This morning, I began to wonder if there was some cool idea I could use for my entry and, shockingly, one immediately came to my mind. I’ll work on that for sure.
How is going in your neck of the woods, instead?
I've two ideas in my mind, but I have to think about them really well. I want to make a game that allows you to explore a weird type of map, like the brain map or the human body — something like that.
Another obligation I want to add to burst my creativity is making a game in which the drawing of the map is unusual. Maybe a card game? Or a dice mapping game? Or maybe you use an old table cloth and paint it? Something really weird.
Wow! I can see we have some cool ideas and advice here!
I’m opening a new topic to speak about my possible entry: https://itch.io/jam/mapemounde2019/topic/436570/the-wayfarer
Days ago I started thinking about maps through time and how people used them during the prehistoric era, then, after reading the goal, I tried to think about how a map could physically change over time (shreds/pieces of paper, sheet cut-outs, different sheet sizes?).
Here I am now developing a story about this change and the society that evolves in relation to it.
Spent the last two days thinking about a game about language and territory where you play a people being colonized. I’ve cribbed a lot from Avery Alder’s “A Quiet Year” and Thorny Games’ “Dialect”.
In the first phase, you make your culture by drawing cards containing words and some possible meanings for the word. You choose one meaning and place the thing on a map.
In the second phase the intruders show up and start taking over the things, and substituting your language and culture for their own.