Explosions, destruction, and tearing things down are common themes in lots of games. But how about we explore the other end of the spectrum. Make some games about assembling, building, and constructing!
Let’s see what kind of games you can build!
November and December proved to be chilly months this year. Despite that, we saw a decent turn out with a total of 7 games:
An adventure game about staying alive in freezing, arctic conditions.
Firesweeper, by Benjamin Davis
Minesweeper meets a forest blaze. Guess the right location of the fire, or be doomed to watch it spread!
Alternate between Spring & Winter in this puzzle platformer.
Too Hot Too Cold, by Joseph Miller
Heat up or cool down your character to solve puzzles in this platformer.
Prolong your watery fate as the ice below you melts in this 1st Person Running game.
Temperature Gods, by Douglas Ianitsky
Stop the Ice God from freezing the planet in this RPG-style game.
Heating & Cooling, by DUNEBEAR
Catch hot or cold orbs to maintain the proper temperature in your apartment.
A path finding puzzle game. Use hot areas to increase the distance of your steps, while avoiding the cold areas.
Looking forward to seeing what 2013 brings – we’re in talks with developer friends about a new competition, so keep an eye out – it should be a good one!
We’ve had fire and snow on the brain for quite some time now, but we’re starting to see a flickering light and the end of a cold, dark tunnel.
Little Inferno releases in less than a few weeks, so for the months of November and December we thought we’d see what other game developers do with TEMPERATURE.
Stay warm out there everyone!
October already? What happened to 2012? Maybe I got caught up in the Time Manipulation theme and somehow skipped the last 9 months!
And boy do things look a little overgrown. With game ideas sprouting up left and right, it’s time to for some careful pruning. Let’s see if we can find some worthwhile ones together, shall we?
After a rampantly productive summer, it’s VEGETATION in October.
Back when the Experimental Gameplay Project was just a a baby project run by 4 students in the bowels of CMU, Kyle Gabler made a tiny game called blow about a boy with a balloon and a girl with a gun.
At the time it was the only game we had made that required any sort of special control, and it was unusual for anyone to have a microphone (this was 2004, so only MMORPGers or FPSers had those headset mic things).
Ever since then we’ve steered away from requiring any unique input to control a game, but in a time when pretty much every computer comes with a built in microphone it seems almost silly not to make more games based on AUDIO INPUT.
Games are made almost entirely of cycles – systematic events that happen on a regular basis to form a coherent experience. The familiar repetitions are both comforting, and annoying – especially to anyone who’s died multiple times in a row. Similarly we cycle through a number of themes here at EGP, if last month’s 101 things was any indication.
So we were surprised to see that we hadn’t yet used ROTATING. What a simple theme! Immediately tangible, like an orange in the face, yet so open to interpretation, like a Hollywood blockbuster doomed for a sequel, or the Constitution.
So what do you think gang? Care to try making a ROTATING game this month?
We're a group of indie game developers, running a friendly competition every month. The rules: Make a game based on the month's theme, and don't spend more than 7 days. New games posted at the end of every month. 