GMTK Game Jam 2024 Begins!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  After dinner last night, Trixie, Ursula, and I sat down and watched the announcement video of the theme for this year's game jam.  I had let Trixie do a little brainstorming, and she she came up an idea of a character that eats something and gets bigger or smaller.  She also said there would be a king and a queen, and that got me thinking about a theme.  "I know a story about someone who eats and drinks things and gets bigger and smaller - it also has an evil queen as a villain!" I told her.  Then I reminded her about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and though she wasn't immediately sold, we said we'd sleep on it.

This morning, we did more brainstorming, and Ursula came up with the idea that you play as a cat and that you have to escape a pet store.  So, that's the direction we're going!  You play as the Cheshire Cat and you have to escape the Wonderland Pet Store by eating and drinking things to change your size.  You have to avoid the Queen of Hearts's soldiers and eat/drink the right amount to fit through the gaps in the aisles.

So far, we've created the cat, eat me cake, drink me drink, heart soldier, and pet store level assets, and we have our initial movement code for controlling the cat.  Ursula worked on creating a trailer in Scratch Jr, and I think that will be cool to have once she's done.  We're going to take a lunch break, but I'm excited about our progress, and I hope we get done in time for the "Early Submitter" badge Mark talked about.  I hope everyone is jamming well, and best of luck!