Wow, I'm overwhelmed by the positive feedback I've received. I knew time was very limited for me over the weekend, I downscoped accordingly and went for a very minimalistic approach, and - if I'm to believe the reviews - succeeded in fitting the theme and making enough of a game to even be addictive! Thanks all for those kind reactions.

Theme Announcement

The theme is announced at 03:00 in the morning here and I was still fast asleep then. At about 09:00 I heard what the theme was and I ... was stumped for ideas. "The more you have ... ?" Obviously, cramming the level full of more enemies would be 'worse', but it's also too easy. Looting a crypt but getting slower as you got more gold? Probably too common a mechanic too.

I decided to approach it from a different angle: how about a resource you needed, and you wanted more of in order to advance, but that also required a certain upkeep. Like something farm-y, cows giving milk for cash but needing to be milked and fed.

Getting busy

Now that the idea was formed, I was faced with several questions about implementing it: - What programming environment to use? - What genre to create? - What advancement? Just more cows, or stuff that makes your life easier eventually?

The first two questions sort of led to the game I ended up making: By using JavaScript I'd be using something I'm familiar with, and it'd allow me to make a clicker game like Paperclip. Since my time was in short supply over the weekend, this genre allowed me to skip sound and go very easy on the graphics, so killing three birds with one stone here.

What went well

• I was able to create pretty much what I wanted to make.
• I finished a game and entered it!
• making something in JavaScript/HTML made it instantly playable for all.

Even Better If

• I had a second asset planned that I didn't get around to create.
• The original release had some bugs.
• I was hooping to use GameMaker Studio 2, but that didn't really fit with this project.

All things considered, I'm very happy with the results so far. Tell me if you are too!