First things first: Despite working on my own, I’m doing the Jam, not the Compo. I’d just much rather make use of all the nice stuff one can find on OpenGameArt than spend hours coming up with my own shoddy placeholders. I might still compose my own music, since I like to think I’m pretty decent at that, but I’ll leave that until last and only do it if I have enough time.

Also, I already have an idea, and a descriptive title for it: Telepath Speed Chess. You can probably guess that this means each chess player has ten seconds to move. The interesting part is going to be coding an AI that thinks ‘slowly’ to put the human player on a fair footing; Telepath refers to the fact that the game will display insights into the AI’s thought process.

I’m not sure that was the clearest of descriptions, but you’ll see soon enough. I’m also not sure if this game will be all that fun, but well, I won’t know until I try it. Time to get to work!