Throwing in some themes as well. I'm happy I found out about this one BEFORE my agenda filled up with stuff, so I can actually reserve the weekend to build something again.

I'm adding these to the list:

• It is what you do that defines you.

• "The theme was within you all along."

• Keep your distance.

Since I pretty had much "actually get back to programming a game" as my goal, I'm making some decent progress.

This is going to be a turn-based base-management game, featuring an ancient tribe trying to survive on a planet with the most brutal winters. Their only way to make it is by following the ancestral path around the globe and revisiting their previously abondened campsites, so they can re-use whatever survived the winter there. It'll be a mix of some strategy and some pushing your luck in deciding between trying to complete projects or packing up and travelling ahead of the cold.

Graphics aren't my thing, but game-icons.net came to the rescue and made it look like a little bit of something, at least. (If I have time left tomorrow I might replace the geometrics with some more scenery, but the goal is actually building game logic)

So I realized that I suck at art. Then I thought that I might make things easier on myself if I went more abstract. Then I thought about reducing the options I have as much as possible.

Then I joked about how I should just make my games in 1 dimension so there's no real graphics to speak of. Then I thought... why not?

So I made a little library to draw 1-d games and decides I was gonna try and make something in 1 dimension for this Ludum.

To get an idea of what that looks like... this is my current attempt to make something resembling chess (which has a board with more than one dimension, so that's already tricky). Turns out that even if you only have 1 dimension you still need to think about graphics, or it'll still look awful.

But, let's see if it's possible to have a fun experience with only 1 graphical direction :D