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Okay, but what's the game there?\n\nWell, maybe I should just come up with a game and then force feed it into old tech instead. So what game to make? My friend told me to make a game celebrating my top surgery, so I could always make my fruit ninja clone idea I had. I suppose a samurai cutting off breasts is kind of old tech compared to a skilled surgeon. But I really would like to make something spooky for spooptober.\n\nI also keep thinking about the unofficial elephant bonus theme because all I can think about is making a skeleton elephant (or Skelephant if you will)...\n\nJust asked my non-game dev dad what he thought of the theme and he thought of wagons, horse-drawn water pumps and bronze swords. The water pump sounds a bit complicated for me to understand well enough to gamify, but I could work with elephant-drawn wagon carrying water or something...\n\nSo, Skelephant is a firefighter but because they're dead they no longer have elephant trunk abilities. They still have a job to do (putting out fires in the graveyard village) so they have to manually carry buckets of water to put out the fires. I can try to make it physics-y so there's an actual game to it... maybe skip the wagon and just make the old tech be firefighters -> elephant in general -> spooky elephant with bucket on its back to simplify things. Then player controls only have to be wasd and jump. Water can be balls so that jumping causes them to physics and you would need to have some degree of skill to put out the fire. 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Okay, but what's the game there?\n\nWell, maybe I should just come up with a game and then force feed it into old tech instead. So what game to make? My friend told me to make a game celebrating my top surgery, so I could always make my fruit ninja clone idea I had. I suppose a samurai cutting off breasts is kind of old tech compared to a skilled surgeon. But I really would like to make something spooky for spooptober.\n\nI also keep thinking about the unofficial elephant bonus theme because all I can think about is making a skeleton elephant (or Skelephant if you will)...\n\nJust asked my non-game dev dad what he thought of the theme and he thought of wagons, horse-drawn water pumps and bronze swords. The water pump sounds a bit complicated for me to understand well enough to gamify, but I could work with elephant-drawn wagon carrying water or something...\n\nSo, Skelephant is a firefighter but because they're dead they no longer have elephant trunk abilities. They still have a job to do (putting out fires in the graveyard village) so they have to manually carry buckets of water to put out the fires. I can try to make it physics-y so there's an actual game to it... maybe skip the wagon and just make the old tech be firefighters -> elephant in general -> spooky elephant with bucket on its back to simplify things. Then player controls only have to be wasd and jump. Water can be balls so that jumping causes them to physics and you would need to have some degree of skill to put out the fire. It's maybe not the most fun game, but it IS an idea, and that's all I need to work with, maybe it'll be more fun than it sounds...\n\nI guess up next is working on sprites for the Skelephant!","title":"Old Tech...","wayback_source":{"record":"runs\/20261016T224558.406442Z\/records\/0002.json","object":"objects\/fe3e922686a0244fdfc33380af763caf1a9158c3f5cada34bed10f6a4abf4196","sha256":"fe3e922686a0244fdfc33380af763caf1a9158c3f5cada34bed10f6a4abf4196","response_url":"https:\/\/api.ldjam.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/434923+434929+434928+434927+434926+433437+434911+434925+434888+434922+433226+434921+434920+434919+434914+434918+434915+434907+434917+434916+434912+434913+434906+434908+434909+434910+434896+434905+434903+434904+434892+434901+434898+433030+434893+434880+434895+434890+434891+434889+434886+434887+434885+434884+434883+434881+434879+432863+434878+434877","captured_at":1792190761}}