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I'll miss the Dec. 1 deadline (so I'll postpone until our next jam, whatever its theme may be), but wanted to share my successes:

• Decide upon a project goal (any game involving tiles forming haiku using common words)
  • Special thanks to "Jeddy" at GameCola for explaining Japanese word validation!
• Install and license free IDEs
  • GameMaker-LTS doesn't feel overwhelming (see GML Code examples e.g. ,"Match 3") but my goal is too ambitious for me to also learn this framework and generate game assets etc.
    
  • Unity Emgine should be my comfort zone, but tutorials railroad me down the path of creating a platformer or creating a FPS, although one tutorial won't install and the other crashes, and my goal is too ambitious for me to also learn this framework and generate game assets etc.
  • PyCharm with Python 3.12 and prototype pythoncode-tutorials is my comfort zone (I'll script everything myself and make my own game asset format if needed); but I enjoyed Thanskgiving with family and I'd gotten sidetracked with GTK and venv and conda setup errors.

I wish this or a similar game included more complex rhythms from the western classical music tradition (esp. Chopin for example Nocturne in C-sharp minor and and Nocturne in Bb-minor).

What are the art & music licenses for this game (can livestreams and videos be made from it)?

This worked excellently on my Windows 10 PC (run from itch desktop app).

In the online description... the rating system is Elo, not ELO.

May livestreamers have permission to do a "let's play" of your game?  Also, FYI Lishogi (beta) has a free API although I don't know whether its use is restricted to slow games only.

Fun game, especially once you realize the object is to guide the elephant (not the box) to the goal.