Here are a list of other games that we might compare to our own

Non-Virus Games

Falling Sand Game
http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/
This is so cool. I've been running this "game" for 4 days. It's basically a toy with no goals. Essentially someone coded a particle effects generation where you can paint onto the screen walls, water, sand and see how they interact. Then there is this organism called a Namekuji that feeds on all this stuff. Just don't feed it salt!

Bang! Howdy.
http://www.banghowdy.com/
By the creators of Puzzle pirates. This is a turn-based strategy game. I'm playing it now. If it's like it's predecessor the mini-games contribute to the main game. A similar idea to our own. The saloon might have mini-games.


Sim City 4
http://simcity.ea.com/
Review: Great interface tools. Acts of God features.
Can be confusing because so many things are happening at once. Has one overarching implicit goal. It is unspoken. Nothing is concrete. In the expansion named Rush hour, you get explicit goals in the form of mini-games.

Food Force
United Nations game where you deliver food to remote place, drive a truck, fly a helicopter.
http://www.food-force.com/
Review: Nice looking game. Uses a mini-game approach too. No sim. Similar to our driving game concept.


Black and White 2
Has a really clean interface. The toolbar hides away. On the toolbar you have tools to control pet and access your objectives. On screen at all times is your main objective. Has a really hefty tutorial where you get up to speed quickly where you see these in game videos that show you what to do. Has mini-games that you complete. Includes optional objectives like (click on all the tip signs) The creature characters are not hard coded into the game. It is an example of how the game can be extensible.

Reccomendations:
I like their film strip view of missions. It would be cool if you got a short animation. They don't distinguish the optional ones from the required which I think can be improved upon. I don't see how they could show a pre-requisite nature to their design.


Myst IV
Must read the journals within the game. Find yourself going back to the library and reading those books in order to succeed. Completely exploratory. It's a linear game in that one decision is a pre-requisite to another yet the player is constantly exploring the terrain to discover which direction is the right one by touching objects. Goals are given by characters talking to you. This game you can't go back and redo a mission. You must save your game state.

Great powerpoint on the history of simulations http://gamepipe.usc.edu/docs/StrategyGames.pdf

Virus Games

Outbreak at Water'sEdge
Discover the source of the outbreak that has hit the small community of Watersedge
http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/


Virus Prototypes and Pandemic games for the Navy
Contact: Russell Shilling, NRL
Game: model ship board dissease spread, you cant stop it on a ship
Has a project modelling a flu outbreak on a Navy ship.
Motivation: 25% of the military caught the flu that's 1 million soldiers, mirrored population numbers, navy may have been 40% infected. 57,460 died of the flu, war depart lost 8 million days among men


Outbreak by Trend Micro
Genre: Strategy(?)
Save the network from attack.
http://media.trendmicro.com/product/nvw/index.html

Outbreak
Turb-based game between 2-4 players. To replicate your own virus cells and mutate those of your opponent(s) so that you end up with the most virus cells left at the end of the game.

http://www.goldtoken.com/games/play?rules=Outbreak


Save Turkeys!
Save the turkeys from an avian flu infection. A student flash game.
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/discoverengineering/game.asp



Virus2 Game
Grow the virus to infect all blocks. Use the mouse button to select from the colored blocks at the bottom of the screen. The virus will grow to infect any blocks next to the blocks of the virus that have the selected color. Grow the virus in the given number of moves or the game is over.
http://www.arcadetown.com/virus2/index.asp


Virus Game
Puzzle game to stop the spread of a virus
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/57677

Disinfect the Core
You control the anti-virus balm program.Rotate green discs to destroy red discs.
http://www.thejab.com/newsite/balm.html
Review: Interesting puzzle. I wanted to figure it out. Hard to beat the computer. Might be fun against two players. Feels like Othello.

Fighting Back: The immunue system's battle against disease
Keep this body healthy against mumps virus.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aids/immunewave.html
Review: Horrible controls. They have placed educational materials in the help section.

Virus Game Project
An AI project using java to create a two-player game.
http://www.generation5.org/content/2000/virus.asp
Review: Has useful code for creating influence maps. Also introduces the concept of viruses jumping.

Virus Game - Do you have the apple?
Multiplayer non, video game. 5 people have the virus and must answer no to the question. People ask each other if they have the apple.
http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:913436113-29539.txt
Very cute: It would be interesting to see how people maximize their interests and how they communicate.

Virus (Alter Life 2)
http://www.tamestorm.com/games/al/index.html
After unsuccessful experiment of the military AI control has been lost. To obviate the results there has been determined to annihilate AI with viruses. Nevertheless, endless attempts have failed. AI has learned to take control of viruses and in that way has become increasingly mightier. Nothing has been left but to create a virus, a man will take under his control. Your aim is to resist AI by means of viruses. You will have to stand against AI almost on 30 levels. By way of constantly changing strategy and tactics you will pursue the single aim - to resist AI.
Review: An RTS game about computer viruses. I did not download.

MIT Virus Game
Genre: Augmented Reality
A participatory game through PDAs to teach people about viruses.
http://education.mit.edu/pda/ivirus.htm
Review: They use variables we might want to mirror:

• Patient 0 - determines if the player starts with the virus
  • Gets Sick - determines if patient 0 every shows "SICK"
• Multiple Meetings - allows players to meet other players more than once
• Immune - determines if the player is immune to the virus
  • Immune Carriers - allows immune people to pass the virus along to others
• Incubation Time - how long on average it takes from getting the virus to showing sick
  • Variation - how much (random) extra time it could take before showing sick
  • PO Additional Time - how many extra seconds it takes for Patient 0 to get sick
• % transmit virus - the probability of passing the virus from an infected person to a healthy person
• Recover time - time it takes to recover from being sick (0 means there is no recovery)
  • Immune after recovery- if people recover determines if they are immune afterwards
• Game mode - which round the game is in

Attack of the Killer Virus
Genre: Action, Shooter
A mobile phone game that lets you shoot viruses using your cameraphone.
http://www.midlet-review.com/index?content=review&id=268&rel=symbian
Review: Pretty innovative. It would be cool if the game had an offline component like this.


Virus
Genre: Action
Use the mouse to guide a computer virus around moving obstacles and walls.
http://www.pepere.org/flash-development_1_3x/flash-game-virus_u_9.html
Review: Annoying, but maybe inspire the hand washing game I was thinking about.

Virus Puzzle by Vibration13
Genre: Puzzle
http://www.vibration13.com/virus/
Review: I like the opening computer screen in which you are moving around the screen trying to click on stuff. It was funny twist on perspective. We could do some thing like this with the human body as the host for a virus. Where you can use an xray to see virus infections if such a thing were possible. The game was so weird. You were given hints and had to figure out clues to break the virus.


Virus: The Game (1997)
Genre: RTS, Shooter
Hunt through your file system destroying virus.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/virusthegame/index.html
Review: Not sure what to think of this. The innovation here might be they tried to integrate your real life "your data" with the game. Not a bad concept.


Infect. Evolve. Repeat.
Infect red blood cells to spawn more viruses, evolve to spread faster, become immune and the most feared virus ever.
http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-Infect-Evolve-Repeat-1897.htm
Review: Best game so far. Nice graphics. Takes on the perspective of the virus much like our game.