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I forgot about and lost the domain, but fear not—I'm rewriting the Idea Generator to host on Github Pages! I'll update again when it's ready!

The rest of the website, however is now but a memory, stored in Archive.org's database: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160226005627/http://www.insanityjam.com:80/

Check out AshenStar’s prototype, A Sound of Iron and give it a rating after midnight when rating opens up!

Well friends, it’s Friday, one week after the start of Insanity Jam 5, and that means you have just one more weekend to finish your entry and submit it!

You’re a kid born into a world of magic and mystery where nobody can see color.  It is a great mystery in this world what creates magic and differentiates between the magical elements.  One day when you’re wandering around in the forest you find a wand which endows you with the ability to see colors, and which can change the colors of things.  It turns out that what differentiates the elements is color, so you can change the color of spells in order to change what they are/do.

From there I’m thinking sort of puzzley combat where you fight wizards and change their spells mid-flight to suit your needs.

The theme I chose is:

An unconventional game where you handle the most interesting wand, no matter what anyone thinks. (58230179540)

Among the 5 themes I held myself to choose from, this one was pretty clearly the best, or at least the sanest.  Maybe I shouldn’t be choosing themes for Insanity Jam based on which seems the most sane, but honsetly, even if it said something a few cranks up on the crazy dial in place of “Wand”, I really like the idea of “I have the most interesting X, no matter what anyone thinks”.

I’ll probably throw out the genre bit, since “unconventional” doesn’t exactly contribute much

Insanity Jam 5, that is!

Wooo, here we go! I happened upon a good idea because I was having kind of a crummy day and just entered “ugh” as the seed, proving that entering your own seed is way better than using the generator’s random numbers! Yay?

Anyway, here’s my entry thread for you to comment on: http://itch.io/jam/insanityjam5/topic/13840/entry-bomb-hopper

And for you lazy peeps who don’t want to go over to itch.io, that’s fine, here’s my first post in full (but that’s all you’ll get!) :

Random Game Seed: ugh

Random Game Idea: A roguelike game where an amphibian explores an impact site. At the same time, a warlord analyses modernized iron rods.

Qualifiers: none

Title: Bomb Hopper

Idea: Ok, so this is going to be a roguelike game where you control a frog whose procedurally-generated home swamp has recently become a bomb testing site for a warlord (get it? What are bombs but "modernized iron rods"? HA!)! You need to save your frog family from the bombs and escape, but the bomb testing has caused other animals to become radioactive and violent! Fight through the dangerous animals, rescue your family, and escape alive!

I'm planning on using Unity, and it'll be a fixed-camera, isometric 3D game. What I'm thinking is that you start with just your frog (probably bipedal), then just kind of run around finding things to protect yourself with. I'm going to have to keep the scope really small, so I won't be putting much variety into the game—maybe 3 of everything if I have time (weapons, armor, collectibles, enemies, etc). I'm going to try to model everything in Blender, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to texture anything in time. Maybe I'll find some time to make/find music and sounds for this one!

The Insanity Jam Official Game Idea Generator’s code has been completely overhauled for Insanity Jam 5, and we’d like to update the word lists to include words and phrases you’d like to see!