Trying Bullet Hell (Dec 01 2024)

For this 1st game I'm trying out a bullet hell game. You shoot at enemies while you have to dodge a bunch of bullets that enemies shoot at you. I think, like Slow and Steady (which was also made in 1 week), there will be waves of enemies that you defeat, except instead of having fixed waves I think I'll try random ones (that get harder over time). I get to reuse some code from that tank game that I've all but abandoned, which makes it easier.

2 more details I forgot to mention yesterday. The games I make have to be different from each other, they can't all just be variations of the same genre. This means the other 3 games this month cannot be bullet hell games. Also 4 weeks is 28 days and there are 31 days in the month; this means I'll allow 2 of the games to take 8 days instead of 7, and the 1st game will come out on Dec 8.

December Plans (Nov 30 2024)

My no-longer secret plan for December is: I will release a game every single week. For 4 weeks in a row, I have 1 week to come up with an idea and implement it. The games will be small and probably will barely have any art, but still, 4 games in a month. And I'll put them on itch.io every week too, as a collection of minigames.

The inspiration for this was Major Studio from my 3rd year of college, where for 4 weeks in a row, I had to make a digital prototype in the span of 1 week. It's also inspired by me wanting to take a break from making online card games because I've been doing that for so many months (doing those kind of games in 1 week would be impossible). I've done no planning whatsoever, I don't even know what the 1st week's game will be yet. Just like Major Studio, I'll have to come up with an idea within 24 hours or so.

Lists of Ideas (Nov 29 2024)

I gathered my list of card game ideas that I've written down over the months and put them in approximate tiers of how much I like it. I don't want to share that list yet, but I did add a couple more ideas in it. What I also realized is that the bottom tier really doesn't excite me much, I doubt any of those 5 ideas will make it. Of course since I'm taking a break from card games I'm not touching any ideas on this list for a while.