I’ve gotten very little coding done in the past week;\u00a0 mostly feeling a little worn out and uninspired.\u00a0 So I’m going to kick myself into gear by starting another Game in a Week, as a break from development on MMORPG Tycoon.\u00a0 Not to fret, though;\u00a0 I’ll be back on MMORPG Tycoon after this is done.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n
It’s past midnight at the moment, and I really need my sleep, so I’m going to keep this short.\u00a0 The book for this Game in a Week is a hardback edition of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, by J.K. Rowling (as though I had to tell you that).\u00a0 This is a US printing of the book, published by Scholastic Press, and the text is copyrighted 1997.\u00a0 There probably aren’t many copies of the US-titled version of the book here in Australia, but somehow I wound up with one of them, so it’s the one that I’m using.<\/p>\n
As always, my topic selection method is to open a book randomly, and take the first sentence which is completely on the leftmost page.\u00a0 From this sentence, I must choose one or more words to take as the theme for the game I’m to design and implement within the next seven days.\u00a0 In this case, I’ve opened to page 132, and the first sentence entirely on that page is:<\/p>\n
“It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In my mind, that passage kind of conjures images of a cross between Concentration<\/a> and the Three Card Monte<\/a>.\u00a0 But I’m not nearly cruel enough to inflict such a horror on any of you fine people.\u00a0 At least, not unless it gets to be Sunday and I haven’t come up with anything better.\u00a0 ;)<\/p>\n
My initial thoughts are that good words for starting with would be “remember”, and “move around”.\u00a0 And if I twist it a little, maybe I could turn “lot” into “lots”, and do something with small stones.\u00a0 Or the game could take place in an empty lot.\u00a0 Or there could just be a lot of things to remember or move around.\u00a0 So many possibilities!<\/p>\n
Anyhow, I’ll post more thoughts tomorrow, when I’ve had proper sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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