I’m a Ludum Dare newbie, and I’ve fallen victim to that total bastard, Father Time. I had too many ideas and I tried to implement them all, and it has put me in a terrible situation. I won’t be able to complete this game in the way that I previously wanted. Instead, I will have to cut the story short and leave the player with a cliff hanger. Hopefully the story will prove to be interesting enough to justify this decision. I plan to keep working on this game after LD16 is complete, but I intend to get it to a solid, presentable state by the deadline.

The HUD system took the most of my time, as I planned to implement a deep collection of menus and inventory screens. The foundation is there, I just don’t have time to put it all to use, unfortunately.

While planning for LD16, I tossed around a few ideas that involved my suggested theme, UNWANTED POWERS, and the EXPLORATION theme. There were also a few themes in the list that revolved around a post-apocalyptic scenario, so those have been floating around in my brain for a while. It seems as though I ended up going with a Wall-E meets Fallout type of experience where your goal is to scour the land and figure out what happened. It’s kind of rad, but isn’t very exciting at the moment. You just kind of… explore. There are no enemies at this point, and I’m not sure if I need them. The theme IS exploration, after all.

Also… I was hoping to record at least ONE song for this game, but I don’t see that happening.

Here’s a quick screenshot to prove that I actually have something.

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