I've done nothing but play games and goof off for months so totally not ready for this. Going to go back to using my old reliable Max for art. I don't really feel like spending $30 on maya when I'm not heavily doing art for something. Probably Unity / Visual Studio for codery, Bosca for music.

There's some good themes in there. Floating Islands reminds me of my october challenge game a few years ago I put on xbox live indies (sky islands). Limited Space could be cool for a galactic empires kind of thing, Tiny Machines would be awesome as nanotechnology is basically magic. Lots of limitations-as-a-theme this time, just hoping they don't win. We always get tons of samey games when they do.

BTW remember the theme a few compos back Ancient Technology? The best commercial game I've found that fits that theme is Torment tides of numenara. I played the hell out of it. I think the setting is earth a billion years in the future and heavily re-engineered into a pangea style continent. Plate tectonics either ceased by then or they were engineered to stop because there's millions of years of tech laying around in the dirt from dozens of dead civilizations. Of course few people know how to use any of it, and lots of it is dangerous.

Good luck Ludarific Darendinias and Darendors!