I’ve never made a game before. Or application. Or any standalone anything of any use whatsoever. So, this cannot be too ambitious, making a game in 48 hours is in itself hard enough.

As the theme is ‘alone’, I couldn’t think of any ideas that didn’t involve programming I almost certainly wouldn’t be able to achieve in 48 hours, being as it is that I have little/no experience with my (or any) chosen rendering engine. Here is my idea:

• Aim: Stay alive for as long as you can
• Scoring: Time based
• Gameplay: You are a man/whatever I can make who can only move left and right, while enemies march towards you from the top to the bottom (like in old arcade classics, such as space invaders). However, the theme is ‘alone’ so it has a twist – you have a weapon, but firing it makes everyone else except the person you shoot disappear, making that person extremely alone and thus the game’s name, “Lonely Gun” (unless I think of a better one :P).

That’s all it is at the moment, but if I miraculously manage to finish that then I will develop it more.