Seasons Greetings. What a productive brainstorming session on this most pleasant evening. Here are the top results of our efforts, please feel free to use any, or any combination, of these ideas if you are having trouble coming up with something else:
10) – One Direction to Drive. Like Nascar, but cars can literally only turn in one direction. The player who turns left least wins; the others crash in a vortex of fire and metal in the middle of the race track.
9) – Can’t Spare a Square. You need to clean up a mess, but you only have a one square of TP. Clean up progressively more disgusting messes to demonstrate your honed wiping skills.
8) – But I Only Had One. A game about driving after only having one drink. Destroy your and other people’s families to further the cause of MADD.
7) – Jump Forrest, Jump! A one-legged high-jumper game. Pole vaulting bonus level.
6) – Worst Meal Ever. Eat with just one chopstick. It’s really hard.
5) – Christian the Camel. Cross a desert maze to give little baby Jesus the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh on Christmas before your one hump of water runs out.
4) – Special Snowflake. Protect a pretty unique snowflake as it falls from the sky on its journey to become a massive avalanche, consuming anything and everything in its path.
3) – One Is The Loneliest Number. A math game where equations are made to equal 1, or players must input the correct number of one of the variables in the equation. There is nothing funny about math.
2) – Don’t Give Birds For Christmas. Angry birds clone where you shoot a partridge out of a pear tree with a snowball. Technically the song includes twelve partridges, but who’s really counting?
1) – You Only Get Juan. Clearly, anything built around a Juan-themed pun will be an instant classic.
Other less fleshed-out, but nevertheless worthy ideas include games about having only one eye and no depth perspective, one of the five senses, one wheel like a unicycle, or one nut like Lance Armstrong. Games about protecting your our planet may be popular, as with games about binary or about a button being broken. Traditional two button games like pinball may find new life in one pinball/one flipper format, and a game about having only one match to light a fire could be interesting. A game about a one-eyed, one-legged, one-armed pirate is sure to be a winner, as would be a game about dolphin with just one flipper called Flopper. There are sure to be many attempts at FPSs based on having just one bullet, and surely someone will ask the dark question of just who that bullet is really meant for. Hopefully they can make it funny, but it seems unlikely. Perhaps someone clever can make a 1-bit game. Finally, a game about one reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh would suit the season.
We certainly will not be able to implement all of these ideas, so they are free to a good home. Enjoy and good luck.
A playable web version of my jam entry called ![[AATEOTU] - GiftsGalore - Main Camera - 2014-12-06 21-17-39 - 1024x576x1](http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AATEOTU-GiftsGalore-Main-Camera-2014-12-06-21-17-39-1024x576x1-300x168.png)
