Initial Ideas

With a theme of looking at culturally, scientific or historically significant events in 2013 to 2015, I must choose an event to research in detail and learn every thing about as a cataclysm for ideas to create a game idea not seen before. With the idea being this will help think outside the box and stay away from looking at existing games which is easy and tempting to do. But this will really push ideas out there and hopefully I will come up with a game thats innovative and interesting. I would need to look at what these events have influenced, say in pop culture like books, TV, games and film.
To begin this process I will look at notable events between those years then whittle down my favourites and then write up an essay detailing this event and from there I will go on to create a game inspired from this.

Events I liked the look of in 2013:

Unknown,8/6/12,All About 2012,greatdreams.com

• On March 31st The last day of the last Tzolk'in calendar begins before the end of the current calendar 13th B'ak'tun. This date is possinly more significant than the Mayan calanders famous date December 21, 2012, because both calendar cycles will be complete.

Events I chose from 2014:

Marjorie Haun,05/06/2011,The Turning Point in WWII,technorati.com

• The Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
• FIFA World Cup.
• Winter Olympics.
• Withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan.
• Anniversary of D Day.

Events I chose from 2015:

Tariq Malik,17/07/2011,
NASA Space Craft Enters Orbit
Around Asteroid Vesta,
www.space.com

• NASA's 'Dawn' spacecraft arrives at dwarf planet Ceres.
• Solar Eclipse.
• July 1st Earth, Venus and Jupiter align.
• NASA's 'New Horizons' flys by Pluto and Choron.
• The Rugby World Cup.
• New World Trade Centre Complete. 
• Anniversary of the Battle Of Waterloo.
• 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta.

The best from this list I thought was:

• NASA's 'Dawn' spacecraft arrives at dwarf planet Ceres.

I liked this as not only is there many mediums NASA have influenced but anyone can imagine what they will possibly achieve one day such like which has been shown in films and books etc for a long time. It would be an expansive choice and a fascinating one to research.

• Anniversary of D Day

War is a huge one to research and for this one it'd be the World Wars I would look at and all they've influenced. It'd be an interesting one but thinking ahead at when I have to make a game from it, creating a unique game would be hard.

• New World Trade Centre Complete

This has influenced allot in film and TV and would be an interesting one to research, but perhaps not as expansive as the previous two.