I’m currently making a Plates of Fate–inspired game. 
If you don’t know how to play a Plates of Fate–type game, everyone gets a plate and random events happen, such as Gravity Change, Rain, Thunderstorm, Expand Plate, Tower Plate, Rain Subspace Tripmines, etc. 
Basically, I need help with ideas for events because my programmer brain can’t think of anything. 
You can just give one idea, or make a list if you want. 
Thank you! 
Volcano, tornado, black hole, tsunami, nuke (if you do nuke i will be kinda sad/mad if you use a default roblox explosion and just make the screen white for a second instead of an actual mushroom cloud) hurricane, uh idk… Anyway thats all my ideas.
Thank you so much for the ideas. I will use them.
A nuke, timer bomb, hot potatos, zombies spawn on a few islands, blizzards, slippery-ice, gusts of wind, and…. idk what else.
Maybe a hot potato that you have to pass to other players before it cooks you?
I alerady had that one. But thank you anyways.
Events that just give players weapons to kill each other, such as sfoth swords and hyperlaser guns.
This’s one of the rare situations, when I’ll say this:
Use AI to get ideas.
And then, filter, change them a bit to make them good.
i alerady tried that and AI ideas is BUNS i asked him to give me an idea of an event and it just said “Plate Run! you have to run of your plate to get a boost!” A BOOST IN WHAT? A BOOST IN YOUR GRADES? anyways ai sucks
You can get better ideas from AI when you tell it about your game design and system in details.
For my game it gave more solid ideas, which I liked after some rework.
Kind of a coincidence how many are making some sort of pof inspired game, but it would be a great learning experience for game development
are we fr saying “use ai” in a game development thread? most useless replies ever, lol
personally i would categorize events into a few different types which can help think of more to flesh each one out:
“plate-changing” events
events which change how your plate looks, reacts, moves, or feels. make it slippery, make it slanted, bigger, smaller, taller, shorter. put fire around it. give it a manned turret? give it walls?
“gear-giving” events
events which give the individual player tools and weapons. gravity coils, guns, lightsabers, etc
“global” events
events which affect all of the plates in a negative, positive, or random way. natural disasters like tsunamis, volcanoes, etc gravity change like you mentioned
“individual” events
similar to gear-giving events but instead they change traits of a random individual player. making them a zombie. making them stronger, etc. gear-giving events could be lumped into this category, too, depending on how you want to do it, but i separated them because i think there would be an abundance of both.
my point here is less about individual event ideas but instead grouping them into categories to help with thinking of more =)