Progress
Progressing well, although there's judging from the screenshot there's not much change from my previous shot. I'm doing the code first as I feel the game is nothing without that. Then I can add bells and whistles later.
Right now I have the basics for a rudimentary random level generation going. For now it'll just be a level generated in chunks of premade configurations. My original plan was true random level generation, but even though I've coded that before I didn't feel like it was important enough to get working this time around. Perhaps in a post-LD version.
I've been thinking of who the protagonist would be, and I've decided on Wilford the Wombat. Here's a quick sketch.

And the game itself with various unfinished elements showing:
