{"author_name":"Snail_Man","cat":"LD #31","comments":[{"author_name":"plump","time":"December 5, 2014 10:22 pm","epoch":1417836120,"text":"Horror type of game? You can actually ‘replace’ graphics with decent, dynamic shadows.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Snail_Man","time":"December 5, 2014 10:26 pm","epoch":1417836360,"text":"I actually think I’ll go with the boss rush idea, add randomized weapons a-la Super Crate Box, and frame it as a retro beat-em-up. I’ll see how it goes.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1417835880,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"24494","p_author":"Snail_Man","p_authorkey":"11050","p_urlkey":"59901","p_title":"\u2026So what will I make?","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1417835880","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"11050","us_name":"Snail_Man","us_username":"snail_man","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"

Short answer: No idea. My first instinct was a sort of huge bossrush game, where you just start in a room, and fight a string of bosses. I’ve still not completely ruled out this idea, but frankly, it just seems a bit pedestrian. Then I thought “What if I made the bosses procedurally generated”, which was a dumb idea, because there’s no good way to make a system that will churn out interesting and fun bosses that are distinct from each other, and even if there was, doing it in two days is not going to work.<\/p>\n

After that, the phrase “You are the room” popped into my head, which is an interesting idea, although I haven’t the faintest idea how the thing would actually play out. I briefly touched upon a tower defense game, but frankly, I’ve always found them pretty boring to play, let alone to make. Just as I’m writing this, I was thinking of some sort of top down car racing game.<\/p>\n

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So in short, no friggin’ idea.<\/p>","time":"December 5th, 2014 10:18 pm","title":"\u2026So what will I make?"}