Postmortem of our Global Game Jam game, Kindle

2009 - “As long as we have each other, we will never run out of problems” : Love makes trouble, a clone of Nuts of Milk is good idea under this theme.

2010 - “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain” and “Deception”: I don't get the meaning, really, I know it's lyric after searched Google. Fraud game happened in Spain?

2011 - “Extinction”: This idea is my favourite. There's a group of creatures on the bottom of the screen, above them a shining star in the sky. They want to reach the star and no ladders can be used. The only way to get the star is using their own body to build ladders or something useful, surely it would decrease their number. The dilemma placed before player is how to reach the star before used up all creatures.

2012 - An image of Ouroboros : Eternal life, can't remember the specific idea, my brain must be damaged in the jam :-)

Unity3D

ex2D

Prime31 Unity Addons

Pool Manager

Messenger

Inkscape

Garageband

Dare you play it? : Big bloody heart in the center of screen, need player click it as fast as he/she can. The heart became smaller after continued fast clicks. When the heart shrunk to a small point and player became exhaust, a terrified ghost/zombie fill the screen. Bang! Hope the player don't have heart disease. I like the theory below this idea, when people concentrate on something, it's easier to scare them. We don't want someone get heart attack playing our game, so we give up the idea.

Hide and seek : Another horrible game, not another mischief, more decent content. In some horrible film, the most tension moment is the fragile character hide somewhere easily to be found and a strong monster was searching outside. In this idea, player can see monster's actions through a little hole, in the meantime player should operate very carefully ex. holding breath, kick mouse away. The problem of this idea is it's too big for game jam, at least for us. 

Kindle : ECG (Electrocardiography) is also the shape of heart and exactly lead by heartbeat. However the oscilloscope seems boring, we translate it to a firefly in darkness, ecg curve is the flying trail. The mechanic? One thing we know before design the specific mechanic is the core feedback, correct input lead ecg and wrong input not. A firefly across grassland in darkness, what a poetic scene. So the core mechanic is typing character of poem. We choose Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, the artistic conception like a Chinese old poem Chiang Chen Tzu by Su Shi. You may found it looks like the The Typing of the Dead, I don't deny it inspired me, though no violent content in our game.