When the "friend request" theme was announced the only idea i could come up with was "invading someone's mind and turning them into your thrall is kind of like a friend request that you can't deny." Maybe I'm a little too fixated on warfare...
I wanted to use this year's not a game jam to try some trim sheet/Dream UV stuff... you can get some decent "retro-style" textures pretty easy this way, but i really underestimated just how much work a good looking 3d environment would take, especially when I had to work at my job all weekend!