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After thinking about and detailling my initial idea, this is shaping up for the game:

• Time based rounds
• Control a camp of five survivor of the end of the world
• Different apocalyptic events come in waves
• Gather ressource (building material, medicine, weapons) and information about next waves
• improve your camp with buildings against specific events
• final dead of the camp should be inevitable (loosing is fun  )

And here are some examples for type of events:

• Zombies attack
• Four horsemen of the apocalypse
• Tectonic collapse
• Aliens attack

I have to admit the basic idea is inspired by the first season of "The Walking Dead". There is a strong urge to add survivor's interaction on a high complexity level like disputes, tantrums (dwarf fortress style  ). That's probably to much for this month.

Tools of trade:

• Python with pygame
• Gimp
• Bxfr
• Musagi

Let's see how this idea will come along. I will post some mockup of the interface next.

[J. R. Hill]

Awesome!

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First mockup, far from ingame graphics:

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Unfortunately I have to declare I failed the compo. My game idea was a little to big for me and some other events this month ate my spare time (Ludum Dare, both warm-up and compo and christmas for sure).
Nevertheless I still think the basic idea of my game has some potential. And at least I have about 100 lines of code already finished to start with . Let's see what next year will bring.