Here is how we decided our game: Step 1: Talk about the theme for hours and come up with a few to choose from. Step 2: Re-meet to choose one from those. Step 3: Someone suggests something ENTIRELY different. Step 4: Accept that one in a heartbeat.

I can't even.

So far we've trashed a casual game where you just descend down a hall with a rope and you have to evade monsters and find treasure on the sides of the hole. a turn-based game where you explore a tiled area, trying to avoid monsters and digging out stuff a tile-based tactical combat game where you go deeper in... space? hell? earth?

Now we are digging and building stuff. Possibly space dwarves. Here are some of the visualizations of the ideas: (made on Inkarnate)