Started a game jam!
March 25, 2025
Set up an itch.io account, and I signed up for a game jam! It's 2 weeks long, and the theme is
"Life After Humans" which will be an interesting concept to work with. I'm on spring break right now, so I should be
able to turn something decent in even with work and everything else!
My initial thoughts are to make something like "Wall-E" or Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," to really
lean into some classic apocalypse vibes. But then again, "Breath of the Wild" kind of overhauled my idea of what
a post-apocalyptic world has to look like, so I'm hesitant to make something that feels so desolate as a lot of
post-apocalyptic media tends to.
I personally don't like the idea that pervades so much of the world that humans were some sort of
freak accident, or that we're inherently a detriment to the world around us. Hominids have
been on this planet for ages now, and we've made it this far pretty effectively, all things considered. It's true that, in
recent memory, we've developed a habit of taking more than we can give; however, I also think that we are aware now more than
ever that this is not a sustainable system for the health and safety of the world at large, and massive steps are being
taken all over the world to address these concerns.
On top of that, the whole "humans are inherently desctructive" rhetoric is ultimately destructive because it doesn't
offer any solutions to the obvious problems present in the way the world is run today. Anyone who talks this way instead of
offering up or contributing to the many constructive steps that can be taken want a reason to a) be miserable with no out
and b) sit on their hands about a very real problem. Simply put: humans are just like any other animal in that we are
perfectly capable of coexisting with all other life on this planet. It's just that, unfortunately, there are a lot of people
in high places that are unwilling to do the work.
None of this is what the game jam is asking for though lol, so I will just have to see what theme/concept I settle on.
Wish me luck!