Concept

Smackman is a kind of weird sports game that you play using little gooey koosh balls called Smackmen (as pictured above). They're very bouncy, and they move around by rolling (the eyes and hands float slightly away from the body so that they can see and smack while rolling).

They play something like hockey, except instead of using a puck, their goal is to smack each other into the net.

I was thinking about it, and hockey might not be the most fun. A variation would be where there were holes all around the arena, and both teams could score the other players into those goals. Two possible games:

• Players that get scored aren't allowed back in the arena and the game ends when everyone on the opposing team has been scored.
• Players come back after being scored and the games are timed.

mech0r's comments

• TOTAL MAYHEM
• MMO game
• Each squishy ball represents a player.
• 2-4 teams in a match.
• Players per team are scaled to the amount of people playing.
• There can be traitors (maybe catch a certain item in the field to activate) and the traitors will switch to another team of choice (or perhaps be random)
• Traitors will take on the other team's color but they will get all sparkly, signifying to the other teams that they're traitors. If they smack the traitors into the net they will be given bonus points. Once smacked into the net, the traitor will lose all sparkly-ness.

Possible Ranking System

• The more points a player accumulates, the higher the ranking. Low ranks should result in a dark and dull squishy ball. Top ranks should be bright in color. If on the same team, the low rank squishy ball could be a dark red, while the high rank squishy ball is a bright red or pink. However, smacking a top rank ball into the goal will result in you gaining more points when compared to smacking in a low rank ball.
• Getting a top ranking should be made difficult in order to prevent padding.
• There is no friendly fire. If a player smacks a team member into a goal there will be points deducted.

Advertising

• wade through garbage ads to get to arena
• scrolling ads on arena walls