{"author_name":"Volvary","cat":"LD #35","comments":[],"epoch":1460861520,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"7143","p_author":"Volvary","p_authorkey":"34008","p_urlkey":"42575","p_title":"My idea","p_cat":"LD #35","p_event":"LD35","p_time":"1460861520","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"34008","us_name":"Volvary","us_username":"volvary","event_start":"1460678400","event_key":"33","event_name":"LD35"},"text":"<p>So while I am not able to actually join this Dare (From having realized it was this week-end to late and losing yesterday and today to my day-job), I went ahead and at least thought of what I would had attempted on this theme and the more I thought about it, the less I could find something that would had been plausible for me to do in 72h. A Runner game with a shapeshift ability? Too simple. A platformer where you turn into various enemies to kill others? Maybe but the art would had killed me. Then, it hit me&#8230;<\/p>\n <p>I was at work and was filling up the water section of the drugstore where I work and was thinking about my other ideas when I drop a water jug and that got me thinking about something else. Or rather, how some other water product would had shattered under such a drop. One that has very interesting mechanic in the concept of a shapeshifting game:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-Newtonian_fluid#Oobleck\">Oobleck<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p>Bleck (Tales of the living Oobleck)<\/p>\n <p>Game Type: Puzzle-\/Physics-based Platformer game<\/p>\n <p>Player: The player controls Bleck, a living ball of Oobleck, that must make it out of the lab.<\/p>\n <p>Mechanics: Depending on the level of acceleration imparted to Bleck, he will interact differently:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>At low speed, Bleck deforms and is pushed around by the force. If falling, Bleck squashes and reforms.<\/li>\n <li>At medium speed, Bleck hardens and can be knocked around by the force acting on him. If falling, Bleck bounces.<\/li>\n <li>At high speed, Bleck shattered, dying. Bleck then respawns at the last checkpoint encountered.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n <p>While I say I won&#8217;t do this Jam, I might try to create a prototype tomorrow, depending on how I feel so that I can at least see if my idea would had been feasible in 3 days.<\/p>","time":"April 16th, 2016 9:52 pm","title":"My idea"}