Devtober 2020 #1 - Ideation

I would like to say that I’m not a very good writer but for my first Devtober, I’ll try to make an article every day. Besides, I have a fulltime job as a Head of Software Engineering and so most of my work on this game jam / personal challenge will be done in 2-4 hours time box in the evening.

Log

Most of my evening has been dedicated to finding what kind of game I want to build.

Ground truth

• I’ll build a 2D game as it’s my favorite style
• I want to improve my skills in pixel art
• It has to be a simple game to keep my motivation

Based on the previous assumptions, I started to read all the game pitches that people shared on the devtober discord. I found various inspirations that led me to the following list for my game:

• Collection game like pokemon with a simple story
• Fighting game like “La Brute” (old french web-based multiplayer game)
• Puzzle game based on 4th+ dimensions
• Survival game with resources management
• 2D Sandbox Minecraft-like game (I’ve always wanted to do one)

I’ve written the ideas in my preference order and how I see (for me) the difficulty increase in my ideas. Finally, these ideas will have a theme guideline given by the Ludum Dare 47 (which fortunately started at the same time).

That’s all for my first evening on the Devtober! More will come tomorrow