Several ways to go with this theme (You Are The Villain) popped into my head immediately.<\/p>\n
I liked the idea that the main character isn’t necessarily evil. Maybe he’s only a villain due to perspective. So for now, the premise is that the character is on a long, solo space flight. He’s bored on his space ship, tinkering with designs\/inventions on his computer. He tests them on inhabited planets he passes by. So I guess through some kind of puzzly\/management mechanics you’ll design a virus, bomb, nanomachine or some other sort of trinket, where success is determined by how effective it is at destroying life on a planet. Maybe there will be a timer until you pass the next planet, and you have to finish your design by then.<\/p>\n
I want the player to be able to walk around their ship to collect inspiration from various items they find. And I want them to be able to combine and alter their design in ways that are interesting, and not simply an optimization problem. That’ll be tricky.<\/p>\n
I’m using javascript. And I guess sfxr and photoshop if I have time to do assets. I’ve never made a game in javascript before, and I don’t know the language very well. So I’m learning from these snippets<\/a> from the book Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript<\/a>. I’ve never read the book, but they seem pretty great.<\/p>\n All of this is way too ambitious to do in a weekend considering my skill level. I’ll have to cut back a lot.<\/p>\n \n Tags: design<\/a>, javascript<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 14th, 2012 10:20 pm","title":"Initial design"}