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+# LD50 Ideas
+
+## Delay the inevitable
+
+* 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?
+
+## Fragile
+
+* hang on to something with a precarious control scheme, eg. waiting tables with a stack of plates
+* low health (bullet hell, or 1-hit KO)
+* navigate social interactions
+* perform a task precisely: small errors may have large consequences
+  * eg., solder simulator. components crack when overheated, or esd death when touched
+  * surgeon sim but more serious? heh
+
+## Make connections
+
+* crap puzzles like missing pipes or wires
+* make your own mental connections in solving a puzzle based on clues
+  * detective work
+* making (and breaking) connections to manage a systemic capacity (eg. MiniMetro)
+* social engineering
+* connecting pieces with no particular goal: frankenstein monsters, hip bone is connected to the toe bone?
+* connect different concepts or systems in a process (eg. that medicine making puzzle game)
+
+## Mutation
+
+* alter yourself to fit better, or to succeed
+* the challenge keeps mutating: you need to adapt
+* managing with extra functionality due to mutation (eg. your job now has extra tasks that you need to do)
+* identifying mutations (spot the difference?)
+
+## Teleportation
+
+* teleportation is complicated. your star trek teleporter takes you through hell before you rematerialize
+* you can only teleport, and so have to go back and force to solve a problem
+* movement is always in steps instead of linear. eg. you move like a chess piece while everything around you moves freely
+
+## A single resource
+
+* literally any game with just one resource: life, time, etc.
+* finding 'creative' uses for the one thing you have
+
+## Folklore
+
+* an experience based on a folk story?
+* story building "I heard that..."
+  * make combined with some elements of a rock-paper-scissors version of burning wheel's social
+  combat to try and find which narrative is accepted as part of the story
+
+## Shelter
+
+* crosses over in part with infestation
+* survival
+* home maintenance
+
+## Infestation
+
+* burn all the things
+* the paranoia and discomfort of living with bedbugs
+* spending energy to control or modify a chaotic environment to prevent the infestation from coming in
+* where's waldo
+* bop 'em reflex thing
+
+## Road trip
+
+* bored again trail
+* cross country canada
+* management of driving resources
+  * attention / awakeness
+  * consumables (snacks, water, coffee)
+  * activities (games, stories, podcasts/music/etc)
+  * need to pee
+  * gas / cash / grass
+  * passenger irritation
+  * weather / heat / where the 
+  * does your cruise control work
+
+## Tunnels
+
+* is this like a special case of make connections?
+
+## Overgrown
+
+* is this like infestation?
+  * more precise in not wanting to remove something?
+* difficult to move or see what's coming
+ 
+## Out of order
+
+* find pieces of a thing
+* find a way to return to calm
+* enforce the order beat 'em up
+
+## Space is limited
+
+* any game I make basically
+* many games progress from small levels to larger. perhaps fixed size, or they progress from larger to smaller and it becomes more difficult (how?)
+
+## Combine
+
+* put items together
+* connect different concepts or systems in a process (eg. that medicine making puzzle game)
+
+## Garden
+
+* a large multi-tomagotchi situation
+* sorting or optimization problem: given space and plants and their neighbour interactions, get the
+  best results possible
+* plant identification (lol just flash cards, but in the compo I can't use outside pictures of a thing unless I take them myself or alter them in a meaningful way)