Hello fellow Game Jammers!
I would like to do a proposition for ALL of you to spice up your game and at the same time be part of something bigger…
Introducing the concept of…The Random Rock! So you might ask, what is this random rock idea?
The Random Rock is a vicious cursed rock which basically randomly kills people, be it an protagonist or a random background character. The rock can fall from the sky at any giving moment (with a very small chance of course, it should not influence the main gameplay experience in too big a way) and crush you or any character in the game. At the start of your game your can put up a line saying: “This game features The Random Rock” and players will know their pending doom… (the art style of the random rock is up to you and your game visuals!)
The more games that will incorporate this feature, the more acknowldegment the Random Rock will get so people will know it is a force to be reckoned with!
So, I challenge you dear reader, to (only when you have finished your game and have some spare time), include the Random Rock in some way and let people be crushed world-wide!
Background story of The Random Rock:
You see the Random Rock wasn’t always evil, it was actually happily living with his family of rocks for decades and decades on a huge mountain. At some point a hero took it upon him to climb the mountain and challenge the god of the mountain to a duel. The hero pushed one of the rocks off the mountain to provoke the god, not knowing this rock was not meant to move in order to maintain the mountain’s stability. All of a sudden the whole mountain collapsed into itself and with it crushing the hero! The god of the mountain was mad with rage when he saw his home collapse. He cast a curse on all the stones crumbled from the mountain to crush people all over the world as punishment for their selfishness! And so it began…Random Rocks started appearing all over the world randomly crushing people at unpredicted moments without warning! Will it ever stop?!