LudumDare42 Theme - Running out of space

Brainstorm

Game Ideas

Interpreting space as a theme

• 3D Space
• Mental Space
• 2D space
• Outer Space
• Inner Space (i.e internal imagination)
• Space game?
• Terrority

Game Ideas

• Stuck in a cave - collapsing -Space game? -Escaping getting crushed by a world that shrinks
• Being in a virtual Brain that has a virus?*

Setting

• In someone’s mind
• In outer space
• In a fictional fantasy world
• In a robots brain*

Nano

Objective

You are a nanobot and you must escape each area of a robots brain as it shuts down due to a virus which has taken over, escape the maze of the robots brain and get to the end.

Game Mechanics

• Player has to move through environments which auto destruct after a variable time limit
• Enemies - viruses that can kill you
• Find your way through maze
• Interact with switches / doors / platforms etc?
• 3rd person / 1st person switch ? * maybe
• Number of areas - 4

Tools to use

• Unreal Engine?*
• Twine
• Superpowers?
• Blender
• GIMP