A MAZE. game jam: The Defenders

The A MAZE. games festival looks really cool. I wish I could go. That and Playtopia.

In the lead up to this year's festival A MAZE. are hosting an online game jam based on the Philip K. Dick short story The Defenders.

This is cool because I really enjoyed taking part in the PiCoSteveMo which is also a month-long, fiction-inspired game jam.

I'm still not completely decided on committing to having something finished in time but I am feeling inspired here. It would be cool to team up with someone but I wouldn't want to let them down.

I read the short story and enjoyed it. It plays well with an idea I've had for an economy / colony sim where you play as robots wandering the earth in a post-human age.

It's nice to have a lot of this rich world building already done for me. It leaves me to focus on the game.

Raylib

I'm going to try using Raylib (in particular the C# bindings for Raylib) for the framework. I like that it looks fairly simple and has no dependencies. It also looks like it's popular enough to have examples for the use cases that I'll need.

I've been able to get a basic hello world game together very quickly. So far it feels similar to working with PICO-8.