I talked about doing an idle-esque game to the likes of candy box or a darmk room in my last post, this theme was perfect. In all of those games, in some way, you start with only 1 of something and rapidly expand from there. Both of these games however start with your one “item” already increasing.

This is different. This game is a story of you. You are homeless on the streets and you only have $1 left. Your goal is to become richer than your wildest dreams. The game will obviously go through several stages as your riches gain. My current ideas are that you have three main statistics : hunger, health and happiness. Emptying your hunger bar will cause you to lose health. Damage and fighting ect. will make you lose health. Being hungry will make you unhappy. Being cold will make you unhappy. As your riches grow so do your tastes. At the start eating a scavenged meal will make you happy, but when you have money to afford real food this will no longer make you happy. If you have no happiness you are depressed and will find it hard to accomplish any sort of real work without taking measures to prevent it.

I’m not doing too much planning in advance, I’ll let the game develop naturally as I program. I’ll be using javascript+jquery+whatever else I need in making this. It’ll be a bit of a challenge as I am unfamiliar with these languages, but the lack of need for graphics or sound save me time.