Hi Calum!
Nice idea. I agree best part of a Jam is seeing what everyone is up to!
What Uni you from dude? :) Would be cool to know where everyone is that's taking part!
Nice idea! My initial thoughts are a space title. The floaty controls of the player would lend themselves to that. Throw in some parallax, particle effects and it will look pretty! I'll reveal more on mechanics later down the line. ;) I've also been thinking about going down the multiplayer route, and some procedural generation work. My idea requires me to tweak the flocking code to more gravity/orbital mechanics, so hopefully that's OK! It'll largely be the same. I have a plan for the repelling mechanic so that will stay untouched!
Good look with your project! Maybe we could throw up some screenshots when we've made some progress?
Cheers,
Dale
University of Huddersfield, BSc(Hons) Computer Games Programming