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Periodically over at Game Career Guide they have a guest come in and create a game design challenge.  About a month ago I entered into one of the challenges and I was an honorable mention.  The info on the challenge I entered is below:

The Challenge
Design a one-button first-person shooter game.

Assignment Details
This design challenge comes from Brandon Sheffield of Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com, and his assignment details are extremely minimal.

Design a one-button FPS game. Describe

* the game idea
* the game mechanic
* the platform
* the target audience
* why your game will be addictively fun.

That’s it.

Succinct ideas will be highly favored! Can you describe all this in only a few sentences? Remember, the businessmen and women in the game industry don’t want to read a hundred-page design document. Get to the point.

Sheffield will weigh in on the results. (Hint: Search out his name to find out what kinds of themes and styles he might be into.)

So with my success in this challenge I may very well be entering into some more.

-Mark