I love eggplant podcast.
I’ve been listening to it for a long time, and have spent hours listening to it while running.
I participate in a lot of game jams, but most of them have been through the internal game jams that myself and some other folks at Amazon put together.
As I was lurking around the eggplant discord and noticed that the Eggplant Game Jam #25 started a little bit ago. Running from 10 JAN - 11 FEB, the idea is to take inspiration from a slew of UFO-50 games and make a fun project.
The list of games that the jam is targeting is:
I really liked Mooncat and thought of making a game that takes heavy inspiration from it’s controls.
I don’t really remember when or how I thought of it, but I thought of Sundog would be a cool name for a game since it flips moon and cat.
The idea is, you’re a hotdog, escaping a hotdog cart. The controls are like Mooncat, where inputs on the right make your character go right, and the inputs on the left make them go left.
I voiced the plan on Discord, and epiblitikos came up with this great idea:
“For some reason this hot dog wants to go to the beach: hence sundog”
I love this idea.
I think the ‘some reason’ will be a love interest (classic), and will be a cheeseburger, a hotdog, or some other type of fast food.
I’m thinking through a bit of a twist at the end, but don’t want to share it here.