I think I have settled on an idea. It's a bit innovative in the sense that I don't know many games like this, but it's something that might have crossed other people's minds, given that there's a quite direct relation to the theme (I hope no one's using the exact same idea). It feels like it could be very fun, though.

Unfortunately, it feels a bit too ambitious. I'm trying it anyway, but I don't feel confident I'll finish it the way I want it to be (well, I never do...). I'm not sure if I'll stick with it, so for now I'll just say it's a horror-themed strategy game.

Ok, time to work out the details.

Well, we have two ideas, and we are currently discussing pros and cons. One of them seems funny and original, the other one is pretty and funny. We will inform as soon as possible! :)

Well, we're a bit unorganized at present, as 50% of the important team isn't here right now, but I made a mockup of what we were throwing around at midnight. Here 'tis.



Premise is, you're a penguin that was chasing a _____ into a graveyard, and the grim reaper, furious that you're on his lawn, sends hordes of zombies and ghosts after you. You have to "get off his lawn", while attacking the zombies and ghosts, solving puzzles, etc.

We're not 100% committed to this yet, as RB[0] was talking about doing a strategy game, but anyway, we'll see.

Hullo, we have more or less decided on the gameplay now. It took some brainstorming to convince me, and I was skeptic until I saw the sketches that our newest teammember, Clueless, had drawn.

finally a theme were i can easily cram in lots of ants! :-D

you are flying in an rc-plane, close to the ground. dropping bombs, water and fake-food to get those terror-ants of your lawn.

maybe i even throw in a zombie-ant or two.

We got together today to work on our entry for pyweek. We must say that "get off my lawn" was not the theme we wanted, we had a very good idea for "half sovereign" involving half a king. Otherwise we came up with quite a good idea. We have quite a bit done already.... stay tuned for a screenshot.

It was nice to get the theme that we wanted, we had our game idea fleshed out enough that we could quickly move into engine creation on gord's side and art direction on mine. The way I figure the game, we'll be needing loads of art so I'm going to be using pixelart this time to be a bit faster. At the same time I wanted to take my pixelart in another direction rather than the normal retro 8bit style so this time I took heavy influence from the work of Superbrothers who has a very interesting look to his pixel art. I'm also trying for a 50's animation feel to it but I'm not quite sure I'll be able to get it.

Here's a mockup that I've gone done whipped up a bit slowly.

Inspiration:

• Superbrothers
• 101 dalmatians colour key - very nice muted colours, started as my base
• Rhapsody of Steel - simple yet effective backgrounds!
• Morning sky - the natural world rules!

Whelp, back to doing more art and story writing (maybe!)