I had several lame ideas come to me and was stuck so I went to the gym.  Sure enough I came up with something I’d enjoy working on and fits with the theme to some extent.

Basically it’s a Freelancer type game set in an open space of tiny planets.

• Each tiny planet has a dock coming out of it (which will rotate, naturally) that you can dock at and get missions, trade, upgrade your ship, etc.
• You have to watch where you fire your weapons or you can accidentally (or not?) attack a planet and make its people aggressive towards you, perhaps also causing them to send their ships at you.
• You can get trading missions from planets or wait for some planet to hail you to ask for assistance.
• Random encounters with enemy fleets.
• Some areas of the open space will be guarded by tougher baddies that you’ll need upgrades against.
• Bunch of other tiny (lulz) ideas that I won’t bother listing.

This would normally be an ambitious jam project for me but I’m using the theme as an excuse to use very small and low detail art (while still maintaining some style of course).  More time for coding all this crazy crap.

I’ll post updates like I usually do, but for now here’s an earlier hipstergram picture of my fuel: