I documented my brainstorming session over on my site; you can read that meandering brain spew here.

Then I got down to coding.  I just have a bit of rendering down, no interactivity or notion of game world yet.  Loosely inspired by a combination of Minesweeper and SpaceChem, I present to you hex-grid cells with channels:

Tags: compo, game, ld29, progress, screenshot