My idea for the theme so far:

You are a glowworm, trapped in the bottom of an ant hill and have to escape.

That’s about it…

So here’s what I have so far:

•  Player movement
•  enemy movement (more or less)
•  enemies can detect the player and kinda try to get to him  by moving in his direction
•  enemies can hurt the player
•  level resets on player death
•  2 different enemy types (patrolling and guard)

And this is what it looks like right now:

That’s the player (left) and a guard ant sending raycasts to detect the player.

I spent about 2 hours dicking around trying to get that single sprite rendered where it belongs.

It’s still kinda off, but close enough.

Lessons learned so far:

•  prepare rendering code before the competition starts. (wasted 2 hours)
• don’t play minecraft to relax. (another 3 hours lost)

Tomorrow I’ll be adding some more gameplay mechanics, the actual sprites and animations and then level design.

Then if I have time left, sounds and maybe music.

And then polish, eventually, maybe.

I’m pretty confident that I can get something at least playable done, let’s see how everything works out.