Finally an idea!

roberto on 2008/04/01 14:43 of Johnny saves the world

I haven't even started yet, since my girlfriend defended her Master's yesterday. Today I finally had a nice idea, and I should get it started tonight.

I agree that the "robot" theme is too unrestrictive, so I wanted to make a game that was deeply connected to robotics. My first idea was to do something based on the 3 laws of robotics, like walking through a level without getting hurt and without letting humans get hurt, but I wasn't very excited with this.

So, my plan now is to make a game called "Johnny saves the world". It's about a boy, Johnny, who has to (surprise) save the world. He accomplishes this using his personal robot, which has to be programmed to navigate throught a maze. The programming is made using a stack programming language, with tokens that have to be collected in order to build more complex programs.

The game is not unlike my entry for the last pyweek, Galvinball, in which the player could create new rules for the game on the fly. I like to be able to play my own games, so I try to create game mechanics that are open-ended, where the solutions aren't "hard coded". Let's see how this one goes.