{"author_name":"TellusE","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304136660,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"66766","p_author":"TellusE","p_authorkey":"749","p_urlkey":"102567","p_title":"Theme woot. Go!","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304136660","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"749","us_name":"TellusE","us_username":"telluse","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

I was hoping for the given theme to the extent of giving off a hollow and resounding “wooot!” as I read across the lines of my browser.<\/p>\n

The theme immediately conjures up two strong elements and lets me segway into a third:<\/p>\n

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  1. If it’s dangerous to go out alone, you’re definitely<\/strong> going out alone. Storytelling genre: horror.<\/li>\n
  2. “Take this” – obviously, you’re offered something to aid you. Sub-genre: action.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    I figured this theme would be an excellent starting point to create a small game that critisizes the over-usage of the zombie theme in games over the past couple of years. In my opinion the commercial PC game market has become just a tad flooded with zombie shooters. Just a tad, mind you. We haven’t quite reached the level of genre-rape that constituted the WWII games of the last decade and the Guitar Hero license misuse of Activision over the last five years, but there are quite a few games with, shall we say, “overlapping” elements?<\/p>\n

    The third thing that I figured was that the theme itself suggests a caricature of these games, the following of a standardised formula with few to no variations on content to move gameplay out and forwards. This will be a point of contention as well.<\/p>\n

    The game itself will be very simple, following this genre bastardisation: zombie-runner-ware. Zombies. Runner games (ala Canabalt). And Warioware (heck yeah!).<\/p>\n

    This, at least, is the current idea. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>","time":"April 29th, 2011 11:11 pm","title":"Theme woot. Go!"}