# 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)