Decay
* Fix a tower crumbling tile by tile
* Radioactive decay
* Play as a mushroom?
* A sped-up gardening game about creating dirt
* A word puzzle game where letters 'rot' into other letters
Layers
* Move overlapping paper to make shapes
* Shift the tectonic layers of the planet
* Cake building game
* Play as a rolling circle, gain layer of stuff. (Katamari?)
* Play as a brick layer
* Mystery game sorting through piles of photos and papers
Control the world, not the player
* Control the weather
* Click and drag to move the world around a character.
* Astronaut goes unconcious. Save them by moving the space station around them to get them to safety.
* Terrain is springy. Drag it and release to launch the player or objects.
* Marble rolling game
Nomad
* A game about bus / train hopping. Manage budget to reach goal.
* Play as a migratory animal of some sort.
* Travel through a procedural world trying to stay out of the rain.
* Find a home.
* Try to overcome anger.
Connections
* Something about social network friends
* Thought-piece about 'Connections' in the time of Covid
* Connect cities via transit
* Manage electrical wires between buildings
* Guide a character to make friends
Stuck in a loop
* Escape a 'time-loop jail'
* Figure out how to break some sort of cyclical system
* A racing rogue-like where you move onto the next level if you win the lap.
* Try to construct inescapable loops for an AI
* Find and correct infinite loops in code.
Feeding the monster
* Minigolf on top of a monster's face. Aim for the mouth!
* A factory to feed a creature.
* Manage a society that requires constant sacrifices to a monster.
* Struggle to break a bad habit.
* Prevent your teammates from 'feeding' the monster and making it stronger.
Delay the inevitable
* Water is flooding. But try to block it.
* Fight old age with: a time machine, weird remedies, etc.
* Manage a bankrupt company so your employees don't get laid off.
* Add support beams to an increasinly overburdened building.
* Try to resist eating the last donut
Contain it
* Zombie outbreak management
* Horror tower defense trying to contain an unknown creature ('it') in the dark.
* Play as mother nature trying to use disasters to set back humanity.
* A game about moving homes and packing memories into containers.
* Play as a vampire trying to live a regular life without giving in.
Day and night
* What if day and night were roommates?
* Create a garden that works both during day and night.
* 'Day' and their protector 'Knight'
* Schedule a worker's day and night shifts when they have increasing costs.
* Flip between day and night with a button press
Shipwrecked
* Tower defense trying to setup traps for ships
* Play as a siren trying to lure sailing ships
* Jump between floating pieces of a wrecked boat.
* 'Shipwreck' in space. Boost between chunks of spacecraft to reach escape pod.
* Combine with the "stuck in a loop" theme and figure out how to prevent or survive the wreck.
Clockwork
* Adjust clocks that control how fast different elements of a level move.
* Play as a clock-person looking for gears needed to control time.
* Platform through a giant tower to wind the clocks.
* Use gears and levers to build machines to complete a level.
* A game about a Casio watch.
You can't save them all
* Increasingly absurd trolley problems.
* Twitch reaction trolley problems
* Try to save some candy for later without the kids stealing it
* Earth is Dying. Repeatedly choose groups of people to try to start space colonies.
* Your computer is about to force update but you have tons of programs open. Don't lose your work!
Death is not the end
* Play as multiple generations of a family
* Defeat death to return to life
* Reflect on memories of a loved one
* Each life lasts 15 seconds, but the body solidifies in place creating new routes.
* Escape your terrible accounting firm job that somehow also has a branch in Hell.
Summoning
* Hackers have found demonic energy in the deep internet. Harness Cyber Necromancy!
* You are the least appreciated of the grand witches. You can only summon marshmallows.
* You are a demon that's repeatedly summoned to rapidly accomplish menial tasks.
* Draw arcane runes to summon things.
* Try to fix a possessed alarm clock that summons demons. This is NOT what you signed up for!
The world changes when you are not looking
* Encourage people to take a break from their computers
* Time only progresses where you're not looking
* Manage security cameras. Only a few can be on at once, but stuff happens on the ones that are off.
* A spot the difference game about visiting your childhood home.
* Try to balance spending time with family while working a job to provide for them.
Fellow Humans and higher-ups, it is officially that time: it's time for LUDUM DARE 47! Admittedly, me and my team are a little late. :sweat_smile: