person tired, and what I thought is to make a racing game to make people not use the elevator and run upstairs and downstairs instead, in a building for at least 10 levels. The question is: how we can make them do that?

2. Competition is one important element for this idea, no matter how weird a game seems, having two sides competing against each other will make the game attractive. With competition, it is possible for us to make human beings do almost anything. So we can have two teams or just two people at first.

3. In order to make the game fun, we will add the puzzle element in it. This is the part where I'm a little bit foggy. The forms of a puzzle can be varied. We can play a game with or without a referee. If we have a referee in it, the job of the referee is to create the puzzle on some certain levels.

Each puzzle contains information leading to the next one; by solving the puzzles or telling the correct order of the levels travelled, the referee will decide which team finished fast enough and correctly.

The puzzle part, for example, can be the hint for the next level. After each time where the player reaches the correct level, he will need to inform the referee in some way or some how the referee can locate the players during the game.

This will require us to think about adding some kind of technology to achieve this. Another of playing it without a referee is to let players set puzzles for each other. To ensure it is a fair game, the referee or players need to calculate and agree that they are running the same distance in the game if they can find out the best order of running the levels.