Weird. I’d got the impression Self-Replicating was a sure thing for the theme. Not to worry though, I reckon I’ve got a decent idea to be going on with.

I’m going to attempt a strategy roguelike idea I’ve been thinking about for a while now. It’s going to be called Safari Park Escape, and the idea is that you’re trying to get a group of animals (escaped from a safari park) to evade their keepers for long enough that they eventually give up the search, and your animals can live free and wild in the British countryside. It’s a bit ambitious, but if I keep things simple it should be do-able. It also sets itself up for a sequel: Safari Park Liberation, where the escaped animals come back to liberate all the animals they left behind…

* – Little known fact: ‘Porridge for Victory’ was an actual slogan used in the Second World War in Scotland. Winston Churchill, struggling to cope with the UK’s extremely limited supply of food, instituted a strict ‘Porridge-only’ diet on the entirety of Scotland, uttering the infamous words, “Miserable buggers. They’ll probably be happy they’ve got something else to complain about.” This policy is the real reason behind the continued antipathy between Scotland and England, and is the reason many Scots still cannot look at (or even smell) a bowl of porridge without wanting to throw up.

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