There are random rivers on the map. It’s easy to randomly generate them (e.g. random walks) from one edge of the screen to the other.
All players start on a river and simply “follow it” automatically.
You float down its length, and then back the other way again.
When you press your button, you build something in that river. (Castle? Boat? Dam?) It simply appears on the grid cell where you are right now.
This can be a …
- RESOURCE GATHERING game. You try to place buildings strategically to cover the right areas + pick up individual resources yourself.
- FIGHTING GAME. Place castles/defenses at the right times to hit the other players (and defend yourself)
- SPORTS GAME. You’re throwing/kicking a ball left and right while simply being stuck to your path.
- Maybe everyone has TWO totems whenever you press the button, you place one of them. (Next time you press, you place the other, and so it alternates.)
- LANDSCAPING GAME. Somehow, you can divert the rivers or start new ones yourself.
- That could be kind of cool. A long press of your button pops you “out of the river” so you can walk around on land, and as soon as you return to the river, the path that you walked becomes a new river.