Heya guys! I recently dove into python with a few education sources, and found myself beginning to love the language and the pygame library too! I found this website by pure chance, and whaddya know? The October challenge was only 2 hours old at that time and seemed like a cool way to expand my knowledge and get the encouragement, motivation and support that I knew I would need, So here we are just over a week into October, and I am more motivated than ever to learn the language. Being knew to word-press too, I figured I would take the time out to type up a little about what I aim for.

Some of my favourite games have a few common traits. The Binding of Isaac, Nethack, and various other Roguelikes of which I have countless games all appeal to me because they are different each time I play them. I like the random nature of them but the complexity can be off-putting. BoI however does away with much of the complexity in favour of fluidity, so something in the same vein ( I would like to think) would be kind of fun.

Another favourite of mine is the stalkers series. The gritty survival horror and post apocalyptic story and art-style are awesome, keeping track of food and ammo makes things interesting, and the feeling of satisfaction when a little planning around what you take with you while exploring and playing it safe pulls you out of a tight situation is one of my favourite elements of gameplay. SO

I’m gonna try and converge the two ideas. 2d survival, inventory management, and a little bit of randomisation, all with gritty Russians, AK’s and Vodka.  This would definitely have been too ambitious for a regular LD event. Its probably too ambitious for the October Challenge. It sure as HELL is too ambitious for me. You know what? I’m gonna do it anyway! I figure the higher I set the bar, the more Inclined I will be to reach it. Even if I don’t finish it, I figure I’ll have something playable by the end anyway. To all fellow LD October challenge participants I wish good luck, and hope that they wish luck upon me.