The theme is: "CREATION IN DECAY"

The second edition of Wednesdevs is upon us, and with it comes a theme that totally sounds deep and I stole it from something but I can't remember what so that makes me smart.

I've got some fresh diversifiers this time, but I'll keep the old ones around in case you couldn't fit them in last time but wanted to give them a go.

Diversifiers

One to avoid - Make a game in a genre you do not like. Extra points if you can add a twist that makes it enjoyable to you

Bi Shade - You may only use two colours (jammer's choice as to whether this allows for shades or not)

Three Act Structure - Give your story or your mechanics three distinct sections (lots of examples of this exist for narrative, for gameplay consider "Ridiculous Fishing" by Vlambeer)

Archived diversifiers

• Chocolate Chillies - Remake a classic game (eg: Pong, Snake) but put a small twist of your own on it!
• Pintrest artist - You cannot create any art for your game. All art must be found somewhere on the internet (opengameart.org, stock photo websites, etc...)
• Undelete button - Any text you write with the intention that a player sees it (dialogue, interface, the game's title) is final, cannot be edited, corrected or removed. If you wrote it, it must feature in your final game.

General rules (these are the same as last week)

There is a theme. You do not have to follow it. It's there to guide you. It's also often said that constraints breed the best ideas!

Some quick points, these are unchanged:

• A "game" is whatever you decide it to be. It can be be a traditional platformer. It can be a point and click. It can be a visual novel, a text based choose your own adventure. A Minecraft mod, a Roblox game, a Mario Maker level. It could be a lil' boardgame you made. It could be a variant of tag you invented with your younger cousin. It could be a particularly fun way of lying down and having an existential crisis. Your call.
• Make it in whatever you want Collaboration with other people, community members or not, is allowed and also encouraged.
• If the end result is something you can share with us, I would highly encourage you to do so, even if you think it could be better. It could always be better. This is our curse.
• No consequences will befall you if you fail. You can submit late. You can submit whenever. I just wanna encourage short cycles so you can get something done nice and early, and feel proud of yourselves. Very small games are not only OK, they're encouraged! Two weeks isn't a long time, and there's nothing wrong with a game you can pick up, complete in 20s, and never touch again
• I would very highly encourage you to create an account on itch.io and host your game there. You'll build up a nice log of games in no time! Also that lets you submit to this event here