I will try to make a simpler version of my idea, with fewer stages of evolution. Perhaps only two: fish and dinosaur. When you are a fish, the game will be a kind of shooter, and as a dinosaur it will be a platform game. I have drawn some sprites, of a fish and a couple of enemies, and I am quite happy with the results although I do not consider myself a talented painter. The results seem good enough to be used in a 48 hour game.

Here are some of the sprites I painted:

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For the code I will use Visual C++ 2005, and OpenGL for displaying the graphics.