Day 3
Not that much progress today, more of sharpening my ideas.
I was originally thinking you would drag those AI chips to robots space, which would be limited, making you need to make decisions in way of deciding which is more important, possiblity to communicate with others, separate gun control, or better movement etc. which could have brought some interesting variety to game, but I now came to conclusion that 2 weeks just isnt enough for that much complexity, hence I decided it will simply be that you are buying upgrades to your robots AIs, and there is no space restrictions, that if you buy them all, then you have them all.
Also, I once again remembered John Bunyans holy war book, and it came to my mind that those radio parts you are aiming to buy, should be named the holy war way, that they will be something like Grace receptor, patience tuner...
I was also thinking there should some way be about robots building each other, so that the verse building each other would come included to the game. Finishing race is quite easy, basically those arenas are finishing the race, and following my steps comes from receiving radio message and following it etc.
Also was thinking about save game option. Due to game is planned to be short, basically I am aiming at 30 - 60 minute game time, since cant quite get this to go to less than 15 minutes due to this being educational one and the way it is, I figured there is no point in wasting time making any better save game system, but I will simply make autosave feature which saves the current level (however that is defined) and amount of money and acquired chip parts. Then if you quit the game, you can choose to either "Start new game" or "Continue". So only one save game. This could be problem if there are several wanting to play the game at same time, but I dont think that will happen, at most someone might take a quick look and not finish it on first run, but i dont think there really needs to be multiple saves, since it is quick enough to complete anyway.