Hello.

A quick update where I am after hmm.. around 12 hours since I started.

After making list of game ideas, I thought that funniest could be a game about swapping body parts or using of godlike powers.

That being said, I actually wanted to get into coding phase fast and started prototyping sort of a platformer game.

( See as animation: https://twitter.com/maunovaha/status/589375545198149633 )

However, I very quickly realized that everyone is making platformer games and I didn’t want to do that. Also, I got a bit scared about the fact that platformer games usually needs a lot of level design, which is something I don’t have time to do. In short, I now believe that most of my game ideas were good – but not good enough to be game jam ideas. I decided that I need something smaller and simpler.

Therefore, I threw my platformer prototype to trash and started to make Ultima -style 2d tile-based game. Why? because I love tile-based games. 😀

( See as animation: https://twitter.com/maunovaha/status/589480823407124480 )

However, even though I did, I am still a bit unsure about my final idea. I have currently a plan of making godlike powers -game which has shrines which attract enemies. But, I still need to design whole story and the unconventional weapons around that. (yikes!)

In conclusions, I did some experiments and I have now something running on the screen with dummy graphics. Next, I just need to turn it to a fun game, which won’t be easy.

Cheers.

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