I’ve never done this before. Should be fun.

I’m going to be using javascript/HTML5 canvas.

Git for version control. Gimp for graphics.

Sound…I have no idea. I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it.

About base code. I’ve been toying with a very specific game mechanic, but obviously I don’t know if this mechanic will work with the theme. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, it’s just that the mechanic I have in mind involves a table of 256 12-bit integers. Obviously I can’t write that by hand and remain sane. It’s a pretty well-known algorithm, and the tables are publicly available. If you’ve done it before you probably already know what I’m talking about. Do I need to post the table here? I don’t even know if I’ll be using it yet, since whatever the theme ends up being might conflict with my idea.