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From: Kienan Stewart <kienan.stewart@burntworld.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 21:54:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add further ideas and reflections on the revealed theme

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+# LD50 Theme
+
+Delay the inevitable
+
+opposing forces are overwhelming:
+
+* advancing army, eg. FTL, space invaders, missile defense
+* chess-like where the opponent keeps getting new pieces
+* extinction is inevitable eg. human consumption and ecological destruction
+
+time is running out:
+
+* push against the impossible: keep the sun from rising or setting, pour fuel into the sun to
+  stop it from burning out, ...
+* the school day is going to end, but you WANT class to go on forever!
+* the work day is going to end but you have a deadline...
+* family dinner time is coming, but you just need "one more minute" with your game
+
+a stat is running out:
+
+* tamagotchi with a medical condition: keep managing, while trying to achieve some other goal.
+* poisoned, growing weaker
+* going insane, surrounded by monsters through a strange land. it's not a question of if, but when.
+
+a physical resource is running out:
+
+* the land cannot produce enough crops
+* mineral shortage causing...
+
+an event
+
+* running a race (like a marathon), and your stamina is running out. keep going as far as you can
+  * refreshments every X... balancing speed by stamina drain
+
+the difficulty ramps up until it's physically impossible
+
+* eg. tetris
+
+the delay could be undefined, or a temporary reprieve. thus the hero could "succeed", but as the
+story is told it is only to hold back the end for a brief moment.
+
+## rough thoughts
+
+The difference between delaying the inevitable and surviving is that in delaying, you can only ever
+lose.
+
+I like the chess-like since it gives a clear base line: the game already exists and I don't have to invent arbitrary mechanics, and the resources for the base game are clear. It might be difficult
+to make an opponent that makes meaningful moves. There are a lot of possible modifiers.
+
+* ranking up your pieces (move increases, mutatation into difference pieces, abilities)
+* the enemy pieces can get new abilities
+* new types of pieces can be added
+* the game could be played on a slightly different size of board
+* the 'score' is how many turns you've survived
+
+In a similar vein, the race running idea seems to be clear and doable. I feel doubtful that I
+can do something to make the gameplay of running interesting. It could be something like trying
+to keep as steady of a cadence as possible hitting two keys (eg. L, R, L, R). A lot of runner
+games have you just "run" on their own and you can slightly slow down or speed up by moving "up
+and down" on the screen. I don't want to do that. The score here again is quite clear: distance
+travelled before you run out of stamina.
+
+I like the ideas of the the ill tamagotchi and pushing against something truly inevitable,
+like the sun rising. What is less clear to me is what I would actually want to the "game" to be
+in these cases.
+
+In the case of the ill tamagotchi, as time passes or health worsens more conditions could be piled
+on. This may add tasks, sort of like the new things you always have to do in Cook, Serve, Delicious;
+wherein interruptions for bathrooms, cleaning, garbage all happen regularly. It could be quick-time
+type events where you need to do inputs; or you have to get to a certain (place? person?).
+
+The idea of making class go on longer could be amusing, in a hermione granger sense. Maybe there's
+all sorts of tricks to be played. I think the gameplay of something like would be more text/VN
+choice game.
+
+Overall, I'm leaning towards the chess-like game at the moment.
+
 # LD50 Ideas
 
 ## Delay the inevitable
@@ -5,7 +82,7 @@
 * advancing army: eg., FTL
 * chess where the opponent keeps getting new pieces
   * space invaders
-* tomogotchi with a medical condition: keep managing it. while trying to acheive some other goal?
+* tamagotchi with a medical condition: keep managing it. while trying to acheive some other goal?
 
 ## Fragile