My idea for my entry is that you’re a mastermind who has just sucessfully kidnapped the boy king.  Which was a great plan.  Except that now there are horsemen and goats (and maybe a HERO) searching the darkness for you.  Do not get too close to the wandering searchers, or they will take you out.  You have no physical defenses beyond sneaking and hiding (you’re a mastermind after all, not a soldier).

I’ve made pretty good progress so far.  The game is playable and I’ve even got some really hobo graphics I scratched out myself.  I decided to do this one using Functional Reactive Programming with Elerea in Haskell.  I’ve been a Haskeller for over a year now, but had not really got into the whole FRP space yet, so this seemed like a good reason to do so, and I think it has worked out pretty well so far.

Progress, (and code if you want to play with stuff) on Github.

I wasn’t sure what to expect on this, my first Ludum Dare.   I’ve been pretty happy with my progress, though, and the game is quite playable at this point.

I’ve put together an Ubuntu-compatible binary on my site.  I’ve hit a bit of a snag with the Windows port, but should be able to get that going eventually.