I had extreme troubles with my highscore server and/or the Flash sandbox lately. Spent hours to fix it, without success. Now that I rebooted my PC, everything runs smoothly. Let’s hope I don’t encounter this during the competition, or else I’m going to lose a lot of time… I probably will skip anything internet related – apart from uploading my files.

Speaking of time – LD 27 will start at 3 AM my timezone. I guess I’ll just go to bed before midnight (preferably), and sleep my 8 hours. I’ll get up early aswell, if I manage to get up in the morning without tossing the alarm out of my window.

On a positive sidenote, I don’t expect the website to be as overloaded as it’s been predicted to be when the 48h countdown starts.

As far as the topics are concerned, I totally hope it to be one of the following:

• Alchemy [Whenever I play a game from the TES series, it’s what I try to level up first. Buy cheap, sell high, gain levels :P]
• Evil vs Evil [Having the player control the good guys is standard. Having the player control the bad guys to fight the good is rare, even if there are a few exceptions like Evil Genius or Dungeon Keeper. Fighting Evil with more Evil sounds like fun.]
• Parallel Worlds [This seems to fit perfectly to some puzzle themed game. Maybe a bit like Metroid Prime: Echoes. Connected, yet different. And sci-fi.]
• Replication [They already are too many. There will be more. And more. And more. Yeah, that’s about it.]
• Space [Spaaaaaaceee!]
• Surveillance [Cameras, traps, good cops, bad cops, worse cops, … and a puppeteer controlling it all.]
• You must leave it behind [Moral dilemmas ahead. Whyyyyy? *tear runs down the cheek* Okay, who’s been cutting onions?]

There are a few other interesting topics, but I believe that Survival is waaay overused lately, and strange power-ups is a bit limiting, imo…

Good luck everyone, I guess I’m out for today!